#and some comments were made today

[seveneyesoup]

ngl i’m still worried. like i Do have complete faith in ncuti gatwa but what i Don’t have is much faith at all in rtd’s writing about race

#which id managed to sort of convince myself was maybe #it’s been like 15 years he’s had time to learn better #but the comment Immediately about ‘different colors’ in todays ep #and w the toymakers past. #i’m hoping for the best i really actively am but i’m hesitant #not even writing about race just writing that has anything to do w it #i will never forgive him for martha jones #and my cynicism is saying bringing dt back for three eps and specifically being pretty good about trans people and disabled people #is a good favor investment so he can keep a progressive image and get away w racism #i don’t actually believe that for the record #i’m just worried ncuti gatwa is gonna have to deal with Some Bullshit that’s gonna get blamed on him instead of rtd yk #which is bad for him bc it means a bad working environment and also like. taking the blame for something he didn’t even do #or that if he pushes back on something bad he’ll get branded as difficult to work with etc #anyway. worry once suffer twice or whatever and i think i said all this when the announcements were made #it’s just on my mind again #i want the best for the show and the people making it yk?

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#so my mom's wake thing was today and that was a lot. not in an emotional sense but in a im standing here talking for 3hrs #to ppl i dont kno or barely kno. ya kno? but it was good bc so many ppl showed up to talk abt her #so many people. my mom made a huge impact on the school system. so many ppl relied on her. she encouraged at least 2 ppl to get their #master. for one person to specilize in helping the dyslexic after her experience advocating for 3 dyslexic daughters. she wrote and was #awarded a 10000 dollar grant for special needs and intervention curriculum. which will affect so many lives. #everyone loved her. she's gonna get a track meet named after her and a scholarship created in her honor. #she was an amazing person and she affected a lot of lives and im glad she was my mom. and she raised at least one jem in my littlest #sister who is so sweet and is a great teacher. god but there was some weird stuff too. were pretty sure her old boss was in love with her. #and there were some weird comments abt her being a strong woman or this woman doing so much and its like hm y do i detect a note of sexism #y not say she was an amazing person? y the surprise? weird comments about how pretty i looked. which yes i looked great lol. my funeral fit #was cute. we did bright colors bc it was a celebration not a dower event. and im sure it was ment well but it was a lil weird. and then #everyone was telling my grandma what a great job she did raising my mom and like god fuck off she didn't do jack. my mom was great despite #her terrible mother. ugh. but altogether it was good that everyone was able to express their love for her. it was def a day that was for #them mostly. i mean partly for us but mostly for them. none of us even cried. ay but we have 2 more parties in her honor #bc everyone loved her so much we have to do one in her hometown too. plus a personal friends get together. ugh. im so tired #i wish i wasnt the most awkward. eye contact avoidant person in the room but like ya kno. what can ya do? #unrelated

[dimitrscu]

i love spending hours writing only to read it back the next day, cringe, and then delete the whole thing

#this is what i call progress #coming to terms with how awful i am then erasing it from existence before it gets worse #made the terrible mistake last night reading some very opinionated persons comments on the way ppl write and well #they were trying to make it sound like helpful criticism but tbh it only sounded l like hate #kind of like ‘omg ppl who do ‘X’ are just so bad’ #anyway a lot of what they said ended up being incredibly discouraging #like if you don’t write like this then you’re bad kind of thing #the mental torture i put myself through i swear #for years i have wanted nothing more than to actually do something meaningful with myself #even if that means writing or whatever #cause god knows i’ll never be able to draw #but i will never get over this hurdle it seems #i am only ranting so pls ignore #i'm having one of Those days today #just need to get over myself thats all

[prairieprayer]

General Decrease in Social Media Interaction, Not Just Reblog to Like Ratios

I see posts about reblog to like ratio all the time, and I 100% agree that the reblog to like ratio on Tumblr has significantly decreased over the decade...

But I feel like it really isn't just Tumblr- it's social media in general. The same problem is on DeviantART with view to favorite to comment ratios... with comments equating to a reblog (or "interaction")

Take popular DA artist Griffsnuff. Sampling 20 random images from 2023, 2015, and 2010 and noting their averaged comment count:

(rounded up) 2010: 208 2015: 44 (78% decrease from 2010) 2023: 11 (75% decrease from 2015, 94% decrease from 2010)

Taking someone less popular but who recalls an avid community growing up- me:

2010: 3 2015: 0.75 (75% decrease from 2010) 2023: 0.7 (90% decrease from 2015, 76% decrease from 2010)

These are only two examples, but between a super popular DA artist and a nobody, there's a pretty consistent 75%-78% drop in interaction rate between 2010 and 2015, with another sharp decrease 7 years after that.

With Tumblr's reblog to like ratio also sharply dropping, it's possible the same can be said for other social sites, that "passive" interaction (liking/thumbs up/hearting) has overtaken "active" interaction (commenting/sharing/reblogging). An exception is possibly TikTok with its remixing feature which works, in a way, as a transformative response to the original content, and is baked into the app's culture... but I don't know what remix-to-like ratio it has, and TikTok doesn't exactly have videos from 2010 to reference for a then-and-now comparison.

Regardless, this kind of insane decrease in active interaction warrants more serious study from academics as a social phenomenom, to assess how legitimate it is and hypothesize the reasons (the algorithm? culture? attention span? over stimulation? marketing?) Because an artist like griffsnuff who is more popular than ever at 98k watchers and 13M views having a 94% decrease in comment rates after 13 years sounds... fake. Shouldn't interaction be going up...?

If someone at 98k can't even keep consistent interaction how does anyone with a smaller audience expect to get any? (No wonder why even at 870 followers on Tumblr, 65 on DA, and 95 on Twitter I see squat come from it)

#reblog #web 2.0 #tumblr #deviantart #2010 #numbers can obviously change based on a large number of factors #but i honestly didn't expect my interaction decrease percentage to match griffsnuff's #i actually expected griff's interaction to remain generally constant not drop well over 50% in just 5 yrs then even more after #and then mine to have done the same with only a 3% difference when most of my comments recieved were 0 #its like. some kind of social media count inflation #where 100 followers in 2010 were indefinitely more active and valuable to you than 3k would be today #if you had 100 followers in 2010 you were popular you made friends you were listened to #but 100 followers today is as good as 0 when not a one of those 100 comments likes or shares your work like they would in 2010

[awkward-snake-girl]

Friendly reminder: If you suffer from mental illness, please remember that you deserve love.

You deserve care.

You deserve compassion.

You deserve respect and kindness, and you are worthy.

Anyone says different? They can fuck off.

Here’s a cute baby highland cow:

#I’ve had to deal with some shitty people today #they were extremely disrespectful towards me and made some extremely shitty comments about how people with mental illness should be treated #anxiety problems #Jane rambles #ooc #mental health

[therealvalkyrie]

bath + asparagus time

#I did some cleaning and my day’s gotten slightly better #long story short I’ve had a fucking weekend lmfao #last Thursday I had a complete breakdown on my way home prompted by like the smallest comment u could think of #nevertheless it made me sob violently #like picture florence pugh in midsommar but more hysterical #on Friday I had a good day!! but it was fuckin busy man and I didn’t get around to #half of the stuff I needed to #Saturday was also busy and on the way home from work my car started SMOKING!!!! from under the hood #nothing was on fire but it freaked me the fuck out and I couldn’t get it to the mechanic until today so I had to find rides everywhere #and that was stressful #I only got like 3 or 4 hours of sleep Saturday night bc I had a (fun!!!) thing that went really late and then had to get up at 5 for work #on Sunday #so Sunday afternoon I got home and napped from 2-6pm and then just went to bed at 8 so I STILL didn’t get any shit done #and then this morning I opened again and I spent my sh #ift w people who are even newer at my job than I am so I was like training them/doing everything they couldn’t do yet and it was just #a weird day and my boss was acting weird and I didn’t like it at all #and then this afternoon I take my car to the mechanic FINALLY and he says the radiator’s busted and leaking coolant everywhere and also #one of the tires is fucked so we have to get them all replaced #and that’s gonna be several hundred dollars which is fine it’s all fine but I’m fucking tired #and when I got home there were still dishes to do😭😭😭 #I need someone to baby me and clean my house #gawd #valkyrie talks

[newtness532]

im going to attempt to ignore everything my anxiety filled brain is telling me

#for a start only when it comes to food #it would be easier if the stupid teacher hadn't made that comments today. why did she have to talk? i was happily living in a world where #packaged foods were not contaminated. why did she have to ruin this for me? anyway ive never died from drinking juice from a juicebox #or from not washing with water and soap the containers of milk and bread and i dont know what #so i dont see why i would die now #and I'll try to eat noodles again at some point. like it will have to be day and maybe while im video-calling my mom or sth #i even bought some very pretty chopsticks that i never got to use cause i started being scared of noodles before i got to unpack them #anyway im tired of my brain being fucked up and there are so many reasons i dont eat way too many foods #and if i let my anxiety stop me from eating the foods that i used to eat then there will be zero foods i can eat #and as they teach us at uni food is important for the being alive #god this feels embarrassing. panicking about the stupidest things #anyway were going to change that #from tomorrow. now im going to sleep #jo says stuff #personal ramblings

[cutebisexualmess]

you ever think you're doing amazingly and then one day pulls the entire thing apart and you've gone back three steps and feel like shit again

#tw vent #vent post #some weight talk #i'll be fine in a couple of days but I had a really shitty day today #its making my anxiety spike again and my thoughts are spiraling a little #ive been so happy and finally felt like the things that I love doing weren't a chore anymore but now my parents are forcing me to go when i #not up that level again yet. but they are making me go anyway even though im incredibly self conscious about that day of high-intensity wor #because i haven't done it for three or four months and have lost a lot of my fitness #and i made an offhand comment earlier how ive gained a bit of weight in my thighs cause of it and then my dad said that I was #talking about it and im not going to lose the weight if i dont go. it was non-malicous and true but it still made me feel like shit #and were doing a fitness section in pe atm and that's making me feel like shit too #like ive only gained a couple of kilos and don't care about that at all. I care about the muscular strength and endurance I've lost #so now im shit at the thing I used to be really good at #just because i lost the momentum to go for a few months #that on top of other shit happening to friends etc and also end of year exams coming up is not making me feel great

[fictionadventurer]

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#in the mood to be petty #and block people for bad thg takes #the post is on the move again and today it's more annoying than usual #already blocked someone for mentioning battle royale #look you're not special we know it exists and it is not the same at all #i need to staple an addendum to that post that says 'the subgenre the hunger games started was books that are like the hunger games' #not dystopia #not ya dystopia #not even televised gladiator games with teenagers #but a blend of ya + dystopia + tv battles with things like fragmented factions and a hopeful message #that everyone tried to replicate but no one could because they don't realize all those tropes were in service of a message #i say it right in the post why can't people read #now someone brought up 'akshually katniss didn't love peeta and the ending is brutal' #do these people not realize they all have the same ten bad takes?? #even that time it got put on facebook literally every comment was exactly the same as the ten tumblr takes #i usually have a good relationship with that post but for some reason today it annoys me #oh i do need to praise the one guy who made a point i've never seen made in 3.5 years #and it's actually right! #they corrected a point i made and i agreed with them! #miracle of miracles!

[violentdevotion]

I had multiple dreams last night.

I had a bf </3

someone in my family got bit by a zombie </3

some guy made me explain narrative structure to him </3

#ameera speaks #1 expanded) it was someone ik in real life 😔 which sucks soooo bad anyway he was at mine and we were watching a movie in my bed on my #laptop < (loser behaviour) and okay so im lying by referring to him as my bf bc we were just friends in the dream but then he started like #acting well intimate and i wasnt not into it so i was like hey whats going on here and we had a talk and then i had to sneak him out of my #house. dream 2) zombie apocalypse im in my room my nephews and nieces come in and i usher them out. the world is the samw just + zombies. #like think covid when it was dire but schools were still open? (my dream was a commentary on the countries failures to manage covid) so i #usher my neohews and nieces out and i make a comment to my sister in law like ooh im scared one of them got bit and my nephew was like some #girl bit me at school today and i told his mum and i stayed in my room and like an hour later i rang her like whats the update #and she was like oh yeah and came into my room to find my journal on zombie stuff and sge was like should i just cut off his arm and i was #idk try but if that doesnt work youre gonna have to... and she was SO CASUALLL !!!! and as she was leaving she started like picking things #up off the floor and i made a comment like your sons dying and youre sweeping and she was like way harsh tai and i woke up #that one was a commentsry on covid and also how i might be too mean to my sister in laws sometimes #3) i was in a library with friends researching smth and some asian guy sits on our table turns his back to us and talks to his friends. #then he starts playing music loudly from his phone and i move back to my table and as im walking he stops me and starts talking to some #girl on the table next to mine who he knows and is like hey i have an assignment due where i have to write a compelling narrative from my #own life ur clever can u help and she was a stem girly and went highschool with me and she pointed at me like ask her she does english #and he was like no u just tell me and she started helping him but i felt the advice she was giving was.. bad. so i interrupted like dont #you think that you should do __ instead and we had a discussion about it till i woke up. < that dream was a commentary on how useless my #degree is and how i wish it wasnt useless

[rabbigfirlee]

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#Uf #maybe I’m overthinking this #but the other day I ran into a Muslim doctor who saw me studying at a cafe #turns out he’s a residency program director #and he was telling me how he’d love to connect me with some of the surgeons and other doctors since he wants to support Muslim girls in med #and he’s so proud to see me studying and working hard since there aren’t many Muslims here #so he asked for my number #and I have it to him thinking nothing of it #since that day he has been messaging me asking if I’m here alone or living with my family where I’m from etc etc #but then today he asked me if I wanted to join him on a hike? #and idk maybe I’m misjudging him but idk #obvi I don’t intend to go #but ufff just the amount he has been messaging me does make me feel a bit odd #sometimes I don’t respond and he double or triple texts #maybe I’m mistaken but idk #I don’t want to assume but he also made some other comments that I didn’t think were professional #personal #diary

[fabulousblackunicorn2]

dear god youtube comments make me wish i didn't know how to read

#i rlly like cooking videos #so i was subscribed to the babish channel #but today he uploaded a video sponsored by that stupid hogwarts game #which was very disappointing #so i unsubbed and disliked #all of the top comments didnt even mention the sponsorship :((( #and in the recent ones there were a lot that shared my sentiment #but just as many doing the opposite and being foul disgusting people #and idk #whenever i think we've made some progress as a society #i feel like ive been forcefully dragged back to the medieval ages #only responded to a few comments and did my best to limit my insults #for my own sanity #but now im left feeling like this #i wanna maim and kill

[weathernerdmando]

I'm so ready for this weekend to be over at work. Fucking ridiculously stressful weekend and it's not even bc it was busy.

#personal shit #I and my coworker got threatened on friday bc we wouldnt give people free shit after we closed #and today we had someone who was dealing with some mental disability or soemthing harrassing us #and apparently she almost started 2 fights upstairs at Spencer's grabbed some kids bottle and made INCREDIBLY inappropriate comments #about one of their workers #they were waiting on the cops for like an hour. the cops who had just *dropped her off here* prior to her harassing us #i had wondered why id seen security walking around like soemthing was going on

[this-is-a-url]

Currently cursing out every ao3 hs author ever because now my eyeliner is messed up

#/j obviously #tho my eyeliner is messed up I'm far from upset #anyways I'm gonna talk about my day now #A friend I really look up to style-wise said that we were the opposite ends of the goth spectrum and I almost bawled my eyes out right #then and there bc of how happy that comment made me #if it's any context they were in a band shirt + jeans and I was in my usual shit of a black skirt‚ (monster high) crop top and fishnets #also obviously heels bc I can't walk for shit in sneakers #I showed a maybe? friend pictures of the plz army today too he seemed to like them and that was so!!!!! #Also when Sunburst says that Starswirl's a villain I became so not normal #hissing and clawing at the bars of my cage #VALIDATION #I always forget that sometimes kid's shows can properly treat morally grey character and am always INCREDIBLY delighted to remember #Also I haven't drawn on my tablet in ages and it kinda makes me sad to not post art on here #Like I still have been drawing a lot but like I am incapable of taking good photos without shadows so I am just :( #may reblog some art I actually have posted

[eveningsandcoffeespoons]

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#I'm sick and there's a weather happening #and I've been watching the twitter *gestures vaguely* happen #and baking #the combination of which has me in my feelings about Getting Online in 2009ish #figuring out how to join fandom community through ff.n comments and twitter hashtags #how intense those friendships were #i have no idea what some of those people are doing today #and I'm so greatful for the lessons i learned and the friendships I've kept #but also I made a lot of mistakes #it was so instense #to be 20 and feel a part of something cool #and i also wonder a lot how some of those people i lost touch with are doing #did g figure it out? is i happy and thriving? does n ever feel satisfied? #this is mostly the fever #but wow life is long and people really do walk in and out of your life / you walk in and out of theirs

[walking-circles]

losing my fucking mind at the word dissasociation video

#ITS SO GOOD OH MY GOD #IT MADE ME CRY FOR SOME REASON ?? #im binge watching neils videos rn bc i just got back from camp and i feel rly weird lolz #the old comments make me so emotional bc its like they were there when it was new… its not like a relic…. #i kinda wish i was like alive when it dropped but at the same time i dont think i wouldve known #its just sad to see old forums and stuff like that bc they donr rly exist in the web today… #esp w stuff like ld i just cant see something like that taking off now like it did in idk 2006?? #um yeah #im vv sleep deprived rn too