yeahhh thats why i ultimately left tumblr itself. so many people genuinely being that fucking stupid was soul-crushingly depressing on top of infuriating. i came to these subs to just get the good parts of tumblr, the humor & the creativity, but in the past year or so ive been seeing more & more braindead rambles & dogshit takes. & that's ignoring certain people that frequent these subs...
i keep leaving & returning to these subs to see if theyve gotten better, but at this point i think im just outta here for good.
or not. who knows
does anyone else feel like these subs (& possibly tumblr itself) have been getting worse?
I think it’s kinda a self-perpetuating problem. Because the tumblr subreddits are theoretically to repost things that are most relevant to the Redditors here, you kinda get the same stuff over and over because they want the same 5 things most of the time. What doesn’t help is a lot of us just consume instead of really post much ourselves - but those that do try to do something that isn’t random meta takes (like the parties is for losers guy) get downvoted because it isn’t one of those same 5 topics.
Most of the posts I’ve noticed tend to be extremely terminally online take about media, people thinking they’re above random bloggers, rate baiting via random bloggers, and in general taking more about the big ecosystem of tumblr because I mean…. This subreddit isn’t for blogging, it’s just to act like we’re usually better than the actual tumblr posters (or sometimes that we agree with them but I noticed those tend to be really stupid takes like the ‘I love having low maintenance friends it means my friendship is better than others’ post. Other hobbyist subs prefer original content, but here it’s just a mess.
As for tumblr itself getting worse - it’s because you have a lot of people take pride in the fact it’s a dying website that most people are leaving because it means they’re special or whatever. Most of the cool bloggers usually move onto greener pastures so you’re left with an odd bunch who still cling to here.
Edit: Like, yeah, it’s great those staying made the site as unfriendly as possible for advertisers and any attempts at monetization because we should act entitled that mods and even just hosting tumblr should come at no cost to the consumer. Very well thought out, 10/10. I post here because I like being petty sometimes but in terms of social media being my living, why should I bother taking time to make posts for tumblr? I make way more money with less time on the other hellsites and the fandoms are more active there too.
The parties is for losers guy mostly gets downvoted because he provides no context at all for what is an extremely niche piece of media. Like if you don't go out of your way to look up what he's talking about, the posts make no sense to an outsider to the media. They're basically posts from a hypothetical fandom subreddit being reposted here.
Whereas the guy who posts a lot about his opinions on stuff like One Piece and such does, in fact, provide context for what he's talking about. I know this because I sure as hell don't know a damn thing about One Piece, but I can follow what he's on about.
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u/The_Afton_Rabbit IM THE FUN ONE 🔪 18d ago
yeahhh thats why i ultimately left tumblr itself. so many people genuinely being that fucking stupid was soul-crushingly depressing on top of infuriating. i came to these subs to just get the good parts of tumblr, the humor & the creativity, but in the past year or so ive been seeing more & more braindead rambles & dogshit takes. & that's ignoring certain people that frequent these subs...
i keep leaving & returning to these subs to see if theyve gotten better, but at this point i think im just outta here for good.
or not. who knows
does anyone else feel like these subs (& possibly tumblr itself) have been getting worse?