#plus i genuinely enjoy collecting useless cosmetic things like this so

[yukipri]

@atsuyuri-sama Thank you commenting so I can actually see what the blue checkmarks look like in person!

Look everyone, *points @ above*

(Edit: wow realized that looks awful on mobile, my bad)

Have they turned into crabs yet?

@changes recently made a post that includes this:

We’ve rolled out a purchasable pair of Important Blue Checkmarks for your blog! This is very important! Currently this is only available on web, stay tuned for these checkmarks appearing in the mobile apps. Buying more than one pair of them stacks, up to 24 checkmarks. Also, there is no defined timeline for how long these will be purchasable, or when/if they will disappear or transform or hatch into something else.

So I'm hoping that means they're already planning on running with this, it's a cute and neat way to make money!

Additional ideas:

-Tumblr has always been about personalization and expressing interests. In addition to checkmarks/hearts in multiple colors (even rainbow/other pride colors!) and random emoji, I think it were other symbols that could act as self-identifiers as a way. Like, maybe a paintbrush so artists could go hey I'm an artist! Or a pen for writers, or a moving lil box for gif-makers, a camera for photographers, a cute reblog symbol for rebloggers, a lil shadow for lurkers, etc. Of course no one has to use them and I'm sure the meanings will evolve with time, but it could be a neat way to communicate your identity/what your blog is about, since not everyone checks or has an informative bio.

-In making all these lil stickers available in their store, I think it would be neat if there were occasional free ones too. Like maybe when you first join, you get a "Tumblr newbie!" sticker (which again, you do not have to use, but it's available if you want to). It could be like a "new driver" sticker, a way to say they're still learning how to use the site so be kind! Likewise, maybe another free sticker at your one year anniversary of joining the site. If there was a sticker you got for having an account 10 years old, like "10 year old veteran" sticker, heck I'd use it. I think I deserve a little digital sticker for being on this site for ten years.

-Imagine, also little holiday symbols. Like, everyone gets a free pumpkin sticker in October (but if you want a black cat, bat, cauldron, etc, you pay like $4 each for them). And not just irl holidays too. Like a "Nov 5, 2022" sticker. Tumblr holidays. I think it would be festive.

-We can all have a "sticker book" that collects these, both the free ones and the bought ones, and we can arrange them on our urls as we see fit and they never expire. Since staff said max 24 for blue checkmarks, maybe that's a good maximum for use at one time (seems a bit long, i think 10'd be fine tbh), but we can store them and use them again some other time. We could look through the sticker book and see all the events we've lived through on Tumblr. That would be kinda nice, feel a bit of history.

-Also, a lot of people have commented on my other post how they've been enjoying the new different monthly tumblr logos, but miss ones they like. Maybe make that a paid-for sticker too? Like by default you get whatever Tumblr T staff wants to display, but maybe you want Spoopy all year round. Maybe you want it to be pride month rainbow all year round. Why not charge us a little to buy a "Tumblr T dressup sticker," so we can dress up the lil Tumblr T in the corner of our screens all year 'round? I think people would buy. I would at least be tempted to collect.

-While this post is focussing just on the the possibilities of lil symbol personalizations, I think users would buy all sorts of ways to personalize our dashboards. Staff's already been dabbling in this with the crabs and shitting horse. But like, old X-kit features. Useless things that can make scrolling more fun, more personalized. I may not be very interested in a shitting horse, but I would pay for a little cat to sit in the corner of my dash. Heck, I'd buy toys and colored collars for my little dashboard cat. I would name it and get attached. I would buy it friends. Or a crab-on-demand like atsuyuri-sama suggested. Stuff like that.

But the most crucial part of all of these suggestions: While they can be neat add-ons for us to purchase, they must:

Be entirely opt-in. No one has to use them. You can ignore your sticker book entirely and it isn't that intrusive.

All add-ons are nothing but cosmetic (or mild personal entertainment, in the case of a horse/cat) and otherwise don't impact the Tumblr experience in any way. The only con to not buying or using stickers is that you do not have stickers. It doesn't affect reach, people who have bought these things do not get access to features that should be accessible to all. They are solely for fun.

Anyway, just some ideas, @staff!

I might be more tempted to do Tumblr’s joke blue checkmark…but ONLY if the checkmarks are *guaranteed* to turn into crabs regularly.

In fact, I would prefer just a straight up crab. No checkmarks at all. Two crabs.

In fact, @staff, a suggestion: just sell us random stickers we can have next to our handles. A crab. A horse. A poop. Lil pride colored hearts. A fancy sword. Let us have multiple. They mean nothing, other than a cute visible sticker that everyone can see, that means a lil revenue for you. I’d be down for that!