What the hell did I like that made the algorithm pop this out?

tumblr is one of the websites of all time

Tumblr I got it, you do not need to show me each time another post of John’s with a ‘based on your likes!’, I already know that. Now stop it.

I hate this "based on your likes" feature so much. because more often than not it ends up putting the most insane discourse youve ever seen in your fucking life, from corners of this godforsaken website that you cant even begin to fathom, right there on your dashboard. and youre forced to just look at it and wonder what sick god couldve conceived such an existence as this.

Tumblr, I s2g if I see one more ‘ Based on your likes’ post, where it’s literally a post i’ve already liked

YEAH, NO SHIT I’D LIKE THIS POST, THATS WHY I LIKED IT WHEN IT CAME ACROSS MY DASHBOARD THE FIRST TIME!!1

I love with when tumblr says "Based on your likes!" and it's a post with the exact type of fanfiction you need right now, to the point that it feels like a personal attack

Like yes you silly little algorithm. You get me.

why is my "for you" feed just porn, all I reblog are furbys and gen z humor

can you stop fucking invading my dashboard with your shitty "based on your likes" like stop. i dont care. do you think im using tumblr for that stupid shit? if you want to have that then fine but keep it relegated to its god damn tab. plug up whatever hole its leaking through right fucking now

Someone please for the love of God explain to me how the based on likes recommendations are supposed to work, bc in the last 10 minutes of catching up with my mutuals' posts, I've blocked 10 different blogs posting fanfic for fandoms I have no desire to be a part of. Half of these fucking things were RPF x reader and Harry Potter

that's it I'm moving back to reddit

‘Based on your likes!’ Yes I like John but I already follow him, so why are you recommending me this, website? Some kind of message? Some code? And why the pizza post of all posts? @consultjohnwatson​ do you want pizza? Is this a sign?

You can opt out of "based on your likes!" now

Nonsense discourse begone

Tumblr's "based on your likes!" feature in the following feed is nice, and I've ended up following some of the accounts featured there, but it also has a tendency to get posts "stuck" (for lack of a better term) for days, with no way to remove them if they're not something I'm interested in. The result is that my feed feels stale, even when the accounts I actually follow have posted. A dismiss button or some sort of control would be nice.

ok not to sound like a little baby who can't deal with being on the Internet or whatever but like. Why is Tumblr allowed to show me just the wildest fucking shit without my consent? Specifically, the "Based on your likes" recommendations have been just completely nonsensical, frequently pretty graphic fetish/kink stuff that I'm not into, and sometimes kinda triggering. Like some days it's annoying but relatively harmless stuff like obscure Harry Potter fanfic-of-a-fanfic, but other days it's really specific fetish content that I find kind of disturbing. I'm not here to kinkshame anyone, I don't have an issue with the existence of these kinks and I'm absolutely NOT blaming the creators of this content—it is very clearly being written for people who have that particular interest/are involved in that kink community and I'm sure they like it just fine, but again that reinforces my question, why is Tumblr showing it to me? Honestly, if I was creating hyper-specific kink content for a particular community, I would be mortified to learn that it was being randomly recommended to people outside the community who might find it offensive or triggering.

I'm not going to name any of the specific fetishes/kinks because again I don't want to cast any negativity toward them. But I genuinely am baffled as to why Tumblr thinks I would like this content. I literally do not follow any sexual, fetish, or kink blogs whatsoever and never create or reblog that kind of content. The most that I've done is, like, mention BDSM as a general concept (nothing specific/graphic) a couple times; absolutely nothing that would lead a normal person to think "Oh yeah, this person is probably extremely into ________ super specific fetish."

Idk, I'm not the most sensitive person and I definitely can deal with seeing stuff that makes me uncomfortable, but I also...don't want to have to do that for no reason??? And it just kinda sucks because Tumblr used to be the one place on the Internet where I felt completely safe because I only ever saw content from blogs I follow (if I go in the search function/tags, I know I might be in for some surprises, and I was fine with that taking on that risk when doing those things), and now that's no longer true.

And I hope that Tumblr's response to this is not to just blanket ban any kind of fetish/kink content, because I don't think that that's particularly fair or a good solution. Honestly my preferred solution would be to just get rid of recommendations altogether, or at least allow users to turn them off. But at a bare minimum, fix your damn algorithm so that it's not showing people stuff that's completely off-base in its recommendations.

Of course, the most likely thing is that they'll do nothing at all (or somehow figure out how to make it function even worse).

look i love the "based on your likes" feature but now tumblr will just watch me like a post and then immediately show it to me again as if it's a new post

like "hey we noticed you like this post, would you like to immediately look at it a second time?!"

call that tumblr induced déjà vu