#this would work better on tiktok

[ghostespresso]

staff logging on to tumblr dot com today

#staff sweetie i Promise you an algorithm would kill this webbed site #changing the way reblogs look/work would Absolutely kill this webbed site too #this is a Blogging Platform i dont want it to be like tiktok or twitter jesus #if you NEED to change something literally listen to the the Tumblr Users you pretend you cant hear #if money is what you need make your userbase Happy and you should be fine #the shop is fine blaze posts are fine ad free subscriptions are fine but dont get rid of shit that Works For You in favor of making money #someone really laced up their clown boots today im. so tired staff please dont #tumblr staff #EDIT: staff updated their original post to say we were all misunderstanding but #that doesnt stop the post from being stupid #the whole post was worded for Investors and then presented to the userbase #if you say 'we have big changes planned!' and dont put in the 'as options' its Your Fault that people read it as 'were changing everything' #staff isnt stupid. they know how they Should have worded it better than what they did #so yeah. someone Did lace up their clown boots before they hit post #edit pt 2 lol for the record i dont think tumblr would actually go through with all their changes in that post #they know how the userbase is and there are A Lot of us #i just dont like how? idk. condescending? the post sounded #and out of every place on the internet being being burned alive in the name of money #tumblr is the one place i know enough about to be Actually mad at lol #ive really liked some stuff staff has done in recent years #but talking to your userbase that way wasnt one

[the-tortured-fangirl-department]

Yes I know Apollo had done atrocious things. Yes I know he can be a self obsessed bastard. Yes I love him and I wanna wrap him in a blanket and tell him everything is going to be ok

#trails of apollo #rick riordan #apollo percy jackson #lester papadopoulos #get yourself a pookie who can do both #complex character blablabla #btw why are people on TikTok using the Daphne myth to prove how bad Apollo is I feel like there are many other myths that would work better #like are we missing the hit by an lead arrow thing?

[meremothh]

not trying to be a hater bc i think that’s dumb and i don’t think zepotha is worse than goncharov because it’s a marketing stunt. i’m pretty sure the girl marketing her song is like. a teenager, and she’s just trying to come up with something that will get her song noticed and good for her. here’s why i actually think zepotha doesn’t work: no one is committing enough to the bit. i have seen equal amounts of people Explaining the joke of zepotha and discussing the logistics of making up this movie as i have seen people actually playing along. goncharov did not have that problem even a little bit. NO ONE broke character. any discussion of goncharov was completely and totally playing along with the idea that it was totally real. anything that was out of character was like, vague posts about how funny it was with goncharov merely tagged. zepotha can’t be goncharov because no one committed enough, they were too proud of the idea.

#zepotha #goncharov #like yes sure tiktok can’t do what tumblr already did best yadda yadda yadda #but tbh i wish zepotha worked better bc it’s such a good idea #would have loved for the next fake movie to have been an 80s horror cult classic???? #there’s a billion of those it would have been perfect #too bad #the song is honestly pretty good too

[maddy-ferguson]

zionists love the pinkwashing angle so much you would think israel has the most queer-friendly policies on earth but they don't even have gay marriage there

#like okay ig... #i get the strategy it's the whole we're the only democracy in the middle east it's actually just like europe here arabs are so uncivilized #we hate them even though we literally live here thing #which is like straight out of the colonizer handbook. as is everything else they do #but i mean wouldn't that be the bare minimum for the we love gay people here they hate gay people there pr campaign #and the pinkwashing works i've literally seen it from people who would be my mutuals' mutuals. this summer. just crazy #but it's not surprising that it would work on white gays or just western gays because people will do tiktoks about how they're 'illegal in #74 countries!' (idk how many it is) like they're the victims (when it's countries they'll never go to) not the actual gay people who live #there #which is just so telling #and queerness/other things like feminism being weaponized is always so frustrating you'll literally see people who hate the gays every #day of the year pretend they're gay rights activists in the name of killing palestinians. and in the name of colonialism in general #and of course even if you could get gay married there that wouldn't make it better. but you can't even do that so like. okay ig? #do you think gay israelis are effectively utilizing gay power by killing the people whose land they've been colonizing for decades #and like i say: brf slt

[gayofthefae]

Sometimes when I'm doubting I imagine lines from Byler season 5 being made into TikTok sounds to normalize it in my mind. Best one I've come up with is definitely recently I imagined a line from Mike talking about or confessing to Will being turned into one of those really cute trends where you just put a bunch of pictures of your partner.

I want people who haven't watched Stranger Things to learn about through the love confession sound on tiktok of Mike talking about Will. Fuck it. I want period drama level shit. I want Amy and Laurie 2019. I want-

I'm ready for it it's gonna happen I believe.

#im so confident in byler ive elevated to speculating the tiktok reaction #spreading through pop culture so even people who dont know it know it #they watch the show and go 'i didnt know that was from this' #so confident that im like 🤞i just hope it's received well #byler #stranger things #ga byler #because they would #or they better #i want it to be a chte trend i dont want it to be memed #i envision the edits #i envision the fan works using canon material #the other day i envisioned a 'mine simping for 9 minutes straight' compilation like #OMG A WHILE AGO I MADE A POST ABOUT GETTING A NETFLIX OFFICIAL 'Byler's story' VIDEO #they made a milkvan one they can do it for us too #they even made a milkvan chaos efit #which is so funny pls look it up its just byler endgame proof #a whole chunk of it is just about will and they imply that mike is gay #with that meme from heartstopper

[falled-over]

recently someone on tiktok said 'hey lets comment on random thirst traps and say 'you look just like a character from x movie!' (i forgot the name, the original one had one). like as a fun joke to invent a fake movie from the 80s.

i dont need to point out the obvious comparison here (it was far less organised because it was more about pranking people than pretending the movie was real), but it turned out to be a MARKETING STRATEGY for someones album.

#could not be a better illustrator of the marketing culture of today. LOL #everything is an ad and nothing is for fun #stole an idea. essentially tricked people into promoting it by commenting a weird word that someone would then look up and find the album #also tiktok skews younger than tumblr on the whole i think. so it was a little more teenage in its lore #im not saying goncharov was more than it was but it was fun how everyone was able to invent something that seemed plausible #oh the album is meant to be '80s horror movie themed' which might mean something but it doesnt to me #'its such a unique marketing idea! it should be rewarded!' ..........................ok... i think tricking people into giving u money and #fame is gross. but that might just be me #it worked btw.

[2ndsk8terboy]

Do u know how to stop looksmaxxingn? The mewing streak is becoming unhealthy sir

*puts a finger to my lips and shakes my head*

*points along my jawline*

*puts my finger to my lips and shakes my head again*

#lucas lee rp blog #rp blog #spto #spvtw #**ooc** This would work better if I could find a version of the song that could play in tumblr but yk #this is a reference to the tiktok trend bc I'm a youngin who sees it on my fyp every day

[background-noise-headache]

Thinking about a Twilight AU where Bella's reasons for wanting to become a vampire have very little to do with romantic love for Edward and everything to do with finding the family she's always wanted. Renee made Bella parent her, so Bella didn't get much of a childhood. And Charlie's great but it's just them. The Cullens imitate the cheesy family sit-com that Bella's probably idealized her whole childhood. So she wants to be with them forever and ever.

#twilight #bella swan #twilight saga #for someone who insisted the cullens were the perfect family SM really did not deliver on the found family vibes #but is was her romance vampire!gerard way/oc self-insert #this is brought to you by this tiktok I saw theorizing that Bella and Jasper were meant to be fated #they used book canon details but they also looked at the themes of the story and the character arcs #would have loved if Edward learned that his mind reading wasn't exactly a window into the soul and he had to actually- #-spend time with and listen to people to really know them #maybe he'd realize Rosalie isn't shallow she's just hurting and doesn't feel safe with someone reading her thoughts at all times #tiktok also said Edward and Alice also made a better couple from a thematic perspective #their powers allow them to have silent conversations and challenge them to creatively surprise the other #and if SM can make a big deal about how Edward not being able to read her mind is part of what draws him to her to justify the romance #I can be like hey what about the way these characters and their gifts work? #these notes are brought to you by an all-nighter spent reading Jasper/Bella fanfic for the first time and- #three hours of sleep and ADHD turning my lit major brain into a ping-pong ball thinking about literary theme alternatives that fit better

[showinalittlelife]

i am. absolutely entitled to this so why hasn’t anybody made a tiktok of yjh and kdj w that “do you think you would kill for me one day” “yes of course i will my darling” sound WHERE IS MY TIKTOK.

#orv folks better get to fucking work!!! #orv #i would take matters into my own hands but i don’t post tiktoks #rah):

[tipytap]

love how we went “look we have these amazing devices that connect everyone to all the knowledge in the world!” and companies went “what if i took that and irreversibly damaged an entire generation’s brain chemistry”

#im looking at you tiktok #i hate it when people use the phrase societal adhd because i have adhd and its not the same #but like #i see where the sentiment comes from #everyone’s attention spans are FUCKED #not to mention whatever the hell is going on in gen alpha #literal children are being HEAVILY influenced by online spaces and its honestly really sad #ive seen 8 year olds at my work with full faces of makeup #some of these kids in laser tag are stringing together lines of obscenities that would make a sailor blush #i had to kick a kid out a little while back because he was screaming slurs at a kid who was maybe 6 years old #mind you the this kid was like 10 #its sad really #cuz then those of us with adhd too are double fucked #like i want to delete tiktok so bad but its literally like a fucking addiction #wahoo dopamine!!! #and now #even better #its getting even more heavily monetized!! #this is dystopian

[woosh-floosh]

I've been inching my way though the UK game show TASKMASTER and wondering how well a COMPLETELY live twitch show could work (excluding prerecorded tasks of course!).

Twitch streamers are already fiercely competitive, used to embarrassment, and have little human dignity left so I think they would be prime candidates to be subjected to tasks!! You could probably bring in youtubers and tiktokers in there too I guess

Think about it! A five night special event live on twitch! With a live audience and twitch audience participation! Sure it would probably be bad and clunky and realistically I'll probably despise some of the contestants but I think it could be fun!!

But would I rather see Jerma985 as the taskmaster or a contestant is the question....

#This is brought up about me thinking how an american taskmaster couldve been done better #I think most people agree that it was just poor casting and cutting the episode time that made the american version bad #if they fixed those two things it would probably work fine. #but thinking about where I get most of my comedy from and where I assume most of my peers get their comedy from... #its the internet. it's twitch and youtube and tiktok #there's still a stand up comedy circuit in the U.S. of course but I'm not paying attention to it and I want to see MY favorite funnymen #However... I'm on series 8 now and I recently went back and watched the potato hole task from series 2 #And I hadn't realized how tightly edited the show had become! Maybe a live version wouldn't work as well... #....though there is the 2016 live version I haven't seen #I do think Jerma would make a good taskmaster he already does the harsh abuse boss shtick on some of this event streams #and CRUCIALLY he is also a former (substitute) teacher #taskmaster

[bones-n-bookles]

GOOD GENDER VIBES

#i got a new binder from a new brand #the 997 model from underworks #after having the specific model shown to me by one friend via a tiktok they found that really impressed me #+ having a transmasc friend recc the brand to me #and omg i love it #previously just had gc2b binders #a couple fulltanks and a half tank i still have #which like. functioned but werent great #but finally upgrading and updating #how well itll work for while im at work or hiking is pending and ill update tomorrow after work but like #omg omg omg omg omg happy #put Effort into an outfit with some emo eyeliner/shadow and some jewelry and shit #good vibes #im so FLAT #like i look down and still 😬 but from like. looking in mirrors and taking photos its SO MUCH BETTER #i dont think anyone not knowing what to look for would notice #which is good bc i have coworkers i distrust lol

[wcrstarter]

ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ꜱʏᴍʙᴏʟɪᴄ ꜰʀᴜɪᴛ ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ?

ᴘᴏᴍᴇɢʀᴀɴᴀᴛᴇ

The pomegranate is most famously attributed to the Greek goddess, Persephone. Though versions of the story differ: with some saying Persephone was tricked into eating pomegranate seeds to be trapped in the underworld, and some saying she willingly chose to eat the seeds.

Pomegranate's have a hard exterior that is tough to crack. Your hard shell is a natural protectant and keeps you safe from those that only wish to use you. Internally you are rich with bounties. You believe in living your life passionately and vibrantly. The idea of surrendering to a fate of being confined to anything, whether it be a relationship, a job, or family dynamic where you are not happy and lack agency is a terrifying prospect.

It is fears like this which also prevent you from opening up and showing vulnerability to those around you. However, like the pomegranate whose seeds sparkle like gemstones, you hide inside you incredible beauty that only the most worthy deserve to see.

ᴛᴀɢɢᴇᴅ ʙʏ: @hexsreality

ᴛᴀɢɢɪɴɢ: @halfvampirehalflycan @razeofwolves @masterwcrk @ithring @hollywoodsdevil @llosgcariad @parainvestigate @sookiestackhcuse

#;;dashboard games #—&;I’m what's left when children go to war;whos a heretic now(ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ) #this fits a lot better than i would have originally thought it would #especially with the whole how to open a pomegranate discourse on tiktok which is a fun rabbit hole to go down if you havea couple hours to #kill on random internet stuff to get totally sucked into for about 24 hours before you loose interest #you have to really work to earn her trust theres the easy way then the hard way #symbolically works well and orpheus and eurydices fits sonja and lucian in its own way #persephone being the queen of underworld (chaos) and of spring the dual nature fits some aspects of sonja #the princess/the politician and the independant warrior who lives for herself

[partyshrimp]

being acknowledged for having a homestar runner icon in an unrelated setting never ceases to leave me feeling less lonely than i am when i’m actually with real-life individuals

#one ‘omg strong sad’ on tiktok and i instantly <:) #this would work a lot better if i had one on tumblr. but shh #homestar runner #obscure musings of the logan kind

[rosesradio]

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#i’m kind of really heartbroken right now #so i had tickets to the hot freaks concert and went tonight—which i don’t mind posting on here because i live several hours away #so basically i drove to the venue for several hours and stopped like once for food #it was my understanding that windsor was opening and then the hot freaks and then the happy fits i guess but i didn’t know the exact times #we were running a bit late bc of the road trip and walked in at 7:25 (the show started at 7) and i got to see the tail end of ‘boyfriend’ #& i was like ‘oh okay i just missed their first song’ but then they walked off stage and my heart dropped. i missed everything #and yeah it’s on me because i must have had a misunderstanding about how the show worked #i’d never even heard of a show where an act performs for 20-25 minutes unless it’s like a variety show or something #i did cry about it already and just tried to have a good rest of the night since we’d already driven for hours #i got to meet the band at the merch table which was really cool and they gave me a free signed CD & sticker & friendship bracelet because— #they felt bad for me. which was very sweet (i also bought a shirt) #i know i should be grateful i was even able to go to the concert. and i still had fun but part of me will always be heartbroken #because financially/geographically it’s not smart to go to another show even further away just to see a 25 minute set when i’ve already got #the merch & all. plus i can listen to them on Spotify #i can only hope they come to a location closer to where i live #but there’s no guarantee because they’re so underground. they only resurfaced because of stupid tiktok & they’re only popular enough to be— #half of an opening act. so they could potentially never go on tour again #if i had more of a platform i would boost their music more but i don’t #i know it’ll be okay. it’s just a lot of things have been going shitty lately and i thought this would make me feel better and it just— #went to shit #tw vent #rose.txt

[seeyouinthesoup]

Nope, Dropout/D20 isn’t classist for having a paywall. Just say you don’t believe artists should be paid for creating work how they want to create it.

#or don’t get that sponsorship have a lot of strings!!! #like Ashley on CR might do so much better if she could use cards instead of DND beyond #but can’t happen because sponsor!! #like….. #CR is one model of making money dropout is another #neither is more correct but come on #dropout encourages password sharing #and does deals and free trials #but so many of y’all learn words and don’t get what they mean!! #tag rant #the paywall means they aren’t beholden to anyone!! #like!!! #you don’t just have a right to someone’s art #it took time and effort and they can do it freely #the best is the person who said Dropout should work with Amazon #look me in the eye and tell me you are a fan of D20 #and think that they would sign a deal with Amazon #use your brains people #ugh #this is why I should stop reading tiktok comments