#don't only reblog popular posts

[buttercuparry]

Reblog the fundraisers you mfs!!!!! I don't know why you all skip those to reblog some pic of a banner saying "FREE PALESTINE" or of news from Columbia University! Literally these people from Gaza have made an account on Tumblr and is writing in english to communicate what they need and you all are coming onto my blog or on the tag and not reblogging their posts. We have people both Palestinian and non Palestinian vetting the fundraisers! I mean more the reblogs, more the chance of the fundraisers gaining momemtum, the more there would be a chance of a donation. Please donate if you can and reblog!!! and follow them if it is possible.

@/mohammedayesh has posted about getting leaflets, telling them to evacuate Rafah. They are very low on funds. Go follow them and reblog their posts and donate if possible.

We have @/haneenatya too whose mother is suffering from eye stroke and need to evacuate. Please I have been following them for some days and it doesn't seem their own posts are getting much attention.

Follow them! They are on tumblr. Reblog their posts and donate. The protests in universities are being done on account of them. They should be our focus.

(EDIT: on re-reading my post it seems as if I am dismissing all that the students of universities are doing. I am not. I just meant, since all of it is to help Palestinians, we must not ignore them when they ask for help).

#free palestine #don't only reblog popular posts #reblog posts these people are making from Gaza #I know we all struggle financially #which is why I think if we can get more and more reach then out of those people at least some maybe able to donate #their blog names are those which I have mentioned #please look at their posts #P.s. i have edited in some links please click on them and you will be redirected to the blogs of both the gazans #a popular 11k notes post has nothing over your attention on them

[erabu-san]

Hmm I apologize again for the rant !

It is not the first time I am doing it. I might forgot to put "please don't tag it as ship" under my drawing of tighnari cyno. Please, do not !

I love them as best friend, I love them as brother/found family, I don't mind the queerplatonic relationship at all

But their romantic side make me pretty uncomfortable. No hate ! It is my own taste.

Shippers are always welcomed and I am so glad you like my content 💕 but all my art concerning them (unless I tag the ship) are purely platonic. I just ask for some respect of my taste and not reblog my art with the ship tag.

I don't want to block, because I am genuinely glad you enjoy my work and as a young artist, it means a lot for me. Thank you so much 🙇 !! But as a human, I can't deny how uneasy it makes me feel.

Thank you for understanding !

#rant #I blame nobody #i am clearly not used to block ): I should tho but I know those who tag ship are not mean at all </3 #it is fine if you don't know. #but i saw people reblogging my art with shiptag even if i said “do not” #my art is like my only safe place please respect it #this ship is so popular and I clearly stop to interact with the fandom because of that #i clearly ignore when I saw one in my timeline /dashboard becausz I can't do nothinf against it except masking the account #but I beg you. not. under. my. post. #not in my DM #why i feel obligated to justify myself 😭 #but yeah !!! the ship is valid and full of greenflag !! wholesome !! #but I only enjoy them platonically !!! please respect 😭😭😭 I SWEAR I AM DESESPERATE WHY IT IS SO HARD FOR SOME TO RESPECT THAT OMG #gosh on twitter someone said me “ignore ??? what did you expect ??? it is the most popular ship” #I AM TRYING I AM LITERALLY NOT SEARCHING FOR FANART 😀 #feeding myself with my own food #that's why I am so grateful for people who support me. thank you. 😭 #and how could I ignore a comment under my post ??? interaction are so important for me I read everything #ANYWAY SORRY FOR RANTING !!! IT IS CLEARLY A /NOTMEAN POST !!! #next time I won't forgrt “do not tag it as ship” #but urgh if I do this I have to do in every post ???? 🤨 #and what if I draw tighnari cyno kaveh but I don't mind ship with kaveh ??? 🤨🤨🤨 (plz still don't) #tHERE IS PLENTY OF CYN0N4RI ACCOUNT IF YOU WISH TO SEE MORE CONTENT OF THEM !! Please support them <<3 mine are platonic ! #but clearly. imagine you are obsessive about two characters <<3 #but their popular ship is the one who make you the most uncomfy 😀 #so you decided to just stop looking at fanart and not bothering anyone 👍👍 #but it came under your post and your DM 😟 #AAA SORRY I AM SALTY I SWEAR I AM NOT USED TO FEEL LIKE THIS ):< #anyway plz take care ilove you mwah 🥺🥺🥺🥺💕💕

[coulsonlives]

So ummm, yeah, this person might have made some good posts in the past, but this is NOT okay.

They've also revealed themselves to be a TERF/radfem (their alt blog is balkanradfem).

#the link goes to an archived post where they reblogged a post they made on balkanradfem and acknowledged that was their blog too #(first paragraph in that post) #ofc they've since deleted it but it's archived so whoop #the only reason i'm not censoring their name is bc they're a big popular support blog that a lot of ppl trust #here's a tip from me: don't #furiousgoldfish #terf warning #ableism cw #forced sterilization cw #eugenics cw #aspd #antisocial personality disorder #terf ment cw #radfem ment cw #transphobia ment cw #child abuse ment cw

[hellscap3]

I need to make rent and rent is every month. Consider commissioning me? ✨Reblog to support a disabled autistic artist✨

#ur not a horrible person if you don't reblog of course and ngl i dont expect it much from the site that only interacts with my fanart posts #original content on this site kinda just fades to obscurity unless ur already a popular account #need proof? just check any non fanart post i made lmao #i just need to pay rent so i figured i'd throw my info here too #small artist #commission #commissions open #furry community #furry #furry art #art #artwork #oc #artist

[quirkle2]

question!

i've been wanting to stray away from lu for a while now and do my own thing with wars n ledge and the rest of the links (mainly bc i feel restricted by jojo's rules/don't agree w her takes, and wanna pursuit my own stuff), but there's one big thing holding me back, and that's lack of views to put it bluntly

if i make my own au and don't tag its content as #lu, then it will most definitely get a fraction of the attention my lu content does. and i know it sounds self-centered of me to worry abt something like that, but i put months of work into the fics i post. i put days of work into each art piece i post. if i work on something for months and then 10 people on ao3 read it and an astounding 0 of them even leave a comment, that will be Devastating to my motivation And confidence

what im asking y'all is this: should i finally make my own au to separate myself from lu and risk the plunge in notes, or should i stay in the lu fandom and suffer?

#qktalks #i feel like my links are far enough apart from lu's canon to justify this #ESPECIALLY my wars #my wars is Nothing like lu wars; he's silly and goofy and not at all serious #not even accounting for the fact that he Looks completely different design-wise i think he's pretty far from canon lu now #my sky design is Nothing like lu sky's and i have my own characterizations of him despite not posting abt it much #to put it bluntly once again i wanna post stuff of them all cuddling and being a family without dipshit lu fans coming in and correcting me #so far it's only happened like Once but the fear and anxiety of being ridiculed is still very much apparent #im afraid to post stuff. i don't wanna be afraid to post stuff #i wanna have my own au where i have my Own rules #and i wanna be in a fandom that doesn't fuckin suck VGIEAYGV #but im terrified of switching over and out of the fandom bc then my stuff won't be viewed at all #and without reblogs of my art and comments on my fics i have a feeling i will simply stop producing anything altogether #i know the whole ''u should make art for yourself'' thing but . it's no fun if nobody else is gonna see it yaknow ? #i wanna show other people what makes me happy and maybe make them happy in the process #that's hard to do when u don't tag ur posts w a popular fandom tag that everybody searches through #idk . willing to hear anybody's takes on this

[mishapen-dear]

people can use this site however they want but there's something almost- idk, sad? about how few people are actually using their blogs. you can turn themes on and have skeletons dancing in the background. you can make everything hot pink. your blog is your scrapbook and you can put whatever you want in there. tags are okay at organizing things so you can have just a whole archive of cool shit to look at later. i know people complain a lot about people liking stuff about reblogging for engagement, and on one hand i get that- it is WILD to see a drawing i spent hours on get only 12 reblogs and 60 likes. Absolute culture shock compared to my previous fandoms. but i don't think you should reblog anything to make artists happy. i think you should reblog things so you can find them again. i think you should queue things to appear on the dash at specific times on certain days. i think you should reblog things so when you're talking to your friends about xyz post you saw you can look in your blog's archive and find it again. i think you should reblog things so that your dash is filled with one really sleepy cat. with the loss of reblogs there's the loss of engagement, which Does hurt the community-focus that makes tumblr so appealing, but idk i just wish people were more excited about the incredible amount of customization that tumblr allows and took advantage of that more

#if you're ever nervous about reblogging stuff just remember that people can always turn off reblogs #and also pls theme your tumblrs after silly fish or weird cube people or dnd #just anything that's fun to you have fun!!! #this is the silly cringe website please join us and be silly and cringy #i need to go to bed i think #but i also keep thinking about how i enjoy myself the most on this website when people reblog things from me and add commentary #comments/replies are great sure but they really bring the conversation to a halt and doesn't allow anyone else to chime in #idk some of my fave followers are the people who only like stuff #but when there are *only* people liking things it really feels like you're just yelling into a complete void #and then it's harder to find more content for things you like too #because the people you follow aren't reblogging things youd like to see #i have to delve into the main tag for my fandom content a lot because the people i follow are usually just making og posts #maybe i just need to find people who reblog things more but idk #i love it when fandoms become little communities but it feels like that's been stifled recently #which is what my actual gripe is i think #maybe ill delete this in the morning maybe not im just full on rambling at this point #getting a lot of likes feels like twitter validation #and reblogs feels like 'im putting this cool thing up on my very big fridge' #i don't want a popularity contest i just want to share cool shit >:c

[daughter-of-sapph0]

tumblr post: "please! tumblr is dying! we have to give money to the staff who doesn't care about us and is actively making the site worse! please you have to spend money on crabs!"

the post immediately below it: "can someone please donate 10 dollars to us so me and my roommate with cancer don't starve to death or get evicted?"

some of you need to get your priorities straight. you're spending money on checkmarks and crabs, dumb cosmetics that you're just throwing money at. but then you won't even so much as reblog someone's donation post begging for mutual aid.

#dostxt #I'm not saying you shouldn't buy shit you like #but it feels intentional at this point #that the only people who don't reblog donation posts are the ones with fifty five checkmarks that they bought themselves #or the people who donate them to popular blogs

[nostalgia-tblr]

Just seen "oh no, you BASTARDS not reblogging my works enough means my fic posts only get 700 notes." Reader, I fucking died.

#the fics i post and the ones i see reblogged have like... six notes on them? maybe a dozen if it's something really popular. #(so it's not just me being shit at writing! i know this! (thank goodness)) #i get why people don't reblog fic - it's not pretty and it potentially confuses the reader about who wrote it. so i'm chill myself. #BUT OH! oh the pain of only being wildly popular on the tumblr dot com website! #*sigh* #it's just very. very “oh no we're only MILLIONAIRES we still can't buy everything we want! we're basically poor!” #“especially after we've paid little Tarquin's school fees and the mortgage on the second holiday home in France!” #calm your tits! people love you! it's fine! #(just to clarify: i did not die. I aten't ded.)

[coruscanti-arabi]

A List Of Known Māori Voice Actors that Star Wars could've hired for the clones instead of whitewashing them.(Please feel free to add more)

Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement. - Ngāti Kahungunu through his mother.

Daniel Logan. - Of Māori descent. Best known for his portrayal of Boba Fett from the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones & voiced Fett in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Temuera Derek Morrison (MNZM). - Te Arawa (Ngāti Whakaue) and Tainui (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Rarua) whakapapa. For those unfamiliar, whakapapa means genealogy. East Coast elder, Apirana Ngata, explained that whakapapa is ‘the process of laying one thing upon another. If you visualise the foundation ancestors as the first generation, the next and succeeding ancestors are placed on them in ordered layers. Played the role of Jango Fett in the 2002 film Attack of the Clones, provided the voice of Boba Fett in the re-release of The Empire Strikes Back, portrayed Boba fully in the second season of The Mandalorian and in the show The Book of Boba Fett.

Taika David Cohen (ONZM), also know as Taika Waititi. - Describes himself as a "Polynesian Jew". His mother's family were Russian Jews & His father was of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui descent.

Piripi Taylor. -Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa.

#star wars #clone wars #star wars tcw #star wars rebels #star wars the bad batch #star wars tbb #unwhitewashtbb #racism #whitewashing #māori #clones #the bad batch #psa i am not māori nor polynesian. #psa this was literally a ten minute google search for all the information at most to compile this post #psa these are only the most popular voice actors who are CONFIRMED as Māori #there will be many more and there is no excuse for disney to not hire #if they have experience playing or voice acting within star wars that has been included. #anti filoni #meta #i don't know if anyone has done this before - if they have please tell me so I can reblog their post too

[cornappreciation]

"liking but not reblogging does nothing and likes only annoy artists" speak for yourself friends, i adore getting likes on my art. honestly i find it extremely off-putting to see captions on artwork demanding reblogs and telling people they're annoying or rude for not reblogging something... giving a post a like is communicating that someone enjoyed it enough to let you know they liked it! there are plenty of reasons someone would want to let you know they enjoyed something but not necessarily want it on their blog... maybe they only post their OWN art on their blogs, and their followers only want to see that. maybe they don't have any followers, or have their blog hidden and therefore reblogging wouldn't spread the post anyways. it just really rubs me the wrong way because all youre doing is alienating a potential audience who mightve really enjoyed your art.

by the way there's no issue with just.. asking for reblogs like a normal person! saying something like "hey I'd really appreciate reblogs, it helps my account grow" is totally fine... but lashing out and telling people "likes only annoy artists" (WHICH I HAVE SEEN MULTIPLE TIMES) is just. so rude and mean in my opinion. stop telling people all artists hate likes bc myself and SO MANY OTHERS appreciate all the support we can get ❤️ you are never obligated to reblog anything, i appreciate all interactions i get and tbh i just think it's entitled and really unpleasant to act rude to people because they wanted to tell you they liked your stuff without posting it on their own account.

#just aghhh stop being rude to people and acting entitled to attention. you're not entitled to reblogs! so off-putting #I've been posting art for 9 years now i know my shit! I've never been very popular and I always appreciate every note and interaction #sorry I try to keep it positive on here but grrrr this bothers me... #it wasn't a no evil artist I saw doing this btw! all of yall seem rlly nice #I always try to rb artists on here so I will post some later to ride u guys over while I'm not posting a ton of oc #i would feel so unfulfilled if people were only reblogging bc they felt guilted into it. I don't get why people post stuff like that

[siixkiing]

I know I’ve complained about this in the past, I know I can simply turn beta on and have my posts unrebloggable BUT it seems its not just my HC posts anymore either...so that solution would only solve half the problem.

BUT, I am once again saying this to whomever keeps reblogging my stuff for Sun Wukong to FUCKING STOP. It should be a written rule and just common sense that less stated otherwise, any post made by an RP Account is not FREE to reblog by anyone - Mun Post, Headcanons, IC Post (less you are a fellow RPer), Threads, and such are OFF-LIMITS.

I am getting sick of seeing notes on my posts and noticing the reblog is private, which means I can’t actively find the user to block them. It’s making me want to post less and less for my muse too. 

#Loss of Powers | {OOC} #The Scrolls | Mun Menu {Post} #Whomever keeps reblogging my stuff for Sun Wukong you are on THIN fucking ice - if I ever find out who you are; I am blocking you #I don't care your reason for reblogging my posts constantly; they are NOT for you to reblog period #So LEAVE my posts alone and go away #I don't want you reblogging my stuff; I'd say delete whatever you reblogged from me to BUT I doubt you will #Sorry gang nothing today; I am frustrated about this - this is the ONLY blog I ever had this problem #I know LMK and JTTW is popular; that sun wukong is a beloved character - but when IDK why my shit is being reblogged I get frustrated #UGH; I don't like 'vague posting' but since IDK who the fuck the person is doing this that is all I can do BC #And yes; it is only Sun Wukong's stuff being reblogged - Macaque or Xiuying haven't been touched...= =;;;

[htub]

WHY IS MY OWN POST BEING RECOMMENDED TO ME

THANK YOU TUMBLR I HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT. BECAUSE. I WROTE IT. BUT THANKS.

#two talks #is this. normal #? #my posts don't usually get popular so idk #functional website #love that it's a reblog of the post even tho all the other posts in recommended are only the original versions too #i won't even attempt to understand tumblr

[humanimalgam]

my toxic trait is i take great pleasure in violating other people's DNIs so long as i know there is no way they could tell i'm violating it by looking at my account. it's like hehe you don't know i secretly disagree with you on unrelated, asinine online discourse topic #3728 and am reblogging your post anyway <3

#like if someone says smth like “vent/trauma blogs dni'' then i won't interact from my vent blog obvi #but if its like we just happen to disagree on arcane online discourses that you clearly think matter much more than i do #i'll reblog from you idgaf #i do not feel the need to keep my blog free from any posts made by people i might disagree with #if i really wanted every post on my blog to be by someone i 100% agree with on everything i simply wouldn't rb other ppl's posts at all #i don't fully 100% agree on everything even with my closest friends it's all good man <3 #animal.txt #if this blog was more popular it would be a 100% chance this post would result in some kind of callout for me #but i think i'm thankfully small enough it's only a 0-0.5% chance. my best guesstimate anyway #i am trying to calculate the objectively incalculable here

[akechi-stole-my-heart]

ok i love akeshu roleswap and all this new content abt it is Great but i wanna vent bc. a lot of the time when i see swap aus they don't quite gel with how i think it should be and i go :/

like idk for example i think in a swap au goro's outfit as the pt leader should be black. bc like, the pt's are morally gray/on the wrong side of the law. his outfit is white in canon bc his idea of true morality is too perfect and idealistic. too childish. he hasn't reconciled that vision of justice with reality so he ends up with these two extremes. but in a swap au, he should be able to reconcile these extremes bc he no longer has the same hangups as he does in canon. his sense of justice is more singular instead of an oppositional contradictory dichotomy.

maybe the problem is i want the swap au to be too direct. too like, exact parallel to the game. but that's kind of what appeals me about it? that akira and goro are so similar that under different circumstances their roles could swap and the story would stay the same. but people change things too much and kinda undermine what appeals to me about it. or on the other hand, they keep too much from canon. goro shouldn't be as jaded as he is in canon in a roleswap. akira shouldn't be as open. their circumstances have shaped them into different people than canon and the au should reflect that.

#sera posts #not going to tag this bc i don't want to upset people but yeah #i tried to use vague examples or less important ones to not be mean/call out anyone specific #i reblog a lot of these aus bc i like seeing my bois and they look Interesting but yeah i just have some hangups with how people interpret #them in a swap au i guess. all the problems with fandom akeshu feel amplified this way i think. this is why i didn't fully enjoy antithesis #despite fucking adoring roleswap as a concept. maybe i just disagree with most akeshus about a lot of things i dunno. its hard when im #not on twitter so can't see what the consensus in fandom really is (all the worst most popular takes seem to come from there) #the only Amazing swap au content i have consumed is Synthesis tbh. that one nailed it on the head while everything else. hit or miss

[septimus-heap]

I appreciate that there r people who don't care about getting reblogs and that's fine that's whatever but could they stop being so snooty about it

#sep talks #'ohhh I don't care about reblogs because I'm not attention seeking and entitled 🙄🙄' #how about u shut up <3 u have no moral high ground just bc u either don't care about reblogs or are already popular enough #that u aren't lacking in them #I AM seeking attention that is why I post art. I want attention I want connection #and I DO feel entitled to reblogs #because I spend hours sketching and lining and colouring and shading just to get only likes #if I can spend 6 hours of my day making something you enjoyed I'm sure you can spend 1 second of urs to reblog it #or perhaps even 10-20 seconds to write me a little message in the tags! A 'this is cool' is always nice!! #anyway. I've talked abt this before I won't do it again #at least not here

[emdotcom]

I understand all these posts with the angle of "OMG new users don't know how the reblog system works -- we have to tell them so they'll reblog art!" Bc that IS true! I have seen new accounts roll up with 0 reblogs & just likes.

But, also, you cannot fucking pretend that the reblog/likes ratio has not been on a massive fucking decline for literal years before this. It is not just new users suddenly not reblogging -- it is a massive shift in how the Tumblr populace itself regards & interacts with art & artist.

& as an artist, there is very little you can do.

#gale chatter #eh actually yeah there is one thing you can do -- you either post exclusively popular fandom content or intentionally miss or over tag #but after that you just. try to color all your art in try to post digital try to post at the right times #but really how much does that affect notes? do gou get one or two extra? ten? #& how many of those notes are likes #there's a laugh rule for posts i wish there were an appreciation rule for art #if you are in any way impressed moved or want to see more art you need to reblog it. this is not optional. #girl i am hashtag artist struggles right now fuck #NOT to complain i get good notes on that art post & all my friends & homies rolled up to rb #that's a good amount of reblogs for me that's like 7 rbs & 4 of them had really nice tags that's good interaction #i just. kinda miss when a post would have so many reblogs i would lose track. i couldn't have told you how many notes i got #when i was in highschool posting batim fanart. the number was too big to me. looking back i know 200 notes doesn't mean much #but for me? for all the art I've made? shit I've spent hours or weeks on? vs me making a silly animation in about an hour? #the difference is about 190 notes. & that's a damn shame & discouraging. #it makes me think the only way to get notes is to post for big fandoms & that sucks bc i don't like to dance that dance anymore #idk. maybe i move to da or something. #how many other artists do you think go through this? spend hours on something & not get enough interaction #so they decide to pack up shop & go somewhere else #& the only way their art is ever gonna geace tumblr again is by reposters & art thiefs #or maybe they just never post art again period. & ain't that a damn crying shame.