#but i just cant fathom how important people have made social media posts

[wild-at-mind]

I think the worst kind of intra-left arguing is 'look how the people who aren't quite like me don't care about x!' and the evidence given is all about posting on social media. (Lack of it/amount of it, subject matter of it etc.)

[flower-zombie-rob]

Tumblr followers

(and why they mean so much to me compared to other websites)

So I'm coming close to 300 followers on tumblr, which is legittimateley mad, and i started my account about 2 years ago.

My friend started tumblr a few months ago and hasnt got more than 10 followers (which was my experience for the first year until it suddenly shot up) and then started an Instagram for her art a week ago. She already has 20 followers on instagram and i cannot even fathom how insane that is. it really got me thinking about tumblr following and the way it compares to other sites.

She started an instagram and in like 5 days shes already got 20 followers, whereas my first year on tumblr i really had to work my way up to having even the minimal 10. What took me a year of being thankful for 20 real living people to look at my blog and decide that this is the content they love, she achieved in two weeks... how empty must that feel?

Take this with a grain of salt because i dont have anything other than tumblr because of personal reasons, and dont intend to in the future because of a lot of toxicity in body image and blah blah blah, but tumblr is really special in that way. It makes you work hard for those followers and you can interract with those followers one on one, no matter how big or small the audience.

With tumblr it really made me realise that you have to work and improve and in general just find the content you enjoy and how you can bring it to others. You actually have to try so hard to get people to actually like you and swaying the minds of the people on tumblr is probably a lot harder than those on other social medias. I feel so conected with my followers and a big part of that is that they can send me asks or dm me or give me feedback in a way that makes me feel really included. Evey time i get a single notification telling me someone new follows me, my mind goes so mad with love because i went through that starting phase of 0 followers and them slowly, but surely, finding my blog and following for my content. I see every one of my followers as a real living person that looked at their screen and thought "this. this person is one i enjoy following. this content makes me happy and this person does too" and its a feeling i just cant imagine you can properly get on a website where the usual is 20+ followers in less than halve a month of posting seven pictures. It just doesnt feel like that would be as satisfying, y'know? Especially since on tumblr there's no way to even tell the amount of followers someone has. So to a beginner, someone with 12000 followers has no more worth than someone who started posting yesturday. Its so much more about the content and personality of the creator and ill never get over how special that makes the bond between followers and bloggers.

So now i just want to take a moment to say how important you all are to me. Every single person that presses that follow button makes me so unbelievably happy and interacting with you makes my day. Even just a regular leaving a like on my posts makes my heart go apeshit. The fact that a single one of you saw my blog and decided you wanted to make the choice to follow me is so damn wholesome and makes me feel so amazing. when i follow a person i always feel a certain sweetness knowing that theres a possibility that im making that person as happy as i am when someone follows me, and i want you to know how much i adore every single one of you. Even ghost followers, even followers that arent as in love with my content as before, even those who feel like they et annoying by spam liking, commenting, and messaging all the time(youre not annoying youre saints) i love every single one of you and im so thankful to have you in this loveley world. Youre important, reguardless of how many of you there are or ever will be.

If any of my followers ever need someone to listen to, i will. And if you guys are going through bad times, it will get better. You all mean so much to me. Thank you for following me, hope you keeo enjoying my content like i enjoy your interaction with it. 💜