#and i love that ppl are relatively chill on tumblr whereas twitter is like a dumpster truck on fire

[obiwan]

you know i really hate that a fandom’s kneejerk response to seeing a controversial event is to hound the ‘close’ celebrities to the said controversy and start weighing their responses to it and then inevitably become disappointed. not even talking about people who are obsessed enough to dig through someone’s old socials so that they can find crumbs of dumb tweets or stupid edgy humour that was popular in early 2000s - but just going to check what their favourite celebrity said about the topic and never finding it satisfactory. and when you say “they’re just celebrities” you have people who claim they have a parasocial relationship with the person dfgkjns i get it if you’re younger but if you’re in your mid/late twenties it’s kind of insane to me that you, a fan, believe you share some deep connection and a meaningful bond with a celebrity. babygirl you don’t. there are “nicer” celebrities just like there are nice people and i’m sure most love their fans but you do not have a “bond” this is not fanfiction. and it’s like, these people will either get devastated when their fave fucks up because it’s impossible to live to those insane standards, or just full on defend them at all costs which is also frankly insane behaviour. 

[obiwan]

#and i love that ppl are relatively chill on tumblr whereas twitter is like a dumpster truck on fire

this is exactly why i don't enjoy twitter at all. i can remain in my comfortable bubble in tumblr and whenever i go on twitter i'm always bombarded with the worst takes i couldn't even imagine.

I mostly agree, tumblr's always been my primary social media (if you can even call it that) and I still think it's the best medium to share gifs in, despite its shortcomings, but I do like how interactive twitter is. I think it kind of depends on the type of person you are - if you get riled up easy or really averse to seeing certain stuff that exists tangentially to the stuff you're interested in, then yeah twitter might not be the best place because it's almost impossible to block out stuff entirely. It will creep into your timeline. On the other hand, it's much more ~alive than tumblr currently is, and it's way less commitment/effort. I don't know, they're not really similar to me so I can't really compare them that much, but yeah I understand the disdain with twitter - especially since elon bought it and is making comically bad choices almost like he wants to run it to the ground lol.