#< prev tags i agree

[coquelicoq]

i just saw someone say that "the vast majority of the userbase is complaining" about tumblr's recent layout change. i see this a lot after a change: people complaining about it (sometimes without saying what about it is bad, making it sound like either it's self-evident (it usually is not) or just that it's bad because it's change and change is always bad) and saying that everyone else is complaining about it too. i don't know how to tell you this but a) you don't follow every user on tumblr so how can you possibly know what "everyone" or "the majority of users" thinks about anything and b) ONLY THE PEOPLE WHO FEEL VERY STRONGLY ARE TALKING ABOUT IT!! people who are not bothered are not spending time posting about how unbothered they are! please look up "selection bias" and stop making me read this nonsense with my own eyeballs.

#i don't get what's so bad abt this change bc it doesn't bother me & no one is explaining it! the most i've seen is it's 'like twitter' #which people don't like i guess bc this might imply that tumblr could be taking more cues from twitter than just the layout? #which is also fallacious reasoning #some changes i do hate. like for instance the change that made it so i can no longer click to the version that someone rbed from #which breaks the prev tag culture :( #but some changes are whatever! and some changes are good even!! #it's fine if it takes time to get used to something being different of course but it seems like the reaction on here can be so extreme #so fast. 'bombard the app with 1-star reviews!!!!' how about you give it a couple weeks and maybe you'll calm down. #i think there's a sense of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' but it is broke though! tumblr is unsustainable and they gotta do stuff to make #the site more attractive and easier to use for new users. they can do that without losing what makes tumblr tumblr #the layout is not what makes tumblr tumblr! the functionality is. and sometimes that does change for the worse #and i get having complaints about that. but not really about moving the location of some buttons #anyway i haven't said anything before because i don't have strong feelings about this UX change but i DO have strong feelings about #the vague yet very forceful complaints about the UX change that i keep seeing lol #tumblr #fallacies #anyway don't get distracted by my tags. this post is not really about me not understanding what's so bad about this specific change #it's about people who hate a change assuming that everyone agrees with them because they're only seeing the reactions from #a biased subset of the userbase #(by biased i don't mean the users are biased. i mean the sample is biased...it's highly likely to include people who feel strongly #and unlikely to include people who are neutral or feel less strongly)

[poisonpercy]

I have never gotten more prev tags in a day than today when I’m rambling about my critiques of the pjo show. I should have been in the writer’s room. I know what the people want

#i love the little ego boosts prev tags bring #yes my brain is so smart #glad the ​tumblrinas agree #skys post

[essektheylyss]

you don't like the inability to go back through the reblog chain because it makes it harder to 'prev tags'; I don't like the inability to go back through the reblog chain because it makes it harder to reblog a version of the post without an annoying comment, especially when some of the blogs involved are deactivated; we are not the same

#not rebloggable cuz I am just whining. I do not actually care about your stance on prev tags. #I have used them on occasion. I find them useful for responding to applauding someone's tags when it's too small for a full convo. #and I am uninterested in my activity becoming a battleground against staff. #but also it does drive me nuts when I'm like 'man this whole chain is great except for the last comment #which is not emotionally wrong but is factually inaccurate on one minute point that I am nonetheless going to split hairs about' #anyway this one was giving terfs too much credit for having come up with radfem theory and like. #terfs/exclusionists as their contemporary movement are new (and more importantly louder and more effective). #but this is a new iteration of radfems who have been kicking since the 60s at least. #audre lorde and bell hooks were not writing against radfems in particular long before you were born #for you to claim that feminism always unilaterally agreed on the fact that men are also negatively affected by the patriarchy. #like it's FINE if you don't know that but. it is a minute point that is nonetheless important to me not to repeat. ANYWAY. #not me going through a whole bunch of wikipedia pages cuz I second guessed myself about facts. #and I couldn't just be WRONG if I was mad about people being minutely wrong now could I.

[periprose]

You should totally get the Black Cat DLC for Spider-Man🤭 or if not, watch the clips on youtube😇

Omg 🥹 I love Black Cat and I forgot she had a DLC for this game!!

I'll probably get it I just have to get a job and money first lol 😭

#i agree with your prev tags on the other post!! #im excited for the second game #actually my sister bought me both the first and the miles morales games for my graduation from uni lol #i just gotta beat both of those :) #ask #mutuals #the spidey black cat dynamic is unmatched 😌

[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!

[steelycunt]

love the sirius talk he really is just so all over the place in fact I think one of the reasons I like r/s as much as I do is because of the fact that genuinely no body else knows sirius as well as remus does no one else knows exactly how kind and cruel he can be and through it all remus is still obsessed with him. even when he doesn’t know if he’s a good person or even when he thinks he’s a terrible one and same honestly he’s got me wrapped around his finger even if I wish he didn’t. and I’m always thinking about that scene in POA when he’s talking to harry about the ministry administering the dementors kiss and he doesn’t want sirius to get the kiss even though he doesn’t know he’s innocent yet, or just how emotional and jumpy he was whenever sirius was brought up at all.. and then how completely cold he was to peter when he learnt the truth. even though he loved him once like family and spent 12 years mourning him he’s completely unattached and cold to peter but he’s spent 12 years hating sirius and still couldn’t detach himself from him. he had 12 years to move on and he just! couldn’t! he’s obsessed!! i love the way that they didn’t have the kind of relationship that could withstand anything cause they’re barely able to keep themselves together let alone a relationship and they were just always in the worst circumstances but no matter what they always came back to each other. it’s like the complete opposite of destined lovers or whatever it’s called it’s like they weren’t supposed to be together but there was nothing the universe could throw at them that would make remus not be completely consumed by sirius no matter how much he might hate him or how long they were apart he could never move on. it reads like such a Tragedy, reminds me of that post on here that’s like the love was there even if it couldn’t save the day or didn’t make a difference in the grand scheme it was there and that’s what’s important. he was nothing short of devoted to sirius truly the Best sirius is the one through remus’ eyes cause he could look at this insufferable posh asshole and know the hurt he could evoke better then anyone and be in a constant loosing fight against fucking fate itself and still go ‘yeah he’s worth it’

hii yes especially love ur point about remus' varying responses to peter and sirius when he thinks they're each the traitor!! insane!! and such a testament to how inescapable his feelings for sirius are like. that's it that's the whole thing he could never manage to rid himself of it...twelve whole years and he couldn't cut it out of himself they're just SO. yeah. they don't by any means fix each other but they need each other anyway because honestly the alternative is just as bad. they are just as useless without each other. remus went without him for twelve years and that still did no good. i don't like the term soulmates nor do i necessarily believe in higher powers/the kind of predestination that might be implied by the term fated, but i don't know what else to call them they're just stuck with each other. and there comes a point where they are sooo tangled up in each other's lives--that mary oliver quote about not knowing where to drop the knife of separation--that everything will inevitably come back to each other. time and the course of their lives ensures that they remain the only two people who could possibly understand each other, and in that way they're sort of fashioned into soulmates. not in the sense that they were predestined but that they had little control over how absolutely their relationship consumed them both, past the point of choosing to love each other when they were fucking. sixteen or something.

#and then one of them dies! wah! #i feel like i just said a lot of stuff and exactly none of it makes sense. sorry x do u sort of get what i was trying to say i hope u do x #i get such interesting + articulate asks and u guys make such good points and my answers are usually just me sort of clumsily #prev tagging everything you just said but xx essentially anon i agree with you i do xx #remus will always choose to love sirius until it is barely a choice anymore. he just doesn't know how to not do it #n he is too tired 2 try n figure that out or attempt 2 mutilate the bit of him that refuses to let sirius go. i dont think he truly wants 2 #i dont even think he truly ever tried. not even during the lost years. its easier to loathe himself for loving sirius than to stop doing it #r/s #anon #telegram

[evermoredeluxe]

If people tag #prev what does it mean..

means that you agree with what the person who you rb’d from said in the tags! it’s an integral part of the tumblr culture!

#like i just reblogged a post from longlivetv and said ‘prev’ #and it’s because i agree with what kristen said in the tags #anonymous #replies

[monstrsball]

trying to get into the habit of copying prev tags whenever i go 'prev' bc tumblr has absolutely broken the ability to follow tag chains

#although like most of the time im not doing prev tags for other people #im just doing it so the mutual w the previous tags know i liked and/or agree with their tag #but still.

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

u know i really HATE those polls that are like 'what do you think of the person u reblogged this from' or some other form of that because it means i can only do it ONCE and what if ive reblogged it on a non-mutual and then a beloved mutual reblogs it from me and i cant reciprocate how am i supposed to coPE

#personal #i made this post last yr and i still agree lol #i think i hav reblgoged a couple in the past but ive stopped doing it cos they annoy me lol #like 'assign a fruit from this list to prev' no shut up #if i wanna assign a fruit to someone then i'll do it in the tags of a text post like GOd intended #NOT on ur crappy poll #this came out a lot more aggressive than i actually feel pfft like idc really lol...

[dullahandyke]

[ID: a Tumblr reply which reads as follows. "'Prev' is something recent immigrants from Twitter use because they think they are so cool and important that everyone should do homework and research previous posts in order to find out what they think. They know it irritates the majority of Tumblr, but they're the kind of uppity people who like irritating people because they enjoy making the world just that little bit worse."]

BRB framing this on my walk performance art

#having a post abt prev tags get notes is rlly funny bcos so many ppl have opinions abt it? #most ppl r like 'yes i agree this thing is fun' #but theres a loud minority like 'i HATE prev tags it is INEFFICIENT and DOES NOT FIT MY STANDARDS' #'IF MY MUTUAL PREVED ME ID SHOOT THEM AND EXPLAIN TO THEM HOW SCREENSHOTTING TAGS IS INHERENTLY SUPERIOR' #and i am like. ok well that is your opinion but also we are all just having fun here! #this is just a little fun thing that happens on tumblr sometimes! #i also dont subscribe to the idea of 'ough prev tags so integral so symbolic' #'i am choosing to make you visit my mutual and go on a journey for arts sake' #basically i think it is a meaningless thing to get angry about but like ppl on the internet will get mad abt anything so dont let me stop u

[depoteka]

i still can't believe prev tags is winning that poll. prev tags is just between me and the person i'm prev tagging to show i agree with them. if you want to see what i'm agreeing with then you can go and see

#ofc tumblr now made it more impossible to go to the reblog of the person i'm reblogging the post from so </33 that makes it difficult now #also whenever i wanted to see somebody's prev tags i saw it as a little mystery quest to see what's up #i always found it fun #i ain't screenshotting the tags and putting them on somebody else's post like some people on that poll are suggesting wtf tumblr etiquette #i sometimes copy them to my tags when i want to have them on my post too for more context but #to me 'prev tags' is just like saying 'same tru i agree' to the prev person #it's just between the two of us hhh

[anotherpapercut]

how do people still not understand that prev tagging is different from screenshotting the tags and adding them to the post. you use them in different situations. not all tags are worth preserving. sometimes you just want to let someone know you agree with them

#i dont expect people to click back to see the previous tags #i expect the person im reblogging from to see my tag in their notifications and know that i agree with them #like its not a coincidence that prev tagging became popular when they introduced tags in your notifications

[exdeputysonso]

i have to assume tumblr staff fall on the side of being anti “prev” tagging since they made blog links not go to the posts anymore </3

#i keep wanting to 'prev' things and realizing it's more of a pain now #anyways going to keep using it at least to let prev know i read their tags and agree #m.txt

[bigfishthemusical]

ok actually I think that it’s a lie to say local theatre is often bad. Like idk if op of that post thinks local theatre means like shows put on by high schools. But it’s literally not hard to find good local theatre. You should of course also see bad local theatre sometimes, just for fun. But good local theatre is not hard to find

#abt prev post. I agree with the message so I don’t want to dispute it in the tags. but well. #like maybe I’m biased living in a city with a strang theatre community. but like idk. local is not ‘often bad’ it’s often very good. okay?

[pinkfey]

imo there’s two types of prev tags. there’s prev tags referring to a troll-esque chain of prev tags, then there’s prev tags meant as a nudge to only two or maybe three mutuals which is representative of a little kiss on the cheek

#i hate when ppl complain abt prev tags as if they’re all the former. no one is forcing u to look !! #especially when it’s the latter #it’s an in-thing between the prev tagged and the prev taggee. you can look sure but it isn’t about you!! #it’s a mutual telling another mutual that they agree with them. you’re not part of the equation. what’s not clicking. #anyways.txt #anya bitches about the internet

[septimus-heap]

Ppl who dislike prev tags don't seem to get what the purpose actually is. It's not for the next person it's to tell the person ur rbing from that u think they r so correct and true. Or that u agree with them if they're also prev-tagging <3

#like not to be like don't be selfish but they're just not for u #it's a comment for the person before #sometimes u don't want to put someone else's tags into the body of the post!! Especially when it's like a fandom joke or a friend thing #ppl complain when u do that!! Prev tags lets u go 'yeah I agree :)' without being annoying abt it #the only ppl the prev tags matter to r the person ur rbing from and urself #literally if u don't understand the joke. Its not for u. Hope this helps #sep talks #idk im explaining this badly but. Yeah. Saw a post