#it's just a little tiring sometimes. i enjoy being chill and chatty online but people do get very cosy with me sometimes and | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

corviiids · 2 days ago

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i understand the internet is a weird social environment but i am begging you to please remember that seeing a stranger's personal or conversational posts doesn't make them your friend and seeing a stranger's funny posts doesn't make them a cartoon character. if we aren't friends then following me on tumblr doesn't make me less of a stranger to you, you still don't know who i am even if i make you laugh (though im glad if i can) and just following me online doesn't afford you the familiarity to talk to me like we're old friends - if i don't know you then that's going to be as off-putting to me as if you did it to a stranger in real life. in a similar but opposite vein, i am a real human being, i understand being pixels and text makes it easy to accidentally (without malice) dehumanise people on the internet, but the person you're talking to is still a person. im not a fictional character for you to rotate in your minds no matter how silly my posts are, and if you say weird shit about me in the tags or make violent comments even in jest it will upset me and i will block you. please don't screenshot and reshare this post, thank you if you respect that, i appreciate you

if you like my posts, im delighted, it genuinely brings me so much happiness to make you laugh and i am so so glad if i have ever made something you enjoyed, but if we aren't mutuals then please remember that distance and basic respect. i will be honoured if you treat me as nothing more or less than an interesting stranger

#sorry if this comes off short it's just been on my mind for a few months #nobody in particular spurred this post and actually the most upsetting interactions didnt happen on tumblr at all #it's just a little tiring sometimes. i enjoy being chill and chatty online but people do get very cosy with me sometimes and #it makes me sincerely uncomfortable.#and as with any post or whatever which blows up people will start to talk about op like they're a blorbo or some shit #and that DOES upset me. no you cant attack me or put me in a microwave or make assumptions about my life #occasionally i remember this one time back after id already turned off all anon communications #and someone used a google form i had opened to do a survey to tell me they wanted to throw corn at me and that i was #funny in a mentally deranged way or something. that stuck with me because it was just an incredibly bizarre way to #talk about let alone to another human being #look all these interactions are incredibly minor and on their own they dont matter at all. however they do start to build up #and it genuinely does affect me and the way i interact with people online. as i said youll notice it's almost impossible to #contact me anonymously these days and all dms on all platforms are off to everyone except mutuals #and that does kind of suck because i LIKE yapping. but it is just enough after a while #i know. it's the internet. I can't force anyone to treat me in any specific way. i accept that #but the internet is full of people and what i can do with people is ask nicely and hope they can respect that #so thank you #sorry #rookposting

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