bleaksqueak:

I wanted to help drive home just how much reblogs actually do for a healthy art and social community– not even a social media community, I’m talking about “This is Our Internet, these are Our social circles, and I’m Tired of the Constant Scrolling and Hate Engagement Machine that was invented by techbros and capitalism taking these refuges away from us”.

This is from one of my posts that has around 40k notes on it and still gets enagement to this day. I wanted to get an even bigger reblog graph on it, but wow, all that engagement actually started breaking the tool. Check out how big that is though!

Reblogs and comments (and commenting on reblogs, starting conversations) are not to be underestimated. The social media model of “SCROLL AS FAST AS POSSIBLE feed Likes to the GREAT GOD ALGORITHM” is a new and frankly bullshit method of Internet culture. There’s so many artists, writers, and hell, FRIENDS you haven’t and likely never will meet becuase they don’t appeal to the algorithm. It didn’t used to be that way. It used to function via Seeking and Sharing and building communities. We really don’t have to just be okay with letting capitalism and soulless techduds taking these networks away from us.

dreamerwriternstargazer:

tiktoks-for-tired-tots:

I’m getting genuinely emotional y’all don’t understand how ISOLATING it can be when cultural dress for most other Asian countries are popular and represented and Filipino clothing barely is, LET ALONE PRE-COLONIAL?!

I- 🥹

I hope to find the time and energy to fulfil my dream of making the clothes and dressing like this

r0zeclawz:

tucks you in and kisses your forehead then shows you my knuckle tats that say SEEP TITE

magnusbae:

magnusbae:

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn’t need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It’s not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it’s the type of interaction people have. They’re content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

Something I see mentioned often is “I don’t have many followers, my reblog won’t matter” which is untrue.

First of all, reblogging, commenting and interacting is how you start gathering your own micro community, second of all— you literally do not know how far a single reblog from you could mean in the long run.

For instance, let’s say you only have one person reblog from you, and that person only have one person who reblogged from them also, and so on, and somewhere ten reblogs down the line a very large blog reblogs it and boom, the post is getting more and more exposure!

You see, it does not matter if you don’t have a large following so long as you cultivate a micro community with the people you do enjoy interacting daily with.

As you can see in the second picture I added, most of the reblogs were between very small groups of people, and occasionally it’ll lapse into a large blog that would create a bigger reblog pool. BUT STILL. Saying that you don’t have many followers and so it doesn’t matter if you don’t reblog is UNTRUE.

Even if someone just randomly wanders into your blog one day, it’s beneficial for both sides because A. Seeing you reblog content they like might be enough for them to follow you B. They would be exposed to new content creators they didn’t know previously and might also follow / reblog from them!

So yes, do not underestimate what your reblogs and words mean, just because you’re not ‘big’ or whatever. It is not how tumblr works!!

P.S IT IS NOT CRINGE TO REBLOG 10 YEARS OLD CONTENT ON TUMBLR. YOU SEE IT. YOU LIKE IT? REBLOG IT. DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU DIG IT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ITSELF. XOXO :’D <3

lemonsweet:

lemonsweet:

Request from my brother

I like the interpretations on this

insanelycoolish:

obfuscobble:

naamahdarling:

fuckyeahcomicsbaby:

You don’t have to love your body

I really needed to read this today. Thank you.

Potato girl has her life goals in order.

This is a game changer. 

our-queer-experience:

yeah you think trans bodies are great but are you normal about intersex bodies?

gjjuddmk2:

pink-boobs:

teathattast:

teathattast:

Happy sludge saturday baby

villain-pencils:

Another art trade with @RockingNeonCat inspired from our talks about sweet, sweet Harlivy angst. A bit of Poison Ivy’s potential perspective on Harleen becoming Harley Quinn. The separation and evolution from Harleen to Harley Quinn. All the things she was before, but sharper. Including her sorrow.

squeakadeeks:

fartgallery:

feraligatr:

thrussy:

floodnetwork:

3000s:

zombiefemme:

duncebento:

riben:

skoople:

gopostal:

mnmix:

zzoupz:

rslashrats:

noellevanious:

watermelynn-witch:

loop-zoop:

narwhix:

eliluminado7:

eliluminado7:

erarg:

icarly-blog:

Today I went to the movies. I went to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. It was hilarious. The movie was about a guy named Flint and he wanted to be an inventor. He worked very hard. Then he made an invention that made it rain food. The food got way too big.They had a whoa whoa whoa I’m not gonna tell you anymore. You’ll have to find out and see what happens next.

what-breaks-my-heart:

shortmexicangirl:

‘can i copy your homework?’

'yeah just don’t make it obvious’

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stealthboy:

im really stoned and sleep deprived and im thinking about some of the “about” pages ive seen from young tumblr users and im like. who tf is out here telling 14 year old kids that they gotta put shit like a detailed description of all of their potential social privileges next to a summary of their medical history on public display. Who told them to do that. i don’t wanna see these poor kids pinning detailed lists of their traumas next to words like “thin passing” to the top of their blogs so that every unknown passing stranger can immediately see it. kids whoever is telling u that is wrong ok. im in my mid 20s and I don’t even put my real name on most things online. ur allowed to just be on here and have fun. also don’t blindly trust strangers ok. pls be safe. go look at cat memes

banbanfan01:

i love defunctland because youll be watching a completely ordinary and straightforward video about theme park history until kevin says some shit like “nothing makes one face their own mortality more than being a wiggle” and then continues on like nothing ever happened