#global fame

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Barbara Taylor Bradford: Celebrated Romance Novelist Passes Away at 91

Barbara Taylor Bradford: A Literary Icon Passes Away at 91 Barbara Taylor Bradford, celebrated as one of the world’s most beloved romance novelists, has left an indelible mark on the literary landscape. She captivated generations of readers with her intricate tales filled with buried secrets, fierce ambitions, and resilient women who rose from humble beginnings to achieve wealth and power. Sadly,…

[iirulancorrino]

The Green brothers are doing effective altruism better than maybe 95% of people who identify online as effective altruists.

[shortkingvi]

mariana’s trench never really making it out of canada was a tactical decision by the band so that every other musical artist didn’t have to worry about getting outcunted by the greatest musicians of all time 🫡

[annieqattheperipheral]

[fyeahffa]

we were fated to pretend

[meikostan]

realizing now that if vol 1 oshi no ko does take place in like 2010ish the viral video of aqua and ruby dancing at ai's concert is like. this world's equivalent of charlie bit my finger

[lokisasylum]

[peachiyyy]

If all celebrities and influencers died simultaneously we’d have world peace in 9 seconds

[scorpius-rising]

I think the most fascinating thing about the US being a shit place to live is the fact that from all the indicators it shouldn't be. Like yes, there are far worse places to live for many people. But the US is the world's largest economy. Its hegemonic media and celebrities dominate the global culture. Its business exploits the labour and resources of billions of people and its military is the most dominant on the planet. By all rights it should be a pretty good place to live and instead it's just...bad.

[viraltrendsspot]

Sabrina Carpenter: From Disney Darling to Global Star

From a young Disney actress to a chart-topping global sensation, Sabrina Carpenter's journey is a masterclass in reinvention.

[sassmill]

So yes I would be lying if I wasn’t looking forward to the wicked movie(s) especially as a fan of the books because it seems like they draw elements from the books that were absent from the musical but also the global marketing campaign is feeling a little tone deaf in comparison to… the books

[pier-carlo-universe]

Giornata Mondiale dell'Alimentazione: Un Impegno Globale per un Futuro Sostenibile. Recensione di Alessandria today

Come la Giornata Mondiale dell'Alimentazione sensibilizza su fame, malnutrizione e agricoltura sostenibile.

Come la Giornata Mondiale dell’Alimentazione sensibilizza su fame, malnutrizione e agricoltura sostenibile. Ogni anno, il 16 ottobre, si celebra la Giornata Mondiale dell’Alimentazione, istituita dalla FAO (Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l’Alimentazione e l’Agricoltura) nel 1979. Questa ricorrenza ha lo scopo di sensibilizzare l’opinione pubblica mondiale sulla necessità di garantire il…

[familythings]

Summary of Celebrity News and Gossip – September 2024

Dear friends. As many of our readers love the celebrities gossip rubric, we have decided to transform it into a monthly rubric. So in the last day of the month, you’ll be able to be informed about that month highlights of: showbiz, fashion, sport, royalties and politics. So, here we go with biggest events and gossips during September 2024: Showbiz Emmy Awards Highlights The 76th Emmy Awards…

[aroace-cat-lady]

My standards for considering myself a Fan of someone are apparently wildly different than my sister's

[zilliondollarpussy]

My desires are my destiny

[bread-tab]

being a member of the 244-729 bin makes me feel very special uwu

i also have a vague theory as to why this happens

There are essentially two broad types of tumblr blogs; let's call them worms and funnymen.

(These types operate on a more basic level than the "theme" of a blog; personal mishmash blogs, fandom blogs, studyblrs, aesthetic blogs, etc. etc. can all fall under either type depending on how they are run.)

Worms make up a majority of the userbase and have anywhere from single digits to a few hundred followers.

Funneymen have followers in the thousands. They're the "influencers;" meaning, they produce a disproportionately high amount of the viral posts on the site as a whole.

If you plot both of these types in a graph they're going to look like two overlapping humps. (I like to picture a nice symmetrical pair of bell curves but in reality they'd both be wonky. I don't know enough statistics to tell you what kind of wonky.) That 244-729 bin happens to cover the dip between those two peaks.

As an inhabitant of that valley I can describe it with my blog as an example:

I have a couple dozen active mutuals, a handful of moderately popular posts per year (i.e. in the 100-1000 notes range), and one (1) viral post (over 10k notes). This is just enough traction to make me a fairly popular worm. If I put a little bit more effort into networking, posted consistently and made more "viral content" type posts on purpose (and if the whole idea didn't give me heebie-jeebies) I could become a low-tier funneyman.

Funneymen gain traction quickly enough that their following doesn't stay in the 300-1000ish range for long. Worms rarely get to that range—and once they do get there, face the ever-increasing risk of being converted to funnymen. In general, worm followings exhibit gradual, steady growth; funneymen get large spikes/waves of followers when a post goes viral, plus steady trickles from the circulation of previous posts.

There's a subtle but distinct difference in behaviors between worms and funneymen and a corresponding difference in how they are received by the userbase. It's a bit of a feedback loop. i have more thoughts on that, and ideas on what factors increase the likelihood of funneymanism and how tumblr differs from more influencer-friendly or algorithm-based platforms, but that's a different ted talk