#you're a bot or something

[kandavers]

Hello I’m Sorry if this offends you, I’d like you to be my sugar baby just letting you know my intentions Dm if you’re interested...🥰🥰😍

Chat is this real

[statementlou]

https://www.tumblr.com/louisupdates/754934426217152513/goodbye-faith-in-the-future-world-tour-272024?source=share

did he or did he not lose fans then?

I will answer this because this anon actually brings a concrete question to the table rather than just "hurhur but you're a larrie??" (tell me you can't actually refute any of our points…). Anyway this post shows the decrease in Louis instagram followers between the screenshots taken directly after the release of Faith in the Future in Nov '22, when he changed his bio to promote that album and the tour tickets, and now, when he changed it again to mention the current release. But I'm putting that response under a cut because I'm tired of the actual POINT of all this nonsense getting lost in a sea of made up things people insist are important:

There is no rational argument you can make to say that Louis has less fans now than he did 2, 4, or 6 years ago. You don't need a spreadsheet of details you need to USE YOUR EYES! He has gone from filling theaters to filling arenas and stadiums. His second album made a higher chart position than his first album. His festival has doubled in size EVERY year of its existence. And for that matter: his insta post engagement numbers remain about the same (despite the fact that older posts should have way MORE likes due to having been there longer, even aside from follower counts.) SO WHO FUCKING CARES ABOUT HIS INSTA FOLLOWER NUMBER???? Serious question: what does the word "fans" mean if these things aren't what matters? ALL of this quibbling about what he should do to make things better and people can't even see that THINGS AREN'T BAD.

Anyway to address the specific question- (con't......)

NO- HE DID NOT LOSE FANS. HE LOST SOME INSTA FOLLOWERS. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME THING. As I said above, literally what does it mean to lose fans if that number change coincides with him having higher sales, more audience members, and higher engagement than ever before? Whatever he lost ISN'T FANS. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant factor was something like a bot purge, but also yes: I'm sure a lot of casuals followed him around the time of his big album release and later unfollowed him. That's extremely normal because that's how casual engagement works, and why the definition of fan really matters. Louis and his team understand this and have referenced it repeatedly, talking about how lucky he is to have *us* specifically, to have the kind of dedicated fanbase he has, to have the KIND of fans he does who will allow him to do what HE wants. @dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram named the issue of depth vs breadth with regard to fans a long time ago, and pointed out why having DEPTH is so much more important. It's like this- artists who are on top 40 radio have more numbers on things like insta follows, and for a time on sales and tickets. But those aren't FANS- they're people with a casual interest. And as soon as that person isn't being forced in their ears 10x a day, those people lose interest and stop supporting them, stop buying stuff and unfollow, and those artists end up doing the 'opener on the jingle ball' circuit rather than their own tours. One Direction as a whole, and Louis maybe most of all or near to at this point, have something MUCH MORE VALUABLE than that- DEPTH FANS. Louis has fans who will support him even if he takes years to release music, or stops parading around with a pretend girlfriend to stay in the headlines at least once a month, or completely changes his image and genre, and that is UNHEARD OF. It's ASTONISHING and worth SO MUCH MORE. And they get that! THAT is why he always bragging about us, why industry people he works with are always so agog about us, why he will do anything for US- not for randos. He is also growing his breadth- and it's OBVIOUSLY WORKING whatever his follower counts are, but that is always going to be secondary to doing things for THE FANDOM because that is his sustainable business model. That is what keeps him onstage and reaching number one. And not coincidentally, the things they do are also working to grow that- much more valuable- commodity. So the fact that that's exactly what these chuckleheads complain about- that he does things that are just fandom facing or serving rather than everything being aimed at recruiting casual fans- does nothing but betray how completely they, unlike Louis and his team, misunderstand the actual drivers of his (actual, existing, happening) success. Luckily for Louis, he and his team rely on their own data harvesting (they do a LOT of it) and growth metrics (they're off the charts) rather than the smug assumptions of random (mostly quite new to this) fans and the few bitter people leading the complaining about everything Louis does.

[whatwooshkai]

having rescue bots thoughts and I think heatwave's aim is total dogshit but he gets away with it because he's gotta spray water in the general direction of the fire so yeah! aim for the fire so when you miss you hit the fuel! but god forbid you make him do anything that requires hand eye coordination and kade is starting to doubt that he actually graduated from this so called "academy"

[neowinestainedress]

i usually don't do this but i noticed too many of the new followers look like bots (no profile picture, no bio, no likes/following even if they're visible). so if you don't want me to block you please at least update the profile picture (use anything, just please don't have the default icons) and put something in your bio (would be better if it was your age, to follow me you have to be 16+*). i still stand with what i have written in my rules = i'm not your mom and if you interact with me on nsfw posts as a minor it's not my fault*, but i have a lot of followers and i need to do a cleanup. i'm writing this post now but i will start blocking in a few weeks (depending on how busy i am it will either be the end of december or the start of january) so more of you have time to see this, i will reblog this frequently and give one last warning before starting to block.

*i'm not posting much fluff anymore but it's still something i write so ofc what i stated in the past still stands, if you're a minor you can interact with those works and talk to me about sfw things but you still have to be 16 (if you're younger get out thanks)

feel free to reblog this too so it reaches more people!

[baby-yongbok]

Put

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Age

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Your

Bio

[arcadian-seeker]

something something the talent show's required stat becoming persuasion at age 15 instead of creativity being a metaphor for how creativity is valued less as you grow older and bright ideas are only commended if you're convincing enough,, sometimes something Lum and the rest of the helios adults valuing their soldiers more and berating the idea of the arts and culture by using their authority to persuade everyone into thinking the war is all that matters, which gets transferred to their children and changes the way people think in regards to even things as silly as a talent show,,

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ive been noticing another influx of bots, so Friendly Reminder! if you have an Untitled blog with a Default Icon! you will be blocked without mercy!

[doukeshi-kun]

Did something happen while I was away? I can't find your @cherikolya page? I'm so upset please bring them back if possible T-T. They are literally some of the best Nikolai fics I've read I re-read them every month, you're sooo good at writing them. Anyway, if it's anything personal, I hope you're okay!! Keep your chin up!! You're the best uwu!!

my cherikolya is just up and fine, i don't delete it or anything. i don't think it's shadowbanned either. i feel like you're a blank blog and perhaps i wrongly blocked you bcs i thought you are a bot. last week i did a 'clean-up' on my followers list and i blocked blogs that i suspected are bots (and other reasons but that's like just a few people)

you can just send me an ask here un-anon, so i can check whether you're blocked or not. and i'll unblock u for sure lol (bcs ik ur not a bot). i won't post the ask for your privacy and i will respond to it privately if it's something else entirely!

and thank you for liking my works <3

[fbfh]

pov dating james patrick march

James, placing a MASSIVE diamond ring on your finger: surprise my darling! I had this made especially for you :)

reader: oh my god????

James, with that Gomez Addams kind of affection: do you love it? :)

reader: of course! oh my god, it's gorgeous...

James: It's a 10 carat blood diamond. I had it mined just for you my love :)

reader: oh! oh that's not-

[red-red-spout]

it's interesting how the vast majority of the people on this website just don't actually know anything about like the broader internet politics sphere. Like... you see liberal bloggers reblogging articles from The Grayzone about the Israeli genocide in Palestine and then two posts later reblogging something from like. prismatic-bell about how you should vote for 99% hitler or whatever.

[nocterish]

There's been a heavy influx of bot follows in here and it's so hard to know who is new in tumblr or just a bot

[prettypangolins]

tags and searches are just, like... pages of this shit (this was a search for 'vampire' sorted by link and latest, but this is happening all over the site)

[ID: a screenshot of tumblr search results. all the visible posts are links to sites with a picture of a young woman as the link preview, and a woman's name 1+8 and then a string of random letters and numbers as the link title. The posts are dated the 25th of March and have random, unrelated tags beneath the post. The profile pictures of all the bot accounts are women, with random non-sensical blog urls. END ID]

If you see a spam bot post PLEASE REPORT IT AS SPAM.

(The other strain that seems more deeply entrenched as it's harder to find but always has hundreds or a few thousand notes are the ones that link to sites that generally have a porn-related words on them but with punctuation breaking up the words and accents on the vowels.)

[mint-mumbles]

8:35 PM EST (July 6th)

2 AM EST (July 7th)

WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE BOTTING ART FIGHT 😭😭😭

[steakout-05]

cw: mention of an nsfw blog

ok i woke up today and saw that i just had like a birth fetish account follow me??? and i'm so???? confused?????? bro..... i post about silly cartoon men and star trek what are you doing here lmaooooo

edit: oh yeah i also forgot: this is a reminder for nsfw accounts to please not follow me. yeah it was funny seeing the birth blog pop up in my notifications like a jumpscare but for my own safety nsfw blogs do not follow thank you :)

[robo-runkey]

[ He seems unresponsive...]

Enter command |

(( @awobbles and @thenameskira since you guys asked these XP ))

[spaztastic-headcannons]

Fun idea: A bit of the All Spark (the tiniest splinter of a shard) embeds in a human. It's still powerful but not nearly as much as a larger chunk would be. The worst this one does is overtime adapt the human to better understand Cybertronians. But somehow it gets missed in surface and casual scans of the body. Maybe mixed in with other shrapnel from whatever launched the piece into the body. Maybe it's sentient enough to know to hide out because fuck this shit, it's been a long war and now it's shattered, wtf.

Let's say you're someone who has come to work with the Autobots and the humans they ally with (this can be almost any universe in the Transformers fandom though I always end up with a pretty fun mix of Bayverse, G1, Prime, and sometimes MTMTE for funsies). And you're going about your business on base, have some headphones on/in bopping along to music or a podcast to make the work easier and time fly by. And suddenly you're picking up weird noises between the music. And over time the weird noises start to sound a lot like the language the Cybertronians might speak to each other. Very concerning! So you report the bugged headphones, turn them in, and leave the experts to figure out if there are weaknesses in the signals and systems that allowed that to happen. could be a fluke! (they're hoping for a fluke....). Headsets and other listening devices all over the base are tested repeatedly, but none of them can repeat the issue that yours does. And even then, over time the issue seems to resolve itself. A sigh of relief as the defunct headphones are destroyed and Red Alert manages to calm down.

Music and headphones return to regular cycle and all is well.

Except you get a replacement set and they start to do the same thing over time but now you're starting to understand what's being said.

It's hard to tell if it's a case of you understanding Cybertronian in Cybertronian or if it's being translated into English. Things feel a bit fuzzy about that.

Once again you report a problem, except now you're under the scrutiny of Red Alert and Ratchet.

This sucks! Especially because now you're picking up some of what they're saying to each other out loud!

End result? You have a shard of the AllSpark and you can understand Cybertronian languages. Yes, all of them.

[Uncertain if I would want to include something like the frequencies are also picked up without headphones and maybe some hurt/comfort/hilarity of trying to figure out how to control them as a human? You're pick]

Could be the fun start of you catching Decepticon frequencies too, like if Ravage was sneaking in on a secret and hidden one and you're the only one to pick it up? Also how would you respond?? You physically cannot make the noises to communicate but maybe you start to be able to read it in text and can message on a specially made phone? Lots of fun directions to take this in!!!