Nothing will make you evil like trying to find a specific tumblr post

tumblr creating a group chat feature that was so horribly designed no one ever wanted to use it (and inexplicably publicly visible?), phasing it in by infecting random users without making an announcement, watching as it sat unused for like a year, and then wordlessly removing it is such a deeply tumblr act. you don't get this anywhere else

"we took porn off tumblr for more lucrative advertising" like this you mean

"post plus" pay me to have to look at these

This is the bad place

Everything feels so sanitized and deliberate compared to the free-for-all, sporadic diary feel of a blog on a site everyone thinks is dead. They need to make sure everything is pristine and marketable to as many people as possible which means everything is an bland as it can be. The presence of blue-checked celebrities on Twitter is also way more ominous than thrilling. Celebrities on Tumblr are more likely to get bullied off or they go completely unnoticed. You can’t even see anyone’s follower count so influencer’s just aren’t a thing. Tumblr tried to implement a verification system but it flopped and died quietly about two weeks after it was introduced, just like it should.

this website is the funniest social media everyone here is actively hostile to it being profitable in any way. and I agree

AND ANOTHER THING! I’m not one to ignore good advice/direct orders from my mother. Fine, whatever, I’ll be more sensitive to whichever potential employer sees what I post even though I’m literally eleven. Of course, I use Instagram less often, but I still like my friends posts and hype them up on their selfies like a good friend does. I don’t need to post things (which is the most irritating part, so it’s all looking up) but at that point I was still on the app. I was passively enjoying Instagram when the final straw landed-- my dad comes and tells me I should regulate what I do because everyone can see what I like including future employers and colleges who aren’t sure if they want to admit you. I was ALREADY stressed out about college applications. Instagram and Twitter, for me, completely fall flat as a form of fun escapism if you can’t actually use them to escape everyday stress like work and school.

Yes, Aaron, it’s true. Pharaoh has the power. He can take away your food, your home, your freedom. He can take away your sons and daughters. With one word, Pharaoh can take away your very lives. But there is one thing he cannot take away from you. Your faith. Believe. For we will see God’s wonders.

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (1998) dir. Brenda Chapman, Simon Wells, & Steve Hickner.

Ok, I’ve decided I’m not done. I really did give Instagram the old college try in middle school. I posted a funny meme. It was completely harmless. Then, not even five minutes later, my mother calls the house from work. I pick it up thinking she wants to ask me to load the dryer or take out the trash or some other useful thing, but she literally just wanted to criticize my choice of meme. She was like, “Honey, do you really think this is appropriate?” but in that way that means “Delete this now” as if my middle school Instagram was the official account for a respectable law firm. My parents are pretty,,, attentive,,, so it’s relatively easy for me to track why I stayed on a social media platform that’s only technically “social”. There was nothing on it to directly connect me to my Tumblr account, so if I wanted someone to find it I’d have to tell them about it directly. I also continue to dislike the mechanics of maintaining an Instagram. People don’t need to know any of my whereabouts, I’m only here to reblog gifs from the 1998 DreamWorks masterpiece Prince of Egypt.

ur such a Badasss Hacker Chick if u use youtube to mp3 websites

This whole Facebook thing has me thinking. I remember friends telling me about the concept of finsta’s in middle school. A friend, let’s call her Gabby, got me to follow her official Instagram account, AS WELL AS her finsta account. Of course, I say, “Sure, but what on Earth is a finsta account?” She’s telling me that finsta stands for ‘fake instagram’ where you can post your less-than-stellar selfies, funny memes, blurry pics that didn’t make the cut, or just your dumb inside jokes. One definition from Urban Dictionary goes on to say that your finsta is where you can be safe to post all of these “without persecution from sororities, jobs, and society as a whole” (thank you, Llama12). I didn’t just wanna fly off the handle, so I looked at a handful of finstas - not all of my friends had one - and they were all really charming and genuine. All of the pictures gave me scrapbook vibes; there was a bunch with red-eye and group pictures in people’s boring living rooms. The captions didn’t feel like they had been workshopped for hours by a dedicated group in order to strike the perfect balance between sarcasm, sexiness, and wit, and yet still preserving a sense of being cool and off-the-cuff. Literally WHAT is the point of Instagram if it’s not even socially acceptable to be posting pictures of your actual life, go post your pics on LinkedIn then. :(