#and then reblogging en masse

[aroaceleovaldez]

i mean it when i say we've gotta bring back askblogs. bring back making character chat posts with poor choice text colors over random backgrounds. bring back blogs dedicated to what outfits you think characters would wear.

fandom is an ecosystem, not a numbers game. these types of blogs/posts/etc still exist in concept, because people still want to make them and they're a great way to get your thoughts of an idea out in a simple format, but most people make them on like tiktok or instagram reels and that's where the problem lies. Those videos don't go anywhere. The format doesn't allow for the discussion to spread through the community and they're less likely to be engaged with in general. And to make them most people have to either show their face or figure out editing software, so the barrier to entry is higher (editing) and/or they have to forfeit an amount of privacy.

those types of posts/blogs are the first rung of the ecosystem. they're the perfect environment for younger members of the fandom to begin safely interacting with the larger community and putting their own thoughts and ideas out there. roleplay is the other major spot for that and those communities are diminishing as well, honestly (if you know of an rp forum board site, cherish it. and if you can make one, make one). they allow younger fans to begin engaging with the source material on a different/deeper level, but still at a very low barrier to entry, and begin conversations with other fans, which also helps them build skills which in turn may encourage them to pursue other avenues within the fandom (fic writing, other formats of askblog - which itself usually leads to art, cosplay, also fic writing, etc). Without those places to build those skills, they might feel discouraged from trying to begin when surrounded by curated people who have built their skills up for years.

And those conversations they foster also in turn help the community, by offering ideas to artists or fic writers to extrapolate on or building community jokes. And that text/blog format specifically is extremely beneficial, because it allows younger members of the fandom to remain anonymous and keep their privacy without concerning themselves with having any platform or having anything attached to them (very important for young fans figuring themselves out and navigating online community spaces for the first time, since they can remove themselves from spaces easily if they decide they don't like it and they're protected, rather than PUTTING THEIR FACE ON THE INTERNET). And those posts they make will spread a lot more into the community since they're in a significantly easier format to be reposted (few people are gonna be reposting tons of random short-form videos versus spamming their instagrams with reposts of 10 random fandom images yoinked from tumblr, or reposting to pinterest or something). Like, don't repost art, at the VERY least don't repost without credit, but also I am not ignorant to the fact that my art is not just the first google image result for "pjo pride" and related searches, but also the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, etc etc., and pops up in the search results before the official ReadRiordan does simply because people reposted my work more (most with credit, thankfully).

For fandom to be a community, it needs to perpetuate itself. There needs to be engagement with one another and conversation. If that bottom rung is cut off, then new fans won't be able to grow into the other niches of the fandom, and the fandom will be solely reliant on the source material and die out extremely quickly, and there won't be a community. There's no conversation! There's no reason to stay beyond the original material! But if you don't have points of entry for new fans, they won't have any way to build the skills needed to move into those niches, or engage with the community in a healthy way.

tl;dr: Bring back askblogs and character-based text post blogs. They are vital to fandom ecosystem.

#fandom #long post // #i know many people jest about tumblr posts being reposted often to other social media #but there's a reason for that! because few other social media these days are primarily text-based! and tumblr is a BLOGGING website! #we're built for sharing random essays! which means we have a LOT of word-heavy stuff #that other platforms can really only have in a different format - usually either image or video - due to character limits #and videos - even short form video - is far less engaged with because it takes more time to interact with #and short form videos of this nature ^ are usually only reposted in like. long-form video format compilations #which are pretty equally if not even less frequently interacted with #because most of those other social media platforms dont have good ways to easily share posts en mass like tumblr's reblog function #so even if those posts do get shared they rarely go far and even if they do they dont stick around #i also personally dont think it's coincidental that general fandom attitude shifts occurred circa 2016-2018 #around the same time as the major shift away from tumblr due to the bans #anyways if you run one of those types of blogs i respect you immensely #you are underappreciated but you fulfill an important ecological niche #also i know rp blogs are still a thing but theyre much more scarce and rp communities in general are drying up

[leona-florianova]

In case new people are wondering why are older tumblr users often blocking empty unpersonalized blogs with basic icons, its because there was a time when if many of these followed you en masse, it was actually ton of something id call pornbot seeds, that while empty and innocuous at first would eventually turn to really shady pornsites promoting blogs that could then start reblogging and spamming your posts with links to their sites. 

And this was really fragging annoying if they all started reblogging your stuff with their links or comments. 

I think there were even cases where if many of these followed you, your blog somehow ended up hacked... 

or different scenario later on, where after the adult content ban update (which didnt stop pornbots) they could get your blog banned by association... 

And while I dont know HOW OFTEN THOSE REALLY HAPPENED, it was always better to be sure.. and to block these.. pornbot seeds first..than to risk it

#tumblr #yall remember the chains of like at least 20 of these blogs reblogging stuff en masse right? #its not just me #the occasional su*ar d*ddy now is nothing compared to those

[sprout-fics]

PURGE INCOMING!!

Having recently reached another follower milestone, it is time for me to cleanse my follower list of unlisted/blank blogs and those who do not have an age disclaimer. As a reminder I post adult works on this blog and have it highlighted to hell and back that I don't want minors following me.

If you do not have an age disclaimer on your blog, I will have to assume you are a minor and will block you. You have been warned.

#I'll reblog this a few times over the next several days and then start blocking en masse

[kdramaxoxo]

I'm no mathematician, but I think I've lost 73% of my mutuals to cdramas and thai dramas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#i mean obviously i'll follow forever yall #tumblr is like #you hyperfixate together and all of a sudden one day without warning #3 mutuals change their names and you never find them again #8 of them start reblogging gossip girl gifs #and the bear fic prompts #all of the pretty cdrama gifs show up en masse #and then there's the thai bls #waves at my mutuals!

[coockie8]

the worst part about bogleech drowning in the puritan terf kool-aid is they're like a really popular blogger, so they're fucking everywhere, and even with their username muted I can't fucking escape them

#catch me moving a blog up on any post bogleech has left a comment on to remove it so their stank ass isn't on my blog too much #fucker once told me I deserve to be murdered over fiction :) #that anyone who enjoys fiction they don't like deserves to be murdered #literally advocating for murder on a post that basically boiled down to ''cartoon characters aren't real people and you need to chill'' #same fucker who once recommended *Animorphs* en masse btw #revoking reblog privileges because this was just a vent post and *some* people can't behave

[unspuncreature]

It's not a trans thing. Cock and balls will be removed because it goes against TOS. People will report it.

#if you sent this in good faith. sorry but you’re patently wrong and ignorant of the goings on with tumblr ceo and staff rn #there’s also a good chance that you sent this in bad faith #there’s cis cock and coochie on my dashboard all damn day being reblogged without issue #either that needs to be taken down too because it’s all against TOS or none of it’s against TOS #people stalk trans tags and report trans posts en masse for takedown #anyway. i don’t think i’ll be discussing this further. thanks #scout answers

[uncanny-tranny]

hi! i was wondering if you could provide image IDs in plaintext as well as alt text? i'm visually impaired but i don't use a screenreader, and i can't see the alt text at ALL on any of my devices. additionally, i know some friends who CAN see the alt text, but it's either too eyestrain-y or too small to be able to read, so image IDs would really help!!

thanks!!

I usually do put the descriptions in the ALT because you can edit them without people needing to reblog the amended version, but I can certainly copy-pasting it in the text itself, and I'd especially be interested to know if more people would appreciate the ID in the text itself.

I didn't copy and past originally because I don't know if it would be really annoying for a screen reader to read the ALT and then go onto read the plain text right after? I'm not a screen reader user, so I would appreciate any thoughts on this because I was going off my presumption of how it works.

I honestly wish tumblr would auto edit the entire post when you actually edit the OG one so that people don't have to have the wrong post reblogged :/

#ask #anon #as far as i know if you edit an ALT text it edits it in general but i might be wrong #because i've had to edit ALT descriptions and it would suck if a wrong description was reblogged en masse before it could be fixed #because i definitely do try to make it accurate and understandable but if you've read my posts you know i don't always catch mistakes #ANYWAY. when i get home i'll edit the post so it's copy pasted #thanks for feeling safe enough to ask! i know it can be daunting (genuine)

[pepprs]

it’s that time of year where i want to remake my blog so so so bad it’s unreal and then i don’t. lol

#i have way too many followers to be doing the shit i do on here and im kinda getting tired of it. i wish the crab post hadn’t blown up #purrs #i just don’t want to lose the years of posts or like my sideblogs being attached to this blog or anything. and i would want to still be #pepprs but i wouldn’t want ppl to find me easily. idk. ughhh. head in hands #delete later #i wish there was a function to like remove followers en masse. that would fix me #all of u who like regularly like my personal posts would stay of.c it’s just like the literal resacteds of ppl who idont even know and i #feel claustrophobic on here sometimes and all i do is just close the app when i feel like that. but idk #it’s not sustainable. and i miss the freedom that comes w like having fewer ppl perceiving you iykwim. maybe i’ll remake for 2023 idk #i think tumblr has started recommending me to new users too like it’s that bad. and idont ahve any ill will towards ppl who follow me or #anything like i appreciate it. i just want privacy and i get so many asks and stuff all the time ajdni don’t want to sound ungrateful bc i #rly do appreciate it but also i have abt 2% social battery most days and i feel guilty and stressed bc the amount of ppl who want to talk to #me just keeps growing and growing and most of the time i want to hide and just reblog posts and not think abt it. that sounds so mean and is #very very evidential of my lockdown induced mental illness and again i do not want to sound ungrateful bc i really am. im just tired and #overwhelmed and overstimulated every day and i need… whatever you call this. even though i already isolate myself too much irl anyway

[arctic-hands]

Bear with me as I ramble for a few paragraphs. I'll be real, I owe my literacy to Harry Potter. I didn't learn how to read until I was six, and I was crap at it until my friend recommended me the book when I was seven and my mom bought it for me during Christmas shopping. Since I was a crap reader, my sister read the first few chapters to me, but when school started up again she had to stop. My mom read it to me after that, but she's a crap story teller and I got frustrated with her after a few chapters. But I was determined to finish the story so I started reading it myself and my skills began to improve. By fifth grade I was reading at a collegiate level. I have no doubts in my mind it's because of Harry Potter.

It was a huge portion of my life. When the sixth book came out, my Professor Trelawny cosplay on the night it came out won me the book for free. The next book my Luna Lovegood cosplay won me second place and a huge discount for the seventh book. Even after the series ended I bought the supplementary books, and it remained one of my biggest fandoms. I wrote fanfiction for it, even as an adult.

I'm not going to pretend I always knew it was bad. Being a young white American Gentile, I had no frame of reference for the antisemitic stereotypes of the goblins, and when I first learned of the controversy as a teenager I dismissed it to myself as "JK probably didn't mean for it to come across that way, it's just an unfortunate coincidence." And while I sympathized with the plight of house elves, the implications of a sapient being being happy and eager to be a slave was also lost on me. I started to have an inkling about the implications of the characters of color like Cho Chang after hearing Rachel Rostad's slam poem "To JK Rowling, From Cho Chang", but I'll be honest, it wasn't until I was well into adulthood and Rowling began to attack the trans community that I belong to that I began to reexamine all aspects of her bigotry that was there from the start.

And I, being an adult ideally capable of critical thought and ability to reexamine things in my life, dropped the series from my life and dropped my support for Rowling. I got rid of my books and movies because just looking at them on my shelf filled me with disgust and anger and betrayal. I stopped buying anything related to Harry Potter. Was it hard? Yeah, kinda. I'll admit I mourned the loss of this big portion of my childhood and even adulthood. I still miss it sometimes, or at least I miss the seemingly innocent joy it gave me. But I knew it was time to let it go and move on. My own personal safety, the safety of my community, the safety of the Jewish community is far more important than any lingering nostalgia.

Which is why it's so incredibly frustrating now. I can say I had waited most of my life for a game like Hogwarts Legacy until Rowling went TERF, but when it was announced I had no desire to play it and lend my financial and tacit support for Rowling or anyone connected to the game. And to see my peers who turned saying "trans rights" into a meme now flock to it, and then self-flagellate themselves by saying they couldn't help it, the nostalgia was too strong, they're donating to trans causes as they give their money and support to both a terf who is influencing the British government and the antisemite original developer of the game, boo hoo people are calling them out and spoiling the game and that makes them sad.

The inability of grown ass adults to reexamine their support and realize their nostalgia shouldn't overrule the safety of multiple vulnerable communities is not only infuriating, it's terrifying. Millennials like to pretend we're the most progressive generation, but god forbid anything go against our happy childhood memories. God forbid we self-reflect. God forbid something spoils our fun.

TL;DR: As a former Harry Potter fan, fuck you if you're playing Hogwarts Legacy, you fake ass ally and progressive. Grow up.

#harry potter #tagging this because sometimes someone incapable of critical thought will go thru my old hp tag and reblog it en masse #as if I'm still supporting the fandom #and I want the next one to see this before I block them #I'd go back and delete all of it but it's just so much posting because I was on tumblr before she went full terf

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

..,.,.oh fuck me, JANUARY is gonna have to be the Month Off Of Words, huh

#text #personal #writing #RIP me :( #i think ive suspected this for a while #and i think ive deconditioned myself from big fast typing (on top of. yknow. office job again.) #but i didnt type last year and i havent put driscoll revisions in En Masse in. years. #anyway. its taking longer than i thought it would (like everything fucking does). #AND dduane just reblogged something relevant about it and im heavy sigh in my cube 😂😭 #winter does suck for creative things for me. idk. i want to write :( #i want to have Optimal Writing Conditions in which to write.

[ghost--bot]

hey i know u think ur soo cute for that post but repeated exposure is literally a technique used by both advertisers and cults to make ppl susceptible to ideas so if u think nobodys gonna bat an eye at you promoting that bs ur sorely mistaken lol jsyk

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#what. ?????????????????????????????????????? #this isnt abt . theres no way is this about my fucking............ sneefpost reblog en masse..e.............. HUH?

[paeshi]

did something happen in homestuck land

#why is my hs art getting reblogged en masse

[queencvbra]

I see that post about tumblr supposedly not showing reblog notifs anymore but guys it says it won't show you when YOU like, reply to, or reblog your own posts. As in, if you reblog your post, it won't give you the notification for that in your feed. I haven't seen anything about it not showing reblogs from other people (which would defeat the purpose of tumblr's activity feed in the first place????) and personally I have not noticed it not showing me other people reblogging my posts so? I'm thinking there's a misunderstanding here, unless there's something I'm missing.

#of course tumblr does have moments where it breaks and we miss reblogs but guys I don't think they're doing that on purpose en masse #unless I'm genuinely missing something here

[imwritesometimes]

I know that post going around abt new users not being able to pick an icon or layout a profile has gotten a lot of attention but like... I've gone back through the blank accounts that followed me and I blocked & reported in the last idk... month? and they're still all very much blank so like. Idk I kinda gotta assume there isn't some massive swell of incoming new users and this is again just more bots.....

#like idk man. do I think 1) tons of newbies are pouring in here and 2) that they're following my shitty lunatic blog #or is it still more likely that it's stull just fckn bots......... #literally NONE of them have changed their icons/layout or reblogged ANYTHING so like idk besties 🤷‍♀️ kinda feel like it's still just bots #I doubt there's so many new users here this is something *everyone* is experiencing en masse and as often as we are #erin explains it all

[hold-him-down]

wow i am having a tumblr level five crisis because i don’t want to like, sacrifice the fighter masterlist to pin a masterlist masterlist but i ALSO do want to pin the living shit out of derek’s back so THIS is such a conundrum. i’ve got to strong arm both masterlists onto one pinned document and isn’t there a link limit? what’s the ole link limit on a tumblr post these days.

#text post #not whump #the only way to stop myself from reblogging over and over is to post menial text posts en masse #and i am sorry for that

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

i truly love making people mad by applying basic reading comprehension to the words that are in front of me instead of using telepathy to intuit that a stranger means the exact opposite of what they said, using my block button, and moving on with my life

#moogletalks # ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #i have a cat to pet; and believe words mean things; and some of those things are in fact Critically Important to communicate clearly #if you don't want to quack like a duck and get called one; or validate actual ducks en masse. we are not the same #and like to be clear i know that not everyone who reblogs that kind of post is picking up on what it's actually saying #as in Actually Saying; with words and not telepathic vibes #but i also think it's very telling that posts about defending people's right to be Crazy and Unhealthy(tm) about relationships #in response to criticism get defenses leaning on calling the person 'insane' and a 'lunatic' 🤔 #anyway this is the last i'm gonna post or look at about that bullshit #including more than just the one anon embarrassing themself in my inbox #i am spraying my febreeze and moving on #abuse cw #ableism cw #anti-survivor cw #edit: okay one last thing actually #'but how was i SUPPOSED to know that when i said i wanted to express myself by beating loved ones' faces bloody because i was mad' #'people would take it at face value??? ummm i was being POETIC???' #'i've never hit someone in my life how dare you??? what would have possibly given you that impression???' #'the only reason you're calling my abuse rhetoric abuse rhetoric based on the evidence of your eyes is bc you're Crazy Irrational & Insane' #'quit stifling people's humanity and emotional expression you [slur] [slur] [slur] [slur] [slur]' #which like none of this approach helps one's case for THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT I'M NOT ABUSIVE IT'S NOT ABUSE RHETORIC I SWEAR lmfao #(for clarity's sake it was about 'screaming blood and guts and crying' at people; not physical abuse. but it is not a whole lot better lol) #(if you are in a relationship where someone is regularly driving you to the point of screaming at them because you are at wit's end) #(and nothing else works to get them to back off and stop hurting and goading you) #(and once you finally lash out; they use it as a get-out-of-jail-free card for addressing any of your concerns #bc you're Crazy and Emotional. that is not a safe relationship and you need to get out instead of investing in it /more/ #and if you realize that you /can't/ get out... it is REALLY NOT SAFE and you most definitely have abuse on your hands here #this rhetoric is dangerous for victims on both sides of the coin. don't encourage people to stay in relationships like this #don't encourage them to stay in relationships where they are metaphorically having to physically defend themselves from an abuser #instead ppl need to learn what goading looks like vs existing in ways an abuser takes offense to. i cannot overstate how important this is