Anyway the last point I have to make here is that even if tumblr breaks under the algorithm (almost certain if they don’t back out of using it) and/or everybody leaves… I don’t have anywhere else to go or post things
people like to joke about it being bad, but I legitimately really like Tumblr. it actually feels like a blogging platform in a world where facebook and twitter are active political weapons that manipulate us elections. i don’t feel like i’m baring myself to content i don’t want to see here, or having to engage with a popularity-focused culture. the content isn’t sorted to influence you or trick you. it’s a bunch of people being themselves on their own terms. it’s oldnet.
yes, i do use other websites, but i’m not interested in posting personal things to any of them. this was a place i had control over and i’ll stay with it until i can’t. and when that happens there’ll be nothing left.
⭡ This.
I mean, I’m not joking when I talk about how awful it is – hell, I left for several months – but I have nothing to replace it with, and that’s what brought me back.
college is just the worst opinions you’ve ever heard being counted as participation points
if you’ve ever taken an ethics class with 19 year old rich white business majors, you should automatically get your degree because enduring four months of Ryan Henry Harrington III’s hot takes will be the hardest thing you ever have to do
Trying to find the perfect name for a character, but you only have a vague idea of what you want, like “he feels like a 2-syllable kind of guy” or “It need a hard consonant at the end.”
its actually really aggravating that any conversations about problems with tumblr always end up having to be all about fandom and peoples precious erotic fanfiction and fanart bc like “losing fandom history” is not an actual problem in the real world and constantly making it out to be some crisis makes all the complaints about this website seem like a silly gimmick to outsiders. no one pays attention to or cares about the actual problems with this website cuz the public face of the complaints is “fandom freedom is being threatened” and its annoying that that remains the case bc people always hijack the situation to make it about fandom bs.
like its apalling that articles about tumblr give barely a sentence to acknowledge that there were cp rings and pedo positivity blogs operating in the open on tumblr. of the most recent batch of news many only briefly mentioned how much the newest update is going to affect sex workers before dovetailing into paragraphs about fandom artists and the “november purge” (which lmao a lot of those artists were not deleted out of the blue they were notified and it was bc of underage nsfw fanart, p much everyone i follow who was actually deleted by accident got their blog back) and the na/zi problem is only being brought up as a zinger about nipples when there should be articles about radicalization on tumblr the same way journalists have written about facebook and youtube.
like its just so frustrating. the entire website is not all just for fandom. there are sitewide problems that have nothing to do with fandom. the way these problems are being addressed currently is fucking over people who make a living from adult content with adults for adults only and it has nothing, i mean nothing, to do with fandom. any crossover is because everyone on the website is being affected by their terrible algorithm lmao not bc fandom is being targeted.
That’s the whole reason they’ve been allowed to pull this BS for so long.
Reddit is a glorified chat board (don’t get me wrong I love it, but it’s a totally different platform). Twitter has a character limit and it’s interface is completely different. Facebook is … Facebook (it gives me The Anxieties so I don’t go on it anymore). Instagram is great for pictures but interaction is limited to comments and PMs. Pillowfort is a paid site (which is great if you have disposable income but I really don’t).
Nothing has really tried to knock tumblr off its pedestal even though someone likely could … and easily. All they’d have to do is run it with an iota of competence.
redefining silver linings 