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krawkpaladin · 10 months
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Reblogging things I like feels a lot more goblinesque than upvoting ever did. The upvotes felt like "hmm yes, I approve *golf claps*" while reblogging feels like furtively staring at something before shoving it in your mouth and scurrying back underneath the nearest piece of furniture.
Which isn't to say that I don't like it. But I definitely find myself going "maybe I shouldn't reblog this because I've already reblogged a bunch of things today and I don't want to look like I don't have a life," I say as I close the app and reopen it like one of those little automatic box toys with the switches.
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incognitopolls · 15 days
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OP = Original Post (or Original Poster). The original instance of a post.
Anon feels that there's been a shift in tumblr culture where a lot of people seem to be clicking on a post to reblog from the OP rather than the person on their dashboard, and they're curious to see if that's true and what the logic is behind it if so.
We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
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headspacedad · 1 year
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hey new tumblr users
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Welcome!
Now, I’m seeing a lot of posts about new arrivals to the site that are confused about the purpose and point of reblogging posts.  I know that a lot of the sites you came from put a lot of emphasis on earning ‘points’ for your original posts and the only way to earn your own ‘points’ is to interact with others posts.  Don’t get me wrong - we love it here when you add a comment, either to a post or in the tags, but that’s not the POINT of posts here (for the most part).  The goal of a post here is to share.
You’ve got to think of tumblr less as a classroom where one person is teaching and more as a nature hike with friends.
You see a shiny rock you like.  You pick it up.  You show it to a friend.  They like it and show it to their friend.  Their friend puts a pair of googly eyes on it and passes it to their friend.  Their friend runs off to share it with a group of their friends that are looking at bugs under a rock.  You don’t HAVE to interact.  All you have to do is share the rock with a friend because you know your friends might like to see the rock.  Someone passes you a dandelion they picked.  You think its cool and pass it to a friend you know likes the color yellow.  They hand you a yellow leaf.  You pass the leaf back to the dandelion friend. 
The point of having a blog on tumblr is to share stuff that you think is cool with people that follow you.  People will follow you because they think the stuff you’re scrapbooking on your blog is cool (or fun or weird or funny or heartfelt, etc).  You can absolutely paint your own rock and share it with friends.  But if all you do is pass on someone else’s painted rock because you think the people following your blog will like seeing it?  That’s awesome too.
We’re not really about earning ‘points’ or ‘fame’ here - this is your scenic rest stop on the highway.  We ARE about sharing.
So - share.
And if you want to add to what you’re sharing - that’s cool.  But you don’t need to.  As long as you’re sharing with your followers, you’re using this site the way its designed to be used.
See a cool rock?  Reblog that rock so your followers can enjoy it too!
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todayontumblr · 2 months
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Friday, February 2.
My Little Pony can now reblog polls.
Things have changed considerably since 1981. There have been various generations of My Little Pony across this time, not to mention television series and films. There is now a whole fandom community here on Tumblr dedicated to these petit and beloved plastic Equidae. So much so, in fact, that #my little pony is trending today.
On the subject of change, things are in motion here at Tumblr that cannot be undone. Why, you can now add polls to reblogs. Pretty cool, huh? We like to think these four-legged friends would love adding the means with which to record and quantify opinions within posts they are reblogging. They'd just love to!
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phoenixyfriend · 1 year
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Hey does anyone want a Thought about reblogs, and the whole "Tumblr is turning into Instagram" thing?
Because there are two kinds of posts I see a lot:
Why the hell is nobody reblogging art and writing and gifs. It's incredibly disheartening to creators to only get likes and not have their creations be spread.
Nobody wants to be popular on tumblr, because going viral on tumblr wins you nothing of value, just angry anons in your inbox.
Which, for those of us that have been on the site for years, is not a particular conundrum, because there's an obvious difference between "shitposts that went viral because of bad luck" and "content intended for a wide audience."
But for new users, the kind coming here from tiktok and twitter and so on, is probably really confusing. Some of them may see things they want to reblog and then not do so because they've got one of those "nobody wants to be popular on tumblr" posts on the brain, and they think that not reblogging is actually helping avoid a really annoying problem.
(I mean, it's definitely the minority, but still. It's gotta be confusing.)
In honor of the topic: feel free to reblog. Just don't be weird about it.
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monstersandmaw · 9 months
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The impact of reblogging...
Just in case you’re new, or don’t really understand how this entire site functions (and it’s completely different from other social media apps, at least for now*), or if you wanted an illustration of why it’s so important to reblog the posts you enjoy and the hard work of creators you want to support, here’s a visualisation of the impact and reach of reblogging, using my biggest post (part one of my writing masterlist).
Creators are losing the will to post and share in droves because engagement is becoming next to non-existent, and if you don’t reblog the things you enjoy for free, creators wonder why they even bother, and soon they’ll just... stop.
(Look at that reblog to like ratio too... oof)
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My little blog is at the centre of that dense circle, and every point in the image represents a reblog.
Of the people who reblogged the original post, most of them did so directly from me, but you can see scattered groups of reblogs which came from people who reblogged it from those who did so from me. And so on and so on, out into the ecosystem.
If you came across my masterlist in the wild, and didn’t or don’t follow me, you only saw it because someone reblogged it.
Most of the things you see on your dash are only there because someone you follow reblogged it.
It’s how this whole ecosystem works, and you’re smothering and killing it if you don’t reblog the ‘content’ you ‘consume’ (I dislike using those terms, but it is what it is).
To clarify, no one is saying you should feel obliged to reblog everything you come across, or that everything an artist or creator puts out there ‘deserves’ to be reblogged, but for pity’s sake, reblog the things you do actively enjoy.
Leaving a like or a comment on the post is like giving a compliment directly to the creator, and it’s wonderful, but it doesn’t show that post to anyone else or boost its presence on the platform. It can also give the impression you didn’t like it ‘enough’ or it wasn’t ‘good enough’ to bother putting on your blog or reblogging. How you really show your appreciation for something you genuinely enjoyed is by reblogging. (Even better if you screech away in the tags about why you liked it, but that’s an optional extra!) It’s like giving a meaningful and impactful tip, except it’s completely free, and it only costs you the time it takes to click or tap.
I hope that clears things up, and is a useful illustration of the impact you’ve had on creators’ pages by reblogging their work, so a huge thank you to those who represent points on that chart, and those of other creators on here! It’s because of people like you that work of people like me gets seen and enjoyed by more people!!
*(I know Tumblr is trying to change things so that you see other things now, instead of only the people you follow, but you can and should turn that feature off).
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evviejo · 3 months
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How not to be a piece of shit & use the tags for commenting correctly: a guide
✅️ inserting love for the source material, characters, saying the gifs are pretty, being gay on main
❌️ expressing your absolute loathing for the source material, characters, writers, gif makers' choice of colouring - keep that on your own blog where that shit belongs
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psalm40speakstome · 3 months
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Wow umm *coughs*
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wow they took me
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down a surprisingly obsessed road
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myfandomrealitea · 3 months
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I cannot stress this enough:
BUILDING COMMUNITY AND ENGAGEMENT ON TUMBLR IS A TWO-WAY STREET.
Stuck for ideas? Try:
Send asks. It could be anything, even something super basic. Tell someone you like their blog theme or ask them what they think a character's favorite color is. Ask them if they have a secret hobby. Tell them you had an absolute banger of a slice of toast for breakfast. Literally anything. Give them something to talk to you about. You might even make a friend!!
Draw silly little doodles for your favorite piece of fanfic. Literally cannot stress this enough; even stick men art can be adorable and/or hilarious. And I guarantee you it'll make the author's day. A two minute sketch on the notepad app of your phone could genuinely be the reason someone updates their fic, or writes another one.
Write silly little drabbles for your favorite fanart. I used to love this back when I made fanart on my old Tumblr blog. People would reblog it with a silly little 100 word drabble based on the art and I. Would. Swoon. My thing made someone else make a thing!! Amazing!!
Make rec lists. It could be for fanfiction, themed blogs to follow, recipes, movies, anything. Ask people to share theirs. Ask people to give their opinions if they try out something from your list. You wouldn't believe how many of my fanfic bookmarks have come from seeing the blogs I follow recommend something. Because we have the same interests!! Because its even quicker than me scouring hundreds of tags on AO3!!
If someone posts writing or art, ask them questions!! Humans love to be asked things. Especially about things we have made. Ask them what inspired them to make the thing. How long it took them. If they have a favorite thing about it.
Tumblr's engagement and activity levels are not dying because of the website. They're dying because of us. If we're just sat existing in a sad, isolated little bubble, of course we're going to move on to somewhere where we get actual engagement. Where there are other people in the bubble.
We've become so obsessed with an entitlement to receiving and consuming while never actually giving anything back, and that has to die.
"Oh but there's no community for what I like on here."
Make. One.
Tell people about the thing you like. Get them interested. Engage with them about it. Give them a sounding board to share their thoughts and ask questions and create content to enjoy and consume. Make it a discussion and give them something to get involved in.
Find that one other tiny blog screaming into the void about it and scream together!! That's how this website works!!
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ohbother2 · 17 days
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So... I've been gone for a while.... and I'm gonna be gone a bit longer.
For those of you who don't know I'm a university student and exam season is approaching at an incredibly ALARMING rate and I'm just not finding the time to update my WIPs anywhere near as much as I'd like.
I'm gonna be gone for around the next 2 months whilst exam season hits, but rest assured I'm NOT leaving and I WILL be back
Sorry about this, but thank you guys for all the support so far and I'll be back with some *surprises* in the summer :)
Good luck for everyone else in the same boat as me! and for those of you who aren't, enjoy it because you're so lucky
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shippyprincess · 2 months
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IM TRYING TO PROVE TO MY BF THAT PEOPLE LIVE IN WYOMING
If you could reblog to reach a wider audience I'd super appreciate it. 🩵
I love you and have a wonderful day.
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funpolls · 11 days
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incognitopolls · 4 months
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
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hacked-wtsdz · 1 year
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I’m sorry but tumblr’s uniqueness and value ONLY comes from reblogging. Like, apart from Twitter, where the creations aren’t as variable, the rest of it: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok is mostly focused on personal creation. On individuality. But tumblr is created to be shared, to reblog, that’s the only way you can use this site really. Tumblr is more about community than individuality, and that is a good thing.
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ethernalium · 8 months
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sherryclover · 2 months
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AGHHHHH
I FEEL SO DARN STUPIDDD I CANT FIGURE OUT ANYTHING TO WRITE FOR MY CRK ANCIENT OC😞 (MY ONE BRAIN CELL ISNT WORKING PROPERLY HELP ME..☹️ weird thing to ask but is anyone willing to give me ideas 😞)
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