#shit posts getting sponsor blazed

[bloodxchocolate]

the WHAT now

[mashmouths]

CAN PEOPLE STOP BLAZING STUPID SHIT THANK YOU <3

[orange-orchard-system]

I keep running into something recently, and I have no idea if it's a bug or some new Tumblr "feature" but sometimes posts with no tags will show up in the recent page of a tag I'm looking up. And they're not, like, blazed or sponsored or anything, they're just?? There?? Why are you here. Fuck off. I'm specifically not looking for shit unrelated to this tag, how did this unrelated shit get here??

[frogfacey]

fuck that ecoamerica account I blocked them to get rid of the blazed posts that show up every five normal posts but that does nothing about the sponsored posts that show up even more I do not CARE about the 2024 climate awards for american high school students you seem to be having another 2024 climate awards for american high school students every fucking month I cannot escape you people. I am not american nor am I in an american high school this is the least relevant to me shit that's ever been forced onto my tumblr dash. Why should I care about your fucking 2024 climate awards for american high school students GO AWAYYYYY.

[daisywalletchains]

I feel like every day there are more and more blazed and sponsored posts stuck in between all of the real posts that my beautiful mutuals post.

Get that shit out of here! My friends are talking about things I've never watched and posting wrestling gifs and that's important!

[poobletoods]

alright here's 2022

Horse plinko (was mostly 2021 but there were still horses plinkoing in early january)

Blorbo from my shows

Photoshopped butts

The urfaveisunfuckable situation

Nfts 

Wordle 

It’s me, boy, I’m the ps5

2s day

No bitches?

Live slug reaction

My brother in christ

The multi-hour victorious video essay cinematic universe

Smoking the shit that made _____ _____

_____ing absolute _____

get drinked

joe biden burying dogs?? i guess????

microplastics 

i can send email

tumblr blaze

catholic sponsored posts that I completely thought were a joke at first because holy shit

the misha bisexual situation 

manscaped ads

twitter runoff

she _____ing on my _____ till I _____

dracula emails

new mcr 

tbh creature

the feminine/masculine urge to _____

spongebob “I fucking love _____ I want to fucking _____”

swedish people and meals

morbius

skrunkly/skrungy/skrungly/etc

_____, so this pride, i'm partnering with _____

internet explorer's death

the pikachu man(?) ad idk i never saw this man i think yall made him up

I love/hate you _____ (repeated many times with different things)

(random word) is a beautiful name for a baby girl/boy

mousegirls (and all related creature girls)

reddit story generator

dall e mini

all the fucking.? british people quitting the government and the guy in japan getting shanked yall know

homophobic dog

cyberpunk kitty game :)

pink sauce

taylor swift private jets

breakdancing cat

_____ event leaves (#) dead (#) injured

gougar/gouger

circling google search results and adding a person or character whose name sounds like the series of words in the circle

i feel like breaking bad has become more of a whole Tumblr Thing than a meme but it bears mentioning

blue hair and pronouns

leonardo dicaprio's dating choices

anyone else _____ or is it just me and _____

she wants to order

reigen v sans

to shreds you say

queen dying 🦀🦀🦀🦀

"i meet someone" cycle

that try guy dude cheating on his wife

crisp rat mario again

lesbian velma

they should invent (convenience) 

the _____ to _____ pipeline

hey don't cry. (#) _____ in the world, okay?

bts??? getting drafted ????

a secret third thing

sigh. gandalf big naturals.

twitter still in flames. elon musk desperately trying to stop the fires by demanding they give him money in order to keep burning. more at 11.

sad! well theres other _____

tumblr's blue checkmarks

goncharov

i can't make it i'm gonna be busy _____. yeah it's gonna be all day

that dude who got his dick stuck in an m&m tube

something about fentanyl idk

that one shitty guy getting doxxed and busted for human trafficking (everyone say thank you greta 🙏🏻)

[mrfancyfoot]

Tumblr blaze is already getting me bizarre (at least moreso than usual) posts on my "Following" feed from people/topics I don't even follow or interact with, this and an "everyone" @ just sounds like what the spam/porn bots already do by numbers. An "anyone" @ is pretty much what the porn bots do when you miss blocking them from following you and they tag you on random stupid shit.

I like living in my hermit corner where all I see is the unhinged stuff from people I follow, my hyperfixation fandom niches, and the like 2 animal blogs I follow. Blaze is bad enough, I don't want more stuff invading my space from randos. I like the "opt in" nature of most of tumblr - it's very curatable for what you want to see and what you don't want to see.

The most an "everyone" tag should do is highlight a post for your followers (and no-one else), but even that would see abuse. For those who want that feature for followers, however, just make a blog-specific tag (or tags for whatever topic) for people to follow and those posts will pop up on their "Your Tags" tab.

Is it hard to build a presence on Tumblr? Yes, it's not really meant for that so you have to put quite a bit of effort into it and part of that is dumb luck to be "popular." The more "accessible" everyone becomes here, the more appealing it is to things like those spammy sponsored blogs and i n f l u e n c e r s.

everyone talks about how tumblr should make an @everyone feature, but I have another proposal: an @anyone feature. this tags a few users at random and there’s no way of predicting who it will be. this will also solve nothing and make everything worse

[texas-backroom]

no matter who you are, what are your motives, what you are representing with yourself.. it doesn't even matter if your intentions are good.. if i see blazed post on my dash i immadiately block the blog. i do not care or want to see that. no matter how talented you might be, no matter how fucking vain you are with paying to sponsor your dumbass selfie or nudes or no matter what is your goal or if just some rando blazed your post.. YOU ARE GETTING BLOCKED BECAUSE IF I DON'T FOLLOW YOU, IT MEANS I GIVE NO SHIT TO SEE YOUR POST ON MY DASH. if i want to find some more blogs to follow i simply either click on who people i follow reblog from or i randomly click on for you tab.

[akpaleyreblogs]

Tumblr is updating its offerings so that I can't just pay to not have ads, I pay more and get to blaze something every month. My posts, someone else's posts, whatever. While I'm annoyed I can't spend less money, I still want to pay Tumblr for services, so once they implement that shit let me know if you find a post you think it would be funny for me to sponsor. I'll take suggestions. We can make sure every month random people everywhere see that shitpost or photo of someone's cat you found.

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

MDZS Social Media Headcanons

Wei Wuxian has a Tumblr, is shamelessly horny on main, reblogs pictures of rabbits and various memes and shitposts, thirst posts a lot about his husband, has like 150k followers because he is funny, hot and has hilariously unhinged responses to anon hate.

He also has a TikTok that the juniors roped him into and they're exploiting him for views because he was a huge hit with that "small waist, pretty face and a big bank" trend a while back. Also he's a really good dancer.

Has made several videos playing the flute and people want him to collab with Lizzo.

Also has an instagram with one million followers because have you seen this man? Brands have reached out to him for collabs but he finds influencer culture "cringe" and doesn't do paid sponsorships.

Is thinking about making a YouTube channel for corny couple challenges and pranks.

Has a snapchat he uses to send...stuff to his husband.

Lan Wangji has a photography instagram where he posts very artsy pictures of Wei Ying and Sizhui, nature shots, animal portraits and etc.

Accidentally posted a shirtless picture once and it went viral with 100k likes and a modelling contract in his DMs.

The juniors once stole his phone to look through his DMs and it was full of people asking him to step on them.

The only active conversation was with Wei Ying in which they're sending cute bunny pictures to one another and the occasional memes.

His most popular picture was one of his wedding shots with Wei Ying, followed by a beautiful picture from their honeymoon with Wei Ying staring out at the ocean in bed (after he'd been railed within an inch of his life but the Internet doesn't need to know that)

He also has a WhatsApp for the family groupchat with the Lans and to talk to Lan Qiren.

LWJ also has a Facebook account from many years ago but it's mostly so he can use the Messenger feature and never uses it otherwise.

Lan Sizhui has an Instagram study account that's very successful.

Is brand ambassador to some fancy brand of stationery and regularly does giveaways that he refuses to rig in favor of his friends no matter how much Jingyi cries to him about it.

Occasionally posts a selfie with his friends or his dads. He has a tiktok account for aesthetic videos and is into light academia. Sometimes appears in his friends' videos and he's always a hit because he's cute.

Uses WhatsApp for the family groupchat and Facebook Messenger for the juniors groupchat.

Has extensive meme culture because he has been using Tumblr since he was 12 but he's lowkey about it.

Also has a Pinterest account and like 30 different neatly arranged collections.

Lan Jingyi has all the social media accounts you can think of.

His favorite is Tumblr because he likes talking shit about Jin Ling here without anyone knowing (except WWX).

Is a devoted user of kungpowpenis.

His posts regularly end up crossposted on Instagram and Twitter and he thinks that means he's famous.

Has blown his monthly allowance on Tumblr Blaze at least once.

He's mutuals with WWX and they send memes back and forth to each other constantly.

Only uses reddit to go on r/AITA and read the stories to his friends so they can judge strangers and gossip when they're bored.

Has made an "AITA for playfully calling my friend 'princess' even though he's a 16 year old male?" and everyone voted NTA except one single person who said YTA, with the username FairyPuppy63 but Jin Ling swears it's not him (it is)

Is famous on YouTube for his prank videos and gets sponsorships from every stereotypical YouTube sponsoring brand you can think of: Skillshare, Honey, Casetify etc. At the end of every one of these ad segments, his punchline is "you would do it too for a check!"

Has a lot of Instagram followers because he's too damn photogenic and his captions are really funny

Uses Facebook ironically

Has attempted to rename the Lan family groupchat "The Lan-ily". Lan Qiren was not amused.

Has given nicknames to everyone in the juniors groupchat. Jin Ling is "maidenless behavior", Ouyang Zizhen is "slowburn 300k coffee shop AU", Sizhui is "the Lan braincell" and his own nickname is "Swag-yi"

Loves using reaction images and gifs

Is tiktok famous for making funny skits and videos

Jin Ling has the stereotypical rich kid Instagram with a few million followers (because the aesthetic is amazing). Everyone thinks he gets his photos professionally taken every time but it's actually just Jiang Cheng with a Canon camera and a dream.

Loves posting pictures of and with Fairy and his fanbase adores her

Has at least one of those stereotypical hand-on-Rolls-Royce-wheel-with-Rolex-at-the-wrist photos and Jingyi is up in his comments in all caps saying Jin Ling doesn't actually kmow how to drive and that's his uncle's car (everyone thus becomes very interested about the uncle).

Posts pictures from business meetings he has to attend as soon-to-be heir and uses those cringe #thegrindneverstops hashtags

Posts OOTD stories from glass elevators every day

Has posted a picture with Jin Guangyao and Jiang Cheng once after a birthday dinner and his comments were so thirsty. The phrase "UILF" was the only discernible thing in a long row of heart emojis and woof woof bark bark awoogas

Also has a Tumblr and follows Jingyi but neither realize who the other is

Jin Guangyao made him create a LinkedIn and he loathes it

Has a Facebook to talk to Jiang Cheng and he gets constantly tagged in those pictures about being a good, grateful child

Has two Reddit accounts he uses when he's bored, loves looking at pictures of dogs there

Only has a Twitter account to follow celebs on it

He's TikTok famous because of his instagram and also because he's pretty. Mostly posts videos of Fairy and other random dogs he sees around, the occasional rant from a car that is probably not his to drive, has made a few fashion haul videos and his most popular one is a video of a night cityscape taken from a helicopter

Ouyang Zizhen has a very successful Wattpad account with thousands of likes and hits. His most popular original story is based on WangXian.

Has several tumblr accounts for all the fandoms he is in and writes a lot of fanfiction for each of them. Has made an AO3 too.

Has a book TikTok account that he's popular for. His reviews are unbiased and lowkey really funny.

Gains a lot of Instagram followers from this and converts his account to an aesthetic poetry one

Has started one of those businesses writing letters from comfort characters after he blew up on BookTok and he's making bank from it.

Uses Messenger for the groupchat with the juniors and to talk to his dad.

Jiang Cheng has a Facebook account. He doesn't post anything on it, shares pictures with random quotes he agrees with, stalks people on there every now and then and is prone to accidentally sharing fake news.

Sometimes posts shady things with this ‼️ emoji as a caption

Has several pictures of Jin Ling as a baby and toddler that he would rather die than delete.

Has gotten in heated arguments in comment sections of posts he sees and he invests too much time in trying to prove some Internet stranger that they're an idiot.

Also has a LinkedIn profile that's actually pretty well-kept. His profile picture is one of those professional, white wall behind, suit and tie shots and he looks surprisingly good in it.

Does not get the hype over that one picture Jin Ling posted with him and Jin Guangyao and he refuses to acknowledge the phrase UILF

Has a secret Twitter on which he rants about his life. He has gained a bit of a following and several DMs with links to therapy centers but he deletes them all.

Tried the reddit AITA thing and got told he was the asshole so many times he deleted it completely

Jin Ling set him a Tinder profile as a dare he got from Jingyi and let's just say, he did not have a fun time and now has the world's moat complicated phone passcode.

Jin Guangyao is the picture of perfect online self presentation. He has an Instagram page, a Facebook page, a LinkedIn profile and a WhatsApp account.

He doesn't bother to manage any of these himself, has a social media manager with a fat salary to deal with everything.

When he gets cancelled, the social media manager is the first person to get fired. Looks like he needed DaBaby's PR team to deal with all that

His accounts read like luxury brand accounts: obscenely rich and unapologetic about it

Actually has a pretty big thirst following but they're tame cause he's married

Has pushed the self-made man narrative a lot and always hints at it in his captions

Nie Huaisang has a very popular tea and commentary channel on YouTube called "The Headshaker News"

He has a golden button and makes bank in sponsorships

His videos are very well-made and entertaining and he has hilarious and often shady commentary

He's the first to report on the newest drama and everybody wonders how he gets such juicy intel

The first person to hint at JGY's shadiness but it was so subtle that nobody referenced him when JGY got cancelled

Has a second YouTube account in which he discusses art and has a popular series about the history of fans and how to use them to convey messages

Goes to all the influencer events and tweets all about it on his account with the same handle as his YouTube. People live for his reactions.

Also has side Twitter accounts that seem super legit and has used them to make the #cancelleddimples trend when JGY was exposed

Also has an art instagram account and a successful etsy shop that he's thinking to upgrade to a full-fledged business.

Lan Xichen has an instagram account with a huge following because he's hot. That's it, that's the reason. He tries to go for a minimalist luxury aesthetic but everyone is there to gawk at the First Jade of Lan (that's his username btw).

Has several sponsorships from gyms and his gym pictures are his most liked content. Go figure.

He also posts a lot about tea. Makes reviews of various brands and types and tastes on IG Reels and they're actually quite informative and pleasant to watch. His voice is really soothing and people enjoy these videos a lot. Has been recommended to try doing ASMR because of it but he finds it strange.

Has shared pictures of his calligraphy and it turned out to be a hit, so he made a YouTube channel in which he teaches people how to do it.

[obitv]

"shit new photo viewer" "cant see prev tags" "ugly new notes bubble" the only time ive willingly updated tumblr in the last 5 years was to get polls. one time i updated tumblr by accident and it upset me so much i exclusively used tumblr in a mobile firefox tab for 6 months. i dont have any of those features and i never will. i didnt even know blaze was real until i updated for polls bc i was so outdated i didnt get any ads or sponsored posts. just turn off autoupdate. this app works if its 3 years out of date and it works BETTER

god i am begging people to just stop updating the tumblr app i know desktop is still a shitshow but like. a lot of features you can avoid by not updating tumblr. the best time to stop updating tumblr was 5 years ago thr secondbest time is now

[starwarspissorgy]

The more I learn the more I realize Tumblr is the perfect Anarchist website. Not that it's chaotic, but that it fits a left-libertarian political agenda.

It has a weak but very transparent financial model, so you don't need to worry about online security or serving corporate interests

It is completely unmarketable to brands, which further erodes the capitalist stranglehold on all forms of expression on or offline

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do

Surprisingly, the lack of an algorithm for the feed actually makes the process of content distribution more democratic. While liking something on some capitalist hamster-shit of a website gets it in front of more eyes, there's both a level of obfuscation from the process which intentionally alienates us from our own collective power, and complicated ways to make your vote not equal to everyone else's.

(Yeehaw, haha!) Here we go!

On the other hand, reblogging on a chronological timeline creates a random lottery style of democracy, where one reblog actually means one chance of all your followers seeing something. The more people you follow who

Speaking of alienation, the follow system also erodes hierarchies like the website's ability to control what you see and the accelerating growth of larger accounts causing them to completely overpower smaller ones, which results in so much more control over your own situation. It's basically the online version of the right to self-determination.

The only complication of this fact is the sponsored posts, but even then it's just a small complication. The model gave users a lot of power to maintain control, and through this unspoken collective action inherent to Tumblr culture we just used that power. Like, by blazing stupid funny bullshit about small fuzzy pets or whatever nonsense we kept everyone's Tumblr feeds feeling essentially the same, and even attempts to bring the platform in line with capitalism thereby failed.

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do

Di-ba-di-de-do

Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do

Di-ba-di-de-do

Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do

That's all there is to it!

Now, the most complicated but most fascinating part of this is the complicated history both Tumblr and Anarchism have with sex work,

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do Di-ba-di-de-do Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do Di-ba-di-de-do Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do

[Outro] Hahahaha...

[actualaster]

Thats all well and good, but I worry that businesses being able to Blaze right from their other site dash will pave the way for blocks no longer impacting Blazed posts. Right now, blocking a person stops you from seeing their Blazed posts.

Will that once again be rolled back (it wasn't implemented to start with) so that businesses who pay to shove their shit in the faces of people who don't want to see it can't be blocked?

That would be a nightmare.

And how long before word filtering stops impacting Blazed posts so that you can't filter them out at all? It wasn't at the start. Will they roll that back?

So that if a business Blazes a post you're just forced to see it entirely it's basically a Sponsored Post without the benefit of being more likely to be seen by somebody who cares instead of people who will never be relevant?

People already Blaze deliberately inflammatory shit and it gets approved. How much worse would that be if blocking the assholes doesn't stop you from seeing their Blazed post 5x in a row? (Again, used to happen at the start. I raised a fuss about ALL THREE of those issues because they were making Blaze hell for me).

Maybe not! So far you can block promoted tweets on Twitter and it doesn't show you their stuff anymore (for now), so maybe it'll be okay.

But I don't trust that. I simply do not trust the corporation that runs tumblr not to make anti-user decisions out if idiocy from higher up the chain and/or greed.

Was going to write this as a reply to something but realized it needed its own post.

The tl;dr is that, from the looks of it, Automattic absolutely has every intention of turning Tumblr into a marketing media platform.

I work for a marketing company. I build websites.

Specifically, I build websites on Wordpress.org, which is operated by the Wordpress Foundation.

The Wordpress Foundation is the non-profit counterpart to the for-profit company Automattic.

Automattic, as we know, is the company that currently owns Tumblr.

Now, the thing about Wordpress.org (not to be confused with Wordpress.com) is that it's very, VERY popular amongst small businesses. Not only can you build a fully-customizable website with relative ease, you can also add an online shop using another Automattic product: Woocommerce.

Not too long ago, I noticed a new feature was added to Woocommerce: A button next to each Woocommerce product which allows you to Blaze them to Tumblr right from the comfort of your dashboard:

This is what I get when I click that little "Blaze" button...

As someone who understands these tools, I understand the potential implications of these features:

The Blaze feature is basically an up-and-coming ad campaign system that's directly integrated with Woocommerce websites, which I think is the first ad marketing system of its kind. You don't have to log into a social media account to advertise your products, use a second-party integration, or even pay another service to manage your social media ads. It's all baked right into your business's website.

THIS is their planned money-maker, folks, not the rainbow checkmarks or crab armies. And the reason why Automattic would do this kind of thing is simple: Businesses are wealthier than individuals. By implementing a B2B service, Automattic can make more money off of Tumblr than user subscriptions and shoelaces will ever provide.

It's all the same song and dance. Businesses can now shove more ads into your face in a new, convenient fashion. It'll be ads that don't look like ads disguised amongst ads that do look like ads, just like it is with Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and literally every other marketing media service that calls itself a "social" media.

(Tumblr's new video feature? My guess is that it's there to prepare for video-format Blaze campaigns. Influencer-style videos are the only kind of ad format Gen-Z is receptive to, which is why you're suddenly seeing videos on every platform.)

All they really gotta do now is make Tumblr look appealing to the normies so they can draw in a userbase that isn't trying to escape the onslaught of commercialism that plagues other sites.

Tumblr is one of the last true social medias we have; a place where content is made purely for the sake of talking about it. But given the writing on the wall...I doubt it'll stay that way.

[sometransgal]

I'm so happy I have blaze now, I'm getting so many sponsored posts I could not give less of a shit about.

[sephryll]

I've seen a lot of artists and authors blaze/sponsor posts where they link to their own art or whatever, and in like half of them there are replies like "i don't care" or "get this shit off my dash" ...? can you imagine being such an asswipe that you'd say that???

[gaargoyle]

Hmm I'm not so sure about this Tumblr Blaze thing. On one hand it's great for people getting their work out there and in front of more eyes, and some of the shit is really funny, but on the other hand I got a sponsored post that was just

"When you're in fandom: *gif they didn't make*"

Like was that really worth 10 dollars and a post you think was amazing enough that it should be seen by thousands