#what the hell is wrong with this site

[dingusships]

Yall might be able to help me out idk but I just remembered a website that was popular(?)/possibly made rounds on tumblr yeeeeeaaaars ago (like 2013-2015?) that was like, a catalogue of every possible fictional character in existence but you voted on if you had a crush on them.

What you'd do is you'd click a heart by their name and it would show up on a counter like "[Number] people have a crush on this character!", and you could leave anonymous comments too. I completely forgot about it until now but I cannot for the life of me remember what it's called or find any evidence of it

#iirc it had irl celebrities as well but the characters were the main focus #i Want to say it was something like 'my fictional crush' or 'i have a crush on' or something?? but i feel like I'm wrong #anywho. any tumblr elders know what the hell I'm talking about #self ship #self ship community #sidenote i don't condone self shipping with irl people. i just added as much detail about the site as i can remember lol

[david-watts]

really interesting how some people on this site, who seemingly are the type to be smug about the fact they have no trouble with critical thinking skills too, will take their opinion on something subjective and pretend it's objective fact. what's the definition of subjective again

#alternatively that person was just smug as all hell that they hate something popular which bugs the living hell outta me anyway #it's like earnesty is poison. they're so deep in being ironic that actually expressing a positive emotion about something is so #antithetical to their entire being it'll make them explode or something #and yeah I get annoyed with people who have a better-than-thou attitude about reading comprehension too #despite yes reading comprehension expressed by this site being often times abysmal. you've had to have heard the stats on it #considering that a majority of this site's userbase is american (or have turned themselves into americans but that's another matter) #I'll use the yank stat. something like 55% of the country has a reading level of a fourteen year old #I also know from experience there is terrible teaching of reading comprehension where I'm from too #so yeah. there is a deficit in people's comprehension. but being condescending about it is not it? #that's gonna make people defensive and retract further meaning it's harder for them to learn #because that's what you want right. you want to improve that stat. you want people to be able to comprehend what they can understand right #or is there a push to keep the status quo because there's no other way to feel superior and that's the only way they can feel good about #themselves. idk man I'm just rambling at this point I could be wrong

[beth0ftime]

Too much math, not enough Beth, system is fried. Please check again in 12 hours for repairs to be completed.

#I am a tired math goddess #now before me or whatever #I have done more math tonight than a Victorian professor could do in a year #yes I’m being serious #he’d have to learn what matrixes are #if I’m wrong about that don’t correct me #I’ll just call you a nerd and bully you #waaaaaaaaaaaaaah #I want to- holy shit tumblr wtf were those tags?! #no wait what????!!!! #ummmm that’s another post’s problems #(I’m genuinely worried for some of the people on this site) #also that was triggering as hell tumblr…

[toytulini]

ngl some of these posts about "cant find 100% cotton yarn!" i can think of at least one Brand of yarn that is like. 100% cotton. in multiple colors. what

#toy txt post #dont get me wrong blends are everywhere and synthetics are cheap but like for now at least they do. exist #the brand is lil sugar n cream btw which im certain ive seen at michaels and joanns but i think i had ti order online #and i have a different skein of cotton thats a bit softer and nicer to touch and might be better for like. Wearables. but i cant remember #the brand or be assed to dig for the tag rn sorry #hell even one of the lily sugar n cream ones is softer than the others its like a ''denim'' one #ive even seen cotton scrubbie yarn. which. i want to get but i need to use up my other scrubbie yarn first #and idk i guess they could be lying but #u kjow #the 100% baby alpaca i mentioned in the tags of the prev post i bought from. a local shop connected to an alpaca farm selling various #alpaca products but when i went online i think the yarn comes from a different alpaca farm? i get emails from them a lot #i wanna do a project w 100% alpaca but cant justify buying more of it rn #its very soft tho #idk not to mention there seem to be like all sorts of indie dyers and yarn runs if u just. look around a little? #i found one interesting site that i got glow in the dark wool from #havent made anything yet cos idk!!! what to use it on and it was quite expensive but like!!!!! extremely cool that it exists. they also had #color changing ones and shit #they have an etsy but they also have their own site where its a bit cheaper

[lesbienneanarchiste]

Feeling like "why is no one weird abt Richard Armitage anymore 😔 everyone is so boring and statementless abt him these days 😔 why am I the only one willing to be insane abt him 😔" and then I remember I have a huge section of the fandom blocked for crimes of being the wrong kind of insane abt him. Like. Girl (gn). The only survivors are the ones who aren't fuckin weird.

#truly a what were u doing at the devils sacrament moment like buddy you wouldn't know they were the wrong insane if u werent also insane #and by the wrong kind of insane i mean a broad variety between ''actively awful homophobic etc'' and ''just kinda annoying'' #so like. cant even say its entirely their faults #im sure people have me blocked as hell for being annoying #which is fine! curate ur experience etc! #but like. kinda miss the days when i could see people being truly deranged abt that man online #disgruntled octopus #also the tag search and tracked tags functions on this site are abysmal #so probably my fannish soulmate is out there somewhere being crazy as fuck and I'm just not seeing it RIP #probably doesnt help that im mostly deranged in DMs with Camille who could not care less abt him #if i put my whole pussy into being weird abt him online I'd probably find the freaks (affectionate) instead of just freaks (disdainful)

[captainafab]

why does watching stuff I like make me nauseous. 10000x hyperfixation damage ray

#like……what the hell. #I scroll for 3 minutes on this webbed site and I feel actual physical distress. #brb need to barf #there is something Wrong With Me #the doctor says i’m cursed. #why did I return #this is your captain speaking

[koinomegaluvr]

oh my fucking god fandom was a mistake

#burn it all to the ground #what the actual fuck is wrong with you ppl #seeing ppl mocking clown after they put out their statement irt how quickly welcome home is blowing up #at this point i HOPE clown either privates their blog or takes down their site bc you vile insufferable cunts can’t be human for 1 second #in the name of fandoms #fuck you all to hell #p

[nero-neptune]

i'm sorry, did i fucking miss something bc why are people throwing around the r-slur all willy nilly like it's this hot new trendy word? it's a goddamn slur. like, did i somehow make that up?? or did some of you stop maturing in middle school??? is it somehow Fucking 2009 all over again??? grow up!

#jesus christ seeing that word in Any Context makes me incredibly fucking mad like what the hell is wrong with you?? #whatever respect i have for a person vanishes immediately if they suddenly drop that word into a conversation #i swear it dipped in online usage for a number of years now bc i figured everyone was on the same page that you don't use that word anymore #unless it's on fucking idk. 4chan or some edgy nobodies website. some subreddits maybe #i honestly don't think i've seen the r-slur this often on TUMBLR DOT COM since probably 2013. and even then it wasn't fucking a lot #like sometime btwn the last few years i've seen an uptick on sites that i've been on for years now. WHAT is going on?!?! #it genuinely makes me upset. there is no way you're so EnLighTenEd that you've now got blanket permission to use that word. freak. #rambles

[garlic-sauc3]

tumblr, upon seeing that every social media site that its trying to copy is in the midst of collapse and everyones running over to them: let's make this site worse!

#why in hell would you try to make the site more like the ones that are currently breaking down?!? #even in the 'I'll do better where they went wrong' mentality #heres an idea: do a different thing entirely because obviously that idea is not fucking working #AND why would you change the reason people are here in the first place to be what everyone doesnt want it to be #'we're trying to make it more palatable to users' you are literally making it worse

[joelletwo]

new op already................. liked the last one u____u

#new SERIES????? if i understand right from having to find a whole new site to watch this ep bc it was uploaded wrong ksjf #that was only 13 eps what the hell is the behind the scenes on gintama like.....

[ikihtoe]

HELLO MY LOVES

it's been so long and I've finally got the time to get on this app omg I missed this place.

i have a few words for my mutuals in the tags so I hope you read it a bit at least—I've decided to post this because, idk sending them to you one by one is a bit time-wasting.

#i missed you guys truly #so i wanted to patch things up between us. me and you. because it feels like the follow and follow thing is just a status and not us— #—really being mutuals. i truly love you all but as you all know ive NEVER bring up a conversation let alone hold one and therefore— #—im very sorry #i dont know what and how you guys think of me during all these times but i hope not all of them are bad things #having mutuals was actually something i really wanted but now that i have you guys i dont know what to do because— #—the thought of talking with people online and getting to know each other was so thrilling but it made me realize how poor my— #—social skills are and also made me realize that im a big fat wuss #seeing you guys interact so effortlessly was something ive always envy put until now and it makes me think #“how can i be like them” #so i hope that i can go further into this making friends thing instead of looking for mutuals and i hope you guys can tolerate me as— #—i will try my utmost best to communicate #ill also try to send asks frequently so i can stay online on this hell site (im searching for miguel content as well) #also like i said i want to be more than mutuals i wanna be friends to you guys so hopefully youll see me as one too #thank you for reading this far i truly appreciate i #lovies .* ˀˀ #by the way #i hope this post doesn't rub off the wrong way i just really hate being like this and i wanna fix everything😭

[fantasy-costco]

I think if a tumblr user says anything about history they should include Chicago style citations in the post. This is also true for other areas of study but I don't really know much about those so I only get filled with a blind rage when history posts are wrong. So that's what we need to fix first. For me.

#This is also true of my own posts and it's literally why #I try to only put history stuff in the tags instead of in proper posts #(so if I am wrong misinformation doesn't spread) and when I do I try to cite where I hot my information from #As best I can without doxing myself #Ie most of my information about maritime history comes from my job not classes so I only say 'I work at a history museum' #Not the specific museum I got that information from because that's not safe imo #Otherwise I'll say 'I got this from class' or 'I got this from a research projim working on' or a documentary or a book or etc etc #And if I say something like that you can always send an ask or a dm and I'll give you my sources! #But I don't include that stuff in actual posts because I'm at a weird point in my education #Where I'm technically trusted as a source of information for some people (working at the museum) but I still don't have my bachelors let #Alone the masters so I really don't feel comfortable positioning myself as an expert because I'm certainly not one #Which is why it makes me so frustrated when people who obviously have way less training than me (which is difficult! Like I said I won't #Even finish undergrad until this spring!) position themselves as experts and then just fucking #Lie about a field I care deeply about #Like on top of everything else I'm going into public history so it's about to be my job to clean up your mess. What the hell dude #This isn't about any specific post or person just the general trend of misinformation on this site #There is worse misinformation I know but I also truly believe that know history is necessary to making informed decisions about the present #And when you're mistaken about history or even worse completely rewriting it... That's bad #General rule of thumb if a history 'fact' 100% #Reflects your world view with no issues it's probably propaganda or at least not the whole story. With very few exceptions. #To quote Oscar Wilde 'the truth is rarely pure and never simple' #I made a lot of typos here don't worry about it. You get it.

[timeisacephalopod]

Been seeing a weird amount of shit about AO3 on my dash, at least in part because of some alleged DDOS attack on the site but like I gotta say. If you get frothing at the mouth angry when you see 2 letters and a number losing your absolute marbles making up pizzagate ass sounding conspiracies because you have Feelings on fanfiction then I need you to shut the fuck up. You care too much about something that's nothing at all expect in a highly niche online world you're treating like a global meeting of countries looking to slap your puppy in particular and frankly I find it pathetic.

#winters ramblings #no this is not about people wanting some type of look into racism in fic on AO3 which is a valid concern from poc #im talking about idiots making up bizarre conspiracies sounding like pizzagate motherfuckers flopping on about smut #they dont like existing in a space they can just NOT go to if they hate it so fucking much. use the exclude tags section if youre so presse #or better yet dont use the site and never look at it or discourse about it again because listening to these people is pathetic #like do you people REALLY have nothing more pressing in your real lives to care about enough that you make shit up about a website?? #that hosts FANFICTION??? youre making CONSPIRACIES about it??? these people often like to tell AO3 users to touch grass #but from where IM standing if youre THIS pissed about a HIGHLY NICHE COMMUNITY then YOU need to touch grass #like fuck the us government called they want their escaped experimenta from area 51 back because theyre fucking annoying #i dont understand why discourse exists around this damn site at all if you hate it so much DONT USE IT NO ONE IS HOLDING A GUN TO YOU #why the hell bother pissing yourself off if you could just shut the fuck up and not use a site no one is forced to use #go bitch about facebook or instagram at least THOSE sites do things wrong to their users enough and HAVE enough users to CARE #what theyre doing to their users. the fuck are you on about a random fic site for when god damn insta exists #the ONLY time i ever see anything useful as far as criticism of ao3 goes its literally JUST PoC talking about racism in fic #which makes SENSE to talk about and do something about because THAT problem actually exists

[echowilds]

have been mildly obsessed with an acoustic cover of a song and i finally found the original (wasn't in a language i understand and is apparently at least internationally relatively obscure) and it sounds nothing like the cover. i will now go into the woods to be lost forever

#don't get me wrong the original is cool too #BUT IT JUST ISN'T THE SAME ;_; #yes i will be dramatic about it #it seems to be the only cover of it too :( #i am in hell i tell you. hell #i need to think of a cool music tag at this point i should probably have one #THE ORIGINAL BAND DOESN'T HAVE A WIKIPEDIA what am i supposed to do now :( #their singer does but not in english and it's super short so rip i guess #google i hate you but thanks for translate i guess #this is just me losing my mind over entirely meaningless things at this point #BUT. music :( #girl they have the shittiest name for internet searches. abbreviation is a basic universally used one and apparently what it is (possibly) #abbreviating just gives me sites that are entirely useless for me #why #okay i will stop here this isn't getting any more coherent nor is it getting anywhere #moth echoes #<- goddamnit that would actually be a fun music tag why'd i make it my rambling one

[goldenpinof]

We’re All Doomed World Tour: Australia & NZ leg

21.01.2023, Sydney

Darling Harbour Theatre

Capacity: 2 500

As of the morning 21.01.2023, tickets are still available

The venue doesn’t show all available seats at once, even when you search for tickets you don’t see where they are on the map. Block 5 is sold out. Other blocks have tickets available showed below (maybe more in Block 4 and Block 6).

#wad information #wad.sydney #wad.australia #wad 2022 #awful tickets site die in hell #if there are so many tickets available for og show why the hell did they add another one #what's wrong with them

[timelorddarthswagger]

Wow @tumblr @staff is this who y'all are taking money from to promote these ads? Imagine this is what your site starts to promote after finally showing a little redemption. Did you think you'd be free from getting flamed for this?! I remember leaving snapchat after they had ads with pictures of Rihanna from when she was abused. But this is at the level of bad tabloid spam ads.

With Twitter uncannily Nazi's wild to think that tumblr of all places would start pulling some deplorable s#it.

#tumblr #staff #what the hell is wrong with you #this is why I hate mobile #this is what happens when you support them with them stupid check marks #this is the site you're giving your money to