not joking I would kind of like to brutally murder whoever thought it was a good idea to take away clicking on a person’s name to see their reblog and make it borderline impossible to get to the original version of a post without spending ten minutes scrolling with ctrl f
tumblr used to be a high throughput reef ecosystem but then they banned titties and now we’re like an ecosystem in the abyssal sea floor just quietly chugging along, cycling through nutrients at a much slower rate.
then every once in a while a some huge news comes along like queendeath and it’s like a whale fall, we come crawling out of the woodwork like isopods, hagfish, and burrowing worms to feast on the memes for years
it’s been almost two years since destiel-putin-election and we still linger around those bones like limpets
i literally had to screen record this for later to make sure i wasnt fucking hallucinating this dudes random face flashing on the screen every time i clicked a note before taking me to the post. functional webbed site.
i cannot stress enough how much i don’t have the patience to watch a reposted 20-second tiktok of some rando reacting to dumb irrelevant shit…..but give me a 3-paragraph-long short essay on whatever my beloved mutual has been obsessing over in the past week…and call me HOOKED
people who market tumblr as a “fandom website” are missing the fact that the fandom tags are essentially unusable because you cannot venture into them without seeing a take so bad you want to throw up
I always wonder if those popular posts where people are like "do not do this to me... Noo.. I don't want to go viral" are using reverse psychology or if they actually find the attention unpleasant. I've never gotten more than a couple thou out of a text post so it's hard to imagine. What it's like. Why bad