#you don't need to be cowed into hiding your posts under a readmore or your insights in the tags because your blog isn't cool or aesthetic

[adhoption]

seeing a lot of that ‘commenting on posts is obnoxious and you should feel bad’ post going around (funnily enough with two additions!), so I just wanted to say that I love it when people interact with my posts and nobody should feel guilted into hiding their thoughts in the tags

you should not be shamed for expressing yourself on your own blog. the reason this site is becoming less fun is because of cringe culture, a shift to liking instead of reblogging, judging ‘effortposts’, and these pretentious people who just passively reblog other people’s memes and never contribute anything of their own, whilist looking down on people who do. 

but honestly, those are the most boring blogs I see. if you are literally adding nothing, no original posts, no comments, because you’re boring enough to think you need to be ‘peer reviewed’ before being allowed to post a joke, you may as well not be here. you don’t get to shame the people making jokes into silence: you might not like a lot of what they add, but they are the ones coming up with the occasional reblog-chains even your no-fun-allowed, serious-blogging kind enjoy enough to circulate. they are the ones creating the content you come here to silently peruse.

I saw another post about this recently, but: in any context, I always respect the person who tries to make a joke or come up with a new point a lot more than the person who shuts them down, sneers and says ‘you’re not funny’, because it’s so easy to be cynical and judgemental from the corner! it’s the approach of the lazy, or the cowardly, but always makes the person feel smugly superior to the poor sap trying, when the opposite is the case. the other person is being themselves, and more power to them. your insecurity about your own thoughts doesn’t make you better, and you shouldn’t try to push it onto them.

I would have thought Tumblr was the social media site for people who were shamed for expressing themselves in school, peer pressured into keeping quiet and repressing their weird sense of humour or whatever because it wasn’t cool, but it looks like a good few years of wonderful liberated chaos we’ve reinvented ‘don’t try to be funny, nobody wants to hear from you, mumble it under your breath and we’ll decide whether it’s worth posting’, which is desperately sad and part of what is making this website a more boring place

#tags have a use #for side thoughts or afterthoughts like this #or personal asides you don't want to add to the chain #or for straight up reactions like 'lol' of 'a;sddksfslfjsf' which are not really comments #but if you have anything to say then say it! #this is your blog! #this is supposed to be a SOCIAL media site where you are allowed to INTERACT with things #you don't need to be cowed into hiding your posts under a readmore or your insights in the tags because your blog isn't cool or aesthetic #tags can be seen in the notes now anyway #sure I have posts which became more popular than I would have liked and still get comments on them which I don't care for #but I'd still be interested if they were interesting comments #it's just most of them were 'hah look at this meme' which doesn't really need saying in the body