To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
A zoom out of the same post:
This is what a community looks like.
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.
If you want more of something, reblog it.
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Local Archivist listens to his scary stories sitting like a teenage girl, more at 11
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Celebrating my 28th birthday with my lovey boyfriend and wonderful friends! So happy to have a little bf-vacation and have everyone over for a visit :)
id: A traditional ballpoint pen drawing with a black background, simply stylized with warm hues and muted colours. A dog holds a long, leafy plant stem in its mouth, peering up towards the sky and sun. To its right, a house sits in the distance. Flowering plants frame the sun and create a square border around the illustration. Text to the top left in all upper case reads “WARM FEELINGS AMONG THE GREEN” In an attached panel below its feet sits three stars.
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Are you down for a round of chess?
Coming back from such a long break with a Homestuck fanart. Nature is healing, I AM HEALING, buahaha
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