I don't know if I'm the only one bothered by a super deadly disease that has been killing and infecting people in impoverished areas (very rapidly and increasingly) being a silly little item on some pet site. Honestly, can't we just name it bowl of worms or literally anything else? As far as I know, we don't have "cancer lollipops" on site.

We have Ricin, Nightshade, Warfarin, and Cyanide Bonbons? Subeta is not all pink sparkly fluffy bunnies..

Maybe in Subeta Ebola is the name of a particularly tasty intestinal worm that only gives you the unliving version of viral hemorrhagic fever.

Man I wish forum search worked so I could sarcastically link the last time this thread happened.

Is the Bowl of Ebola any worse than Lizzie?

This item has to refer to Lizzie Borden

Don't forget about the ! I would like to see a series of deadly disease minions released next Morostide . . .

Harlequin Ichthyosis. A real-life skin condition of newborn babies.

Baby-shaped gummies. Yum-yum.

Diarrhea kills. Hurricanes and tornadoes kill. Volcanoes kill. Subeta has items for all of them.

all in favor of cancer lollipops.

Where's people's sense of dark humour? D: Why must everything be so serious?

Another thing to consider is all the ebola items were released long before the outbreak a few years ago.

This has been discussed plenty of times before, and the answer has remained that the ebola item isn't changing. Quit being oversensitive.

At the time this item came out the word itself was not as racially-charged as it unfortunately has become today... this is coming from someone who is constantly told in PUBG to "get ebola and die, n-word". -_-

im with you on this one. i don't like any of the items about diseases. edgelords gonna be edgelords, though, i guess, judging from the responses you've gotten. yikes.

I think makes a good point that ebola has become racially linked in current times and to me that's a big reason not to make a joke item of it and fix the current items. We don't have any AIDS/HIV joke items because those diseases are often negatively linked with homosexuality and queer identities, we shouldn't have items that bring to mind racism either.

I'm real tired of people being edgelords on the internet and wanting to keep shock content just because they don't give a shit about other people or out of spite because they're miserable so other people should feel discomfort too. The ebola items are not a cornerstone of the site, we don't need them and the art is ugly anyway. I would not be sorry to see them gone at all.

Edit: It's funny how it's the little edgelords being the only ones getting le triggered here. Anyone proposing the item be removed did so calmly without screaming about the sky falling but the little edgelords on this board spam the topic with hand wringing about slippery slopes. Lol yall been sipping that alt right koolaid too long, getting rid of two negative items affects you none yet you're convinced it is a sign the site is going down the drain? Dramatic.

Oh fuck me already it isn't "shock content" it's a bad pun.

A very good point.

Yes, it was just a bad pun when the item was introduced on the site. Now that it's become racially linked it could be time to have a rethink.

Or how about we don't validate and empower spineless assholes that would hide behind the anonymity of the internet to take an unrelated idea and turn it into hate speech? Don't you guys get this is exactly the reaction those idiots are hoping for? All you're doing is teaching them they can hurt you and all you'll do in return is run and hide. Someone honestly, tell me what good it would do to change this item, on a "safe" petsite, far from anyone who would ever use that word in that context?

[edit] deleted something that was a little too off-topic

Sorry, but THIS has to be the absolute worst item on site:

feels personally attacked

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People aren't being "edgelords", it's a dumb, cartoony item, not an insensitive statement. We have far worse items on site that could be considered far more offensive. idk if a poorly drawn cartoon bowl of disease sets you off, maybe get off the internet for a while?