#including being on social media

[rainbowpopeworld]

I know this is a bit unhinged, but I keep looking at Michael Sheen’s Twitter and feeling like Crowley watching Aziraphale getting into that damn elevator.

Like, when are you coming back? Are you coming back? What are you going to say when you do? 😭😭😓😩😔🕶️

[kevinsdsy]

bonus (kevin day retweeting jeremy’s tweet 🙂‍↕️):

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the trojans social media au (pt. 7): i wanted to make a silly part and then i found that pic of 90s damon albarn and it looked like it could be from a podcast so i really wanted to include it and suddenly i was writing the most heartwarming team moment???

also a few weeks ago i saw @problemduetest4life introduce 90s damon albarn as a jeremy knox fancast and it’s truly been living in my mind rent free. like it’s literally how i always imagined him to look like and the only fancast i will accept now 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ he’s made it to the pinterest board so thank u so much for your service <33333

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

i have this really stupid idea in my head that im frankly a little obsessed with and the idea is this: trent crimm doing a drunk history episode on ted lasso's first tenure at richmond. is that how drunk history works? i don't think so. do i care? absolutely not. it's a special episode who cares because this image is not only hysterical to me but treasured. i treasure this image. i hold it close in my heart and also laugh and laugh and laugh.

[mothsantics]

kind of really sick of transmisogyny being so common on literally every online space i go to

this post has been inspired by someone talking about how sick they are of "exclusionists", that then goes on to include words transfems use to describe specific transmisogynystic behavior next to terms like "transmed" and "trender"

if you sincerely think that the terms transfems have used to describe the hostility (and notably, exclusionism!) fellow queers show towards us is equivalent to terms ACTUAL TRANSPHOBES use, then you need to reflect on exactly why you might think that

[deathbypufferfish]

anyways completing disregarding simblr antics, this article is great.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have a big google doc thing where I keep track of media and stuff (putting everything in loosely ranked categories), which is mostly just for my own reference so I know what tv shows I've already seen before, etc. and I never really look back through it, typically just a quick "okay, watched two movie in the past 8 months, need to quickly slap them somewhere in the lists. okay. done. save document. exit". But today I was actually reading through some of the old notes and there are like... MULTIPLE places where my comment is basically "It would have been good if it were about elves" or "I wish there was a fantasy show made in this same style" or "It's well made, but I just keep thinking about how I would like it more if everyone was an elf or was in old 1700s costumes" or etc like...... lol.... Most biased media ranking system on earth blatantly made by someone with an extremely hyperspecific range of narrow interests. It'd be like if a food reviewer only had 5 foods they actually liked, so they'd just go to a pizza place and be like "eh, the pizza was okay, but I just think it would be better if it was cereal instead. :/ ...2 out of 10"

[theladyrebecca2]

It's human nature to gain or lose hope when you see Netflix socials promoting Byler or Midleven, but we've gotta pull back the curtain to see the full picture.

First, always remind yourself that the Stranger Things team and Netflix are completely separate entities. Netflix is the vehicle the ST team are driving their story on, but they're not the same people who actually create it. They get little to no say in what the ST writers write.

I say 'little' because the bones of each season will have been greenlit by select Netflix higher-ups (with NDA's signed). But if the Stranger Things team want Storyline A, and Netflix were to say no, what about Storyline B? Then the ST team are absolutely capable of standing their ground and not moving. Perhaps some compromises can be made, but the final say will be down to how stubborn the ST writers can be. This was made apparent by the Duffer Brothers’ open stance on the writing and acting strikes, which directly opposed Netflix. It mattered to them that in the future, writers will continue to have control over their work. That Netflix can't just weasel out of their contracts with shows and write their own endings with AI. Right now, Netflix provide funding, connections, and a platform to host stories on. The ST team provide their content, the original idea, the heart and soul. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.

When it comes to promoting stuff on social media, we have several teams working separately. This leads to exchanges like this from the Netflix Tudum event:

This is two completely different social media teams interacting with each other. Most important to remember though - right now, the Netflix social media team won't know anything about Season 5. The earliest they may be told anything important will be at the start of the Season 5 promotional campaigns, but even then, it's not a given. NDA's will be in effect at Netflix right up until the bitter end. The social media people will be working in tandem with the marketing team, all of them given set content or working under guidelines when told what they can promote/ talk about.

Secondly, they're just ordinary people doing their job. When it comes to liking comments or replying to them, it will all differ depending on which person happens to be logged into the Netflix account at that time.

For ST5, it looks like Dana and Chris are two Senior Social Media Managers at Netflix US:

But look at all the related connections, and you begin to realise just how many people make up these social media teams (and marketing, which is related). And remember, this is just Netflix US - not the ST team.

So just think about how each person has their own opinions, has their own views on the show. How many of these people might ship Byler? How many ship Midleven? I bet they have their own interpersonal work politics behind the scenes, hoping their idealised ending is the right one.

My point is, there's no point freaking out about this occuring underneath Netflix US's recent post about ST S5:

All this shows is that we have a Midleven shipper in the social media team. After Season 4, a lot of people got excited at this:

But again, all this indicates is that we also have a potential Byler shipper in the Netflix UK team. It's just as pointless getting happy and excited about pro-Byler stuff on there, as it is to get worried or upset about pro-Midleven stuff.

[countess-of-edessa]

the thing about taking advice from anyone on tiktok or instagram including catholic and christian type influencers, parenting advice, relationship advice, etc, or internalizing any stories of horrible relationships and betrayal people tell on those platforms, or reading about all the ways interpersonal relationships can end horribly and be cycled through extremely quickly on those platforms is that you are necessarily then consuming the thoughts and experiences of someone who is willing to put their face and name on a public social media platform to talk at you. and like 1% of those people have a good reason for doing so and the other 99% are completely unhinged. so everything you’re consuming has first gone through the filter of "is this person weird and insane enough to make Instagram reels of themselves crying?" and if the answer is yes maybe their advice doesn’t apply to your life because you’re a normal person who would not do that.

[richardxoliverxmayhew]

//I just opened my tumblr notifs in a month and I'm soooo sorry for going radio silent on everybody's replies, IMs, and asks! I promise I'm not dead (and neither is Richard), and I promise I wasn't ignoring you, friends 🥺 I just felt pretty drained from social media during my break and decided to put notifs off for the month for my wellbeing, but now that my lectures have started again I oddly have some muse suddenly; and, most importantly, I'VE MISSED YOU ALL! Again, I'm sorry for going completely AWOL on you dears, but I promise I'm slowly but steadily going to reply to all of your asks, IMs, and what have you between classes💕 I'm sending a gremlin smooch, sweets, and pastries all of ur ways as a formal apology 👀🥺💕//

[alchemistdetective]

((I underestimated how many people here actually played ULTRAKILL aljsghASJLHDA

I thought it's some kind of super niche game but APPARENTLY NOT aaaAAA))

[wakeupthemembersofbylernation]

It’s wild how so many people are fundamentally incapable of recognizing queer characters unless they explicitly say the words, “I’m gay” on screen

[cynicalundead]

people who are excited or even just nonchalant about the us government trying to ban TikTok because "TikTok sucks anyway lol" are completely missing the entire fact that they're not trying to ban it because it "sucks", they're trying to ban it because our country is ran by 80yo xenophobic reactionaries who thinks China potentially selling our data is a billion times worse than Google openly selling our data. like can we not just brush over the fact that it's a baseless move made in an attempt to even further centralize and monopolize social media around America so that they can have full control over the data and freedom of expression of the entire fucking world just because y'all have a superiority complex about what apps you personally use.

I feel like some of you guys only think the government regulating social media is bad when its happening directly to you. very "the face eating jaguar party would never eat MY face" of yall to be anal about kosa but not bat a singular eyelash at an attempt to ban the only popular non-USA based/centric social media app left around. both of these things are actually because we live in a dystopia btw. both of them are bad. btw.

[ssaalexblake]

people online have a very warped idea of what is and is not common information among those who are not that online or online at all

[musicalgifs]

will you guys hate me if i say i don't think the mean girls movie was that bad

[daz4i]

once again expressing my hatred to that mentality of "your sources are all full of lies and are extremely biased. unlike mine, that are entirely truthful and contain no bias whatsoever, while still confirming every pre-existing belief i already had"

[woahajimes]

what i would look like if i thought abt the pool boy more than my actual prev relationship