#no social media will ever be perfect

[sophie-baybey]

Tumblr is going to become far worse over the next couple years leaning further into targeted ads, gathering user information, and generally no longer doing the Only Things This Site Does Right, and I would like to firmly predict that all of the blame will be put on the influx of twitter refugees, instead of the plain truth that tumblr has been shifting its goals for a long time now (banner ads, leaning into and owning the "hellsite" reputation, selling merch of old tumblr memes, experimenting with ads that cover a quarter of your screen while you scroll (although those are thankfully gone now)).

The tumblr staff have shown they finally understand their community, and as the website's reputation heals, shareholders and suits are going to push for more and more money to be squeezed out of this place. This path was set in motion long ago, and I'm going to be real grumpy when the blame all gets pushed aside to just point fingers at the twitter people.

#been here since 2012 #i know the lay of the land #what is tumblr blaze and premium other than their own versions of twitter blue? #this isnt doomsaying btw this is just the direction things have been going #no social media will ever be perfect #some obviously far worse than others #but ex twitter users arent gonna be the reason this place gets worse #its kinda just capitalism

[workingforitallthetime]

Live from the annual turkey showdown!

#oh my god EVERYTHING about this video #the social media girlie patiently talking him through instagram basics #no wonder these idiots constantly dox themselves if they don't even understand not to go live with a rando on an official account #love that as soon as they told him he was live he turned his snapback around #the JOY when he saw moyle appear!!!!! #what was the comment about 'sheamo took off everything before he took off his...'??????? #god i love the annual strip shootout and nothing is better than rutger narrating #why is frankie not dressed though? #saving this to watch forever and ever #nine minutes of pure perfection #'luca's starting to stress out a bit you can tell'

[octagaze]

Well, today I woke up to @kenopsia-official apparently following me, which baffled me as much as it excited me since I don’t really do anything here! 14 year old me would be freaking out right now if I went back and time and told them! I took it as a sign to finally draw Leiru, who I absolutely adore!!!

#kenopsia #corpse eyes #leiru #Wow ! My first ever Internet Post! kind of frightening! #but as soon as I saw they followed me (????) i was like Well! perfect time to actually post some fanart! #I’ve been following this series for about five years I think #INSANE. INSANE INSANE TO WATCH THE PROGRESS OF #genuinely so so SOO fun to watch it progress and evolve into something really incredible over the years #Thank you for all of your hard work!! Really inspiring!! #kenopsia fan art #my art #???! #Well see if I ever post again for that to become a real tag lol I am not built for social media #eyestrain #?? maybe

[aturnoftheearth]

i need everyone to understand how badly i need to both never shut up about lord huron and also gatekeep them forever

#it’s like . someone tells me they started listening to them i’m crying and holding their hand and jumping up and down #but if they drop a new album this year i need them to stay off the tiktok radar #does this make sense . i like my $50 tickets i like my 20 note posts i like my good quality merch that’s not extremely overpriced etc #like i don’t think they’ll ever have some crazy rocket to stardom the way someone like noah kahan had just bc they do Not have a social #media presence but i just saw someone say they feel like this is the year they’ll get really big and wough it made me spiral #how do u say ‘they’re at the perfect level of popularity’ without sounding rude .

[daisytrails]

i’m gonna need everyone to turn on the boop feature so i can send you all boops instead of just patting your profile picture on the head when i am excited to see your posts like i have been doing

#it’s all i’ve ever wanted #the perfect form of communication #the best feature a social media site could have #BOOP #boop o meter

[floral-hex]

So this chick has been on-and-off again stalking me since high school. I could go into paragraphs of detail (I was about to), but no one wants to read all of that. Suffice to say, I guess she’s had some kind of crush on me for about 15-20 years or so (why??), and every few years it seems she pops up somewhere contacting me to try to persuade me to give her a chance. I should mention we never talked in high school, I actively avoided her, told her I didn’t like her, etc. nothing doing.

Anyway, somehow she’s been on one of my social media pages and saw I was having a hard time lately, so she found my phone number (what?? I hate that you can just find that online) and texted me out of the blue yesterday. Usual protocol is ignore and block so I don’t piss off an unstable person, but they decided to be gross, so

I wasn’t planning on posting anything about this before. If they were creeping around on my pages, mentioning it would only feed into them. Maybe. I don’t know. But this just kind of made me really uncomfortable and their response was shitty. I could have been a lot meaner. I wanted to be. But whatever, that wouldn’t have helped. So I just blocked them and hope that this time it sticks. If they see this, then hey… not cool.

#and then I post this for what? attention? #I dunno… this just made me feel really shitty #like… you can’t just leave me alone? #you know I’m having a rough go at it and you think this is the perfect time to insert yourself into my life? #I don’t care about your puss! #I really really have to reiterate I have never ever had a real conversation with this person #we’ve never talked or hung out and I always avoided them #god this is such high school bullshit. I’m in my fucking 30s. I don’t need this teenage drama. #and I want to imagine all this as just someone who never grew up buuut… #they found my phone number. they went looking for my personal information. they’ve been stalking at least one of my social media pages. #probably twitter but who knows maybe here too #this is like… 15-20 years of this. why? why are you still obsessed with this? #and maybe these texts don’t seem so bad but I’ve had to block them on Facebook too #and that was after my ex and I broke up a few years back #it’s like she waits until my life gets extra shitty and then tries to convince me that we’re old friends & she wants to date finally #fuckin… just… not really cool ya know. damn. #stalker lady… I am not worth all this pining. just move on. #lol but I have been saying “my puss is so wet right now’ to myself all day so that’s a positive #anyway… sorry to post this bullshit. just wanted to vent. #sorry if you read all of this #text

[rattusn0rvegicus]

Bruh I hate it when you find a really good book but the author is like, insufferable

#This neurodivergent-friendly DBT workbook I have is awesome and super accessible #But oh my god the author like... Gets mad at people on social media for using the label 'disorder' and 'neurodivergent' simultaneously #among other shit... The Discourse (tm) #like do you ever respect someone for doing good work and putting helpful shit out into the world -- #But you would NEVER EVER want to be their friend or interact with them on social media?? #Yeah 😭 That's how I feel rn #ALL THAT BEING SAID I've had this DBT workbook for ages and never gave it a proper look #And it's wonderful!!! #Not perfect! I wish there was some kind of neurodivergent friendly interpersonal skills in there #Bc the assertion that we don't... Also need those? When everyone else in the world needs them? Smells a little ableist and weird to me #But! Whatever! I want to go through it bc it seems super helpful and reframes things in a great way

[bunn-iiii]

if my url ever changes just know it's not me, someone else has a hold of my account, IF IT'S NOT BUNN-IIII THEN ITS WRONG AND I WOULD HATE IT

#i ain't ever gonna change my url it is perfect as it is #it's basically the same as every other social media user i have #and that's for a reason because i like it #and i can't change it now it's been this way for years and i think if i tried to change it i would have this horrible sense of dread

[theasexual-jackson]

.i love my hair

I love my hair.

I love it's tight curvature and format.

I love the volume it has.

I love how he looks when it's without definition.

And I sure do love my frizz. It's natural, God knows my work on keeping it hydrated.

And I don't need your opinion on what my hair should look like (I know your only advice is to clog my head with cream until it looks 10% like straight hair; I'm tuned 'bout your tricks)

Fuck, I love my hair.

And no white supremacy can change that.

Fire on racists. <3

#black #black art #black authors #black tumblr #black writer #black writers #black poetry #poetry #black poets on tumblr #natural hair #black hair #I started planning on this poetry this dawn while reflecting about the visibility of natural hairs on social media #and I tell y'all girlies really stopped being slaves of straighteners to be slaves of creams and “perfect hair” myth #(which btw is just creating the standard of extremely defined waves/curls/coils that tries to imitate straight hairs) #and that got curvature heads extremely frustrated #y'all please understand: #FRIZZ👏🏽 AIN'T👏🏽 ALWAYS👏🏽LACK👏🏽 OF👏🏽 HAIRCARE👏🏽 #Frizz is a natural aspect of hairs with curvature SPECIALLY CURLY TO KINKY HAIRS #srsly ever since I stopped trying to define my hair (aka stopped brushing it with my mom🤡) I felt so much more free #it felt so good omg #so my honest advice is: accept y'all's frizzes be free #you will save cream and avoid a lot of stress #and your self steem will go 📈📈📈 #black history month

[tariah23]

Why did this random white person comment on my post talking how problematic and evil the boondocks is for black people to watch just because I mentioned it in the tags of a random old personal post-

#weird #I went to their acc and they made a whole call out post about the boondocks I’m like man huh? #the post wasn’t even talking about the show i literally just mentioned it while talking about something else much more serious and it was #from years ago idk how they happened upon it 🚶🏾‍♀️ #rambling #white/nbs never learn to stay in their lane whenever they talk about black shit it’s crazy to me #the show and comics have never been perfect but I’m sure that most of us are aware of that #it’s just a form of social commentary and that in itself is never a bad thing just as long as you can take what’s important from it etc etc #they were going on and on about how Riley is a bad person like bro he’s literally an easily influenced 8 year old they were talking about #his character as if he was a grown man #its always uncomfortable seeing whites and nbs heavily criticize things that were never made for them to begin with #because in gen #they don’t understand or ever try to get us ever and we’re always at a crossroads tbh #there’s never an in between or middle ground or bridge being built between black folks and nbs it’s always us and then them both in rl and #in media/ the art that black people create to tell our stories and various perspectives of live etc etc #I’m going on and on about nothing rly but anyway stop being weird about stuff that was never made with you in mind to begin with you really #don’t have the context for majority of the shit that you’re even talking about most of the time

[linabirb]

i will NOT talk about what i think about the current twst event but i still want y'all to know that every time i see any new info about it i just go.

#it's so. ugh. #i've said it on discord but still. shoutout to glomas for being the only halloween event ever <333 #im gonna say it. im gonna say it #i think we should. stop treating halloween events like. the best part about twst #no wait let me rephrase it #like. i know that people often go “halloween events are like the most important twst events!!” and. #no?? in my opinion twst halloween events are mostly terrible?? #the very first one is just. “haha social media bad” #and the second one is “haha what if malleus and lilia made a silly little time loop” #and now we have. whatever the current event is #also glomas is NOT perfect. yes i'm biased but rollo is like. the only good part of this event (not counting the outfits) #because i'm gonna say it. most characters were so. annoying in that event #“it's because they're based on villains-” shut up yes they are but it doesn't mean i'm not allowed to say that they're being annoying #and now we have the event that makes everyone look like total idiots who are 100% okay with getting kidnapped #and even those who find ferro suspicious change their opinion in like two minutes #idc how they explain it. this event sucks. #i wish i could go “oh but that's just my opinion” but no. im gonna be mean 👍 #[ 💚 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 ]

[releaseholiday]

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#I know it’s clear that Louis is banned on radio and a lot of media in general so I can understand that the lack of media coverage may not be #lthq’s fault #but that’s literally what you have social media for😑😑😑😑 #it’s literally free advertisement #it’s so STUPID that they’re not using what seems look the only outlet they have to promote Louis’ work #and I’m not talking about posting tour videos we’ve all already seen on tik tok #I’m talking about getting Louis engaged #posting bts from the doc #I know tons of people have already said it but look at Niall! or Lewis Capaldi #they’re perfect examples of how you can be personable and likable and funny on social media without sacrificing your privacy #and if Louis doesn’t want to do it than he should get it together and decide if he wants to reach or people or not #it sucks that he doesn’t have the label and the media support it sucks so much but where’s the famous resilient Louis who doesn’t give up? #work with what you have and what you have is sm #he doesn’t even have to spend a lot of time on it #Film some videos and have his sm manager post it gradually #like ughhh I don’t even want this doc to happen but this is so frustrating #it’s so frustrating to watch him literally not even give himslef a chance #it looks like he just accepted that all he has and all he’ll ever have is already existing fans #but even they’re leaving #it’s all just so……..fucking sad

[hella1975]

the downside of being in a small town is 'ugh everyone knows everyone and i can't get away with anything' but the plus side is 'omg everyone knows everyone and no one else can get away with anything' like small town gossip solos any city shit you could try and match me with

#went to my piercing shop today that's done all my piercings bc my nose ring has been playing up and i wanted a new one #and i saw a girl ive not seen since pre-covid bc we did law together but she dropped it after a year #and she was so nice like we were friends but we werent exactly close but she recognised me straight away and hugged me and everything #it was so sweet #and i was like 'omg do you ever see any of the other law girls' bc being in that specific piercing shop i knew she'd run into our age group #and she was like 'yeah i literally saw [name] a few weeks ago!' #and for context [name] was like an absolute star pupil in every aspect of life #like she was minted she went to a nice school before college she was the smartest in our class she didnt drink #she was just perfectionist to a t and it was very frustrating for someone like me who's kinda all over the place lol #and from snapchat ive seen that she's been having a great time at uni #and i said that to this girl i was like 'oh [name] looks like she's having so much fun!' #and she got SUCH an evil grin like 'ohhh no she's not' AND PROCEEDED TO TELL ME SO MUCH SHIT SDJKHGKJDSH #i love harmless gossip i love bumping into people i like and finding out what everyone's up to i love being nosy #it was also quite a nice reminder that not everything you see on social media is representative #like turns out that girl has a real tough time at uni and i had it in my head that as usual everything was perfect for her #so yeah <3 small town shenanigans <3 it's not often i'll compliment my hometown but it has its moment #*moments

[thistledropkick]

The NJPW shop is doing a virtual merch signing event with Narita, and it looks like the merch is gonna have rhinoceros beetles on it?? I love this.

#ren narita #njpw #As someone who loves the Strong Style faction and scarab beetles this is perfect for me #There should be more merch that combines beetles and pro wrestling out there #Does Narita keep beetles? I don't remember seeing him ever mention it but he doesn't do social media any more...

[magnoliamyrrh]

idk how ppl have like one blog/sideblog/whatever on here we have seven fjdksk

#tumblr is a shitshow but the only thing resembling social media weve ever used. and rly like perfect one for systems #still very pissed tho that tumblr has shadowbanned one of the other meins tho like fuck up #*fuck u #cant see messages at all cant see any activity at all -_-

[astrxealis]

40 mil is the highest points i've had for gw ever tbh so i am proud of myself so far <3 also !! almost rank 175 >;D

anyways hi just small update/rambles uhm. i've been more productive w school but also school ew !!! and 6.3 is so fucking soon holy shit i am not ready at all & i hope this week i can finally start omori and/or p4g <33

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #still obsessed w p5. ALSO mcr music is so slay AND uh yeah that's mostly it. rlly obsessed w buncha kinds of rock music rn #i looooove rock <3 rock and orchestra are my favorite genres (i'm kinda into all kinds of music tho fr!) hehe <33 #i love my fire team now tbh. like. nemone & athena together is perfect imo and i'm glad i realized that a long time ago already #but woa me w having both michael and percival is absolutely amazing hehe #arghhhhhhh ... i wna play nier vv badly but i need to wait for lune yeah ? but anyways in reincarnation i have all the automata characters #which i'm vv glad about >;)) 9s refused to come home months ago but now he has and heheheheh i love him #tbh it's so hard to manage my time now bcs on saturdays i'm busy and then sundays should be my rest but we often go out as rest ?? #and i like it but also my gaming time and writing time and whatever time is lowkey a big Rest In Peace <//3 #I LOV MY FRIENDS but i haven't properly talked to. quite literally ANYONE for a bit now i'm so sorry #unless they approach me first somewhere that isnt social media of any sort or i've seen them irl bcs of school or yk my family or class #ive fixed my sched quite a lot but also there's still a lot to improve !! by the end of january i hope that i'm happy w my sched then <3 #okay small update OVER !! today was a pretty good day so far tbh uh. like bad shit happened but strangely i'm all okay !! <33 #like uhh ive been a bit more active in class and actually reciting more! i am usually vv shy and only just comment my answers if ever #BUT YEAH !!! and there was smth that was supposed to happen and my class forgot so i reminded them. and we're like 30 in class #okay rambles OVER !! im anxious still to open my notifs sorry i cant explain why bcs idk how but yeah. uh. if you want to contact me #for anything IDK HOW YOU SHOULD TBH. SORRY. but yeah !!! probably ask for my sideblog for mutuals ?? #but tbh i havent checked that in a bit too and just ramble sometimes. SORRY......