#i did a full rant on tags about the dangers of doomscrolling and “what about the kids” and blah blah blah but i was going nowhere really

[moonchild-in-blue]

I'll never not find supremely funny the fact that Tumblr remains the only social media that is "actually" social. The place where all the weirdos and introverts and mentally ill and severely associal people are.

Because everything else is just a "look at this photograph" type thing (read: 30 second hyper stimulating videos of nothing burguer) OR "I know exactly when you saw my message and you MUST reply IMMEDIATELY or else".

It's very reaction-based, rather than meaningful and continuous engagement with others. There's no back and forth. But here we're all doing our thing, being weird and anonymous and unfiltered about whatever it is, parallel playing on the dash like it's another day at the playground.

And someone can go "ooh let's play knights" and others will be doing mud cakes, or playing catch, and others are just quietly reading a book, or trading cards, or doing personality quizzes, or sharing earbuds. And there's collective snack time where we all consume the same thing, and sometimes there's a new fun game for everyone, and it's nice.