Just bought two useless but pretty blue check marks as some kind of thank you to #tumblr for keeping the platform alive and my blog kickin. Big shout out to my 170,242 followers, tumblr rules.
"lol you bought a blue checkmark? you've been played by caPiTALism"
Look I know exactly what the blue check mark is. I think everyone who has them (or a dozen) knows what it is. Its a pointless digital trinket and (to me) its FUNNY. I think its absolutely hilarious that Tumblr was able to capitalize off the twitter check-mark fiasco. I applaud them, get that money. I bought it because its a fun addition to my handle and because at the end of the day it helps them keep the lights on. I'd rather give money to this site for a dumb meme than to a site run by the worst guy or give anymore of my data to the Zuckerfuck meta mistake. This isn't like buying an NFT. We know.
We don't have to rail against capitalism every second of the day. Sometimes its fine to spend your money on silly shit
As someone who uses Tumblr almost exclusively in mobile I would like to complain that I can't see the little blue checks on mobile @staff how will I know if someone is important or not.
Discovered an old pre-paid debit card in my wallet this morning so I used it to buy a Tumblr check mark. Also, paid for my Tumblr to be ad-free for a year and it was worth it within the first 10 minutes of scrolling.