#ramblings on tumblr

[turuin]

The thing I mostly love about Tumblr and the main difference with all the other "social networks" (a dying beast in 2023, if you ask me, but take it as you will) is that people mostly share their "good" side on Instagram and Facebook - actually, that's mostly on Insta, as FB is nowadays a spam/ad fest and toxic commentary; there's this race to show the world how cool, how strong, how functioning we are, with carefully crafted pictures, good light angles, motivational texts; then there's Tumblr where basically discourse boils to: hey, strangers, this is my trauma, I appreciate being informed about yours, y'all are still valid and I love you no matter what, please take a shitpost meme or two but keep a little space on your dashboard for this incredibly convoluted meditation on the meaning of life I had at 3 a.m. while crying over my life going into pieces. And I love it.

#ramblings on tumblr

[jellyjamheadobb]

#This feels too accurate lol #rey rambles #meme #memes #dumb shit #funny #relatable memes #funny memes #best memes #lol #tumblr memes #dank memes #humor #twitter memes

[loverboybreakdowns]

assume for the sake of this poll that the ubi is a comfortable living wage and that you can get a job in any field you’d like.

also if you picked ‘for another reason’ pls put why in the tags/comments im curious :]

#rambling #my polls #polls #tumblr poll #poll #tumblr polls

[goldiipond]

if there's anything i've learned from the current state of social media it's that this is one of the worst possible notifications you can receive upon opening an app

#skye's ramblings #i thought you guys were exaggerating how ass-ugly the discord update is. why isn't this optional. what if we all died #big thanks to discord and tumblr for both making bad layout changes to their apps in the same week. i love complaining <3

[char-writes]

Daydreaming about my book:

Writing my book:

#writing memes #writing #writing community #writers on tumblr #writing problems #writing mood #writing process #char speaks #char rambles

[spacenintendogs]

me booping my moots on tumblr circa march/april 2024

#rose rambles #video #tumblr bullshit #sound warning #flashing #sorry forgot flash warning #boop

[reinanova]

bcuz i’m curious:

any phone number that you could rattle off without looking counts here

reblog with your age/generation bcuz i’m curious if it’s still common practice for younger people to memorize phone numbers

#i’ve got six #i’m 21 #jk it’s five i was thinking of my ssn #actually no i was thinking of a phone number #so it’s still six #poll #tumblr polls #random polls #polls #poll time #generational differences #my polls #reinanova rambles

[honestlydarkprincess]

even after this goes away i want my mutuals to know i'm always giving you a little boop

#jess rambles #tumblr #textpost #boop

[arcadiabaytornado]

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. (I accidentally clicked the wrong button on a Tumblr poll and incorrectly skewed the results.)

#mod rambles #tumblr polls

[queenofwerewolves]

#queen's royal rambles #wanted to do this for a while #tumblr polls #polls #random polls #poll

[terumimi-your-snek-fren]

Regarding my last post on the subject:

ok at this point I'm mildly curious so i wanna ask

#mimi rambles #tumblr polls #polls

[jellyjamheadobb]

#I love this sm #rey rambles #meme #memes #dumb shit #relatable memes #funny #funny memes #lol #best memes #tumblr memes #humor #dank memes #haha #twitter memes

[pro-sipper]

the post: everything has a right to exist in fiction, even if it's fucked up

the comments: i was going to reblog this until i realized op likes fucked up stuff in fiction. this is a common dogwhistle phrase for people who like fucked up stuff in fiction. they have to talk in code to trick people into agreeing with them. stay safe out there!

#proshippers #pro ship #proship #proshippers please interact #anti anti #proship safe #sip rambles #tumblr

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[humming-fly]

Every now and then I'm reminded Real People with Actual Jobs use tumblr and I've always been legitimately curious what all you weird adults are up to when you're not on this site and with tumblr's New Poll Feature I can finally get an answer! (or the closest approximation of an answer possible with only 10 available options h a)

#tumblr /really/ shortened the character limit on these posts huh #could've sworn it was longer when i made the wizard one #anyways no shit i have always been curious #tragically 10 options limits things a lot but I tried to be broad XD #i'll start i'm an academic researcher studying civil engineering :V #humming-rambles #poll

[evilweasel-cosplay]

THE TUMBLR LIVE ICON IS FINALLY GONE FROM MY PAGE

#mon g rambles #tumblr live