Sometimes I can still hear their voice

Breaking: TikTok is better bc it’s more hostile towards humanity

The lack of video content is what kept us here... I thought we all agree that the best feature of this hellhole was and always will be anonymity.

Tumblr's not asking for my phone number. It's not going through my contacts to try and connect me with my fucking colleagues. I can come here and talk about whatever I want without anyone ever seeing my face or hearing my voice. I don't have to censor myself and hide my interests or enthusiasm out of fear of consequences it might have in my real life.

I think the biggest misunderstanding they have of Tumblr is that they think of it as a social media platform when in actuality it's a blogging platform with social features.

I like the use of Metroman here because if there's one thing Tumblr users collectively agree on it's that we want everyone to think we're dead

😔

wish we were still on Tumblr instead of the void

reasons i stay on tumblr dot com

• offers a variety of post types
• desktop browser accessible
• customizable features for those inclined
• is famously difficult to monetize, so people here post for the love of the game
• in fact, the ads are often so hilariously bad i’ve thought some were shitposts and have tried to reblog them
• no shop feature that encourages random people to become advertisements, leading to 60% of posts becoming a shill for landfillslop
• has never asked me for my contacts
• has never asked me to turn on location services
• is not subject to the liquid panopticon of turning neighbor against neighbor (e.g republican kirk witchhunt)
• large amount of text based posts that can allow for nuance and discussion
• the unique and organic community that is here. tiktok tried to recreate goncharov and it sucked and was just some girl’s attention promo. the years long inside jokes. the site-specific holidays. dracula daily and jokes about classic lit.
• the rejection of infantilizing, self censoring euphemisms like unalive or grape
• seeing the posts from people i follow in chronological order
• nobody i know to see me engage in “cringe” interests

et cetera et cetera

Also, I feel like we do have “tumblr personalities”? People like @prokopetz, @gallusrostromegalus, @hellenhighwater, or @kaity--did who enthrall many of us with their musings and stories?

They’re just… not monetizing it or trading on their fame or making a big name for themselves in the outside world. You’re not going to see them on the “internet celebrity” edition of Worst Cooks in America or anything. But they very much are notable people on this site.

This isn’t the place to chase clout or fame. It’s the place to have fun.

And it’s the last bastion of algorithm free social media.

Lmao the idea of me being an "internet celebrity" actually makes laugh so hard I peed a little 😂😂😂😂

the context for this is we were discussing how conventional beauty standards even affect people even after death, i just decided to be evil about it