#hate that text posts get more traction on this website than art

[miniimoose]

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[noellevanious]

more bitching and moaning about twitter below the cut. god help me and my tendencies

see like. twitter and the attitude around it drives me nuts. like when you think about it or when you've been on this site for long enough. you see all the issues people on twitter complain about.

"it's really hard to curate a following on tumblr" no it fucking isn't. you just don't do anything besides post your art with 30 tags once, maybe twice, and hope somebody finds it. because on twitter people will just rt whatever the algorithm gives them. there's no community. if there is a community, it's from friends who already know eachother elsewhere. all the "interactions" i see on twitter are people apologizing cause other people are bitching them out, or friends that have been friends forever talking about stuff.

meanwhile almost everybody i've met i've met that i interact with, i met through tumblr in some way. my friends for the past 5 years since i got out of college? all originally from tumblr. all these people that i interact with? met them here. it's a little community of like-minded people who i cherish and appreciate even if, so far, our interactions are just text and images on a screen.

the entire fun of tumblr is the community aspect. we like promoting eachother. we like interacting with eachother. i've had more fun in the past year or so of being on this site than i've had on basically any forum.

like i follow artists that have dipped their toes back into tumblr after seeing them complain and whine and moan about "ohhh god i gotta go back to tumblr boohooo i have no clout there i get so fewer notes/reboggles/whatever" and. they like. post a single piece of their art a day. and then just. nothing. when the site is literally built around reblogs.

there's no algorithm in the "Good" "pure" way to experience the site. You meet friends with common interests, maybe through tags, maybe you already knew them. maybe you joined tumblr because of them. they reblog certain people. you reblog those posts. It's very natural. You find stuff you like, and people you like, and blogs you enjoy seeing. so you keep going. and that's how you start getting traction. you be genuinely funny or charming or talented.

and trust me. i get it. nobody's terminally online like me. you don't need to tell me that.

nobody else literally spends 90% of their time looking at the dashboard*. so it's just more "normal" people who check their twitter or tiktok or insta or whatever every now and then inbetween their work in their field. so like. this is all just small potatoes to them. they just want another outlet or avenue to share their media. more power to them.

but like. these websites suck shit. and current internet sucks shit. don't get on your high horse about waaaaah waaaah the shitty website that literally any moderately thought-out forum or webzone would put to shame, where the only interaction 90% of the time is trying to climb an imaginary internet ladder and be the Talk of the Town for 15 minutes so you can get a bunch of follows, is slowly crumbling around you, so there goes your small internet niche you carved (when in reality, if it had literally any weight or gravitas whatsoever, people would follow you to whatever outlet you move to).

It's a shitty fucking website. Let it burn. Tiktok is worse, Facebook is worse, Instagram is worse, but at least one shitty, advertiser-focused consumer-hating site is crumbling. That's good.

* (and trust me when i say that if i had my choice, i'd be like. in a full-time job. or my adhd would be solved so i could do creative stuff i wanna do, like make video essays, or write more, or draw more, instead of staring at this website so much)

[vvolgarov]

125-127!

Ask me! I’ll answer honestly | Accepting! 125: Do you believe in a certain magical creature?126: Something you hate about Tumblr:127: Something you love about Tumblr:

125: Do you believe in a certain magical creature?I don’t believe in magical creatures anymore. I used to believe in an entity by the name of aitvaras ( “ kite “, in English ) who could either grant fortune or misfortune. Basically, It was a cheeky entity that was similar a trickster / imp.126: Something you hate about Tumblr:It’s more specifically about a part of Tumblr -- The Roleplaying community, and It’s my dislike for die hard “funnymen writers” who constantly shitpost. Granted, I’ve fallen to that route one period, but I can’t help to dislike seeing lousy writers like this anymore.I wouldn’t have an issue if a writer genuinely was unavailable to write. I have an issue when they state that they are busy, get overwhelmed and drop threads -- only to FEEL like they suddenly are available to write more after one hour, collect threads and fuck off in the same way as before ...And this vicious cycle goes on before.I always look skeptically when I see a lot of “I’m unavailable / my replies will be slow “ posts because they usually giveaway of that type of writer.Sure, some writers are anxious and might be repetitive at this, but It’s usually easy to tell when an anxious writer informs a lot, and when It’s just a person that isn’t decisive whether they are bored / busy or want / don’t want attention.127: Something you love about Tumblr: Tumblr was a website where I could begin my roleplay hobby ( “career” ) and happily present my ideas, my characters and develop my writing. I had this OC creation spiel with me from very early, but I was rather interested on presenting my characters with text, rather than art -- ( Even though art eventually became a part of my want to present my OCs)All the other social media websites have been rather unwelcoming for me ( Instagram is too umcomfortable to use; Twitter allowed only short posts, DevianArt didn’t seem like a site I’d garner remote traction to what I show in TEXT .. ) and having to randomly encounter Tumblr and use It was the best choice I’ve ever done.

[no-the-other-thaddeus]

On the new guidelines

I rarely ever make my own original posts on this blog. Perhaps because I’ve little faith that they’ll get much traction, or feel they simply won’t have much impact buried beneath endless reblogs that often better articulate the points I’d want to make, or are at least more widely visible. 

But this, this I feel the need to weigh in on in my own words. This affects nearly everyone using this site, from personal friends to complete strangers. This is an attack on a huge chunk of this sites userbase, and yet another slap in the face to NSFW content creators from a major social media platform. I’m tired of it, and I refuse to be silent anymore. 

Normally I’d probably put something this prone to ending up long under a read more, but that just makes it all too easy to ignore. I know that much from experience. So we’re gonna get into this, and if the post ends up taking a while to scroll past? You’ll just have to deal with those few seconds of inconvenience I guess. 

To begin with, I will say that this has at least one silver lining. It still sucks that it’s coming about because of the complete destruction of tumblr’s NSFW community, but it might at least be a comforting thought:

Unless they fuck this up spectacularly, this will be a huge blow to all the pedophile scumbags who embedded themselves into this site like ticks. Gone, by and large will be the contingent of ‘MAPs’ trying to normalize pedophilia like the fucking filth they are from this corner of the internet. 

It fucking sucks that it has to come with the deletion of all other NSFW content on the site as well, but it’s something at least. Fuck those people. No exceptions.

Moving on, however, this is the most extreme measure they could have possibly taken to resolve this problem, to the point I’m still kind of stunned it’s what they’re going with. It is effectively suicide; they skipped straight from shooting themselves in the foot to shooting themselves in the head. It’s not that there aren’t people who use the site mostly for SFW content, but at the same time, even amongst those people, there’s a good chance any given one of them has a side-blog for collecting porn. It’s a huge part of this site’s identity. To attempt to remove that is to lobotomize it. 

This is especially true given that it’s already becoming apparent that whatever algorithm they’re using to flag posts now is wildly inaccurate. If your image has something even vaguely resembling a dick in it, whoops, flagged. And I do mean vaguely resembling.At the rate things are going you could get flagged for posting a picture of Squidward purely because of his nose. That happening here and there would be one thing, but the real issue this is causing is a bleedover that could kill another huge section of tumblrs userbase: Roleplayers

For a few hours after the announcement got spread around, the rp community reasoned they were safe, given that NSFW text is still allowed. So long as they abstained from posting lewd art or using suggestive icons, theoretically they’d be fine. 

Nope. Just an hour or so ago, one I follow had a completely innocuous post flagged for no discernible reason. They appealed it of course, that is something you can do. There’s even a button linking to a page giving you more info on the appeal process on the notification your appeal’s gone through!

That leads to a blank page. 

So, more than likely, it’s going to become infeasible to use tumblr for roleplay without it being a game of Russian roulette. Now we’re up to two groups tumblr is effectively killing or at least wounding. But wait there’s more! From what I hear, Furry blogs, even if they are SFW, are being flagged indiscriminately. It’d be one thing if they were just a casualty of the NSFW purge, but that even ones that are clearly harmless are getting blasted sends a pretty clear message, so now we’re up to three.

But oh, we’re not done. Oh no. I saved the worst for last: tumblr has been known, long before any of this started going down, to frequently label completely benign LGBQT+ content as adult, and with the horrendously inaccurate new algorithm, I can only imagine that’s going to get worse. So that’s four and this last one is just straight up discrimination against an actual marginalized group! Wow! I hate it!

This is not acceptable. Period. This is a ridiculous, extremist solution to a problem that admittedly, yes, was legitimately serious. Child porn should not be hand-waved, and it’s presence on this site was disgustingly prolific, but this is the equivalent of getting past a locked door by nuking the entire house it’s in. It’s destroying an entire community for the actions of one subset of it’s population, and then doing it so poorly you destroy other communities in the process!

Verizon’s stock had a sharp drop after the NSFW purge was announced, and for good reason: anyone with a shred of common sense realizes this is a bad move. It’s going to kill this site. Even if they back down from it, which I highly, highly doubt will happen, the damage will already be done to such a degree that it will likely only result in a slower death. The staff of tumblr, whether you want to blame them directly, or people in Yahoo above them, have proven that they are not worthy of your trust or continued support. 

They would rather neuter this website than actually attempt to moderate it’s content in a reasonable fashion. Hell, they could’ve even done something closer to a compromise and created a separate version of tumblr purely for NSFW content! Anything would be better than this so long as the pedophilic content still got removed in the process!

And so, I appeal to you, denizens of tumblr: once December 17th rolls around, delete your blogs. Show Yahoo and Verizon and whoever the fuck else had a hand in this that this was not okay. That they fucked themselves and cannot regain our trust. Even just leaving your blog to rot from then on will send a message if you don’t want to delete it entirely. You’ll still be depriving them of ad revenue and userbase numbers by no longer patronizing the site.

Back up what you wanna keep, find content creators from here you still want to follow on other sites, whatever you need to do, but leave tumblr behind. They clearly don’ care about us; why should we care about them? 

In closing: Fuck tumblr. This has been a long time coming, the only thing surprising is how ridiculously extreme the straw that broke the camel’s back is.