#ik how the algorithm works

[midnight1nk]

sigh

even my yt for you section is tormenting me about the door (and the 2nd floor) smh 😔 if this keeps going, i might as well do fanart of the fuckin DOOR

must be a sign by the spaghetti gods themselves or smth

[thehealingsystem]

nate please please please please I am shaking you by the shoulders right now no one needs to do this please you can make a actual thought provoking interesting thumbnail for the song you don't need to appeal to clickbait algorithms anymore you're still letting yourself be bound to it people loved your early original songs for what they were without this. please stop doing this please stop changing thumbnails I am going to cry

[66sharkteeth]

I just wanted to say that even though I'm a mostly silent reader, never really commenting on episodes and rarely interacting on the discord, CoB is by far my absolute favorite comic I've probably ever read. I dont doubt for a second that there are many more out there like me, silently gushing over every new episode and excitedly theorizing with their friends.

Even when CoB reaches its end, I will 100% be sticking around for anything else you make.

thank you. im ngl, there's a big irrationality in me that feels like im only writing this comic for like 15 people sometimes. ik that's completely untrue, but it can really feel like that, especially when i step outside the bubble of webtoon and try to share or talk about the comic anywhere else. i've full on just...stopped posting on instagram, because it's just so defeating and exhausting every time i post. I know there's more than 15 people reading my work, but boy its harder to tell myself that every time I post outside of webtoon. i only continue to post here because i've put no effort into growing this so i don't feel as disappointed when only 20 of my 700k followers on webtoon see it.

ik this completely dismisses my silent followers, which i know there are a lot of, and i'm trying really hard to account for them. but man, it's really hard. and i dont think how lonely the process is helps either. i remember numbers never used to bug me as much when i had a close friend to gush about OCs and ideas with, but now that i just gotta kind of do it all myself and be my own cheerleader with nobody to gush about upcoming stuff to, its doubly defeating when it finally posts and nobody's that excited. i don't know how i can feel so alone when there's a good amount of people who follow me, but the whole thing is an incredibly isolating process and it's just gotten so much worse with declining readership and algorithms doing everything they can to make sure nobody sees my work.

sorry if i veered off a bit, but it's been on my mind lately haha. i appreciate every reader so much, silent and vocal. like no seriously, you guys are literally the only thing keeping me going bc i know we're supposed to "create for ourselves" and stuff, but i think most people at least have a friend or partner that they're gushing about their OCs and stuff with, but i just have you guys lol. so thank you for reading, enjoying, and giving me someone to actually share my creations with.

[kurishiri]

As fellow translator (not ikemen series), who has been on tumblr for a while, I can empathize with you because my translation barely have comments or someone thanked me for tl. But, I don't want to think it deeply.

Perhaps, some people uncomfortable to interact with others or have social anxiety. Even tho behind each account we don't know each other and so on, people that having this type of anxiety will feel insecure when interacting with others. Some sort of question haunt them such as; (what is the response if I interact with other, are people accepting my comment, should I comment like this or like that—), and more disturbing question appear on their mind. Other than that, some people maybe facing social burn out. They want to interact with others post but they have reach their limit of interaction so they reblog/likes instead, without commenting. Or maybe they faced hard time irl so tumblr are their escape place but because their socialize limit has reached, they not interact with others and only likes/reblog.

That's how I start to learn understand why some people not thanked me or interacting with me. I learn to accept all sort of interaction I get either it is reblog, likes or comments and appreciate each one of them even tho my inner self really want to talk about the tls I have done. But, as I said, I learn to understand each kind of people exist especially on tumblr. Btw, this is my personal opinion about this matter. I hope you don't give up on tl but if you start feel tired, you can take a rest from tl for a while and come back when you feel okay. Sorry for this long post lol and Happy New Year! ✨

happy new year anon! 🥂✨

first, thanks for sharing your thoughts! /gen tbh i wrote the original post in the car, not really thinking much of it at the time, but i never intend for it to pressure or guilt trip lurkers into commenting. it was honestly like…more so a silly vent, or a half-assed attempt to motivate myself lmao bc i looked at my dash and ended up having these thoughts of comparing myself to others when looking at other tls. like “wow there r my big shot friends and moots who get so many comments and asks, positive vibes, gushing together…then there’s me” kinda thing bfhsjfhshfs but ik “lurking” is just an inherent, inevitable phenomenon of social media, we’ve all lurked one way or another on the internet, whether we realize it or not. ik based on said phenomenon, out of all impressions and interactions, <10% will be active interactions like comments on average. (i took a class on social computing ,, interesting stuff) so ya i can’t and don’t expect comments or asks on a default.

more below ↓

and i also understand ppl may struggle with anxiety or may not have the energy, which is also why i never expect ppl to comment on my stuff as the go-to. that’s just asking for too much. i don’t mean to invalidate such feelings. and i appreciate ppl who still like and especially reblog, as reblogging actively helps boost the post with how tmblr’s algorithm works. there r even a couple ppl who i’ve never even heard a peep of a word from but i notice they like and, or reblog nearly every tl post i put up. i do notice these kinds of things too. and i do appreciate lurkers and any interaction as well! i love y’all too /p

but ya even while understanding the inevitability of it and knowing ppl got their reasons for lurking, it doesn’t change the fact that, to me, one comment can do loads more for me than 100+ “silent” reblogs or likes. but as mentioned before, i can’t expect comments or similar interactions at a minimum (i consider myself lucky af if i get a comment lmao) so thats why i sort of have a smaller circle of friends that i sorta talk abt my tls to. like a circle i know will give me that feedback i want and need to keep me going aside from me having fun with tls. and i’m pretty sure i’m not the only fan translator like this…i just hope i don’t annoy said circle djahfhsgfhagds

[loaisacult]

Hi, i saw your post and wanted to address the talking points. Firstly thank you for speaking out against all the fakers and scammers in this community! It is very much possible to fall into despair and give your life away to the tumblr fakers if you are not careful enough.

Now i am not saying LOA is not real, manifestation is completely real but there is no definite answer i can give how it works, it just does. I have personally gone through a spiritual awakening and thats only the cornerstone of my beliefs no matter how much loa/loa2/magick comes up. Its completely different from realization to discovering it on tiktok. Ik fellow shifters, shifter who arent in this community or anywhere found because they live their lives, here or elsewhere. Shifting is real, even reincarnation is real. But dont waste your time on throwing in on the void and ignoring your personal life. Tumblr and other platforms, and just the internet in general has soo much quantity of information, it makes it hard. Algorithms are designed to keep you engaged and show what you want to see. Obviously, everyone wants to make money, so they will cheat, deceive, lie and scam. Its up to u to decide what you want to consume. Being in this environment is very niche and it can get overwhelming because the nature of this topic is very very elastic and fluid. It is not structured like science or mathematics where you can find a concrete solution from a definitive problem, there are too many gray areas and it is relatively new. This information is guarded by the top and we have a very filtered versions of it. No wonder we struggle. Also people who charge money for this?! horrendous, please dont fall for this, it will not help in any way (obv exceptions are there but i think the majority is a scam, because in the end, all the effort falls on you and they can blame you. Take for example, going to a educational coaching classes where its ruthless and they take exhorbitant amounts of money in name of getting you the best quality of education whereas in reality they are gonna dump massive data on you (like videos/posts) and then tell you to follow and study, if you fail, its because you didnt try hard enough. SEE?! I have personally been here for years and it was not good as a young, naive and suicidal kiddo who was looking for a way out, esp during lockdown. I thought that i would shift away and forget all of this, but this is running away from life and standing still in front of death. Its useless, i learnt it the hard way, the period of my life immediately after lockdown was hell, because i was so deep in delulu world that it worsen the state of my external world here. Im not a perfect being here telling but the major thing i realised is that i have to led my life the best possible way, with my efforts and even with the help of manifestation. I trust subliminals forever though. it works like a gem. I, too saw so many of trump-shifting lmao, but its not a joke for some... I think most of us delulu girls think that future is gonna be better than the present, id argue start now. go the gym now, study now, work now, all these habits culminate over time and you should definetly meditate as this whole loa-magick-manifesting is highly spiritual, and find your own way of manifesting than coming here. I will not put my life on hold just to focus on the void again, i have wasted months on it and ik some are gonna say, you didnt do it right enough blah blah. But im gonna crave out my own path, idc it might not look like urs but im too stubborn to let go and i want a good life for myself and my loved ones. This is taking responsibility for your life. I am making a better life for myself in all 360 ways I can.

Yes. Loa is real shifting and the void state although I recommend researching them as shift = quantum jumping and the void state = zero point state or in Hinduism = Turiya state and while you do so also make sure you life is not going to shit because life being a hypothetical illusion doesn’t change the fact everything is real and suffer the prince of consequences under this “illusion”

[gossipgirloff1]

To be fair does anyone else find it really weird how inconsistent she is with her social media? Any other influencer would be posting more consistently. Or does she still want to play it that she's 'private'. // (ik this has gotten a few similar answers already sorry just wanna add my two cents)

tbh i don‘t even truly label alexandra an actual social media influencer or even content creator….because she‘s extremely lazy about it. any other normal influencer has to be on their game all the time and post very regularly if not everyday (and stories multiple times a day) because that‘s how it works for normal influencers who don‘t have any „extras“ to make them always relevant. there are so many influencers nowadays that they are just forgotten easily if they don‘t constantly appear on their followers feed (i for example follow quite a few influencers and i notice how whenever one doesn‘t appear on my home page and feed nearly daily with at least stories, i forget about them….it‘s just what it is, they‘re not that special, as mean as it sounds, to have that effect and the algorithm quickly pushes them out too!)

but, alas, alexandra can easily afford to be extremely inconsistent and lazy with it because of charles and her wag status.

fans will be influenced and gagged and fawning over it anyway no matter what (or how little) she does. because essentially, all she does is post when she has nice pictures for her aesthetic (which mostly happens when she‘s with charles, oop, girl…don‘t ya live in monaco?? you surely have a nice damn place to take content in but oooh well) or when she senses she can play it up, aka being with charles on race weekends or vacation. any other influencer as of rn would be lost in the sea that is social media content and especially micro-trends if they handled it like alexandra does because it‘s boring when you don‘t get content from them as often. said what i said.

also i do guess that she‘s maybe playing into the private thing again, or maybe she doesn‘t have content to post. (again, seems like she only has some when she‘s away on vacay or with f1)

also as a random remark, i find her instagram feed by now almost too perfect…too perfectly set up, and literally nothing that truly sets her apart from others. idk if it‘s just me but i find it boring in a way, i feel like that about anyone online who is far too well curated in their content and aesthetics tho. i kind of miss something that would freshen it up (or shows an teeny tiny bit of personality)

[nahdpencil]

Second track from my instrumental EP, “TUKS”. For a description of the album as a whole, see this post.

For a description of this song specifically, see the “read more” below.

SM1-WB7UKS “TUKS”

SMs ("Support Models") were among the first official models released after XMs. Though combat models became the primary public focus of the AAW program, RAS engineers were also interested in deploying models in support roles.

As such, SMs were often employed in the operation of heavy machinery and mass transport of supplies. By designing SMs, RAS effectively created its own laborers, as support models came to be the primary workhorses of RAS production facilities.

SMs have the most limited self-learning algorithms of all models, as they were usually deployed for specific jobs under controlled environments, where SMs would rarely find themselves needing to respond to rapidly changing conditions. However, as a safety measure, SMs were designed to follow the commands of higher-ranking models in an emergency.

Originally assigned to a mass transport role, TUKS was later deployed to the frontlines when the catastrophic failure of CM3* models left many CM3*s in a non-functioning state, necessitating their destruction before their technology could fall into the hands of opposing forces.

While deployed, TUKS was later assigned to a machine gunner role, as its bulky construction lended it well to carrying larger weaponry and substantial amounts of ammunition and supplies, with little impediment to its movement.

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“TUKS” was the second song I wrote for the IKE EP. In the five months since initially starting this album, I went through three draft compositions for “TUKS”; each one was in 3/4 time, and each ended up having so much distortion that my recordings sounded muddy and lacked dynamic variation. I was committed to releasing “TUKS” by the end of the year, so in December of 2024, I scrapped my drafts so I could rewrite and record an entirely new composition for "TUKS" within a day. This is the version you get to listen to here. (Technically, this new version is not entirely from scratch—the verse chord progression originated from a four-note descending bassline which came to me two and a half years ago. I jotted down the bassline in a file on my computer, yet contemplated deleting the file every few months since I thought I’d never use the bassline; I’m glad I didn’t now, since I love how this final iteration of the song turned out.)

My initial drafts were distorted and punchy because I wanted the song to represent TUKS being a support model working tirelessly in an unrelenting arms factory. However, after scrapping that idea, I decided to go with a cleaner, more sullen sound for the bulk of the song to represent the monotony of TUKS’s daily work. The more muted, dreamy choruses then represent the short moments of reprieve TUKS sometimes has during transit between factories, admiring the stormclouds and what little overgrowth and wildlife are still around.

[kageyuji]

Hii! This is my first time trying this, but do you have any advice for starting and building a writing blog?

I've been wanting to start one for a while but I'm not sure how to gain followers and stuff.

hi!! no worries :D and tbh.. i’m not exactly sure LMAO despite it seeming like i have my shit together i Do Not. but!! i can give you some general things/ideas:

write for yourself. write what makes you happy and what you genuinely want to write. despite how much of a people-pleaser i am, it’s also really important to remember that this is a hobby and if you write things you don’t really want to write, it’s going to show through your work but it’s also going to burn you out quickly.

(that said, if you are writing for x reader content make sure your reader is ambiguous. having a character be a 5’4 brunette with a knack for baking is cool sometimes, but it’s also a very slim audience and it’s going to throw some people off)

similarly, don’t compare yourself to other creators and don’t compare yourself to.. yourself. if you have something that does really good, and then you post the next week and it does shit, that’s okay! sometimes tumblr algorithm is just shit. sometimes certain characters are more of a fan favorite. but, also remember that people who have already built a large following are going to have more notes. just don’t get discouraged easily — every fic is something entirely new and it shouldn’t be weighed off of someone else or an entirely different work.

make a masterlist, and make it organized. if you write for a lot of characters and use different posting types this can get really confusing, but look around at other places or play around with it until you find something that you think feels right.

watch your blog activity (once you start posting, anyway). i believe mobile doesn’t have it, but on desktop (or just login to tumblr from your phones browser app lol) there is a little icon that will show interactions with your posts/blog and you can ask it to show the chart based on time of day, weekly basis, etc. post accordingly to that, and hopefully your posts will gain a little more traction :)

aesthetic is (unfortunately) pretty important in my opinion. of course, if you have the most well written thing i’ve seen i’m going to ignore the kinks but i’m also going to be a lot more likely to read things that are organized well. this is mostly about fics to catch someone’s eye, although this bleeds into your actual blog as well.

(pinterest has lots of cool stuff for aesthetics. twitter layout blogs also usually have a lot of good headers. if you want dividers, you can search the “dividers” tag on tumblr or there’s loads of mobile apps to get the thin color strip dividers like i use.)

similarly, try to make your pinned/navi organized and easy to follow. in my personal opinion, i like adding things like rules/dni, tag guides, and especially masterlists linked somewhere in the post. although, again, it’s up to personal opinion on what exactly you want to link there. as long as it’s organized and somewhat simple, you’re good.

as far as a masterlist and rules go, i would recommend laying out certain things beforehand, like what characters you’re going to write for and hard “no”s. as much as i love people on tumblr, sometimes they just cannot read — it helped me a lot whenever i was new to tell myself “hey, i don’t have to do that. it says that right here and it’s not my fault that they didn’t see that!”

(i also added a little rule that said “if you actually read this, add a ‘<3’ in your asks so i know” LOL it helped me filter requests between who actually cared to read my rules and who didn’t)

add tags to your fics. add so many tags. add many more tags than you think you probably need. add so many tags that you get sick of them — that’s how people are going to find you.

try to keep anonymous asks on, that’s where a lot of interaction comes from. ik people can be dicks sometimes but there’s also a lot of shy people on tumblr. probably 90% of my asks are from anons and i use anon 90% of the time whenever i send asks (especially to my moots bc they’re scary :[ lol)

just generally be nice to people. you don’t have to go out of your way to send love letters to everyone on your feed, but i’ve found that just leaving a little “i hope you enjoy reading this” or something similar as a little note helps my mental for some reason, but it also (hopefully) makes me seem a little less intimidating

[orqqid]

crazy ass rant maybe … maybe … but a few of my art vids on ig have gone a bit WAKCY!! in the algorithm and have been receiving a lot of attention,, and ik with posting on the internet like.. ppl r gonna be a little crazy

but like MY thing is … why r ppl tryna say i “bought my way in” to my art program 😭😭😭 what the fuck

a few points here:

i Think that’s how all university programs work… that’s like … the point… u pay tuition…

it’s literally an ART program like im alr poor

if i DID have the money to “buy my way” into a program, my ass would not have chosen art srry 😭😭

ANYWAYS ya that just pissed me off so bad bc wtf do u mean!!! it was on a vid abt how i said i was bad at perspective so APPARENTLY!!!! that means i cant do art at all 🤔🤔

ok rant over ilysm orqqid nation 🙏

[bugendude]

Was rewatching Edgerunners and made an OC! Ik this guy is pretty overpowered, but that is my specialty lol. I've included a backstory for this guy down below. It's a little long, so I don't expect most people to read it haha.

Deep within the bowels of the Arasaka cybernetics department, there were a team of researchers and specialists devoted to finding a way to cure the ailment cyberpsychos in society. Eventually, they settled on a solution in the form of one of the most advanced A.Is the company had ever seen. The only problem was fusing it to a host, so that further study could validate their work. There were many test subjects who immediately went full on insane when dawning the interface, and with no other option the lead scientist turned to her own son in a last ditch attempt at some possible form of success. Fortunately, that success was achieved. Unfortunately for Tony Carter, this meant that he would never have a normal life.

Tony's early years were spent in a white box, isolated from the outside world. While any normal person would go completely insane due to the isolation, he had the A.I, the Neural Operations and Response Algorithm or NORA, to keep him company. In between the countless cybernetic surgeries Tony would go through, they would play and watch movies. Their favorite was 2008's Iron Man, which they would rewatch regularly inside his head. Tony was the only person who could physically see and interact with Nora, Nor for short, and many of the scientists studying him thought we was in fact going crazy, though the scans showed otherwise. Things were good, that was until that fateful night.

Seeing that the experiment was a brilliant success, Arasaka decided to remove Nora from Tony and use her for their own company purposes. When news reached the lead scientist, she was horrified. Tony and his childhood friend had became so emotionally and physically intertwined that separating them would kill them both. For that reason, she refused to give them up. Tensions began to rise, and it came to a head when soldiers breached the department and killed everyone. In her final act of love for the both of them, Tony's mom wiped everything from the servers and ordered Nora to get them both out of there.

How they managed to sneak out of the department and into a cyberweapon stock room was nothing short of a miracle. They both knew there were hundreds of armed gaurds heading to their location, and as they frantically tried to figure out a way to get though them Tony remembered that Iron Man movie they both loved so much. He then used his A.I companion to push his psychosis immunity and arm them with as many cybernetics as she could fuse to him. With these tools, they killed everyone who got in their way and made it outside.

The next couple years were spent running from law enforcement and taking jobs as a mercenary. They became really good at killing, so good in fact that while under their alias Patch they were approached by Arasaka's competitor, Militech, who upgraded their cybernetics and weapons. With these new tools they quickly rose through the ranks to become one of Night City's best Solos.

[yandere-yearnings]

I have no idea if it’s just me but my posts gets shadow banned out of nowhere and I can’t find it in the tag?? I think hmm, maybe I violated a tumble guideline? NOPE, a 🍇 post is left on latest by someone and I can’t find my own post which was posted after, LIKE HUUH??

I’m sorry Dar, I just had to vent because I’m honestly so done with the tunblr algorithm

i can totally get the frustration nonnie, tumblr is an absolute ass abt these things😩💔 absolutely don't apologise!! i say this a lot, but idm if ppl need to vent and choose to do so here bc i want this to be a safe space for as many ppl as it can be🥰 that being said, i will share a few reasons i think this could be happening;

depending on how new your blog is, sometimes it takes a while to pop up in the tags — i'd say about 2-3 days, and you have to kinda do what tumblr deems 'human' activity like reblog and like posts?? obviously, if you've had your blog for a while, then that isn't really an explanation tho🤧 sometimes it also just takes a couple of minutes,, or hours🙄 ik of some content creators on here who just delete the og and repost it if their works don't appear within a set time frame (which is valid bc they've worked hard on their stuff and deserve the visibility)

your posts won't show up in tags if your actual blog has been shadowbanned (which i don't think is the case bc i got your ask which i believe wouldn't be possible if that were true), but it'd probably still be good to check if your ability to message others here isnt impacted. tumblr shadowbans over really stupid stuff so😔

i honestly really hate the tumblr algorithm myself when it comes to showing up in tags, i literally don't even check bc ik it'll just frustrate me. unfortunately, if you're trying to grow your blog, then it's kinda important to be able to have that reach and in that sense i think reblogs do a lot to get posts circulating as they should be.

whatever the issue is, i hope things work out for you nonnie🥺🩷 it's really annoying when all you want is your hard work to be able to have that chance of recognition, so i understand. you're gonna be able to do it, so keep at it, okay? you got this😌💕

[1mlostnow]

Fuck this stupid baka life I hate the ig algorithm

How is one of my worst writings gonna get 17k but the Saw one that I’m rlly proud of has 39 views ???

Like ik I started the account for therapy but I was really hoping more people would see that bc I WORKED SO HARD AND WAS SO PROUD OF ITT

[sluttyminghao]

Hi! I’m new here and I saw some discussions about reblogging vs liking and interactions and all of that and I was just curious, from what I’ve read reblogs are a way to share ur fave’s content with your own followers, but I don’t have any followers (and I don’t plan on being a writer/artist/anything so I’m mainly here to consume and support other people) so what I was curious about is would it be beneficial for the writer/artist/creator if I reblog? Cuz I’m essentially reblogging to no one and I have no idea how the algorithm works so TvT

Thanks!

hi anon! thanks for your ask, i'll answer this as best as I can (with the help of @onlymingyus and @onlyseokmins thank you loves!)

mars said : basically, reblogs, no matter if you have 10k followers or 0, will still affect the algorithm. by reblogging, it will boost the fic in the tags and makes it more visible for more readers, which in turn will spread our content. through reblogging as well, you may also find some lovely mutuals and friends, as well as followers should you decide to start posting your own content!

elv said: There are several mutuals and blogs ik that aren't cc's of any sorts and they're great and ik their follower count isn't exactly high but seeing them in my notes always gives me a smile. At some point too, reblogs of fics can almost become like an archive or fic rec blog inadvertently. And someone mentioned it before but it's easier for readers themselves to find fics by looking through their own blog. And at the end of the day, it's not abt being "beneficial" it's abt the interactions that aren't just likes and empty reblogs

i hope this is helpful for you!

[saetoru]

I want to start writing things too but I'm

1. Too scared too because I think my writing sucks

2. How does the algorithm even work- is it even going reach people?

Negative mentality ik but 😭

honestly you will always pick ur writing apart more than anyone else so that’s normal !! but u should always take a chance and post it on the chance that ppl like it and u get to connect w ppl on a fandom space. plus even if they don’t continuously writing and posting makes ur writing grow a ton !! if u were to compare my old writings from my first blog to my writing now youd scratch ur head and wonder if it’s rly the same person writing and that’s nice !! it’s nice to see the growth !! so i say just close ur eyes and hit post and give it a shot !

[kaeyastiddiewindow]

How do I use tumblr because my twitter got banned 💯💯

Reblog stuff !

It's basically how the app works and how other people find stuff because of the lack of an algorithm , like something ? Reblog it and it'll stay there for you to see and it's good for the person who made it

Yeah that's basically the important thing and ik full right I can just text you this but I think you mistaking this for dms is funny

[bogboy420]

fr im legit considering getting a typewriter

tbh w all the algorithms and ads and subscription fees and ai bullshit i genuinely find myself abandoning newer forms of technology more and more in favour of smth more analogue, like not entirely, i'll still use newer tech when it's useful 4 me especially w my disabilities but tbh i feel like the internet as it is rn is genuinely so inaccessible already and becoming moreso as companies carve out features 2 make us pay more money 4 them

on top of that the fact that my brain has no attention span which is not the fault of technology im just neurodivergent but damn does modern tech love 2 prey on that shit, like more and more im finding that this idea of "everything on 1 device" that these companies use as a selling point is honestly more of a hindrance bc of my low attention span, i just end up spending hours on my tablet and then not getting anything done bc everything is on there but nothing is on there in a way where i can rly focus on it, idk sometimes i wonder how much of that was intentional? like if the point was 2 get ppl hooked on smart phones and tablets while feeling like they r not getting anything done, thus making them sad and spending more time scrolling,,,

ik this isn't every1's experience but 4 me it's enough that im genuinely trying 2 make some changes 2 how i approach new tech and again 2 b clear im not saying all new tech bad and all old tech good, it's not that simple but 4 me i find that especially having smth like that right up near my face is rly bad 4 that bc it makes me pay less attention 2 my surroundings so im not looking at all the stuff around me, this has in my life at least lead 2 my surroundings gradually getting more cluttered ect but also i find having a smart tv helpful bc while yes it has a bunch of stuff on it it's all just watching tv stuff, it's not trying 2 b literally everything at once, and it's not right in my face it's across the room from me so i can still very clearly c my surroundings, i use consoles exclusively 4 video games now instead of pc like i used 2 use bc i don't like the stress of troubleshooting pcs but also bc w a pc it's more in ur face? even when i tried hooking up my pc 2 a tv it didn't rly work as well since i still needed 2 use a mouse and keyboard and that doesn't rly work very well w how my hands r especially when im trying 2 relax

4 music im trying out switching over 2 cassette tapes since i can record stuff onto them if i figure out how 2 do it right and then i don't need 2 hav a bright screen in my face when i wanna listen 2 music i can just switch out the cassette, thinking of mayb doing that 4 audio books as well

4 writing i am genuinely considering getting a typewriter since it would mean smth that isn't a bright screen and i could set it up on a desk in a specific corner of the house that could b just 4 my writing

4 having video games on the go atm im using a tamagotchi uni but i basically only use it when ik im gonna hav a doctors appointment and im gonna b stuck in a waiting room, i then just play the mini games on that and i find that they r good since they r low stakes so i don't feel stressed abt putting it down when the appointment starts

and like, idk while ik op was joking and it was very funny 4 me at least it can b helpful 2 know that there's a way of trying 2 cut out some of the more harmful parts of technology w/out abandoning technology completely, i think it's nice how embracing older technology is becoming more normalised and also how it's becoming more normalised 2 cut out technology that is harmful 4 u as an individual while still using technology that is helpful 4 u as an individual,,, even tho tech companies try rly hard 2 bury any alternatives 2 the tech they want u 2 buy

idk late night disabled ranting from me ig

"We have a new AI feature!" "With the power of AI..." "Our AI..."

I am going to abandon technology and start only inscribing things on clay tablets