#but like come on guys

[raguonmynieceandnephew]

THEY DIDN'T FISH HIM OUT. HE WAS SUMMONED. NAH BITCH, WHAT YALL NOT GONNA DO IS MESS WITH MY MAN.

[self-made-cages]

The trendy new meeting ice breaker at my office is “what’s your serial killer trait?” and yeah I guess it’s funny and all for people to be like “sometimes I wear socks to bed har har” but I’m not the biggest fan of having to whip out one of my very real OCD challenges for the amusement of a table full of accountants 😐

[heartbreakercupcake]

You know only Tumblr would make me defend a nothing character like Dana cause it seems like people forgot that Miguel is also the reason their relationship went to shit

Like, are we gonna miss the part where Dana begged Miguel to talk to her but he just threw a plant at her

BY NO MEANS IS DANA PERFECT OR AM I EXCUSING THE SOME OF THINGS SHE DID

but you people fail to see how Miguel pushed her away and left her in the dark, she talked about how she could barely get a hold of him

I get it, hes doing Spiderman shit, he doesn't want her to get caught up in it, we all know the story

BUT like you gotta look at this from Dana's pov suddenly out of no where your fiancé just stop talking to you he can't get a hold of him no matter how hard you try and when you do hes not talking to you or telling you whats really going on and then when he you finally BEG him to tell you whats wrong he throws something at you AND HES STILL NOT TALKING TO YOU AND GOES OFF SOME WHERE WITH HIS EX

SO LIKE-?????

[cementcornfield]

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[flamedoesart]

It's really sad how being a bench trio fan is considered cringe now, just bc the ccs haven't hung out in the same stream in ages.

[rainia]

when is the apotheosis trio just going to fucking admit they all are obsessed with each other and have a group make out

[toffoliravioli]

now just remember what happened the last time the devs played the habs…..

if they lose we sellin everything-

[psychodon525]

I think there's a difference between a reblog with a snarky retort, and a reply with a rude message. A reply is made on the post itself, and the OP sees it, and it goes in without context of what came before it in the reblog chain. A reblog has the connotation of "I'm writing this for my blog, and for the people who follow me."

Yes, it's definitely shitty to just take someone's post and be shitty to them, especially when they've explicitly asked you not to be, and ESPECIALLY if it's in the replies. But a reblog has a different context. When I reblog something with a message attached, I'm almost never looking at the specific users who said the specific messages. Instead, I'm just sorta going "This message would make me laugh if I was reading it on my timeline, so I'm going to put it here, so others can laugh the way I would want to."

Sometimes it's a swing and a miss, and you wind up saying something dumb, which comes off as super rude. Sometimes though, you say something funny, and your reblog takes off and becomes the version that everyone sees. We wouldn't have the Children's Hospital post without several people being pretty darn rude in the reblogs. The first Prozd sound clip I ever heard was the Pregante video, which is essentially just making fun of a ton of random strangers on the internet. Mbmbam got popular due to their Yahoo answers segment, which often made fun of the ridiculous questions people ask on there.

Would the internet be a much nicer place, if everyone was less comfortable being rude to one another? Yes. I mean, the algorithms on so many platforms intentionally show us things that will make us upset, and a lot of the time, that leads to extremely rude interactions online. But on Tumblr, we curate our timeline to be just the people we want to see, and it makes it feel a lot more personal, and like the people we interact with are our friends, or people we can make those kinds of jokes with, and that's part of the appeal. It would be so much more boring if everyone was just nice to each other. Imagine if there were no straight man in a comedy routine. Imagine "Who's on First, except it's only Abbott." That would be boring. We need the jokester who plays on the straight man, and ribs them, and makes jokes at their expense, because that's how comedy works.

Maybe "fuck you :D (very comfy right now btw)" isn't a great joke, but maybe "Idk about OP, but I've never felt comfortable on the internet" is better. Maybe "OP is right, and I will personally fight anyone who is rude on the internet" is better. Or maybe "What's next? I should start feeling uncomfortable when I say rude things to my coworkers? Or I should feel uncomfortable when I beat people up? Now you're going to tell me there's a law against physical assault now too?"

Or maybe you don't find any of those funny. Maybe your style of humour just doesn't jive with that particular type of routine. I mean, it's your post, so you're absolutely allowed to tell people who can and can't reply, and police which kinds of replies are made. But I just think it's a bit strange to equate "thing that was said in jest," with "actual harmful speech, meant to upset or belittle another."

In that original reply, you are correct. You're not sharing a charming joke together as friends. That person made a joke, and you didn't like it. They had no intention of hurting you, and explicitly said it for the purposes of making other people laugh. They did hurt you though, and it's valid for you to address them, and let them know that you didn't want that to happen. You have a quote up there, "[...] coming into your house and swearing at you [...]" which I think is a pretty apt metaphor for parts of Tumblr.

You see your blog as a personal space akin to your house, which you want people to take off their shoes before entering, and to speak with kindness and respect to you. Most people see their blog instead as a stage, where the few or many people who follow them can see the things they like, and the funny things they say. Sometimes they'll bring on another person, and have a funny back-and-forth dialogue, where they're exaggerating things and being jokingly rude, for the sake of laughs. But I think it can be both. I think your blog itself is a stage, and every reblog is a new person putting your act on their stage, but the replies on any given post are OP's house, and you don't bring Stage Energy™ into someone's home.

People shouldn't be putting jokes or rudeness in the replies, ever. If you're mutuals with OP, then sure. But if you have something that is intended to make people laugh, say it in a reblog. That way people know you're saying it for the benefit of others, and not just as a response directly to OP. I don't know enough about the UI of Tumblr to know if that first one was a reply or a reblog, but if it was a reply... Yeah, that's fucking obnoxious, and that person shouldn't have said that there, I mean... There's a time and a place, and that ain't it.

I think OP has been EXTREMELY kind to others on this post, and I don't understand why people are being really mean to them, ala "for fuck's sake" or "fucking hilarious the irony at play here." Like this wasn't a personal attack at you. OP had a generally good point, which someone clearly misread the situation of, and opset them. Then when OP was like "hey, don't do that?" people started dogpiling them.

Rudeness as a performance piece, meant to make people laugh, and be reblogged and shared for a chuckle? That's Tumblr, baby. Rudeness in the replies or DMs or Ask Box? That's awful, and how you get blocked. There's a social etiquette at play here on Tumblr, and I think a lot of people want their reply to be the one to go viral and make others laugh so much and get so many notes and wind up on Reddit or whatever, that they forget how to be kind, and how to follow the rules of Tumblr.

A reblog is a stage. A reply is OP's house. The tags are your house/inner thoughts. Don't bring your jokes for an audience into OP's house.

We've all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

Please note. The orange one is not included because A. He isn’t a billionaire. And B. Calling him obnoxious is too kind for him.

[jamierthanyou]

as an aroace, im particularly dangerous, because i wont fuck or marry. i only know how to kill.

[youthofpandas]

What’s up with how the dunmeshi fandom just lies about this kind of stuff all the time. It is easily confirmable information that it was a monthly series, something incredibly common in the industry.

A not weekly magazine schedule is literally common !! Especially in the seinen shoujo and josei demographics, sometimes monthly, sometimes biweekly, sometimes every two months, sometimes seasonal! Please stop lying about how Dunmeshi was some special unique creation that defies all standards of manga just to hype it up because it is so clear that every single one of these comparisons is centered around Weekly Shonen Jump (and understand that SJ has many magazines under its brand that are monthly or semimonthly). Not everything is WSJ and it needs to stop being the only point of reference in conversations like this 🤧

[mybreadsmybutters]

when i was a kid i wanted to be a famous youtuber like dan and phil so that people would gay ship me with my irl best friend and we would be sooo weirded out by it and laugh and make videos joking about it but secretly it would make her realize her repressed gay crush on me and i'd help her through her gay crisis and then we would have a sickeningly sweet sappy romance and read fanfiction about ourselves together... anyways just found out she's married to a guy in the mafia now so i probably don't have a chance

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[qrbits]

gaming at the office 😎

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[bajaja-blast]

you dislike Luke Castellan because he disagreed with an oppressive government system and actually took action to change the abusive ways him and his peers have been forced to follow for millennia.

I dislike Luke Castellan because in the Titans Curse he manipulated Annabeth, who he raised as his little sister, into holding up the sky, the FUCKING sky, for over 20 hours and had the audacity to walk away as though he was completely apathetic towards it while she begged and pleaded with him to help her.

we are not the same.