#the reblog/like ratio is so bad

[hyunhoverse]

I am begging tumblr to get rid of the like button

[opikiquu]

iknow my comics are ugly please just hear me out

[cremsie]

And finally the bastard himself and his new ref !

Some folks say he used to be a chimera or a sphinx of some sort. It’s hard to say because he changes the story every time

[bikananjarrus]

people need to start reblogging posts again i’m so serious. like it’s getting dire out here.

[maulfucker]

they weren't lying that likes to reblogs ratio in fanarts is insane (awful)

[quotevarchive]

hey just a general tip for people moving from quotev to tumblr

reblogs > likes

[coffeeastronaut]

while i do think its silly to assign morality to reblogs over likes and that the guilt trippy comics people make about it are goofy i think it's just as silly to act like there is no reason a creator would want thier work to get exposure and that it's wrong of creators to be frustrated when they get a hundred notes and only 25 are reblogs. like i get that no one should post for the numbers and all that but i don't think like. wanting your work to be seen is some big evil capitalistic conspiricy. come on now.

[freckleslikestars]

genuinely do not get the point of replying to someone's gifset with 'I hate these characters. I stopped watching after they were introduced.' sorry you feel that way, but I don't actually give a shit. now get off my fucking post.

[seaslimes]

Every time I see those posts about the AO3 F/F to M/M ratios, all I can think is:

Okay, excellent point. But what if you just wrote it?

Like. Yeah, man, I'm sure it's discouraging to see raw numbers talking about how your ship doesn't get the rep it needs. But when you get down to numbers... sometimes the difference within fandoms is less than 500 more M/M works than F/F works. That's actionable. You can fill that gap with a fraction of the people liking / reblogging posts about F/F erasure.

Sometimes the gap is bigger. It's like, 1000 more works are tagged M/M. 2000, or more. Yeah, that's a big gap, but you could make it one less. If every person liking or reblogging a post about the disparity of ship fics on AO3, that number would shrink drastically, or outright disappear.

IDK. I write F/F. I write M/M too, as well as M/F. But I write F/F, and when I see that sorta post. It doesn't feel like a call to action. It feels like somehow, in some way, I'm not doing enough when I post up fanfiction for free about stuff I like.

It makes me feel like I should stop sharing my F/F work, that it doesn't matter, that people don't recognize the effort or love or time that goes into it. Even beyond that, I feel discouraged about the work I have put out, because thousands of words written all about an F/F pairing are only seen in that raw stat format.

"There's X M/M fics and Y F/F fics." Yes, I know, and that has to suck. But look at how many people wrote F/F fics! Have you commented on each of those F/F fics? Have you given kudos? Did you feel inspired to write or draw because of those F/F fics? That's what fandom is for. That's why we create. If that's not inspiring you to "close the gap" on those stats, I don't know what to say.

[toytulini]

Disclaimer im just processing some thoughts im not cancelling the show

have almost thoughts about how i find the like....narrative on here that if you have chronic "zebra" conditions youd want a doctor like House and wouldnt sue for malpractice bc at least youd have a doctor that cares about whats wrong with you but lets take it one step further. so often he does NOT give a shit about the patient and actively endangers them frequently with his god damn heoric era of medicine approach? non zero amount of times he gets a diagnosis but it comes too late, or he gets a diagnosis after their first wrong 3 guesses of the episode shut down the patients kidneys and they either have to get a transplant or they are just, doomed due to other preexisting conditions etc? idk. i know ppl are almost certainly exaggerating and just letting off steam about the very real failures of our current medical systems and the ableism baked in and All That Shit. i just think its weird how ppl romanticize House who STILL, FREQUENTLY, MULTIPLE EPISODES will actively dismiss shit in the exact way that is a problem in our current system, especially when hes being Forced Against His Will To See Clinic Parients, he loves to be dismissive as fuck of symptoms and if he was a real doctor i think he'd be fucking 50/50 on cases he Notices Something To Dig Into vs cases he dismisses as an Anxious Hysterical Woman Who Wants Attention, the only reason he's Right so frequently in his snap judgements is cos it reinforces the narrative. its like a crime drama that has the mastermind serial killer masterfully using "loopholes" and lawyering up all sneaky and dodging Justice and if only our poor little cop protags were allowed to do A TEENY BIT of Justified Police Brutality, they could Save Lives!

and like sometimes in the show they will have a patient die despite his efforts to narratively punish him. not to mention, i think its been at least mildly brought up and glossed over how much they absolutely do not think about insurance costs for these ppl for the insane amount of tests that find nothing and Wrong Medications To Force A Diagnosis they use? i think it was brought up once in the episode following a day in the life of cuddy where she had to fight a lawsuit bc a guys insurance like didnt cover his thumb being reattached but chase reattached it anyway while in surgery cos it was The Right Thing To Do and the guy didnt have the money to cover it and the insurance wouldnt pay unless he sued the hospital or whatever. thats like the only time its come up. whereas like frequently the doctor I go to for osteopathic manipulation tries to check in with me and make sure im covered by insurance etc and that im not going to go broke or get buried in medical debt seeing her.

idk. just some Thoughts. not a defense of our current system and all the flaws it enables and enforces etc. his approach to medicine is really reminiscent to me of what I know of the Heroic Era Of Medicine which i dont...love? and hes framed on here as being an asshole but would kill for his patients to get them a diagnosis etc. but hes definitely extremely paternalistic to patients ? and despite some good clippable lines about ableism and being against eugenics, it honestly feels like his stance on that is kind of a toss up.

[estellaestella]

[rathockey]

it has literally never been more obvious that tumblr is trying to emulate twitter than when i logged on to desktop today and it looks like. well. twitter.

THIS IS BAD

(for those who don't have it, this is what it looks like. yeah. its just twitter - ignore the five thousand chat bubbles i have)

i actually just pulled up twitter to compare them and its quite literally the exact same

tumblr is still not listening, they are literally making this shit a twitter clone.

[birdsareblooming]

my block is probably holdover from my meds incident yesterday but god everytime im drawing something i keep getting the brain fog telling me that no one cares. i know art is for oneself and it doesn't need to be one million notes but god my brain doesn't know that. just physically weighing me down with the thought that no one will give a shit

[imdoingsortagay]

I’m sorry about the like-to-reblog ratio you’ve been having to deal with recently on your fics :(((

The thing that would discourage me the most when making art was when I DID have the motivation and joy to makes something to share,,, AND NO ONE WOULD HELP SHARE IT. 😭

So yeah, just know that your happiness and enjoyment comes first when creating and you don’t owe anything to anyone. Hopefully peeps will wise up and share your awesome work properly here soon 💛

Thanks bestie

[thepixelelf]

EVERY comment means something to creatives; it doesn't matter if the post has 10 notes or 1000

[chiffiorra]

no because like i'm currently writing an angst and fluff series with inui and that barely gets looked at, but meanwhile any of my smut works get more (or slightly more) notes 💀. i've since accepted it and tried to be grateful with whatever i get, but i can't deny that it does sting.

nowadays, writers gotta work with what they got to be noticed and even then they just get likes as the majority of their notes. like damn, even just a reblog helps. not counting those "works" that only has twitter porn links or one single sentence with a million characters btw, y'all suck for that.

if you're complaining about stuff like "too much smut" or "you're tired of too much smut in the tags", do something! block the tags, start writing non smut, there are other options. if you want to see change within the fandom you're in, be that change.

I'm so tired of people complaining over and over again about how they're tired of seeing smut all the time but then there are very less reblogs on their page of any genre at all, especially the genre that they're demanding. This is such entitled behaviour, you consume and consume and do nothing to add to it, you don't share feedback, you don't comment, you don't reblog. It's insane. Second of all, I am voracious smut writer and reader and I have never had any shame in it whatsoever, however, I have so many pieces on my blog that are not entirely smut, it's smut with plot, I have pure fluff, angst and non-smut dark content as well. But guess what? Those posts get 100 notes over the course of a WEEK whereas a stupid horny choso drabble of mine that's so fucking unserious gets 6.5k+ notes, very obviously writers will have to write things that gets them engagement sadly before they can even introduce the work they really like to write. So yeah. Don't tell writers that they don't write anything beyond smut when this is how you treat them.