Hope You Like the Color Burple (Also Memes)

hashtagloveloses

if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this

hashtagloveloses

ok i need to make this clearer: if you do not reblog posts and only like them you are contributing to this site actively getting worse and becoming like all the apps you hate. keep likes to things you just wanna keep off your blog. reblog everything else. ESPECIALLY fanart, which always needs a reblog.

hashtagloveloses

and FYI: what i’m saying here is backed up by tumblr themselves. they admit this publicly.

if you want a good RECENT (as of the end of February 2022) overview of what is going on behind the scenes at tumblr, it is basically what i’ve been saying for years: the core staff is tiny, constantly not being listened to when they advocate for us, the community, and working there is a nightmare:

The inside story of how Tumblr lost its way

And how it can find itself again for a new generation.

Mashable

Pinned Post tumblr please reblog things not jojo

itsjustbeek

heated-blanket

Every time I see someone say “what is air?” or “trololol” on tumblr,
all I think is:

get off tumblr, please.

heated-blanket

you are doing ghost of christmas past torment to me

weepylucifer

dry humping in its specificity as a term implies the existence of wet humping

weepylucifer

not my best work

happylandfill23

slimesprinkles

baby horseshoe crabs

pondering my crorb (crab orb)

bihexualandferal

johnnyjoestarrelatable

being moderately proficient with computers in the early 2010s was casting a hex on your family to call you sheldon

johnnyjoestarrelatable

i got a big bang theory box set and a bazinga t shirt for christmas when i was 16

cozy2000

my dad wanted to get me a psych eval so i could say "im not crazy. my father had me tested." like sheldon did and after the psych eval they diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia

baboon-87

this could be the funniest thing that has happened to anyone ever. my condolences king

bihexualandferal

soyeahso

There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.

1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not. Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”

2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.”

Sometimes shipping something does mean that. Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.” Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B. Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.” And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes.

mominmudville

Listen to your parents, kids.

handypolymath

This really should be one of a handful of Public Service Announcements randomly and chronically inserted into one’s dash.

violent-darts

Hell man sometimes it means “these two are TERRIBLE and I want to watch them burn like a catastrophic forest fire as a proxy for all the shit I don’t actually want in real life (like to light my own apartment on fire and scream) and then laugh at the destruction at the end.”