Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
Review by Anomaly
Rated 1 out of 5
by Anomaly, a year agoI've seen a lot of discussion about this extension online recently, so I wanted to make a review giving my thoughts on this.
As other reviews have stated, the creator is liable to flagging intersex advocates and people who are anti-transmed as transphobic. There have also been incidents in the past where transphobes have worked together to create false flags.
At its core there is an issue with tools that either label people as good or bad with zero context. You don't know if someone who's transphobic on a tool like Shinigami eyes -or even blocklists for that matter - is on there for harassing trans people, is on there because of an intra-community disagreement, or a blacklist creator or submitter personally decided to put them on there for an unrelated reasons. These types of tools can be used to isolate people from their community and smear names.
I truly do understand why people flock to a tool like Shinigami Eyes. We are a group of people that are burnt out of being in danger and having to deal with harassment and want a way that we can easily know who to avoid. It sounds great in theory, but in practice, these types of issues are always liable to happen whether it's with Shinigami Eyes, a curated blacklist, or the callout of the week.
The best you can really do is curate your online space. Check people's posts yourself before you follow them, quietly block whenever you see something you want to avoid, and don't over rely on face-paced social media.
As other reviews have stated, the creator is liable to flagging intersex advocates and people who are anti-transmed as transphobic. There have also been incidents in the past where transphobes have worked together to create false flags.
At its core there is an issue with tools that either label people as good or bad with zero context. You don't know if someone who's transphobic on a tool like Shinigami eyes -or even blocklists for that matter - is on there for harassing trans people, is on there because of an intra-community disagreement, or a blacklist creator or submitter personally decided to put them on there for an unrelated reasons. These types of tools can be used to isolate people from their community and smear names.
I truly do understand why people flock to a tool like Shinigami Eyes. We are a group of people that are burnt out of being in danger and having to deal with harassment and want a way that we can easily know who to avoid. It sounds great in theory, but in practice, these types of issues are always liable to happen whether it's with Shinigami Eyes, a curated blacklist, or the callout of the week.
The best you can really do is curate your online space. Check people's posts yourself before you follow them, quietly block whenever you see something you want to avoid, and don't over rely on face-paced social media.
1,300 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by beanstalks, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Otter, 3 days agoDoes not work as it claims to. I've seen multiple radfem and well known terf accounts marked green, and vocally pro queer and trans friendly accounts marked red.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Illusn, 4 days agoIncorrectly marks trans men, nonbinary people and intersex people as anti-trans in a way that can only be malicious
- Rated 1 out of 5by Venus, 4 days agoWhite transfems can say the most vile transphobic stuff ever and still be marked green, but any poc that's enby/transmasc/2spirit/intersex and calls them out for it gets marked red. Mhm. Uninstalled.
- Rated 5 out of 5by disasterBi, 4 days agoSeeing a few 1 star reviews but I feel like people don't understand that this extension uses people marking accounts as anti-trans/trans friendly to show them as red/green. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've had false positives, all you need to do is check people's posts, not whether they're trans themselves.
- Rated 1 out of 5by cemetery--drive, 4 days agoThis extension used to be really useful but I've seen multiple trans people who are outspoken advocates for equality get marked red. I think this is becoming more and more easy to abuse. It also seems like specific to Tumblr there is this thing where trans men and nonbinary people specifically are getting marked red which makes me feel really confused and a bit unsafe??? I'll be uninstalling. This is why we can't have nice things...
edit: It also seems like POC are being targeted. Triple, quadruple yikes. - Rated 1 out of 5by evilbunnytornado, 4 days agokeep seeing intersex people and people who say that trans men face oppression marked red and people who are honest to god using 'theyfab' marked green. useless at this point
- Rated 1 out of 5by Joseph, 4 days agoim far more likely to run into someone marked red who just happens to be not white, a trans man, intersex, or a combination of the 3 than an actual transphobe
- Rated 1 out of 5by ambrolen, 5 days agoIt's been showing more and more bias against trans people who talk about trans masc, nb, and intersex issues (probably more tbh) for years now, but it's getting so bad that I assume a Tumblr blog marked red speaks up for those groups rather than assuming they're a transphobe. I've been keeping it anyway to help me remember which news sites suck, but it's become a detriment. This could have been a good tool, but I guess the mods, or the creator, or both have decided to use it in bad faith against their own community.
- Rated 1 out of 5by J-P, 5 days agoThe users have bias against trans men, intersex people, and people of color. You have to experience your gender in a way that is "correct" to white transfemmes or else you get marked red.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18992995, 8 days agokeep in mind all the 1 star reviews are transmisogynists lmao. good addon
- Rated 5 out of 5by jackknifeJaws, 11 days agoa good tool to find out who's a misogynistic (specifically transmisogynistic) weirdo.
im sorry trans women. - Rated 1 out of 5by Lee, 11 days ago"If it sounds too good to be true.": The description claims to target "transphobic/anti-LGBT" content, but it doesn't. Nonbinary, intersex, trans masc, and POC are consistently flagged red. It flags binary white trans women as green, even as they call for the deaths of the aforementioned groups. This is a racist, intersexist, enbyphobic addon. If you identify with any of these groups move on.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bimny, 13 days agoIf anything this extension doesn't flag enough people. Transmisogynists are under reported. People giving 1 star and claiming its run by TERFs are just mad that they can't harass trans women with impunity and consider men more important than women.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex Amelia Pine, 13 days agoThe negative reviews are almost entirely review bombing. I use this all the time, and have never had a problem with false flags. If anything I find things that should be flagged one way or the other going without a flag at all. 9 times out of 10 if you look at the profile that got flagged, you'll find why within a minute of scrolling. The transphobes (usually transmisogynists specifically, but all kinds of transphobes) who get flagged red love to complain about how bigoted and inaccurate this extension is and how it can't be trusted, but then you look and see them spouting the most hateful rhetoric about trans people, plenty of them even trans themself. It's not a tool for exclusively marking transmisogyny, but transmisogyny is transphobia, and when fellow trans people are anti-transfeminist, they rightfully get flagged red. TL;DR it works great and has kept me safe from transphobes, remember to flag accurately and block liberally 👍
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18877928, 18 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by landsharkkidd, 18 days agoI really loved this extension, especially when it came to people who might dog whistle their transphobia. But I've increasingly seen friends/people I follow who are either trans themselves (which, of coure, transphobic trans people exist, but this isn't the case here) or are ally's who get marked as red. This is genuinely heartbreaking, as this extension is something I've been using for years, and it was one of the extension I kept when I moved from Chrome to Firefox. But the lack of updates, and the fact that transphobes can use it against its purposes really sucks. I hope that the devs or someone else can pick up the pieces, but I think I'll uninstall this now.
- Rated 4 out of 5by murasaki, 21 days agoSo far it's been accurate to me... I'll keep reviewer's inputs in mind though and hope to contribute...
- Rated 1 out of 5by eirikr, 22 days agoIt's gotten worse over the years. With the amount of false flags it has now it's worse than useless, it's actively harmful to trans people.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Pluto, a month agoThe 5-star reviewers are primarily TERFs, just an FYI.
Anyways, yes, this extention USED to be a valuable tool for rooting out harmful people, but nowadays it has become weaponized by TERFs to belittle, ostracize, and invalidate large portions of the queer community.
False flags are pinned against trans men, transmasculine, intersex, nonbinary, and queer people, as well as people of color. They are marked red simply for speaking about the oppression they face and their own experiences, meanwhile TERFs who openly call for the deaths, detransitioning, and rape of transmasculine people remain green, "safe." Tell me- how that is fair? How can someone like that be a safe and trustworthy person in the queer community?
This is not, and never has been, a tool to "call out misogyny." It is an outdated, jumbled mess of code that TERFs are using to make lists of people that don't agree with them. Don't use this addon. - Rated 1 out of 5by Chara, a month agoUsed to be phenomenal, then slowly over time became utterly useless. People whom I followed on social media became marked as red for speaking out against transphobia, whilst people marked green spouted hate. Unbelievably un-moderated and a useless extension in 2025.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19603959, a month agoAs it is now, it's very flawed. Many people are falsely marked as transphobic constantly.