theconfessioncam

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Name:	theconfessioncam
Date(s):	likely 14 December 2013 - 17 February 2014
Submissions:	Anonymous, non-anonymous submissions allowed
Type:	Anonymous confession blog
Fandom:	Total Drama
Scope:	mono-fandom
URL:	theconfessioncam [Dead link] on Tumblr (no known archives available)
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theconfessioncam was an infamous anonymous submissions blog on Tumblr for the Total Drama fandom. It harbored harassment about BNFs in the fandom at the time, (some of whom were minors), ship hate, and confessions focused only on the show. Over time, the blog became mostly for BNF bashing and practically created a fandom war between the "td populars" and the "anti td populars."

The term td populars was coined by the anons on this blog for fans they deemed to be social justice warriors who bullied other fans for their ships and favorite characters. One character, Mike, essentially split the fandom in half. "Mike haters" were td populars and "Mike fans"/fans who were neutral were anti td populars/unaligned. This fandom war would last throughout 2014. When it was all but official that cherriquitecontrary ran the blog on 20 January, a so called "anti td popular," the fandom war began.

A mod, almost certainly Cherri, said this about the blog's history. Circa 28 Jan 2014.

The blog, who ran it, and why, casted a shadow on the fandom for years. Although the blog supposedly had multiple mods, most fans at the time believed that it was solely ran by Cherri, and that she shifted blame towards "the other mods" to save face. The same may be said for the anons themselves, especially later on, since the majority of harassing confessions would only target particular td populars instead of a wide range of them, and the fandom war, "against the populars," was largely confined to Cherri and her circle of friends. It wasn't until around 2016 that the fandom fully moved on from it, and even as of the 2020s, theconfessioncam is still referenced in discussion as one of the fandom's biggest dramas on Tumblr.

Most fans also believe that Cherri was a sockpuppet for "Tasha," an infamous harasser in the fandom. For more information, see Hey I'm newish to the td fandom so do mind me asking who Tasha is?

A few days before theconfessioncam deactivated, a copycat blog known as antitotaldramapopulars sprang up to be all for BNF bashing. The two blogs deactivated on 17 February. Later, tdgossipgirl would be created, a rebranding of an already existing anonymous confessional blog. They have both since deactivated, and tdgossipgirl infamously lasted for only around two hours after rebranding itself.

theconfessioncam would inspire other fans to create similar anonymous confession blogs for Total Drama, such as theconfessiontrailer, ^{Archived version} and totaldramacampers, ^{Archived version}, before and after its deactivation. As of 2024, Total Drama Takes is the most popular anonymous confession blog for the show.

Got a Total Drama confession you need to let out? Submit any opinion of yours, Must be TD related but besides that anything goes :) All relevant submissions will be posted regardless of my personal opinion. Tumblr does not allow Anon submissions but if you want to be anonymous then send an ask. If a post shows up as submitted by me, that doesn't mean it is my personal opinion; this happens when people send anon asks. No repeat submissions (same exact words)- I will only post the first one.

theconfessioncam's last bio before deactivation (line break information has been lost)

Example Confessions

• If we push a little harder we can get Cass Deadbyshawn so fed up with us they could leave the fandom(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 03 Feb 2014)
• chickenmcnuggie can go eat a dick. She’s a selfish, spoiled brat (...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 01 Feb 2014)
• pssst chickenmcnuggie is like the most racist person ever, ^{Archived version} (before/on 28 Jan 2014)
• Sallychanscraps thinks she's the greatest but we all know she's a piece of trash, ^{Archived version} (before/on 22 Jan 2014)
• Here's an unpopular opinion. I hate Courtney. I hate Beyoncé. And I hate Bri(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on before 21 Jan 2014)
• I want to cum on bri's face. Not because she's(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 20 Jan 2014. This confession may have been the tipping point for fans who just saw theconfessioncam as a nuisance before, since this sexually harassed a BNF.)
• I for one like to watch people react to this blog and get butthurt, it's almost as entertaining as the show., ^{Archived version} (before/on 09 Jan 2014)
• I think the real villain in total drama its not Chris, we are the true villains(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 07 Jan 2014)
• I want to know how the hell Alejandro would go to the bathroom in the robot suit...(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 03 Jan 2014)
• I have never understood this fandom's obsession with Dawn(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 02 Jan 2014)
• Divine-Fire-Wolf is literally the AleTyler Queen, ^{Archived version} (before/on 01 Jan 2014)
• I hate how this blog has turned into a place of hate(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 29 Dec 2013)
• Know what's more offensive then Mike's portrayal?(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 27 Dec 2013)
• Confession: I think Totaldramagraduate or Truebluefangirl submitted that mean confession about Sally and her friends., ^{Archived version} (before/on 26 Dec 2013)
• Sally is a really nice at drawing, with other users and she's really smart too. I just think that she(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 24 Dec 2013)
• Ship what you want in this fandom(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 22 Dec 2013)
• ship what makes you happy, ^{Archived version} (before/on 21 Dec 2013)
• i really want chef, ^{Archived version} (before/on 20 Dec 2013)
• Sally, Squids, mean Marci, and chicken nugget act like a bunch of bullies, ^{Archived version} (before/on 19 Dec 2013)
• Can we agree jova (jo and eva) would be so cute and so competitive, ^{Archived version} (before/on 17 Dec 2013)
• Gwen is a better character than Courtney is, and ever will be, ^{Archived version} (before/on 16 Dec 2013)
• Gwuncan was a good look at how best friends can be more than friends, ^{Archived version} (before/on 14 Dec 2013)
• i wish they would have made Lindsay get smarter as the seasons progressed(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 14 Dec 2013)
• Doey is fucking horrible and so are all the fans(...), ^{Archived version} (before/on 14 Dec 2013)

Meta

Many fans spammed the Bee Movie and Shrek scripts into the submissions box, slowing down the rate submission were posted by February considerably compared to December and January.

• "OMG theconfessioncam is the only place in which you can complain about ppl without backslash!!! stop complaining about them!!" by annemarias, ^{Archived version} (before 29 Dec 2013)
• what you said what i heard meme by beaky-peartree, ^{Archived version} (29 Dec 2013)
• woah i just checked out theconfessioncam because i saw that ask you answered and... woah, it's scary? by anon to neopuff, ^{Archived version} (20 Jan 2014, an outsider's point of view)
• whats your opinion on theconfessioncam, answered by neopuff, ^{Archived version} (20 Jan 2014)
• The first picture is how it looked on desktop, while the second is the mobile version by weakizumi, ^{Archived version} (20 Jan 2014, the differences between desktop and mobile show that Cherri was head mod of the blog.)
• Do not under ANY circumstance send death threats/suicide prompts/anon hate to cherriquitecontrary by sallychanscraps, ^{Archived version} (20 Jan 2014)
• Report theconfession cam for online bulling and sexual harrassment by sallychanscraps, ^{Archived version} (20 Jan 2014, post is lost but portion of it still remains)
• all the proof that cherri was/is theconfessioncam admin by gataboricua, ^{Archived version} (21 Jan 2014)
• theconfessioncam claims to be neutral and post every confession they get but(...) by artiependragons, ^{Archived version} (22 Jan 2014)
• If you've been a victim of theconfessioncam (IE shit has been said there against you) then heyo lookie here by musashi, ^{Archived version} (24 Jan 2014)
• What I learned from the Total Drama fandom on Tumblr (24 Jan 2014)
• Since people won't seem to stop hating on me for this endlessly here is the deal about the confession cam by cherriquitecontrary, ^{Archived version} (06 Feb 2014)
• THIS IS OUT OF CHARACTER: Can someone tell me what the confession cam is?!, ^{Archived version} (06 Feb 2014, OC RP blog being roped in by anons asking them if they supported Cherri, who they didn't know about.)
• cherri didnt even phase the fandom til the whole confessioncam bs arose by paladintakashi, ^{Archived version} (15 Feb 2014)
• Cherriquitecontrary is a self-victimizing hypocrite by playdeslosers, ^{Archived version} (around 16 Feb 2014)
• laughing my ass off at cherri trying to turn the whole assault on her into a thing about disagreeing about ships by neeleyjakkson, ^{Archived version} (16 Feb 2014)
• I’m sick of disrespect for people in this fandom being considered acceptable just because(...) by forevertrueblue, ^{Archived version} (01 March 2014)
• This is the big proof and reason that Cherri isn't running these blogs and it's those stupid admins from(...) by amegaotaku, ^{Archived version} (07 March 2014)
• The children are forgetting(...) by teamcourtneysass, ^{Archived version} (before 29 Aug 2014, about new fans in the fandom who joined post-theconfessioncam.)
• 2013-14 td fandom aesthetic (2016)
• Hey I'm newish to the td fandom so do mind me asking who Tasha is? (2017; 2021)

lemme relay the td confessions blog cycle

1. blog starts up
2. people submit harmless things
3. anti-sjs submit anti-sj opinions (ex “as a straight, i feel blabalah the gays are mean”)
4. anti-sjs submit nasty confessions about actual people in the fandom
5. person running blog says theyre “objective”
6. people spam + report blog
7. person either quits bc of spam or gets taken down by tumblr
8. period of no confessions blog
9. someone says “hey theres no td confessions blog i guess i’ll make one”
10. see step 1

gummycore asked:
new to the fandom... what's theconfessioncam? or what was it, i guess :v

thefreshchannel answered:
The confessioncam used to be a basic td confessions blog about the show itself but then they started taking confessions about the fandom too and some werent too bad like "this fandom sucks for hating [character]" and then they started getting too comfortable w being on anon and straight up harassing people. They got to the point of racism and homophobia and transphobia and one even got to sexual harassment. The blog was deleted in 2014 but before the deletion (which took literal MONTHS) everything else was a mess and there were even a few losers supporting the blog and people reporting it to tumblr wouldnt get good results bc 1. You werent featured on it and they wanted to hear from the people featured on it and/or 2. They would see no violations/call it protected under freedom of speech or some weird ass bull and like even after the person who ran it was exposed the blog would STILL UPDATE LOL and then everything got so much worse after like td fanbase is full of weirdos as it is rn but like back then everything went to shit lmao