#the worst social media platform

[scarefox]

Hate how twt clickbaits you with direct messages on your phone. They always put an @ with your twt name infront of the popular message you absolutely should check out.

Just got that during work about a person I commented a few days ago. But it was only a smiley my phone couldn’t interpret and I spend the rest of my shift wondering why / how this person responded to my comment...

Just to find out at home, they didn’t message me and just generally posted something........   

(I deactivated twt messages on my phone now. I only had that for certain companies and celebrities. But now that I follow a few people more and spend a few seconds more on that site I get all the unwanted / not needed stuff as well on my phone)

#twt #the worst social media platform #bish I worried that I came across as rude or something twt typical #the fact that you have just a tiny limited space to write stuff takes away the opportunity for smileys #no wonder they are all salty over there

[shroombies]

Hello boober Twitter refugees, welcome

#ranboo #rambling #i can't believe elon made a social media platform pay to win #also like #how does he Consistently come up w the worst possible ways to fix things #insanity

[doccywhomst]

was going to repost a poll from my finsta on here and realized the joke is extremely way too funny for instagram but lukewarm pisswater on tumblr. we pretend that tumblr isn’t funny but have you seen my instagram jokes :/ my mom’s on there. my old coworkers are on there. it’s like doing standup in orwell’s 1984

#can we at least agree that ​linkedin has to be the worst most macabre and demented social media platform ever conceived #i’m glad it exists so that it keeps work culture from leeching further into social media but it is truly an endless column of despair

[supergraphicultramoderngirl]

girl math is not whatever tiktok thinks it is girl math is me getting a 100% on my quantum physics assignment because i know what the fuck i’m doing

#girl math girl dinner i’m just a girl LITERALLY SHUT THE FUCK UP. #‘‘what’s the girl version of the roman empire’’ THE ROMAN EMPIRE. #GIRL IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH EASY. GIRL IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH STUPID. GIRL IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH SIMPLE. #congratulations tiktok you’ve sent the feminism movement back 70 years are you proud of yourself #AND THE WORST PART IS. MOST OF THE PEOPLE DOING THIS SHIT THINK THEYRE PROGRESSIVE #it’s not a silly little joke. where do you think it comes from in the first place. use your critical thinking skills that i know you have. #literally fuck this. social media has become a cesspool #like every tiktok trend has some insidious origin whether intentional or not. every comment section is filled with the most rancid shit ever #the only platform not as horrible is here but even THEN there is so much rampant bigotry if you step slightly outside of your curated bubble #i can only hope to hope that most of the rancidness is fake. that they’re just trolls or bots or smear campaigns. #and i can only hope that people in these tiktok trends just simply don’t know any better and are willing to learn. #mari is irrelevant

[thebroccolination]

Today, I saw a tweet by a Thai Krist fan named June in which she thanked interfans for supporting Krist in spite of the language barrier and all the misinformation that surrounds him. June has been fan of Krist for a long time, and she's even shared a bunch of firsthand accounts in English of her experiences with Krist from early in his career. (They're very cute.)

Dear all inter fans who love Krist, thanks for loving him although you might not be able to clearly understand what he said or fully convey your feelings to him due to the language barrier. Although with this big barrier, you are still with him, don't give up on him, don't believe in any fake rumors and be his strength. Thanks so much 💕💕 –@qu_upqn_np

A minor incident prompted her to tweet this out, but because of the language barrier, I didn't fully follow it. From what I understand (and please don't cite me as a source if you carry this information forward) a fan tweeted a customer complaint to Krist directly about a peeling graphic on a concert T-shirt she bought. Krist replied to her and asked her to write to the official merch account, presumably because neither he nor The General Public can help her with her problem and that kind of thing can make the quality of his merch look shoddy. According to a few Thai fans, some interfans used the auto-translate feature on his tweet, decided that the auto-translated English looked rude, and started attacking him for being rude to his fan. It got to the point where Thai fans and fan translators had to explain that he was, in fact, very polite to her. He used "khab" and "phi" to refer to her, but English doesn't use those parts of speech, so auto-translate omitted them.

This was before my fellow interfan friend messaged me to ask why she was seeing interfans say that Boun's fans were calling him a drunkard (???).

A couple of days ago, Boun happily took a selfie with an interfan after an event where he drank a bit, and now this is somehow something people want to crucify him for because fan benefits and selfie rules etc. etc. etc. (There's context to this but it's frankly such a non-issue I'm astonished we're even talking about it.) One person did call Boun a drunkard, but they're an anti account (I know, even Boun has antis, the world's surprises never cease). The only other references to drinking were interfans saying, "He was just drunk and happy (and that's why he was happy to take the selfie)."

The way nuanced information is often squished into bite-sized pieces is both wild and worrying.

And it must be maddening for Thai fans to share a space with people who click auto-translate on Thai tweets, draw completely off-the-mark conclusions from a rough approximation or completely false mistranslation of what was actually said, and then use that as justification to attack the actors they love in foreign languages. There's a rampant Attack First, Ask Questions Never culture online these days, and we've got to collectively agree to chill before throwing on-fire furniture at each other.

These are both obviously ridiculous incidents, but they both garnered a lot of conversation among Thai fans.

I figured I'd share them here because I think Tumblr sometimes gets secondhand information from Twitter, and I wanted to demonstrate how some of this stuff gets misinterpreted before it even leaves the platform. It's interesting to investigate how these things happen, and hopefully it helps prevent similar misunderstandings from happening in the future.

(Also, for what it's worth, I have a concert shirt made by Krist's fan club and it's very comfy and has survived numerous washes completely intact.)

#thai bl #fandom can be a little bit exhausting but i think the more we reflect on the kneejerk dramas the better we can react in the future #if twitter does go under it'll be devastating in some ways #for news and small creators and activists etc. #but as a fandom platform i think it encourages some of the worst behavior that always existed long before social media #it just feeds off keeping people angry so they don't close the app and that's not making anyone happy

[uncanny-tranny]

unusual question but what social media do you think is trans-friendly (and no, imo terfblr isn't)

I mean, I've personally accepted that because most social media is, in some ways, a reflection of broader society (even in small ways) that there isn't any one social media that's "clean" of any bigotry, even transphobia.

Instead, what I think people should do is work with the tools a social media platform gives them. Essentially, curate your experience. I used to pride myself on never blocking people, never fighting back, being docile and letting people say the most unhinged things they wanted about me and my transness, but the only person who hurt in the long run was me. I thought that the more "accepting" I was for anything, the better I was as a person because I never was a person. I didn't allow myself to experience anything, and so I kind of let social media be just as unwelcoming as my real life felt.

Maybe there is a small social media that I'm not aware of, but in terms of larger ones (e.g., twitter, facebook, instagram), I don't think they are at all free from transphobia, especially when algorithms are based in engagement, and seeing how anger and division drives so much engagement.

If you want to use these more well-known social media, I think you have to not let yourself be passive. You have to moderate your experience if you want it to be pleasant. Block people, leave groups if you find any hint of bigotry, keep debates about transness to a minimum if you're the debate type, report things that go against ToS, know that you don't have to deal with anything that doesn't make you comfortable.

I know of some smaller platforms, but I have not tried them. I have the most experience with larger, more well-known social medias, and I don't believe any of them are broadly trans-accepting. I know from experience, however, that this isn't the whole of the platform you choose. There will always be people who want to be trans-accepting, you sometimes just have to find them.

#ask #anon #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #long post #and honestly i side-eye smaller or lesser-known social medias because... #...of how many smaller platforms have little to no moderation and will thus allow the worst of the worst #that isn't to say that larger platforms are better though #like again i think people forget that actual people use social media... #...and that means that they bring in a lot of things like biases or even bigoted beliefs... #...i just see people who are like 'its not that serious social media is an innocent thing'... #...and while i see the appeal of holding nobody accountable for their behaviour i don't buy it completely #i don't mean to be negative when i say all this it's just.... kind of been my own experience the past seven+ years #that's also why i started being more direct with things i'm not comfortable with (which is something i'm so bad at lol) #and why i decided to turn off anon/reblogs whenever i feel the need #because tumblr is *not* the most queer-friendly app. like that's just a marketing attempt because it's the fucking opposite 9/10 times... #...and because it isn't queer-friendly it will attract queerphobes. which is why i've had to permanently turn off reblogs on a post... #...which seems monumentos because i've had this blog for years and years and it's just... permanently off because it got so bad #i like the UI of tumblr most times which is why i'm still here but if you ask me if i like staff i'm going to side-eye you for it

[vvalengogh]

i wish elon would just break twitter beyond usable already. make that shit unusable and so worthless no one wants to buy it again 😭

#corvid chatter #twitter is like. the worst social media platform I swear to god

[grokebaby]

I love Margarettas design but I'm pretty sure I can't post it on here bc of how intense it is. Maybe that's a testament to it's successful horrorness

I think I really popped off w her face. Two empty holes where eyes AND EYEBROWS are. Her eyebrows are just decaying holes in the shape of eyebrows. That's metal. And she has a huge maggot/leech latched to her head and it's cascading teeth on her forehead resemble messy bangs and babyhairs. The rest of the wobbly leech resembles flowing hair, except it's a long slimy worm thing.

There's more too, but yeah, shame I can't post her

#The main reason is probably bc she'd be interpreted as naked in human terms #Which ofc on social media platforms is the worst crime of all #My thoughts #My ocs #Oh sorry FEMALE* human naked. Yeah

[colorisbyshe]

the for you page on twitter is just like tweet thet reads like a stolen 2012 tumblr post, the most racist and/or transphobic and insensitive response to a real life tragedy that happened 15 minutes ago, a “funny” tweet that is just someone doing free advertising for mcdonald’s or the barbie movie, a tweet from someone you follow you already saw 5 hours ago, and then another tweet that literally was stolen from 2012 tumblr.

#fyp on twitter is the worst of all social media platforms combined #just stealing the worse from tiktok tumblr reddit and facebook

[bowserinthesky]

Ok, gonna be honest, I use twitter only for porn cause there is many artists... But right not that shit is Impossible to use!

The good thing on twitter is that you can block ads and promoted tweets, but now every single time I try to block something I get a freakin pop-up to get premium+! And that shit wouldn't be such a problem If they didn't made the "maybe later" button work but It doesn't so I have to refresh the page!

And that twitter fuckery is planned! I clicked to upgrade for premium+ and that shit worked, only the maybe later doesn't! So annoying! I don't want to keep seeing promoted tweets of a guy with a monkey nft profile trying to scam people to buy some shitcoin!

#twitter #rambles #sorry but really annoying #twitter has to be one of the worst platforms ever #I would prefer bluesky but I also don't want to give my phone number to a social media

[sammypog]

i am THIS CLOSE to deleting all my social media apps at least temporarily it’s shit for my mental health and i know it

#idk i probably won’t #or just tiktok because that one’s the worst #i just feel like my ability to think normally and be a rational human is being slowly ruined #by constantly absorbing everyone’s extreme black and white opinions on the internet #and there’s always new ‘drama’ for lack of a better word that just makes me constantly anxious and upset #to simplify it ​i basically just feel chronically online #not to mention how much time i waste on meaningless shit like tiktok #idk i just feel so drained by feeling obligated to get emotionally involved in every single argument online ever #i hate investing so much of my happiness in the internet and people who have no idea i exist #don’t worry i’ll still be on discord and stuff if i do end up doing it #this is not about my online friends #just not like public platforms #at least for a while #sorry i’ve just been so exhausted by social media recently #brain thoughts #rants

[transfagfemme]

My unpopular opinion is that I think Twitter is worse than TikTok

#I have DEEP personal beef with Twitter #it is the WORST social media platform imo . easily #🐈

[quarklynx]

God, if Tumblr goes down for real I don't even know where I'll go. Twitter is an active dumpster fire, Instagram and TikTok are algorithm-riddled nightmares, and it's just plain depressing trying to pick one of the hundreds of alternative sites that are vying for the userbases of these massive social media platforms that have been hyper-monetized into their death throes

#lynx thinks #bluesky still requires an invitation and the other ones ive seen just havent been catching on the way other have #at this rate tiktok might outlast the others as far as influence goes and it's arguably the worst one #and i say this as someone who uses and posts to tiktok #a social media site with ONLY video on the platform is severely limiting. especially for visual artists like me #if you don't animate then your stuff is gonna have a hard time getting noticed in a video format #instagram is similarly limited in that you can only post images as the primary portion of the post #theres no option to just post text #and none of the tiny ones have the same reach as any of the larger ones did which is why no one joins #and because no one joins it doesnt have the userbase to give posts reach the way other sites did #social media is being rapidly killed by corporations trying to squeeze every cent possible out of their users #i want to stream and i want to gather a community of people who like what i do but HOW can i do that when there's no good website for it #it used to be you could just post your stream schedule to twitter and that was enough #i just... im so tired. it feels like ive had a stack of rugs pulled out from under me one at a time

[teaghouls]

That stupid costume comes with bunny ears lmfaokkrbejveh

#I cannot wait to become the worst #my tumblr is basically my #fuck it we ball #type social media accnt #the rest?? nah I’m civil- ish #I’m at least not as unhinged on the others as I am on here bc none of my co workers or irl friends reaaaaally see theeese but #a win is a win #anywho BUNNY GHOSTFACE WITH PLATFORMS PLEAAAAASE HEAR ME OUT☝️‼️‼️

[omgdexnursey]

tumblr pls put the profile tab back in the right corner!!!!!

#this shit makes me so mad #it’s also one of the worst features on ig #why are social media companies so dedicated to making their platforms fucking awful #no i’m never gonna buy anything off of fucking ‘tumblr mart’ i wanna click on my profile!!! #sleep talk

[starredforlife]

the fact that you can see how many people view your posts on twitter is Actively Harming Me

#star's thoughts #i cant believe artists and such are still sticking to it as a platform like genuinely it makes me want to hot girl off myself #social media #the worst part abt being an artist that needs to be in the industry and make money is that views and interaction Do Matter #seeing that people actually dont care At All is like huh okay. i am the problem then