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unforth · 10 months ago

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Unpopular opinion: the heavy push toward anti-advertising on Tumblr does nothing to harm the advertisers you hate but is doing a huge amount of damage to small businesses who rely on reblogs to get the word out about their stuff.

#unforth rambles #i have so many rants stored up about the infuriating nature of anti advertising #and how it boils down to i dont want to know about new things unless my friends tell me organically #well how do you think your friend found out #somewhere along the line someone needs the ad shoved in their face or else the thing is completely invisible #i could really write 5k words on how frustrating it is #and how huge corporations and prime adding ads and youtube ads none of that is affected by your i wont reblog ads activism #who is affected are the small time creators who started on tumblr and rely on tumblr and are making things tumblr has said they want #like queer books and xxxxl skirts and indie games and and and #youre so bad at capitalism but youre only hurting your own #its exhausting tbh #anyway maybe yall should rethink your syances on advertising #tho the only people who will see this are people who already know and support me and others like me #so im preaching to the choir #im sorry yall youre doing enough and i love you #i dont know how to force the people who ACTUALLY need a wake up call on this to see this post #i can remember a time when if a business started from tumblr with actual fandom people everyone was excited and it spread like fire #now the minute we try to sell things made by tumblr based creators were categorized as just as evil as megacorps #and honestly wtf why

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