All About Shadowban

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I had no idea about Tumblr’s shadowban until it happened to me. Since then, surprisingly quite a few number of people have texted me about them getting shadowbanned as well. Now that I’m aware of it, I realize it’s becoming increasingly common for legit blogs like mine to get shadowbanned for no reason at all. So hope this helps everyone who has to unnecessarily go through this.

What does shadowban exactly mean?

Basically, your blog exists and mostly functions as it normally would, but Tumblr has made it invisible to everyone else. Tumblr lets you believe that everything is fine and that you can interact with others, but actually you can’t. (Look at the wikipedia definition here.)

Why does this happen?

From what I understand, blogs get shadowbanned since they are suspected of being bots, or just sketchy, or they might be going against Tumblr’s guidelines. I’m not sure, but it might also happen if someone has reported your blog. 

But more often than not, it’s just a tumblr glitch. 

How to tell if your blog has been shadowbanned? And most of the things that happen during this state.

(These are the things that I personally went through. It might not be the same for everyone. Also, my main blog (@that-damn-girl) was shadowbanned. My side-blogs were fine. So in case your main blog is fine but your side blog is shadowbanned, you might have a different experience.)

(P.S. remember that commenting on a post and sending an ask are features reserved for the main blog only.)

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Murals and graffiti on the streets of Ireland in solidarity with the Palestinian people agaisnt settler-colonialism

"Why don't you care about the Palestinian genocide?"

Seen on Berlin

white people stop talking.

and i don't mean stop talking about palestine or stop sharing news or information, i'm saying stop TALKING. you are not our white saviors. you should not talk over us. every single thing you guys are saying, palestinians have said it tenfold. stop feeling as though you are the spokesperson for all of palestine. you do not get to talk over palestinian voices. you must BOOST our voices. you must share OUR voices. you must speak OUT about SHARING our voices. we are and have been saying everything you're saying only now for 75 years. you don't get to prounce around all up here and claim you're suddenly a voice for palestinians. we have our own voices. we have said everything. stop taking the light away from us sharing our experiences and pretending as though you have a part or a role in talking about our grief.

we need people to share OUR voices. we need people to share OUR dreams. OUR lives. OUR strength. we do not need you to speak for us, we need you to help find a place for US to speak.

i'm so tired of the idea that "no one listens to the poc so we as white people must speak for them because everyone only listens to white people". i'm tired. MAKE THEM LISTEN TO US. do not speak for us, but share OUR voices. FORCE the world to LISTEN to US.

BOOST OUR VOICES. SHARE OUR STRUGGLES. OUR DREAMS. OUR STRENGTH. MAKE THEM LISTEN. MAKE THE WORLD LISTEN.

Don't stop talking about Palestine.

Palestinian youths dressed as clowns stage a street performance to entertain children trapped at home because of the coronavirus outbreak in Khan Yunis.  Yousef Masoud

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Seeing footage of the aftermath of the flour massacre in Gaza is so painful

"Where is my daughter? Tell her I don't want flour anymore"

"My brother was shot holding a bag of flour. He kept holding on to it so they kept shooting him"

"Why does flour have to be stained with blood?"

Over 100 have been killed. Every single one of them hungry. Every single one of them has someone waiting for them to come back with the bag of flour.

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against innocent civilians. Israel ambushes starving Palestinians and shoots them. Israel is not fighting a war to defend itself. This is another episode of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

anyway i won't tell you how to vote in november but if you're campaigning for joe biden before he calls for a ceasefire you are campaigning for genocide and your sanctimonious "i don't like the genocide" remarks are unnecessary and do not absolve you of this. pressure him for a ceasefire before you have the nerve to list his accomplishments for your healthcare and your trains and your taxes. the blood isn't even dry yet. people are starving. you are all so fucking shameless, so fucking cowardly, and so intellectually dishonest in the name of your harm reduction. you do not believe in harm reduction—you believe in self-preservation. and i know that when i see your "we need a president we can pressure" comments—are you pressuring him right now? is there any evidence of pressure that works when he is hellbent on breaking international law? somehow you not only have less of a backbone than beto o'rourke, but you are even less convincing.

the only reason people are rushing to reblog your little liberal absolutions for bombs and starvation is because they, too, are desperate for self-preservation. the nerve of acting like you are all sucking it up and making a decision you don't want to make, the nerve of the "i hate them both too!" "i don't like either of them too!" when you are all just desperate to keep yourselves safe and very desperately convincing everyone else to keep you safe as well, as though people are trying to throw you under the bus instead of trying as desperately as they can to save the lives of people currently starving to death while you campaign for their exterminator

been doing some thinking on what it means to be an internet artist in 2024 and it kind of sucks tbh. there's so much focus on numbers, but numbers aren't fulfilling. what really matters to me is community engagement, or the actual response i get from my audience. a number (be it a like or reblog) doesn't tell me anything. but tags do, postulating about the meaning of my drawings in the tags or my inbox or replies means something. but you can't get those kind of thoughtful comments without reblogs. and then, those thoughtful comments are SO few and far in between, it's genuinely kind of depressing. like, let's say you post a drawing and it gets 100 notes. great! 90 of them are likes and 10 of them are reblogs. MAYBE one person will tag it with any of their personal thoughts. and that's a big maybe. even small comments like "cute!" or "i love this so much omg" are worth more than silence. idk. i've been on the internet for a really long time and this new wave of reclusiveness from audiences just kind of sucks. it's demotivating and isolating and it takes a lot of the joy out of creating. when you think to yourself, "man, i bet they'll love this drawing!" only to have like, two people tops say as much... when u post ur art online for free like i do, that engagement is literally The Only Thing u get out of it. so it's sad to watch in real time as it becomes sparser and sparser. whatever. who cares (i do.)

ive seen that post like 4 times in my dash and it was made during the genocide and circulating during the genocide even as joe biden could not have personally given a bigger middle finger to all the nice liberals who really do just want him to win but he can't stop killing palestinians long enough for them to campaign for him without tampling on a mountain of corpses to get there...

like if you are a liberal afraid of trump you can at LEAST follow michigan's lead which gives you a very clear path of getting people involved in their civic duty while utilizing a protest vote (and yes i know some states do not have that option and have to use a write-in) because thats your base!! the people voting uncommitted aren't voting for trump!! you're not going to berate people into ignoring a genocide nor will you "look on the bright side" them into ignoring a genocide so maybe you should confront the genocide because posts asking americans to vote instead of asking americans to campaign for a ceasefire while listing joe biden's achievements in the current climate cannot be described as anything except genocide apologism, even if it is not the intention of the poster, that is exactly what it is.

if you guys have the means, would you please consider donating to (or sharing) this fundraiser for the family of a friend of mine from school? they live in gaza and are currently trying to evacuate. the father of the family, Hassan, was injured and needs surgery (possibly amputation) on his leg. you can see the photos and doctors notes on the gofundme. please please share or donate if you can

your time is worthwhile if your disability means you have to rest most of the time. if you can only do a few events a month, or a year, that's alright. if you need to sleep a lot, lie down a lot, that time isn't wasted. it doesn't make your experiences any less meaningful. feeling like you're missing out on different activities doesn't make the ones you do any less worthwhile. being disabled and restricted in activities doesn't make you boring or diminish your worth. there's no threshold for things you have to do to "really experience life" - you experience it by being alive. and every disabled life is a life that's worthwhile

This is another campaign I trust!!

Go ahead and donate if you can spare a dollar!

1 March. Displaced Palestinians in Rafah perform Friday prayers on the rubble of Al Farouq mosque, which was bombarded by Israel's military

UPDATE: MORE BLANKETS!

After two long weeks of looking, Hussam managed to find 500 blankets for displaced people! The nights in Gaza are quite cold, especially in a tent with little protection from the elements, so these will go a long way to help people stay warm!!

For those of you who have been following this, my tumblr ‘helpgazachildren’ was deleted for unknown reasons. In the meantime, I put together this notion site to help document all the receipts and videos of updates for people who want a backlog of information. I will be continuously updating this site.

Please consider donating today. Your donations go directly to people in need with NO middle man in between. No donation amount is too little, or if you’re unable to donate please spread the link today!!!

For those who cannot donate through paypal, here is Hussam’s gofundme! Please note that Paypal is still the preferred way to donate!

ID: Video of the 500 blankets which then cuts to the distribution of blankets to displaced peoples as they walk away. The three pictures are of people as they walk away with blankets atop their heads.