#reblogging them brings them up out of the temporal depths for new eyes

[autumngracy]

Not to clown on you because it's really good you've decided to start reblogging things, but like—of course no one was going to follow you if you weren't posting things on your blog?

Most people look at an empty blog and shrug and either say "must be an extremely new user" or "must be a bot". They have no reason to follow or interact with an empty blog.

Anyway, y'all, this is the blogging website, where people come to blog. We are having a fun little show and tell circle on the gymnasium floor, passing around scraps of our writing and handicrafts and pictures of our blorbos, and you are way over on the bleachers watching us through binoculars, occasionally giving a thumbs up.

You are up there wondering why we haven't invited you to join the conversation yet, and we are wondering why you haven't come down off the bleachers to join us.

You gotta interact with people to make friends!!

if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this