This used to be a convenient community tool for checking the vibes of people (more specifically, whether they like trans people), but over the past year or so it seems to have been caught up in some sort of gender infighting that basically amounts to "white trans women vs bipoc trans women, trans men, nonbinary people, and intersex people". Don't get me wrong, transmisogyny is a real issue and is quite pervasive. But telling white trans women to stop being racist towards black trans women is not transmisogyny, and calling trans men "zippertits" is objectively transphobia. It's very strange that this tool that was once explicitly claiming to protect *trans people* has now shifted to only protect white women.

i really like shinigami eyes..... when its not used to call trans and intersex people transphobic. i cannot tell you how many times ive seen someone marked as trans unfriendly on tumblr and then i check their account and its because theyre talking about the issues that trans and intersex people face within queer spaces, and then people who are openly transmisogynistic wont be marked at all. its so ridiculous and the extension is barely useful now. i dont want to be reblogging shit from cryptoterfs and plain old bigots without realizing and spreading their blog to more people, but now i still have to go digging to see if theyre actually transphobic or if theyre just being dogpiled

I've had Shinigami Eyes installed on my browsers for almost the past decade, and in its early years it was extremely helpful for rooting out radfems and the like. Unfortunately, over the past year or so there's been so many false flags, especially against trans men, that the extension is practically useless. The guidelines do state that being trans does not exempt someone from transphobia, yet people are being flagged red for talking about basically any aspect of transphobia and intersex experiences other than transmisogyny, while actual TERFs and other transphobes have been marked green. It's honestly kind of sad to see how far this extension has fallen

used to be really helpful but as of late im seeing clearly trans friendly blogs getting marked red! and its usually transmasc or intersex people too :( really disappointing to see that people like me are being erroneously marked

you can literally go look at the listed guidelines on the github and see that this extension officially supports use of 4chan diy-slur "theyfab" and twitter diy-slur "tenderqueer" because "they're used to call out problems in our community!"-- equating them to truscum and transmed, endonyms first adopted by the group they refer to and which also notably do not soft-misgender said groups or imply their genders themselves are morally suspect, and refusing to acknowledge that these terms are constantly used in bad faith against people who have not committed any real lateral transphobia and frankly often in openly transmedicalist ways!

on top of this, the extension is wildly susceptible to brigading or biased usage in ways that are often completely superfluous and sometimes not even explainable through subjective intracommunity discourse (do we REALLY need to mark joseph mccarthy of all people red?)

i've used this extension for something like seven years, i've spent time going through terf blogs to methodically mark every party in a reblog chain sometimes, it is genuinely hard to drop it when it HAS and sometimes still DOES serve an important purpose! there's the second star! but it's kind of hard to justify keeping it up when trying to use it for its primary personal utility for me (trying to inoculate my posts from circling among transphobes by playing blocking whack-a-mole) is throwing more false positives than actual transphobes

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also the fact that e-harassment luminary requires hate is marked green. one simply has to laugh

exciting edit/update in re: the assertions that this extension is a bastion of pro-transfem rhetoric and everyone who has left a negative review must simply be a transmisogynist review bomber angry at being called out: copy and paste the following wacky characters into an "x.com, the everything app" tab and check out the color op's display name is written in!: "/FEMCELSEDUCER/status/1907378415889432763"

shinigami eyes used to be a very good tool, but lately i've noticed a Lot of trans-supportive (and even themselves trans) intersex activists falsely marked as red. at first i thought these were just a few isolated incidents, but it just keeps happening. if you do decide to use this add-on, make sure to check if the blogs that are marked red are actually transphobic or not, since it's unfortunately not as reliable anymore as it used to be. personally i am going to stop using it for the time being because this is just getting ridiculous

Two stars, as I did use the app for years and found much usage out of it until recently. I appreciate the concept and it did help me filter out transphobic sources, but recently, the extension has been horribly mismanaged and the criteria for marking someone as anti-trans seems to be poorly monitored.

I've also seen explicitly trans-friendly sources get rejected from inclusion in the extension - such as the YouTube channel Two Hot Takes, who have openly voiced their support for transgender people across multiple videos. I have reviewed the criteria for submitting labels multiple times and I have yet to find anything from this channel that would disqualify them from being marked as trans-friendly. This is far from the only example, but one worth bringing up nonetheless.

Updates in recent years do not take into account the needs of the wider trans/nonbinary community. When I first installed this extension around 2018, it was very explicitly inclusive of the wider community, but no longer seems to acknowledge nonbinary and intersex voices. Devs have not properly acknowledged concerns from many users regarding the extension's safety.

Accurate *except* for intersex advocates, who get marked red. Vile if intentional.

Borderline useless now. So many people falsely marked red. I hate to uninstall it, but... this review is the last thing I'm going to do before I remove it.

Used to be an incredibly useful tool, these days someone marked red is just as likely to be intersex or nonbinary as an actual transphobe or TERF. Still functions okay-ish, but needing the level of attention it does defeats the point somewhat.

This extension would be good, if it has some changes, and better management

This is okay for determining whether someone has weighed in on trans people in general

However, it does not do well with saying whether it's positively or negatively

I personally haven't seen many mislabels, but with how it's set up, I have absolutely no doubt that it's happening. You can just report things as good or bad with absolutely no explanation or proof even as an optional thing

This could be very helpful, but it should function with different methods from current

Here is how I would do it if I knew how: To mark something, you HAVE to provide an explanation at minimum. Then, people can view those explanations, and report the ones that are outright false, or just placeholder text to be removed. So, instead of just seeing the colour with no context, you can see WHY people marked them that colour

Unless they do that, this is not an extension I can actually recommend, just due to the very poor structuring of it that leaves it easy to exploit

We are all in this together, we all suffer together, and we need to work together. This extension currently works against that, unless you specifically just view it how I said to, as a way to identify if someone has said ANYTHING about trans people. But due to the colours, it's very difficult to actually be unbiased about it. If there was no green or red, and all just one colour, it'd be okay, but the green and red subconsciously make you biased when judging them

As a trans woman, this tool is a necessity and I will not be uninstalling it, but it has declined in its usefulness over the years. It's incredibly easy to brigade, and moderators who curate it are obviously biased because I have seen even other trans women get flagged as anti-trans for saying things someone disagreed with, who had a big enough following to dogpile her. I see intersex people who only ever talked about intersex issues get flagged red over straight up nothing. It's still somewhat useful as a reference point to investigate, but something rotten is happening and it's so disappointing and disheartening.

Lately it's been kind of inconsistent on the sources marked red ACTUALLY being in some way actively transphobic when it's on social/public platforms. Sometimes when I follow up on a marking it's accurate, and other times it's not at all. If certain sources simply went uncategorized that would make sense, but there have been multiple trans people marked red but confirmably not supporting any notable transphobic rhetoric (eg.transmed, transradfem).

This extension lost a lot of it's usefulness over the years, and the creator's bigotry wrecked it. However. I do think it has a tiny bit of usefulness left: Does this person have An Opinion on trans people. The color is Entirely irrelevant now, but it indicates someone has said Something in one way or another about the topic, so if you are considering following someone that has A Color, you know you should check first to see if your views align. That is as far as this extension goes now.

I'm not sure what happened to the review process, but there are a lot of incorrect assignments now, which is confusing. This add-on isn't very useful if you can't trust the data being provided.

I'm hoping that the dev team runs some quality assurance on the reviews soon before this gets out of hand and harder to resolve.

But currently, the incorrect data is a critical flaw and I can't trust it until this is fixed.

removing this from my browser. even when things started to go downhill around a year ago, which I certainly noticed, I kept this extension purely to mark actual terfs and transphobes. as more and more trans and intersex people were marked red, I kept the extension, trusting my own judgment over shinigami eyes. at this point I see no point in keeping the extension when half the time those marked red are actual transgender people.

it seems people on tumblr specifically, as perfectly trans- and intersex-friendly blogs are marked red, have been noticing the problems with shinigami eyes and now that other people are abandoning this extension I think it would be best for me to follow suit.

I'm grateful that other people are finally noticing the discrepancies with this extension. shame on the developer for giving the same weak, vague copy-pasted responses to accurate complaints. queer love forever

I used it for a while but it seems like it's not very useful anymore. I noticed many accounts tagged as red were accounts that never mentioned transgender issues in their entire existance... Possibly mis-reported?

It doesn't seem like this add-on has very good moderation, but again this might just be a mistake.

While I feel like this service can be helpful in certain instances, lately people have been abusing to target queer friendly people they don't agree with (often intersex folks, who's voices need to be heard in every discussion of queer liberation). It is very disappointing to see a service I formerly believed to be helpful and queer-friendly show it's true colors like this. I hope that the moderators rectify this mistake, as this service has been very helpful for me and others in the past. It is just sad to see it destroying it's own reputation by throwing vulnerable members of the queer community under the bus.

good extension for basic terf spotting but is often misused for targeting queer people who others don't like.

I can't in good consciousness rate this extension 1 star, because it genuinely has been useful to me in the past. However, I've been seeing more and more trans friendly accounts unmarked or even marked red simply for uplifting transmasc, nonbinary, and intersex voices. It would be one thing if this were simply a case of the 'phobes abusing the community mark feature i would be less concerned, but the developers have responded to similar reviews to mine to comfirm that this is the system working as intended, and that many of these false marks were manually placed by the moderation team. This is frankly unacceptable in any application that calls itself progressive, let alone something that has, in the past, been as useful to online safety as Shinigami Eyes.

I'm leaving a two star rating for these reasons. I will continue recommending this extension, but only after a conversation about these drawbacks and how they only further the goals of the very people who make products like this necessary to a safe online experience. It is shameful to see you walk down this path, and I can only hope that eventually the devs and moderators will see the error in their ways and begin working, once again, towards a better world.