kiophen

DNI/DNFIs, BYFs and more

(Do Not Interact/Do Not Follow If, Before You Follow)

An extensive compilation of various things various social media users, and carrd/strawpage creators would like you to know before interacting with them. The following are directly copy-pasted from carrds and other places I found from, either by searching "site:carrd.co dni" on search engines or randomly on social media. Unsourced to protect their identities.

What is a carrd/strawpage? What is this?

Carrd.co and strawpage are free website builders with the intention of allowing people to make a simple, business card-like page. They're often used as an extended bio for someone's twitter or tumblr, since those platforms have a limited character count for user descriptions, but are also used to spread information about a topic, aggregate a user's social media links, or for artists to host their commission info.

The pages used for user bios usually contain standard bio information like gender and likes/dislikes, but also categories such as: DNI (Do Not Interact/Follow), for characteristics the reader could have that the user wants to avoid, and BYF (Before You Follow), for disclaimers about the user themself, that the reader is expected to be aware of before interacting. Also, occasionally, for the reader's convenience, some writers decide to list topics that are triggering to them. Their intention being that others will know not to bring it up around them, but also has the side effect of making it easy for bad actors to upset them. Please, do not put information on the internet that people can use to hurt you.

These is not my DNI. This is a collection that I've compiled over time. I do not have a DNI.

Further Explanation

These are all sourced from user bios, carrds, strawpages, and other places online. I started this list in 2022, so anything could have been written from the present to around then. They are grouped into common themes, but otherwise the ordering is random. When I update this list now, I try to only grab entries that are new, interesting, and/or underrepresented in this list, because a lot of DNIs still have the same elements in them.

If some of the terms or purpose of these make no sense to you, or if you are simply interested in learning more, I run a Tumblr blog called DNI-Translation that goes through several DNIs and explains them in too much detail.

DNI:





BYF:

PLEASE TAG/TRIGGERS:

Back to top