#i hate this site so damn much

[chimchiri]

I will forever hate Instagram and Twitter. Nothing will drag me over there to post any art or follow artists (no matter how much I admire your art).

Oh, sorry, you're almost exclusively posting over there? No, thanks, I'm good just seeing the 1% you post here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[blaze-art]

Me: Oh boy! I can't wait to roleplay on this blog I have spent so much time setting up! All the thought and care that went into-

Tumblr: Bitch you thought! Get deleted motherfucker!

Me: WHAT?! Why?

Tumblr: Spam :)

Me: What about it said to you it was spam?! Ok ok, fine, I've sent a repeal, now give me my blog back.

Tumblr: ...

Me: Tumblr it's been two days where the fuck is my blog?

[penciltopbear]

I have turned the jli into marketable plushies

[rockybloo]

Webtoons doesn't deserve Glitter and Guilt.

It barely deserves Beanstalked.

[crownedmain]

! Askbox & Messages suspended until further notice !

[radioregine]

i also figured out why ive been drawn to police procedurals for so long despite distrusting cops since kindergarten (long story) and it's bc they're part soap opera part horror drama. every time my dad hears my sib & i watching CPD he thinks it's a scary movie . meanwhile sib & i are cackling at the conservatism and melodrama . being a fan of this type is so inch resting bc lefty art ppl think you genuinely like the police if you're amused by any fake cop, and conservatives & normies don't get why you're doing queer theory w the fake boys in blue

[voidimp]

so like what the fuck even are our options for where to post/distribute/sell nsfw content anymore. like literally what is fucking left it feels like everyone is banning everything lately

[swordsandspectacles]

Trying to explain that ‘yes I’m making money form commissions’ but also ‘no it’s far from living-on money and also I have no idea how to ✨improve my reach✨’ is a very disheartening start to a Sunday afternoon

[folklouire]

all these desktop tumblr changes make me so sad and so unmotivated as an editor lol like the new post editor or whatever it's called was already bad enough and now we get this twitter ass shit. it makes me want to never make any edit or post any gifs ever again. and i hate it

[timeisacephalopod]

Been seeing a weird amount of shit about AO3 on my dash, at least in part because of some alleged DDOS attack on the site but like I gotta say. If you get frothing at the mouth angry when you see 2 letters and a number losing your absolute marbles making up pizzagate ass sounding conspiracies because you have Feelings on fanfiction then I need you to shut the fuck up. You care too much about something that's nothing at all expect in a highly niche online world you're treating like a global meeting of countries looking to slap your puppy in particular and frankly I find it pathetic.

[tx-828]

i'm feeling nostalgic so here's a collage i made for polyvore.com's "the force awakens" contest in 2015/16. it was supposed to showcase your favorite character from the movie and i won an honorable mention :)

[thesixthstar]

ok but once again. the small niche userbase needs to be loyal in a way that is profitable or else RadioShackTM goes away anyways in a few years when investors finally get bored of playing hot potato with the money pit. I agree they shouldn't pivot away from their roots and we should be very loud when we don't like the direction of shilling out and copying the Big Stores, but dear god we must understand that they cannot continue to give out capacitors for free

Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?

They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.

Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?

So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.

And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn't compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn't sell.

And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at... putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.

If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn't have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that's what they did.

I don't know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I wish Billboard’s website had a feature where you could click on a song or album and track its chart progression over time instead of having to manually going through each individual week.

[buttressarcade]

Dezeen!☹️ Please! Make an app!

[worldwidewebzy]

GRRRRRRRR i fucking HATE politicians. I HATE their genocidal asses. All of them. No matter what. Blood on their motherfucking hands. We should do more than voting we should work towards not "lesser of two evils"ing our way to fascism. We should abolish america. We should be angry in solidarity of all the countless countries that get exploited by the usa. Vote but I'm begging, PRESSURE. PRESSURE THOSE PIGS LIKE YOUR LIVE'S DEPEND ON IT. GET ANGRY. GET FURIOUS!!!!!

[peacerisendove]

Every time I post art I really do just have to go through the process of my brain asking a lot of self deprecating questions.

Is my art good enough?

Is my art bad/unappealing?

Is it me? Am I off putting in some way in -insert fandom-?

Is my interpretation of the character unappealing in some fashion?

Am I putting in too much effort for such little feedback/sense of community I try to reach through my art?

Despite how I love -insert element/character I like in this fandom-Should I continue to make art for the fandom? Should I give up on this fandom if I'm not getting anything out of it?

Why don't the people close to me put the same energy that I give them back into me? I can't be my own cheerleader forever. It's tiring and there's only so far you can get on your own. Just. Like. Fuck.