#you dont have to reblog the post if you dont agree with it!

[anotherpapercut]

blocking everyone who leaves tags I find mildly irritating on my posts ain't much but it's honest work

#i just don't like people jokingly insulting me in the fucking tags! #you dont have to reblog the post if you dont agree with it! #dont fucking call me crazy or stupid because you disagree with me about which season is best????? #we all live in different places with different climates and we all have different needs and likes and dislikes #so were all going to have different opinions chill the fuck out #i keep getting comments like 'this argument is stupid' WHAT ARGUMENT #i literally just posted my personal opinion and people agreed with it #yall just view literally every single discussion as a fucking argument with a winner and a loser but thats not how life works

[suyacho]

“why is everything smut” because you guys seem to not give a single shit for anything unless it’s smut, leave the sfw fluff & angst creators in the dust and only come on here to complain about what we write in out free time instead of supporting the people on here.

edit: this post is not meant to shame any smut writers, i’m one of you guys LMAO, it was about one of the stupidest catches i’ve seen circling around & me being annoyed over it.

#snow; sighs #im late to the party /lh #i wouldve reblogged the post going around saying i agree with all the tags my mutals have said #but i think its an ageless blog #its jusr so stupid #like me personally i love writing fluff & angst but it fucking flops #i dont try to get the notes to me but it still happens #especially when you know people only care for your smut and nothing else #not your content #not you #just your smut #and in the end will still have the audacity to complain #goodmorning btw Lmaaooa

[working-dreamer]

It’s wild how shipping culture has changed so drastically over time on the internet.

In the old days people shipped characters who either had only one line of dialogue with each other, never even met, or not even from the same piece of media. It was the wild west and sure some ships were uncomfortable but people had the mindset to just block the tag and stay away from ships they didn’t enjoy.

Nowadays? It’s more like people have to clarify that their ship isn’t canon compliant, character adjacent, and story irrelevant otherwise they get a flood of comments saying “but this character isn’t like this in canon” and some people legitimately get angry if you’re not following the canon.

Like- shipping and fandom culture from what I understand it is about engaging with media in a way that caters to you. And if you don’t like a ship or show just… block the relevant tags and don’t engage in the ships? The internet isn’t supposed to cater to us- we have to cater ourselves to our internet environment. And no matter how many times people may harass others over a fandom or ship they don’t like, those ships are not gonna disappear.

The internet has just been getting worse when people have decided to place morality in their opinions by saying things like “if you enjoy the ship then you support (insert horrible thing here that’s usually completely unrelated to the ship itself)” when it used to be “eh, not my thing” and people just moved on.

And for the record this isn’t about a specific ship or anything- just an observation of how fandom has evolved (and regressed) over the years and I find it fascinating from a sociological perspective cause we still don’t know how having the internet from birth affects the development of kids and how that affects how they interact with others- isn’t that scary?

I know that’s slightly unrelated but the way people engage in media has been changing over they years and that also involves fandom and the maturity level thereof in the internet space and someone smarter than me could probably write a whole thesis paper about fandom culture and how the internet has hindered the social development of people and how that affects community specifically from a fandom lens.

Just- for your sanity younger internet children: it’s not worth harassing others over something as trivial as ‘it’s not canon that this character kisses another character.’ Just find ships you like. Block ships you don’t. And just enjoy your time doing what you like!

You can’t control the internet but you can nurture your little corner of it.

#shipping #canon ship #non canon ships #reader x character #self ship #I get so tired of seeing shipping posts and the comments or reply tweets are nothing but ‘but this isn’t canon tho!!!’ #sonny when I was your age we shipped characters who never even met in canon! #even with ships I don’t like- I get exhausted seeing people get bombarded by fourteen year olds who haven’t developed critical thinking yet #every day I agree more that people under 18 shouldn’t have access to the internet #this can also apply to people who act like ‘if you dont reblog or boost this post (insert social issue here) then you’re a bad person!!’ #like… no #you don’t have to apply moriality to a stinkin’ reblog button! #sure informing people is important but you don’t have to take the responsibility of the world’s issues #we’re all doing the best we can and you don’t have to prove your morality to be a good person #it’s okay to not engage with those kinds of posts if it makes you uncomfortable- that doesn’t affect your morality in any way #For example: ​I’m never gonna reblog gory posts showing battle zones #does that mean I support war? absolutely not! #I’m just protecting my mental health! and you need to as well #the internet is yours to make it how you want and if you want it to be an escape from the horrors of the world that’s okay #protect your happiness fam

[zapsoda]

Holy Shit. I Wonder Why. I Really Wonder. It is a mystery to me!

"its common use nowadays" ah yes its common use nowadays, its common use by ignorant WESTERNERS who are using words they DONT KNOW THE MEANING OF

#seething currently #i love you i love you i love you #why would you reblog a post full of terves in the notes agreeing with it #perhaps that might indicate some level of terf ideology embedded within it #paaaaaain #and suffering #terves reblogging it in agreeance alongside “allies” touting how much they dont believe in transandrophobia #shit dude! i wonder! #ah yes its really funny when trans men talk about how anti-fujo rhetoric intersects with transmasculine specific transphobia! hilarious #stupid trans men having the nerve to express when people say or do things that are *harmful* to them #ridiculous!

[lakeinstillness]

I see so much ableist content being made and reblogged about tim on tumblr and other websites. stop using his schizophrenia purely for angst and then forgetting it exists outside of that. schizophrenia isnt just the "my dead loved one showed up as an hallucination to talk to me" disorder, yet its a LOT of the content I see, most of which is by people who arent psychotic.

people ignore that hallucinations can take other forms. yes, psychotic people can hallucinate dead loved ones, and it's not the only form of representation that we deserve. every schizospec and psychotic person's experience will be different and not everyone will have the same symptoms. not every schizospec or psychotic person will even have hallucinations as part of their disorder.

we see the insane asylum AUs, the AUs where a character goes ""p*ycho"" or ""insane"" and either starts murdering people or is a poor little tragic pitiable thing where they end up dead at the end. the "psychopath" AUs, and the fan media where masky is violent, evil, or malevolent and tim cant do anything about it.

the content you make where you clearly dont understand schizophrenia, DIDOSDD or any other stigmatized disorder you claim to be representing. where the bare minimum research is done before you start talking about those disorders. countless, countless other examples.

schizophrenic people see your posts. schizospec and psychotic people see the ableism you perpetuate and spread. people with DID/OSDD, disorders that have an increased chance of psychosis but are not the same as schizophrenia, see your posts, and your anti-system ableism. especially in regards to masky and tim.

our symptoms are laughed at and material for #schizoposting or r/fakedisordercringe. if we speak up about ableism then we get people messaging us purposefully triggering and paranoia inducing messages. we're treated like oddities, people ask invasive questions without asking if that's even okay first, and they make assumptions without even knowing anything about us.

if you have depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, etc - you can still perpetuate ableism. schizospec people, psychotic people, and systems are constantly having to prove our humanity. we shouldnt have to. we shouldnt have to constantly see people refuse to understand our experiences.

Im asking you to educate yourselves. read about the experiences of actual schizophrenic people. understand that hallucinations are only one possible symptom among many others. read actual research for DID/OSDD. please be critical and keep an open eye for ableism against schizospec people, psychotic people, and systems. I implore you to take this post to heart and think critically about what posts and media you interact with and the content you create in the future.

#marble hornets #ableism #sanism #theres been a lot Ive been seeing lately. #its really hurtful. #like Ive said before. its not just someone made an ableist post - 50 other people agreed with that post. either by liking or reblogging it. #of course its not just one post that Im talking about. but you get the metaphor. #please do research. sources that are respected and legitimate. our personal experiences are important too but you cant just depend #on one or the other. please do independent research and listen to our voices. #dont rely on us to educate you every single time you have a question. google can answer a lot of questions. but reach out if you cant find #answers. sometimes theyre hard to find through search engines. #sometimes its exhausting to look at the marble hornets tag. ableism is still prevalent.

[nmzuka]

I 100% get tumblrs need to grow their userbase to continue. Fully support that

But literally @staff any changes to the dashboard or adding an algorithm HAS to be able to be opt out or you will completely kill the use of this site by longtime users who have been VERY vocal about not wanting an algorithm

Tumblr's advantage over other sites is that you can control what content you see and taking that away from your users is downright stupid

I get new users arent use to that and can understand it benefiting them to have an algorithm to help get the hang of the site but again one should be able to opt out of it

That way long time users can continue to use Tumblr the way they enjoy it and if new users get the hang of things and want to turn off the algorithm they can

#tumblr #staff #literally I think adding a full time algorithm will absolutely kill this site #we already have the for you page #which i did enjoy using for a while #but it kept suggesting me things even tho I told it I didnt want to see them #maybe fix that issue as well?? #or just make a sort of training wheel mode to help new users get the hang of things #but those of us who have used this site for fucking years have done so for a reason #dont go fucking with that #also agree with a take I saw that said any algorithm should support underappreciated contenr #its so easy for things to get lost in the void here because no on is reblogging it #a cap should be set on when a post falls out of being promoted #its getting promoted by people reblogging it #and other posts that are being passed over should be promoted instead

[crescentfool]

just put a one star review on the tumblr app 🤧

#lizzy speaks #ohhh tumblr your core product strategy post wounds me #you can find it on the staff blog #but principle 3 is what rubs me the wrong way... they're going to collapse reblog threads and possibly remove duplicate reblogs?? #my kungpowpenis... the tumblr culture... they're taking it from us... like prev tags... ohh i could dissolve into thin air this instant #ngl id probably end up staying on here anyways bc i have an extreme allergic reaction to using twt but like. why.... #anw! i dont like to air out grievances without giving a call to action so uh #if you dont agree with the post i would suggest going onto your app store and giving tumblr a one star review #also i hope everyone's doing ok!!! thank you all for being kind to each other in tags i always love opening them and seeing nice things #even if things can be shitty sometimes i am wishing everyone a good light at the end of the tunnel. good things will come ur way i believe!

[bitegore]

is there like a curse you get put under when you decide that you like cold weather better than hot weather to never ever shut the fuck up when someone expresses a different opinion on the subject, or is that just a choice you are all making

#i really don't get it. i don't do this on posts about liking the cold #but every post about liking hot weather is FULL of people like 'ohhh but op have you considered it's easier to warm up than cool down' #as though a) that is true everywhere or b) we've never heard it before #first of all no it's not i will refer you to the years ive spent insomniac in the winter because no matter how i huddled i could not feel m #toes but second of all we fucking KNOW. we Know. we know you feel that way. It's not a secret we are AWARE. WE KNOW #no one's saying you can't like the cold but for fucks sake if you're not gonna say anything helpful what's the point of saying it #red rambles #i know i'm being a bitch this week but also i don't care. it's like fucking clockwork #every single time i reblog one of those posts i just wait for three or four people to tell me about how they 'can't peel off their skin' if #it's too hot. as though the only way to cool down is to take off layers #unfortunately i am not afflicted with whatever curse this is. sorry about your inability to shut up when you're clearly in disagreement tho #for the record i'm still housetrained and i have no intention of expressing this annoyance by going and bothering people who like the cold #you can like the cold if you want to i dont give a shit #but like. Seriously what the fuck is the deal with this shit #do you actually think that 'weh weh but actually the cold is better' is a unique opinion. approximately 50% of the people in any given place #will agree with you #there is absolutely no new complaint you can offer under the sun that will be fresh to anyone hearing it #as we have exhausted literally all of them by the age of like twelve.

[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.

#im always seeing posts from both sides of this and im getting soooo sick of it. like yes i WOULD like it if people reblogged my art and yes #it DOES feel bad to have a one to three ratio of reblogs to likes especially at smaller numbers. i dont think anyone is really thinking abt #it when they like a post and never come back to reblog it though so trting to like. guilt trip people into reblogging is goofy at best #and from the other side it's a bit mean spririted to turn it around and make fun of those comics lol. like i get that its silly. i agree! #but to act as if it's stupid for people to feel that way is like. cmon you really dont get it? #im saying all this as someone who draws and posts my art for Me and no one else. its sillyyyyyyyyy #mi

[cringekind]

do people actually complain and fight with you about not wanting to reblog things or are you guys just making people up to be mad at again

#see CONSTANT posts abt this #'you have to reblog! fuck your aesthetic reblog!' #and like i DO AGREE. dont get me wrong. ive seen horrible likes to reblog ratios #but i simply do not believe thay ppl who aren't reblogging are taking the time to fight with you about iy

[sucharide]

ok like i dont have the tumblr live update but it is very funny to me that they think people will use it if they just leave the button there. At most they'll catch new users? but they wont find very much content there, not that ive poked around in there before, but given the, in my view, practically sitewide disdain for it — so I don't see how they expect it to take off.

It all seems very weird. I'd love to understand what their real goals are. Are they just trying to emulate other social media sites? If so, the time is well passed. We are no longer excited by social media gimmicks — and tumblr users, again, arent here because they like those gimmicks.

Maybe 5-6 years ago a livestreaming option would have been exciting, but I think the vast majority of regular tumblr users are jaded towards instagram and tiktok style livestreaming because the culture there isnt user oriented, it's marketing oriented. I say instagram and tiktok style livestreaming, and what I mean is that it seems very much to be presenting itself as beautiful people talking into a camera. Which is fine in itself, but there's an immediate association to influencers when that is the percieved form, and that puts my guard up in particular. I think, oh, they're trying to sell me something, arent they? And I don't want to be sold to.

Something a little more Twitch-y would have appealed more I think — even in this era of social media burn out. People gaming, people making art, people doing creative things.

But most of all, on Tumblr we really do not care about this carosel of faces and names we don't know.

Maybe if it was a much more quiet thing, folks would have used it. A pop up one day, "Hey! We've opened up the option to stream! You can share your stream publicly, to your followers, to your mutuals, or unlisted but accessible with a link! We know our community is full of talented creatives, so this is your opportunity to show off your thing! Have fun!". Just an added icon at the top, next to your inbox. People would have been more likely to use that. It would have started slow but I genuinely think that would have been a much more clever and dare I say insidious way to implement a hugely different media form to the site. People like to discover things, that would have been something people could have discovered and played with.

That said, the issue is deeper than a marketing one, as i remember seeing something go around with data privacy issues, so maybe its a blessing in disguise that the marketing team just keep shitting the bed in new and exciting ways.

"Shitting the bed in new and exciting ways." Not sure where my brain precipitated that one from, but I like it. This time it's a sort of projectile spray up the wall.

#readmore because long post #this is okay to reblog if you think this is well articulated/communicates something you agree with and want to express as well. #that's a weird way to say 'i dont really care if you reblog but you are welcome to' but it is less dismissive and gets my tone across haha #i mean i think fundamentally the trust is broken between users and tumblr dot com #and a better implementation might not have improved that trust #but i think they really did such a bad job #roach rambles

[anotherpapercut]

this was an addition on another post but I thought it deserved its own because I keep seeing posts about marriage that would fit in on right wing conspiracy YouTube

people should be allowed to choose whether or not they want to get married. posting about how people who don't want to get married are idiots and there's no viable reason why a person might choose not to get legally married makes you sound like Jerry Falwell. marriage should be legally accessible by ALL people regardless of disability, gender or sexuality, but basic rights should ALSO be available to all and not, as this person puts it, locked behind dominant cultural institutions

#jerry falwell was like a big marriage and family conservative btw #theres a post I see going around sometimes where they basically assert that the only reason people choose not to get married #is that they think its 'too permanent' and the post is like 'as if buying a house and having kids arent permanent' #reblogging that is an autoblock for me. you have to be such a fucking ridiculous asshole to agree with that post lmfao #people have been choosing to have long term relationships that dont involve marriage for thousands of years #and they have a myraid of different reasons that dont come down to being too dumb to understand long term commitment #how far down your throat does the boot have to be for you to think the institution of marriage should be the only way to access rights #especially if youre american #its hilarious to me seeing tumblr gays coming on here making posts that sound like things southern baptists have said to me #when the missourian thinks you sound like a reactionary evangelical you know its bad

[aroaceofthesea]

Sometimes i rb posts because i like them, sometimes i rb them even though i disagree with part of them, sometimes i rb them bc im completely against them, sometimes i rb them for me, sometimes i rb them for a mutual, sometimes i rb them because they are informative, sometimes i rb them to read later, sometimes i rb them to be annoying, sometimes i rb them to help ppl, sometimes i rb them bc they're relatable, sometimes i rb them because i wish they were relatable who knows which one certainly not you bc i dont usually say it in the tags

#LISTEN THIS IS TUMBLR #DO NOT ASSUME THAT I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING I RB EVEN IF I DONT SAY I DONT AGREE SPECIFICALLY #MAYBE IM JUST TRYING TO GET SOMEONE TO ARGUE BC I DONT HAVE THE ENERGY #ok but really it doesnt matter why you rb posts what matters is that you do it bc tumblr NEEDS reblogs #its the only way posts live on #its the only way artists get more audience #idc why are you rbing whatever just do it rb rb rb and rb more posts why dont ppl rb a post #but whatever just putting this out there imma stop now before i decide not to post this #mine #rant

[madasrabbits]

i cant read through the tags on that post anymore but sometimes i do anyway because i love to be angry and suffer and the amount of people who truly feel that a stranger on the internet making a personal post relative to their life outlook should and MUST be responsible for the emotions of thousands of strangers throwing a fit and whining because they cannot relate to your outlook to choose life even when things get hard. i apologize that my life experience is not palatable or consumable enough for you — and while i do wish you the best and sincerely hope things get better for you — but its not my job as a blogger on tumblr.com to sit here counselling because i made a post that can generically be read as “positivity” and it somehow doesn’t fit your life outlook. i didnt make that post for every single person who reads it. in fact, i mainly made it for me. so i don’t have to explain to you why you should feel otherwise. it’s a two sentence text post on a microblogging platform. you don’t have to choose to live, and if you do, you don’t have to be happy about it. but quit making it my problem.

#everytime that post makes the rounds again i have to deal with swaths of people acting like im the devil because i dont respond well to #people bitching at me because they dont agree. if its not for you #dont reblog it! and quit treating strangers like they’re your therapist or even your friend #i dont know you and frankly i do not want to

[saulbaby]

I think it's kinda funny but mostly annoying when people write [website] etiquette posts that are just. How they use the website and how they like it to be used.

#like when redditors were coming i saw posts that literally said people would think you were rude if you like a post wjthout reblogging it #like no youve just been here too long and have gotten weird ideas about what kind of interaction you deserve when like and share have always #been different concepts #and somebody saying that kudos means you finished a fic #no it means i enjoyed it ive finished fics i dont like before dont give me empty kudos just bc u finished it fbdbsn #people are just reading the numbers they get wth such weird assumptions like no its a like button if you press it it means you like it there #arent any secret meanings weirdos #how are you at a point where you are taking. a like button. in good faith #its mostly just like when somebody makes a post like that and then includes something they KNOW is not agreed upon along with a bunch #of stuff everybody accepts #drives me crazy #this also

[lellu]

ok rwbyposting over that was a severe and continuous lapse in judgement or whatever im gahooleing full time now

#i like rwby a lot because the crumbs of potential are tasty as fuck #but i am Not braving the tags anymore goodbye #if u see me reblogging rwby from anyone besides blogs i follow you now have permission to shoot me dead #posts are like: jaune content. jaune content. whiterose. bumbleby. great post abt rwby's flaws that i dont want to rb #in case i get called a hypocrite for agreeing but still enjoying the show. bumbleby. jaune content