#musings ( social media )

[ramblingsfromthytruly]

kinda happy that i'm not as chronically online as i used to be. i've been focusing on my studies, hobbies, etc and it makes me feel so much better. ofc i still have a long way to go but a phrase that is constantly running in my mind is one day or day one... like if i wanna be a certain kind of person and become better i should actually DO stuff that makes me better instead of thinking about that one day where i will magically get everything i want. that doesn't happen, i have to work for it. believing in myself is the first half which i have accomplished, the other half is working hard (with balance ofc). i doomscroll much less, and if i do i gain awareness of it very quickly and it doesn't surpass an hour. i don't turn on my laptop first thing after waking, i only turn it on when i i actually have some work or i want to listen to music. sometimes i relapse. but the point is that i've never tried more harder than i am rn and i am proud of myself for it. i am feeling seeing my progress. i intend to constantly heal and succeed and make mistakes and learn from them and never ever stop trying.

if i can do it you can too <3

[caturnmoon]

Viewing myself through the lens of ✨anime eyes✨

[coollyinterferes]

The unmistakable sound of footsteps approaching begins to fill the air. Whoever is coming seems to have brought some company along…

They are getting closer… and closer… and closer…

…and closer…

……until..................

"Goooooood evenin'!!" Comes the loud greeting from a certain blond man. A big smile on his face and all.

"We beg your pardon for our prolonged absence. It was completely beyond our control..." Then adds the gentleman standing by his side, apologizing on behalf of both, offering a genuine smile along with the apology.

"...BUT! We're back!" And hopefully for good this time…

[quinloki]

Because I feel like I have more reach here than on Twit --

If you're not already aware, Twatter is changing it's block function so that people can still see your content even after you block them.

ALONG WITH THAT

They're also updating their ToS to REMOVE the opt-out feature for AI/Generative training.

Frankly, the second is even more concerning than the first, since you can get around the block function by going private (only public posts are still viewable).

If you're a creative type on Twit make sure you're fudging/masking/glazing your uploads at the very least.

If you're looking for alternatives, Bsky.app (blue sky) is seeing a massive influx of users because of this, so be patient if you make a new account.

[gaslightgirlsummer]

what’s happened to him is horrible, but looking at charles’ story shows a very important sign of his status right now. walk with me for a second.

charles has always been two things: a man of the people and a pr darling. there is a reason why he’s the most beloved ferrari driver since michael, why he’s always compared to gilles villeneuve. his heart and soul belong to the tifosi, he always makes time for the fans, he’s always kind and patient with everyone even though he’s had awful experiences (literal sexual harrassment and robbery). and he and his team are brilliant at pr - you’ll never find him lacking in interviews, he does magazine covers, his social media image is carefully curated and thriving. moreover, you have the additional recognisability that comes with being a ferrari driver and last year’s success (and, partially, drive to survive).

this is the moment where you can clearly see charles has hit the celebrity status of f1 driver. he could have went one of two routes - more private, like seb or max, or more public, like lewis. he clearly picked the lewis route

he’s had insane instagram growth - just recently he gained 100k followers in only 6 day, hit over 2 million likes on a casual post of just himself with the pista. his jewellery ad hit a million likes (for comparison - max got 450k on his australia win). he’s the second most followed f1 driver, and he’s currently getting way better engagement than lewis, who has the biggest following (on their respective last posts: 10% vs 2%). he’s constantly stopped on the street wherever he goes and not just in italy or monaco - paris or london as well. in melbourne he had to go to the mall with a security guard. in monaco he took pics with someone in the middle of the night doing groceries. remember monza 2022 - he literally had problems with even leaving the hotel

my point here is - charles is what you could call “proper famous” now. he’s shaping up to be, after lewis, the new face of formula 1. shit like this will probably keep happening and it’ll call for changes. i can’t even imagine how he’s going to get through monza this year. in the near future we’ll probably see changes - less of him going out in the city casually, possibly an increase in security.

there’s no conclusion to this, just observations. we should respect his privacy and hope that a few bad apples won’t ruin his perception of his fans, who love him and support him. we can see how dramatically his popularity has increased over the last 12 months and how it signifies the things to come in the future - both the good and the bad

[youarenotthewalrus]

Read Scott Pilgrim recently and like. Why did Bryan Lee O'Malley give Scott a social circle consisting almost entirely of women and gay men? Like, Scott is supposed to be a straight dude but he has literally two straight dude friends and one of them later turns out to be gay. It's not even like this is some accident of how the supporting cast happened to shake out either, Scott explicitly says that all his friends in high school were girls. This is a deliberate characterization choice and like... why?

[taralen]

Announcement: SOCIAL MEDIA AND FANDOM HIATUS

I've been active on here and X/Twitter for a few months now, interacting with the Deltarune fandom, particularly the Spamton sub-fandom. This has brought me into a world I never dreamed of before, the sense of being part of a community.

Never in my entire life have I felt part of any community. During this time period, I've made more friends than I have in over a decade. I was so wary of meeting new people and letting them into my life, but now I don't feel as scared anymore. I even discovered what it feels like to fall in love with someone real.

That said, I am exhausted. I've emotionally and mentally exhausted myself trying to be there for so many people, to be the person I failed to be ten years ago when everyone I knew dropped me into a dumpster and insisted, "You don't know how to be human."

I've reached my limit. I can't do this anymore. People are assuming too much of me.

Before opening myself up to this fandom, I never wanted to closely associate with anyone who didn't have a single original piece of work tied to their name. I considered anything fandom-related a total waste of time, and I never saw any value in such communities... Until I finally let myself become part of one. My childhood friend recommended I start being more open by drawing my favorite character, Spamton.

I took his advice... Obviously. I felt like, for the first time, I was healing...

But these new connections brought new problems I'm still not used to handling. I had isolated myself for so long, consistently keeping in contact with only three people for almost a decade since all the people in my past friendship group betrayed me. I realized a fatal flaw in my character, and it's that I keep trying to be strong for so many people that I've become neglectful of myself...

I genuinely... Have no idea who I am anymore. I've lost touch with myself since I got so excited about being part of this community. I focused so much only on being there for my new friends that I had to stop and think, "Wait... Does anyone actually know me outside of all this...?"

Does anyone know who I am... Outside this fandom? Do they care?

I developed acute mono/autophobia, and it took me until recently to discover why: because this happiness is so overwhelmingly beautiful to me that the thought of losing it all is driving me to deeper madness. This thought, of course, is as irrational as any phobia is... And I had to ask myself, "Did I let myself become too open and vulnerable? Were the walls I had before preferable to this?"

And so... I am retreating to those walls for now. I am going on a hiatus. I want to focus on my personal projects that are entirely my ideas and settings, and I am uncomfortable sharing 99% of them except among trusted friends. I have an original novel I already finished about 25% of the first draft of, and I took a pause on it because of my involvement in this fandom. It's time I stop and allow myself to reconnect with myself... To the things that matter most to me.

I am not leaving—absolutely not—but I am broken. I realized that despite all the times I've been strong for other people, I can't count on anyone to be there for me at my absolute lowest. I've been overexerting myself to be strong for others so much that I'm doing it at my own expense, and I feel like I'm sinking into a tar pit of agony.

This little trash puppet needs to feel the comfort of er... my trash. I'm sorry. I will be gone for at least a week. I'm still available to friends on Discord, but that's the only place I'll be.

I'm overloaded and overused. I'm sorry... I have about half a dozen commissions to finish anyway.

My inbox is still open, so if anyone wants to have fun with that and shoot me an e-mail, then feel free to. Otherwise...

[utilitycaster]

As a frequent "ugh, fanon," person it's not that I don't like non-canonical character designs or interpretations as a concept. I love unique and creative ideas about fictional characters that are informed by canon but diverge from it in interesting ways that build upon the original vision! I almost never see this in fanon.

[kinjedl]

Random (literal) shower thought:

The reason Tumblr works as a social media site, and the reason the outside companies who purchased Tumblr don't get how the site works is that it functions as an actual Micro-blogging website.

Comparing Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, each site functions in a different way.

Facebook is the 'purest' social media site, in that its primary driver is social connections. You will see the posts of and interact with the people that you already know, through friends, family, neighbors, etc. The posts that will generate engagement are the ones that appeal to those you're surrounded by.

Reddit could be seen as the condensation of what was once a galaxy of standalone hobby sites. The posts you see and the people you interact with will be focused around a specific topic, and the most popular ones will be the ones that appeal to the largest selection of the fans of that topic. Most topics will have their own audience, and while there can be crossovers, that's largely because demographics tend to overlap.

Tumblr, meanwhile, is every individual 1998 Geocities personal website, 2003 Live Journal, and 2008 individual blog collapsed into a singularity. It's a collection of separate webpages joined only by a common part of the url. The guy who made a Star Trek fansite in the 90s is now posting Star Trek fanfics on her tumblr page. The posts that generate interaction and get reblogged are the posts that were crafted and created by the people posting them. They succeed because the people who have taken the time to go check out your blog enjoy them.

It's that last part that I think the capitalists who keep buying tumblr just don't get. It's really hard to drive engagement on Tumblr, because the people here aren't looking for random things to add to their interests. They're looking for that one Motorcycle Blog page dedicated to lovingly framed photographs of Motorcycles, and anything that isn't that is effectively a pop up ad in the era before automatic pop-up blockers. The best you can do at that point is get in a heckling match with your audience because you're holding some of their time hostage on the way to the motorcycles.

[1-ufo]

Matt (or in reality probably Jar) just posted this on twitter. The Delorean.

[crazycatsiren]

I believe one thing I have in common with my mutuals is every now and then getting an ask in my inbox that just makes me go "child, why the hell do you even care?"

[supernovasolace]

I'm a former content creator who's been largely absent from social media for a couple of years. I told myself I was going to take a short mental health break from all the negativity, but between severe burnout and a car accident upending my entire life, I've been gone a LOT longer than I'd expected.

Now that I've recovered some spoons and am working towards self-employment again, I know getting myself back out into the public square is unavoidable. But to be honest, I've been dreading the thought of being visible again. Because this time, I'm doing so as an openly neurodivergent, disabled, queer, and nonbinary person—and I know that puts an even bigger target on my back than the one I crumpled under.

Lately I've been trying to prepare myself and harden my mental defenses, and today I was thinking about how strange it is that random people take time out of their day to leave shitty or hateful comments. That's when I realized: I've never done that. My family and friends don't do that. My target audience doesn't do that. Creators I look up to and want to learn from don't do that.

So if we can rule out all of those people, I'm left with just one question: why should I give a flying fuck about what anyone else thinks? If criticism isn't coming from someone who I am in community with, learning from, or trying to reach out to, why should their input hold any weight?

Moving forward, I'm making a personal rule that I will only accept negative feedback from people whose opinion SHOULD matter to me. If a critic shows good intentions and is genuinely offering me a chance to improve my art, fantastic. But if not? Sir, this is a Wendy's—and you just ordered a block.

[gold0kapi]

Almost wanna edit these dudes out to just get more of this delicious lighting lol

Anywho, Twitter’s on its deathbed it would seem and I don’t have a Bluesky invite yet. Probably going to open up a Patreon so I can post whatever I want, at the quality/image size I want, I have lots of WIPs and sketches/studies and headcanon things (also writing?) that I’d like to share but don’t really want to on Twitter... I dunno, Twitter feels... very chaotic and sometimes very aggressive and I feel uneasy over there a lot of the time..? I like Tumblr, but I can’t post half of what I draw here obviously. So yeah, probably going to make a Patreon unless a better option presents itself.

/thoughts

[nancydrewwouldnever]

RANDOM MUSING: My biggest question about the IG purge still has to do with the decision to delete the grid post about Chadwick's passing.

[bunberiii]

𝟬𝟲. 𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙞𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝟮.𝟬

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[byanyan]

don't mind me hopping on the ig profile bandwagon today... byan's an ig junkie, how could i resist??ㅤ©