"tumblr used to have a porn bot proble," No they're back, nature is healing.

@luxtobeyou

Жыл бұрын

predators and prey are finally back in balance 🙏

@auroraeve3327

Жыл бұрын

bro they really never left. even in the great porn purge I swear the bots were still there through the whole thing

@Sonicsis

Жыл бұрын

@@auroraeve3327true but lately there’s been an uptick, a bunch of my blogs and friends blogs got dms recently

@unitlonda4925

Жыл бұрын

@@Sonicsis Same here actually! It's been very on-and-off mostly but today I got 2 sketchy dms and like 4 pornbots following me. For some reason I feel like bot activity has increased again recently

@funfettiiz

Жыл бұрын

THEY WILL NOT LEAVE ME ALONE!!!! ive had 2 block so many of them.....

I’m just counting down the days you read My Immortal to us like we’re all five year olds on the reading rug sitting criss-cross.

@niiii_niiii

Жыл бұрын

Same here ❤️❤️❤️

@hatimzeineddine8723

Жыл бұрын

christmas

@clawed_myth

Жыл бұрын

Same, I've been checking her sub count daily

@anusername8350

Жыл бұрын

It’s nearly time

@anusername8350

Жыл бұрын

@@hatimzeineddine8723 trauma for Christmas? Oh boy my fave!

This video has the same energy as that Reddit post of the guy who thoroughly and non-judgmentally explained to another user how to order a sandwich at Subway because they had anxiety and I appreciate it very much

@apocalypsed

Жыл бұрын

Where can I find this precious post?

@nana-oi9oe

7 ай бұрын

honestly that’s a useful post… i never order at subway and that sort of format of moving along and ordering the stuff as you go, gives me anxiety too lmao

@Lundy.Fastnet.Irish_Sea

3 ай бұрын

there should be a subreddit where people can ask how to do simple things with no judgement

@JoyButerbaugh

2 ай бұрын

@@Lundy.Fastnet.Irish_SeaTHIS. PLEASE. For the ones with parents who didn’t teach them!!! Or friends who misguided them!!! (Me)

As a Tumblr vet, it's so satisfying to see someone lay out all the unspoken rules like this. It's like meeting someone that has the same hyperfixation as you.

@SamRandolph

Жыл бұрын

Fuck, as a queer person with ADHD, I think the way you describe that is just perfect. There's so much nuance and detail to social media etiquette that's easy to miss... This really captures the vibe.

@wakawakatakeover

Жыл бұрын

Speaking of hyperfixation... I think that I recognize your avatar image.

@kickpunch202

Жыл бұрын

@@SamRandolph Same hat? Same hat! I'm also a queer person with ADHD!

@SamRandolph

Жыл бұрын

@@kickpunch202

@circeus

Жыл бұрын

I read this as "tumblr veterinarian" and it took me 20 seconds to start questioning it.

Tumblr is all the advantages of social media without the mortifying ordeal of Being Known.

@AVspectre

Жыл бұрын

As someone who has avoided almost all personal social media, this is appealing.

@FuckYouho

Жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure, Mistress Cogita. But I'm afraid I'm not here today to learn more of Hisui's myths and legends. Why, is the man/lady of the hour. He's/she's the one who quelled the frenzy of all the Pokémon nobles, believe it or not.

@ohmyprettygirl

Жыл бұрын

Yes!! This is what I loved about being on tumblr during its peak years. I felt connected and entertained while also not worrying about being well known and not having anyone I know added on there.

@Lasanga95

Жыл бұрын

I Only use like 3 social media platforms on a regular basis. You tube tumblr and discord.

@Gafafsg

Жыл бұрын

@@FuckYouho …Volo bot?

Ah, the tumblr porn bots named after regular people names. Pour one out for Olivia Bot.

@delicateghoul

Жыл бұрын

This is unrelated, but as someone in the drag fandom I'm always confused when I see a queen with a regular girl name and not a pun or goof name. Like it makes sense if it's a trans girl who does drag going by her name but a cis drag queen with a normal name just makes me think they're boring and not gonna put on a good show. Same thing with kings, if it's just a regular guy name I assume it's not about putting on a show but more about living a personal fantasy, which is cool but not what I'm looking for. Idk I'm just rambling at this point

@oranplan1630

Жыл бұрын

@@delicateghoul you are correct, that is very unrelated. what.

@Robin-234

Жыл бұрын

I just have a few people who share my interest following me and we all reblog and like eachothers posts like a little rat circle- but recently I've gotten twice as many follower notifications from like "nicholenicholson123 is now following you" and I have to instinctively block them(they arrive one by one, not in one giant bot conga line).

@JakeFish5058

Жыл бұрын

@@delicateghoul A couple friends of mine *drag*ged me out to a drag show the other week and they decided that since I was coming I should be in drag. I've been told I agreed to this. But more to the point, they started trying to come up with a drag name for me and went through a bunch of puns and whatnot, then went for some uncommon or old-fashioned but still name names but eventually ended up deciding I looked like a "lily". Your comment has made me question wether this was a good thing lmao

@yukiandkanamekuran

Жыл бұрын

theyre super back. its so annoying fr

This video inspired me to create a tumblr account after 8 years of ingesting second hand funnies but instead I found a forgotten rp blog which was somewhat terrifying

@floatingbooks4058

Жыл бұрын

dead blog archaeology is half the fun of tumblr tbh

@thedemoninyourcloset.

5 ай бұрын

It caused me to make a tumblr account. except apparently I already had one under that email, to my great surprise, from *seven years ago.* it has a whopping 3 posts, one of which is original squidward joke smut where he jerks off his nose. certainly a turn of events

@bonkorbebonked

11 күн бұрын

​@@thedemoninyourcloset.You say it was under your email but was it actually a blog you made

Strange sounds like a mom trying to make her shy kid be more social. "oh, look, Neil Gaimon is over there! Don't you want to play with him?"

On messaging manners: don't private message people to just say hi if you haven't been following someone a while. It's just mildly uncomfortable and feels like bot behavior. Say something funny or weird if you wanna chat. But when I get "hi"s from blogs I've never interacted with, I am immediately on guard.

@tallymebanana8918

Жыл бұрын

It's so disheartening I remember when you could and a lot of people found friends that way and now you can't cuz creepy ass people ruined tumblr a bit

@elizabethingermann5911

Жыл бұрын

@@tallymebanana8918 I mean, it's not all unprompted messages. Like, the trick is to sound like a person. Talk about a common interest or a specific post. But people trying to hit you with malware links would make bots to start conversations and send the links, and when people got suspicious of messages from Jenny who needs beta testers for her game [link here], they got the bots to just say hi first, then give the spiel to anyone who answered. So unsolicited "hi"s started feeling invasive and weird. Meanwhile shitposting in someone's inbox remains largely ok.

@ChibiChidorii

Жыл бұрын

Yea if they are not mutuals you can start the conversation by saying something like "Hi, I saw you posted x" or "I see you like x" and start from there. Just "Hi" feels like a bot or a weirdo. I feel like back in the day (2010 ish) just saying hi was normal because the big social media was Facebook and there you had to send requests and accept them, so the person already acknowledged that you existed so we got used to that kind of interaction. But with Twitter and Instagram being about following people you don't know it has become kinda creepy unless you are replying to something else they posted

@gentlesandladymen

Жыл бұрын

I met one of my best online friends this way, but the key is easing into it. We preved for a bit back and forth a few times and the she sent me some asks along the lines of “you seem chill thanks for playing along :)”, then did I jump in and DMs her. When in doubt, send someone an ask! It never hurts :)

@EmissaryofWind

Жыл бұрын

That's kind of the general rule for all private messaging, not just tumblr. If you message someone you don't know, start with something you can have a conversation about, not just "hi"

as someone who experienced peak tumblr through pinterest screenshots, this is so helpful

@MT-lk7qt

Жыл бұрын

eyyyy someone else who experienced peak tumblr secondhand!

@alltheworldatmyfeet

Жыл бұрын

Omg me too. Pinterest made me interested in Tumblr to begin with. It was like a sanitized version of it

@worknotinprogress7172

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea there were others that were exposed to Tumblr through Pinterest

@rachael5300

Жыл бұрын

I experienced it thru Google Images and ifunny

@gabriellegoodwin4422

Жыл бұрын

This comment reached out of my computer and slapped me across the face how dare you do this to me

addition: as an artist on tumblr i ADORE when people reblog and add a comment or add funny tags, or even reply to the post. it's not like twitter where "qrting" art is an absolute no-go, because unlike twitter, adding a comment does not take away interaction from the original post/poster. so go ham!!

@KlaraL-_-

5 ай бұрын

What the hell is "qrting"????

@Anindeterminateamountofbees

5 ай бұрын

@@KlaraL-_-idk and now I’m curious

@Anindeterminateamountofbees

5 ай бұрын

@@KlaraL-_-ok so I looked it up and it stands for “quote retweet” so do with that information what you will

@ten4185

5 ай бұрын

@@KlaraL-_- it's quote retweet, artists don't like them too much bc when you like a quote retweet, you don't like the original post, just the qrt, so that means less interaction with the original art tweet

@noonstar3435

3 ай бұрын

Yea it adds to it if anything I love it sm

Can we talk about how Pinterest is just Tumblr but without the Tumblr and more 40 year old mom's with their recipes

@cottonballbats

Жыл бұрын

Pinterest is the Tumblr for ppl with social anxiety who never got a Tumblr when it "peaked" (2011-2016) because of how many people were clowning on """SJWs""" but still wanted to experience the good tumblr experience

@not_zippy

Жыл бұрын

And 10000 more bugs

@huffing_metal

Жыл бұрын

@@cottonballbats damn accurate

@mourningcttlfsh

Жыл бұрын

i used to use pinterest in 2020 to look at screenshotted tumblr posts because i was too scared to actually make a tumblr myself (honestly a good thing considering the type of person i was)

@Casperhateslife

Жыл бұрын

And 13yos too who meme in the corner after covid hit

"we're all creepy strangers on tumblr" is an incredible quote

The only DNI that people really take seriously anymore is "Minors DNI", which is common among blogs that have adult content. If you're a new user this is the main one to be aware of.

@batfurs3001

Жыл бұрын

I've also seen the opposite be respected, so nsfw stuff DNI. Most reasonable DNIs like that get taken seriously honestly, just as a respect thing from both sides

@thebettertee

Жыл бұрын

even though it often does seem like a big red “do not press” button sometimes (a common experience of my weird gang of teenage tumblr utilisers)

@MellowDad

8 ай бұрын

shoutout the minors who take care of their online experiences by not interacting though. those warnings/restrictive preferences are there for a reason

@xfrauleintraumendx

7 ай бұрын

​@@MellowDad...and unshoutout to the person that had "minors dni" in their bio (their blog wasn't nsft just wasn't comfy with them interacting ig) and yet interacted on one of my posts even though I literally have "minor" in my bio. that was REALLY awkward lol

@MellowDad

6 ай бұрын

@@xfrauleintraumendx honestly, nobody’s business why someone has a DNI in their bio. it’s corny as hell that they did and STILL interacted with a minor though lmao

cool tip!: stay out of ship drama, even if it's a generally negatively perceived pairing. there's still gonna be people who think you're rude for speaking against it

@xxri

Жыл бұрын

also literally just block tags for ships (or anything) you dont like, its a lot easier than wasting your energy on discourse

@neonradius

8 ай бұрын

@@xxrihonestly I’m really happy that tumblr has moved away from the idea that you have to interact with all discourse or you’re basically just as bad as the OP, and we’re now acknowledging that blocking tags and not getting involved in discourse is much healthier. I stopped using it years ago because I was so tired of the whole “why haven’t you made a statement on the shipping drama the only explanation is that you actually support ships between minors” (which, funnily enough, is now how tiktok is)

as a neurodivergent person who also has anxiety, I have a lot of anxiety surrounding going into new situations without knowing the unspoken rules (because I can almost never figure them out), and I’ve been wanting to make a tumblr account for a while, but all of the culture around it has always made it feel pretty unapproachable, so this video has helped me a lot both in getting information and easing some of that anxiety :D

@thisisayoutubeaccount

7 ай бұрын

dw bestie, everyone on tumblr is neurodivergent too

one of the biggest things to keep in mind with tumblr is that its a /blogging/ platform with social media features, not a social media platform

@fionafiona1146

Жыл бұрын

The cool thing about a library it's a media platform with temple esthetics rather than a temple with a media collection

@generatoralignmentdevalue

Жыл бұрын

Yes, this. Don't go there looking for a community or to actually talk to anyone. Just be warned that it's technically possible.

i LOVE the anonymity of tumblr. as a teen guy, i love how it gives me a space to explore myself and talk about anything i wat without judgement. it means a lot to me to have this place where i can be me

@wettexter420

Жыл бұрын

i have a fanblog for a podcast called dungeons and daddies btdubs.

@ChibiChidorii

Жыл бұрын

I agree, a lot of us probably got into tumblr because of the same. I could express myself, explore myself and interact with communities and I didn't even have to post. I could just be me even if I didn't know who I was and that liberty was amazing. Even by just rebloging you already feel part of a community but it also feels very selfmade.

@Joyride37

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! You should be allowed to be anonymous and cringe and explore your identity and interests safely on the net. Tumblr and Reddit (the only two sites i really frequent, I’d Im online at all) is sorta a holdover of the Old Internet, late 90s to early 2010s, where anonymity and weirdness was the norm and social media wasn’t much of a thing, maybe MySpace and Facebook at most. I was in 9th grade when Instagram came out and it’s wild to watch how the internet has morphed into this Real Names and Identities space where you’re being constantly advertised to and have to watch watch you post because family and employers may see

@peacewasalwaysanoption8593

Жыл бұрын

hm idk im still scared of getting flamed

@sleepipillow6521

Жыл бұрын

@@peacewasalwaysanoption8593 unless you're widely popular or said something abhorrent you'll be fine, if anything there'll be a chance where a blog post of yours gets popular bc you said something funny! Tumblr users know Tumblr is ridiculous so they tend to stay in their own lil bubbles with the occasional glance outside

a DNI is also one of the fastest ways to get targeted harassment. if you have one up and you post/reblog something that someone doesn't like, like say, any opinion of a fandom, and you have a DNI, people who hate that opinion now have a list of your triggers and hatreds to use against you

@nasinnarcotics

Жыл бұрын

Yes this!!! DNIs literally do the exact opposite of what they’re intended for. The whole thing is incredibly naive and I’m honestly shocked they haven’t fallen completely out of fashion by now

@xfrauleintraumendx

7 ай бұрын

THANK YOU OMG my dni is not public and it never will be. atp most people have recognized that publicly listing your triggers is extremely unsafe and an awful idea but like... the same goes for dnis? also most people on people's dni lists don't have the basic human decency to respect such a boundary in the first place lol I was on a pet site that banned dni lists because they cause drama and can be unsafe and so many people threw a tantrum about it and it was ridiculous.

“Free yourself from these shackles of being perceived.” I adore that oh my gosh

It takes someone of true culture to make a 100% serious post and then title it “A 100% serious post about tumblr etiquette”.

@khodges72

Жыл бұрын

It did throw me off for a second

@papasscooperiaworker3649

Жыл бұрын

@@khodges72why

@salem-01

Жыл бұрын

@@papasscooperiaworker3649 because we all thought it would be super disingenuous

@emmathomas2832

3 ай бұрын

i genuinely checked if it had been released on the first of april

I watched this whole video despite knowing all of this already as a forever tumblr user because honestly I'd listen to you describe paint drying for thirty minutes to an hour if you chose to do that

@sinzones3909

Жыл бұрын

Same 💀

@_-insertname-_

Жыл бұрын

Mood

@coyoteartist

Жыл бұрын

So like when people willingly watched Richard Burton read the New York City phone book on Tv.

@fool4343

Жыл бұрын

ive been passively on tumblr since 2016 (i wasnt as good w english before that year) and ive learned smth that was nice i didnt understand that i should reblog till year ago lmao

Blaze also seems to do pretty well for pet pictures, especially when you caption it with something like "I paid money to make you look at my dog"

@ainsleyferron

10 ай бұрын

I did this one (tumblr blazed my puppy on his first birthday) and it was well received

for anyone that really struggles with doomscrolling, I 100% recommend turning off endless scrolling! It’s helped me a lot with staying in the moment snd kept me from digging too deep into things I’ve already seen

@generatoralignmentdevalue

Жыл бұрын

I've never yet seen a site or app where infinite scrolling was in any way helpful.

@sonderdazealt

Жыл бұрын

​@Richard Dickinson double win for my biggest internet struggles

@doe4003

Ай бұрын

How do I do this? I really need it 😅

Lynda Carter (original Wonder Woman) is an amazing follow. She joined and IMMEDIATELY adapted to the chaos. I don't care about Wonder Woman but she's fun.

@romywhite290

Жыл бұрын

Source: me, I've had an account since 2010 but i lurked in 09.

@annoyingginger5077

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, you need to adapt, I mean Neil (I can't spell his surname) literally gained so much respect by being a nice guy on the site, people are extremely polite to him.

@loganl3746

Жыл бұрын

She came back cuz Twitter is a burning train wreck and she's so good at memeing

@jazzycat8917

Жыл бұрын

@@annoyingginger5077 you can't spell Gaiman?

@fruitygarlic3601

Жыл бұрын

@@jazzycat8917 It could also be Cicierega. An abundance of Neils.

here’s an observation i find cool: tumblr users are more likely to use ellipses or full stops to show hesitation, suspense etc, while twitter users more often will use commas in the same way. my suspicion is that because you can’t use commas in tags on tumblr (as that would just create a new tag), full stops are used a lot more than commas by tumblr users

@shadows-sweet-embrace

Жыл бұрын

There is a way to use commas in tags, but you have to use a unique comma symbol. Here it is, btw -> ‚

@KidCat2k

Жыл бұрын

an accent......

@astabaker9421

Жыл бұрын

I think also an aversion to ellipses comes from character limit on twitter? 3 characters when 1 would do? No thank I sir

@romywhite290

Жыл бұрын

There was a cool post about internet speak and pidgin languages years ago and it talked about this

@jadziajan

Жыл бұрын

@@shadows-sweet-embrace I think with the new editor on desktop you can use regular commas now. But you can't do it on mobile as of yet. Edit: nvm, I was either lied to, or the US is allowed to use commas and I'm not lol.

I will never forget about the "ceo of tumblr" yelling "IT'S ALL PORN???"

@derekw104

11 ай бұрын

Brennan Lee Mulligan?

teya: "some people are having trouble coming back to tumblr" me, who keeps popping into tumblr a couple times a year and never feels like i left: "HOW???" and then she explained all the etiquette rules, and suddenly i understood that i am the weird one here lol

@mekinot

Жыл бұрын

I'm like you, and watching this video felt like almost nothing has really changed on tumblr since I stopped using it as actively as before lol

An extra note on the custom themes thing: regardless of whether you feel like customizing your blog, you’re going to want to enable custom themes anyways. Otherwise, anyone without a Tumblr account who receives a link to a post on your blog will not be able to see the rest of your blog. If they attempt to do so, they will instead see a very annoying pop-up telling them to make an account. If you want your blog to be public and also not be inconvenient, I highly recommend turning the custom blog slider on. You can still use the default theme! I know I do because I’m lazy and don’t want to change it.

@g.y.perelechow3587

Жыл бұрын

Wish more people knew that, the popup is so unbelievably annoying

@buchelaruzit

Жыл бұрын

I'm fully a tumblr user and I actually had no idea about that. well, precisely because i already have a tumblr account i guess

@ismathers

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the information really needs to be spread more, _especially_ for creators and other people who want to share stuff from tumblr to people not on tumblr. It used to be the default!

@salem-01

Жыл бұрын

Omw to do that now ty

@-Foliage-

Жыл бұрын

Where in the settings is that (on mobile app)?

Back before my transition, I really struggled with my mental health. I had a blog on Tumblr, and met a lot of lovely people on there. Even a girlfriend. I deleted it after I realised everyone I was friends with had moved on. Now that I'm quite deep into my transition, I feel a great need for somewhere to voice my thoughts about a very difficult time in my life. I might look into starting a blog again, and this time I will choose a URL that isn't in the "song titles that also unfortunately sound like racist dog-whistles" category. EDIT: I caved and made a new blog and this site sucks now.

@someguy9893

Жыл бұрын

What was the url? That last line intrigues me

@candyzombiee

Жыл бұрын

@@someguy9893 no same i’m so curious actually-

@boybreakdowns

Жыл бұрын

@some guy maybe white riot?

@rachelblake2350

Жыл бұрын

To everyone asking what my URL was, I will not be saying at risk of doxxing my dead name. However, I will say that it is a metal song, and not related to colours. Which actually made it worse somehow, because at least with that you could make the argument that black and white are just colours?

@RedSpade37

Жыл бұрын

@@rachelblake2350 Well, Rachel, I will read your new blog, if you make one. I understand how all this goes, unfortunately. More power to you!

I must admit I've always done my best to keep a healthy social media mindset and a huge part of that is avoiding models and beauty social media. I have always loved tumblr because you can curate your experience so much and its been really frustrating the new users using Blaze to spread hot girl selfies when I so carefully avoid that aspect of social media. So yes, I have blocked every sexy e girl and bikini cosplay streamer that's blazed posts onto my dash and I will continue to do so.

@91Vault

Жыл бұрын

Yeah a lot of blazed content looks like people trying to treat tumblr like instagram. I guess those blogs exist but it certainly doesn’t feel on brand 😆

Here's some more additional "dos" and "donts" of blazing that I've noticed from looking at comments on the blazed posts on my dash. Along with joke posts, photos of pets and promotion of your small business/etsy shop/art commission posts are generally accepted uses of blaze. On the other hand stuff for very specific fandoms, especially shit like erotic fanfiction should be left in the tags. You don't control who sees your blazed posts and most of the time people aren't too keen to have that pop up unprompted, most egregious of all if it's not contained in a 'read more'. Likewise you probably shouldn't be paying to put anything that might be considered triggering onto strangers dashes, not that I've seen too much of that but still it feels like it bares mentioning. Lastly if you're blazing a thirst trap selfie prepare to get dunked on hard. Tumblr isn't Instagram, it's the anonymous gay wizard site. Your mileage may vary and some people just hate the concept of blaze in general so they might be rude regardless, but just ignore them because if you want to pay like $10 show me your cat I'm all for it.

@thomasw4422

Жыл бұрын

Tumblr's anti self promotion and anti advertising atitude are part of what keeps it Tumblr, rather than something posey like Instagram

@j-skullz

Жыл бұрын

I've seen weird preachy religious/radfem-esque ajacent shit being blazed too and I'm always sure to tell them exactly what I think in the comments and block them, if you're gonna pay money to force me to look at cringe against my will you are asking to get clowned on

@rocketpsyence

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasw4422 I have a personal rule where if someone paid ten bucks to show me their cat I reblog the cat

i now need teya to explain social cues for every part of the internet this is so helpful

@pattheplanter

Жыл бұрын

And real life.

Thank you for this lol. I left tumblr in 2016 when I was trying to pretend I was a functional human. Turns out tumblr has changed a LOT since then! I was so nervous to rejoin cause that was the time when a bunch of people were trying to have very serious debates and conversations, as well as the “you need to tag everything on your blog or else you’re going to trigger someone with your post” and I remember people getting on people for that. I rejoined, made a warrior cats blog, and now it’s wayyy more chill. But this is nice to know, and nice to see I’m not the only one who thought DNI lists were funny (cause seriously, what TERF is going to look at your DNI and then actually listen?)

@Reticulating-Splines

Жыл бұрын

I love warrior cats! Ive been trying to get back into the fandom, what's your blog if you dont mind me asking

I’m autistic and my teenage self needed this 10 years ago when I wanted to start using tumblr. I was just so overwhelmed and didn’t know any of the rules/norms

Another big thing with tagging fandom posts and stuff, is that it can be worth investigating fandom specific practices before making and tagging original posts. This can be a functional thing, such as the case of the transformers fandom not really using the "transformers" tag and instead using "maccadams" because the "transformers" tag was overrun with Bay Movie gifs, and its just a practice that's stuck around. It can also be seen as rude to improperly tag things even if they might seem related to you. An example of this being the "minecraft" tag vs the "mcyt" tag, where its considered very poor ettiquette to tag stuff only related to mcyt with the word "minecraft" because it spams the tag for people who are just interested in the game. Those are two big examples but yeah, its always good to lurk a bit before you start posting to get the general sub-culture specific vibes. Just please give yourself a profile picture.

@sweetch3rrycola

Жыл бұрын

yk i actually have a huge problem with that, I’ve been unable to change my pfp

@owlhousefan68

7 ай бұрын

​​@@sweetch3rrycola oh yeah Tumblr did a shitty ass update where you need to follow at least 4 tumblr blogs to change your profile pic luckily everyone started realizing what was happening and are not blocking 'bots' just in case its a new user (atleast most of us are) hope this helped! :) EDIT: just realized that this comment is 9 months old 😅

Please use the block button guys, it's so much easier than drama 🤣 I've blocked for being slightly annoying, im not on Tumblr for serious stuff, I'm there for fun

As a solely tumblr app user learning about the desktop only features are wild

I use the like button as a way to just send the post a lil kiss as I go by. I don't wanna bring it home with me I just wanna give it a pat on the head and go on with my day.

12 years i’ve been trapped on tumblr yet i watched this whole video to make sure i’m doing it right.

Oh my God. I'm a longtime tumblr user and you just made me realise I had "use blog colors when viewing blogs" turned on, which defaults to a white background for posts. I can't read on white backgrounds and it was making view-mode-only posts inaccessible to me. I even complained about it lol. Checking your parameters every now and then is truly a lifesaver.

Hey! I saw this yesterday/the other day but when I tried to click on the notification for it, it was private. 😅 So, I'm very excited to finally watch it! 🥰❤️ Been on Tumblr since April 2011. I'm willing to bet this video will make this ol' Tumblr grandma smile. 😂👵🏻

@monseeac

Жыл бұрын

Someone finally said it I thought I was going crazy and/or was psychic

@AVspectre

Жыл бұрын

Put this on for audio but will save for later as I don’t want to miss out on great Rat Zone visuals.

I'm Neurodivergent and struggle a bit with online communication, this was honestly very helpful. Tumblr seemed too intimidating to try so I've stuck with Instagram, but I think maybe I'll try making one -w- v entertaining

The one thing I’m guilty of is never using the queue feature 😅 whenever I go down a rabbit hole I subject my followers to 200 gifsets all at once. It’s just how I live my life

@heartnoemie

5 ай бұрын

Reaaal i only ever fast reblog I don’t have time for the queue

DNIs (and Carrds?) seem to be genuinely quite popular with younger tumblr users, current or recent teens, esp. if they’re deep in some weird highly specific tumblr discourse wars. Anyway, great video, very needed because tumblr culture is a bit inaccessible to new members.

@jazzycat8917

Жыл бұрын

They are, but tbh carrds get clowned on by veteran users because it seems like the new young users put their entire personal lives on those things which is just.....not safe?

@ketaminepoptarts

Жыл бұрын

@@jazzycat8917 yeah ive never really liked cardds because its annoying having to go to a different site when it could be a pinned post or in their bio and they always put all of their triggers and their entire medical history on it which could be dangerous af

@victai163

Жыл бұрын

half of mine is just a laundry list of "hey dont interact if youre an asshole" and the other half is literally a public record of me tracking what i watch and read lol

@hilary.c

Жыл бұрын

@@ketaminepoptarts oh god the "put your triggers in your carrd/bio" thing fucken sucks,, WHY would you give any random asshole on the internet the ability to trigger you???

@awesomecassiejean

Жыл бұрын

What are carrds? (I don't use Tumblr & Google was not very helpful.) It's a completely different site, yet linked to Tumblr somehow??

Two additional tips for new tumblrinas: 1) Make a tag for your own posts and make it something distinct (i.e. not just #my posts or smth like that). If you're using tumblr the way most people do, your blog will be 99% reblogs, so having a tag for your own posts makes it infinitely easier to find them. I use "#[distinct alias] speaks" but you can use a variation of that or even just your url. 2) If you're addicted to seeing your interaction numbers go up, get help, but also jumping on popular shit as soon as physically possible (like the day of and no later) is a really good way to get a lot of notes very quickly. I have like 900ish followers, and my usual posts maybe get 5 notes on a good day. But my two biggest posts, one being about that one really popular bill wurtz video whose title i can't remember and the other being about Dracula Daily, each got me something like 20,000+ notes in like two days. I don't know if it would apply to new TV shows or movies, but I can attest that posting about really recent internet phenomena (tenfold for tumblr events like Dracula Daily, Goncharov, or the Welcome to Flavortown banner) *and tagging it appropriately* is an easy way to get notes and followers. It doesn't even have to be comedy gold. Just say something like "Jonathan Harker hate paprika but like vampire? WEIRD!" on May 4th, 2022, and you'll get so many followers and notes about the McElroys in no time.

@buchelaruzit

Жыл бұрын

lmao. i know it's obvious anyway since you're giving tips but i can recognize that you're a tumblr user (as another tumblr user of course)

@UglyBabyFunny

Жыл бұрын

@@buchelaruzit we've evolved past the need for the shoelace code. tumblrinas can recognize each other purely from vibe alone.

@buchelaruzit

Жыл бұрын

@@UglyBabyFunny exactly. the tumblr vernacular is real

@allyma3

Жыл бұрын

YOU. ARE SO SMART. OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU

@amogu_

Жыл бұрын

important note: once you reach a critical mass of followers (around 3000-5000 for me, idk i was getting bombarded by spambot follows that i still have yet to fully clean up) your posts will blow up a LOT more frequently. my shitposts will sometimes reach 1k notes without me noticing for days due to the background radiation of my other popular posts

"Blaze is only for posting the entire bee movie script" I haven't used tumblr in about 10 years, and that sounds about accurate to how I remember tumblr.

I love how she says Tumblr used to have a porn bot problem, like most of us haven't been followed by 1 or 2 daily this past week.

tumblr is basically the only social media ive been using constantly longterm and this video made me realize that ive been applying tumblr rules to other platforms without realizing it

@notahumanbeing6892

7 ай бұрын

i spam my instagram stories with posts i like because it feels wrong to scroll past without reblogging 😭

I find the follow topic particularly interesting as someone who left tumblr around 2016. not to be a Back In My Day old man but, well, back in my day mutuals were a Big Deal and unfollowing a mutual was akin to spitting on their mother's grave. Glad to hear following politics have eased since those days because no one needs that kind of stress.

@alisdraws

Жыл бұрын

some people still really care about this, it's not like you can just unfollow any mutuals. But there's been a big shift the last couple of years with the rise of social media algorithms so being able to curate the dashboard is the biggest draw of the website now

@Niriixa

Жыл бұрын

Some people still get weirdly in their feelings about unfollowing mutuals and blocking annoying ppl, but it's a lot less intense than it's on twitter. Probably because you can only see your own lists of followers and blogs you follow.

@j-skullz

Жыл бұрын

I think it depends, I've had mutuals for going on 10 years who I would never unfollow whatever they post at this point unless it was something seriously bad. If we've just been mutuals for like a year or something and you start to annoy me then I don't care, but that's just me. It's simply not that serious. The block button however I use like a gatling gun like if you mildly annoy me you're gone lol

@annie.sanders

Жыл бұрын

I don't unfollow mutuals. you can just mute them if you don't like their blog anymore

Finding out the Ides of March is a Tumblr holiday is my new favorite thing

@Matthy63

Жыл бұрын

I think it was because years ago there was this old Tumblr post with a bottle of Caesar salad dressing with a knife in it, on the ides of march, and it blew up. It's one of those heritage posts like the down with cis bus or the weed smoking girlfriends

Coming to tumblr from… Nowhere? Never had twitter. My ignorance is 100% organic self made

This makes me want to give Tumblr another try. It's kinda funny but somehow a lot of these rules seem very familiar to me even though I've never actively used Tumblr. I think it's mostly because Deviantart and other tumblr-associated fandoms and sites had similar vibes going on. Like I always thought it was so bizarre when everyone started using their real names on the internet on like Instagram and KZread and stuff, it's just off somehow and I definitely feel the "not everyone needs to be an influencer" thing, I do treat most of my sites that way where I just follow and unfollow whoever if I like or dislike their content.

@unknown_limes

Жыл бұрын

I jumped from DA to Tumblr back in like 2014 and I've never regretted it. The art community on there is smaller than it once was, but there's so much amazing work to view and it's pretty easy to interact with others once you get on there. I would highly recommend giving it a shot!

@TheLadysAtelier

Жыл бұрын

@@unknown_limes I'll heavily consider it!

@TAGoHD

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, that was KZread's decision, not ours.

Here's the way I actually use likes on tumblr! I keep them locked and on private so nobody can see them and then like things I want to refer to later. When I used to read a lot of fanfiction on tumblr I would like different blog's masterposts so I could keep all of that in one place. Nowadays I typically like drawing references and writing prompts so they're easy to refer to without having to scroll through my whole blog. I know it might sound a little insane but it really helps me keep my shit organized!

@ramppappia

Жыл бұрын

I use the drafts for that. I have like 300 of them 😬

@joschisaurus182

Жыл бұрын

I recommend you to make a second blog purely for this; reblogg everything you want to refer to later to the second blog, tag everything in categories (for example "drawing-ref") and go absolutely wild on the number of tags you're using (the more the marrier to find the references faster again), make a master post containing all your tags and use it as a summary/easy access; it's way faster to find everything again at a later point if you've tagged everything properly. no need to scroll through hundreds of likes to find whatever you're looking for - and if you still can't find what you're looking for the archive could help you, too

@Veryvoidlove

Жыл бұрын

Omg ive been useing this feature like a deranged dragon lmao i didn't even think of that

As someone who has been on Tumblr since 2012, I have never used the app once. I haven't downloaded it, I probably never will. When I'm on my phone, I access Tumblr through Firefox. It is important to me that new people know that this is an option, and for some of you it may be preferable.

@arctenik

Жыл бұрын

yeah I was thinking this too! I am very glad I do not have to deal with a separate app in order to use tumblr on mobile (plus using it in a web browser gives you more freedom such as being able to use bookmarklets but that's a bit more niche lol)

kinda cool to realize that things that come so intuitive to me are totally foreign to some people. ive invested almost half of my life to this hellsite and its comforting to know that i speak its language

I'm not a Tumblr guy, I have never been on the site or wanted to be on the site but... I know so many of the Tumblr inside jokes because of you??

@axd0045

Жыл бұрын

SAME

@BigGayIncorporated

Жыл бұрын

dude same all my Tumblr education has come from Strange Aeons lmao

Quick advice for mobile users who find the reblog function a little clunky and time consuming, you can fast reblog things on mobile! Just hold down the reblog button and then choose which blog you want it posted to!

@Niriixa

Жыл бұрын

Just check if you're on iOS and have the tag copier bug. I've had to block people who quick reblogged 10+ posts and would accidentally copy all my organizational and commentary tags, which was so creepy and annoying.

@kierenkowe

Жыл бұрын

I would be nothing without the fast queue button

@milkflys

Жыл бұрын

@@kierenkowewait you can queue stuff quickly??

@kierenkowe

Жыл бұрын

@@milkflys yeah, I think its an option in labs? I've turned it on so long ago its integral to my tumblr expirience

I used to call Tumblr unsocial media for the sheer reason that was talked about how you aren't there for people. You're there for content and no one will care about follows

26:51 For my fellow socially anxious people: I used to do something like this before, adding my compliments of the post into the reblog description rather than the tags. As far as feedback, no one ever told me to stop, or indicated that I was wrong. No one overtly took it badly (idk what they were thinking, but I didn't get any messages). I don't anymore because I find the tagging format more freeing, but it's really not serious. One thing I love about Tumblr is that no one's really harassing you for not picking up on social cues (at least, not in the fandoms I'm in). So, it's not really something to worry about. You can just look at what others do and decide what you want to do. (It *is* probably important to note that I'm only part of small fandoms, so most posts don't get many reblogs in the first place. Idk what larger fandoms are like about this.)

as a jessica who regularly reblogs anime boys, I felt like you were speaking DIRECTLY to me at 17:00 oh my lordt

This came at the perfect time. I've been wanted get on tumblr because of the twitter nonsense, but it's seemed kind of intimidating. Like you're at a new school and you're hanging out with some people that have been friends forever and you just feel kinda out of place and don't belong. Tumblr does seem to have a sort of late-00s early-10s internet culture that I've really missed.

Recently I've seen some indie vtubers advertising themselves on blaze because they were coming over from Twitter but most if not all the notes were bullying them and telling them to kys, it was heartbreaking

I fully have been on tumblr actively for over 10 years, and still am watching this video fully invested

@indridhartley1504

Жыл бұрын

Happy early out of touch thursday

@amogu_

Жыл бұрын

you're part of the fact-checking process

People aren't making their own themes anymore?! That was one of my favorite tumblr aspects :/

@una9906

Жыл бұрын

seriously i just started using tumblr last year and i love all the customization aspects of it!! there’s so much you can personalize and i think it’s part of the charm

@nguiklian

Жыл бұрын

Its coming back in with the y2k/web2 stuff! People are tired of the same cookie cutter corporate design stuff and are branching back out into fun blogs. Its also nostalgic for many users lol i bet if you really go for it people will dig it

@Niriixa

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's probably because so many ppl are using tumblr on mobile and the site has been pushing the mobile blog themes that you can only change colors and your header/description on😔

@batfurs3001

Жыл бұрын

People still are!! It's just not as popular anymore. But by god I learned how to HTML so I am GOING to use that skill.

@AmieOkami

Жыл бұрын

I just recently followed a bunch of people that are still making custom themes for people to use. Definitely still exists

The Julius Cesar thing is because it’s the ides of March. So it’s less of a tumblr thing than a general Shakespeare thing. A lot of drama clubs and theater groups will have parties and/or readings of Julius Cesar on that day. Tumblr is just full of theater nerds so it’s more visible there than most places outside of theater.

Some people use likes as a stash for "reblog later" posts! Also you can hide your "following" and "likes" pages from other people and I recommend doing so. You don't owe people your private stuff. Also I tend to turn off endless scrolling and not use themes that use that because it tends to crash the browser tab after a while.

"Free yourself from these shackles of being perceived."

@AngiDas

Жыл бұрын

This needs to be on a T-shirt that I will buy because I want her to have money to continue to bring us her wisdom!

As a loyal Tumblr user since 2013, this was a fun video to watch! I use my like button as a "save post" option until I'm ready to reblog it or put it in my queue.

"used to have a problem with porn bots" it still does 😭😭😭

I like this advice, I wanna add using browser add ons like XKit are recommended for having good experiences. Also highly important to remember that Tumblr's main base that never left is very much aging. I see posts about the most mundane, real-life shit that have like 200k+ notes every day. I reblogged a post the other day asking about everyone's favorite kitchen appliances, and I gave my honest answer in the tags (an electric kettle for me, I genuinely love those things). That's the kinda of stuff that goes viral pretty often on Tumblr now. You're just gonna have to get used to it friend, especially if you're following legacy "Tumblr famous" blogs like gallusrostromegalus or thebibliosphere or whatever. Just, don't be mean. Please.

@nowherels64

Жыл бұрын

thebibliosphere is such a great follow! and yeah, ive used xkit for like four years now (i was too lazy to install it until then but ive been on tumblr since 2013), it's so useful. Also if you're using the old version you can get a little kitty that follows your mouse around and meows when you click on it :3

The sigh of relief i felt as the end card played and i had absorbed no new information. Usually i come to strange to learn, today I'm glad i didnt

i honestly thought the original upload of this vid was a covid fever dream. thanks for the crisis! 😃

@xotbirdox

Жыл бұрын

Hope you feel better soon!! I do not have COVID (never had it, thank god 🤞🏻 *touch wood*) but I am in an endometriosis flare rn so feeling shit with you 😅

The unapologetic adoration of TLT is so good and I love every time I am reminded that Strange is also a devout fan

@zealouslyCantankerous

Жыл бұрын

YESYEYSYES I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING AND LITERALLY PAUSED TO READ THE POSTS I ADORE THOSE BOOKS SO MUCH

I used the advice in this video to join tumblr. I blazed a post that was just a picture of my frog that said "important announcement: I have a frog" and I got a bunch of reblogs saying "this is the correct use of blaze"

Great timing, I've finally entered my Tumblr phase at age 22 and I'm excited to listen to the Tumblr queen on proper etiquette

Thank you for this. I was inspired to sign up for Tumblr because I wanted a social media platform where anyone who says "unalived" is mercilessly mocked, and I was struggling with some of the finer points of the etiquette and culture.

Another tip: batch tagging! If you need to add tags to old posts, you can use the Mass Post Editor on desktop. A lifesaver when you are 2K posts in and realize you wish you had a cohesive tagging system (or if you want to delete certain things, but Tumblr users typically don't delete stuff in my experience)

As someone who’s used tumblr consistently for quite a while now, the concept of tagging the username of non-anon asks has never occurred to me even though I’ve definitely seen other people do it and I’m going to start doing that now bc it’s such a good idea! Also the idea of having friend tags for posts that remind u of friends is just so nice and I will be adopting that practice immediately as well

I've been on Tumblr for like two months because I wanted to see more Magnus Archives content than I could find on Instagram, also I enjoy having a place to scream my thoughts about fandoms into the Void, some people know know my account exist but I'm not like "promoting" it

@marsh925

Жыл бұрын

Oohh I love tma!

@eb33

Жыл бұрын

tma seem to exist like 90% on tumblr and it dragged me back the hellsite

@Niriixa

Жыл бұрын

I highly recommend going through blog archives of older fandom blogs to dig up old art! If you're on desktop, looking through the archive also gives you the option to filter by tag and post type, which will give you a great overview on well-organized blogs😊

@klltsun_2576

Жыл бұрын

yess love the tma content on tumblr

i was LITERALLY just thinking about going back to my ancient tumblr - HOW DID YOU KNOW

WHERE ARE MY REDDIT REFUGEES AT?

In my brain Tumblr celebrities are anyone who consistently makes it in to pm Seymours videos, like pukicho, gaud, bad-jokes-by-jeff, one-time-i-dreamt, writing-prompts, etc.

I never thought I’d see the day when the app was more popular than the desktop website but here we are. So glad tumblr is still alive! Excited to jump back in

I’ve been on tumblr for 12 years and I’m still here. Teach me your ways, Strange 😌

Now that going into the settings and blocking tags is a thing: DO IT! Don't be afraid to do it and just add what you dont want to see like triggers, ships, specific media, etc. Also good thing to note is maybe going through your following tags and updating those so you don't get recommendations from tags in stuff your not really into anymore, giving this advice I have yet to do so. Honestly I've been on this hellsite since 2014 (I got locked out of my first Tumblr blog tho sadly) and learned so much.

I think the best way to build up your dash and curate it is to go wild following people, just click the button with extremely low standards. And then over the coming week/month be super generous with the unfollow button. Then youll probably have lots of people who survived the purge and ur dash will never be boring. Also a great way to learn about niche internet drama that will never affect anyone irl

A proud Tumblr heaux since 2010. I've been active on and off the last few years. I'm still learning some new things for the new Tumblr, so thank you for this. I do miss my active mutuals, so I'll use how to get followers info now.

Strange AEons has 4 checkmarks bc of my anonymus ask and I will forever be proud of it

re: dnis, I always saw it as less “this will 100% keep away weirdos” and more about letting others know what kind of bullshit you’re against? as useless as they kinda are it’s always nice to a see a blog tell terfs/other nasties to gtfo. 5 years ago I wouldn’t have thought of Tumblr as a chill website (oh god the discourse back in the day) but nowadays it’s one of the most tolerable social media websites. the hipsters really had the right idea, aesthetic blogs are fun!

@jazzycat8917

Жыл бұрын

I feel like people learn what you're against or for by what you post tho? These days DNIs are literally just lists of random tv shows a certain sect of Tumblr has deemed "problematic media" and any engagement with them makes you a terrible human being.

"We're all creepy strangers on tumblr." Well, I'm sold.

I left Tumblr in the Great Porn Purge bc NSFW content was my livelihood and I promised I'd never go back out of angry spite, but I swear every time you talk about it I want to go back more and more. I really miss it! (And Twitter sucks for creatives honestly). This video might have pushed me to it, I'm about to go see if I can find which email I used to get my password back....

@daisysinners6368

Жыл бұрын

yesss i knew people would come back after the tity unban

@ahhh4117

Жыл бұрын

thou crawleth back to the cursed bornlands, like a newborn in search of milk to suckle (cuz u left for boobs). . . as hath been foretold. . . These unholy lands welcome thee, traitor

@drvenastolica03

Жыл бұрын

I honestly don't understand why people left after the porn ban. Maybe because I'm not an artist so the ban didn't effect me but my experience on tumblr didn't change

@drvenastolica03

Жыл бұрын

I honestly don't understand why people left after the porn ban. Maybe because I'm not an artist so the ban didn't effect me but my experience on tumblr didn't change

@alecmullaney7957

Жыл бұрын

​@@drvenastolica03 because porn was the only thing Tumblr did well.

I made a tumblr account a few weeks ago, which I'm having a lot of fun with so far! I've found a lot of great fanart for things I like, I've been vibing in the goncharov tags, and I've been posting my art on my blog along with long ramblings. Etiquette-wise, I don't seem to have much I need to unlearn, but I am planning to try reblogging things more frequently

i had a tumblr account that i used semiconsistently for like 4 whole years to suss out how tumblr worked and then this year i started using it as my main social and in this year alone my post count raised from like double digits to somewhere in the five thousands because i learnt how tumblr etiquette was. you dont have to say "in 2 months i will start putting my thoughts in tags when i reblog sometimes", in tumblr there's no expectations besides how you interact with other users (sorta)

you forgot to mention jack crawley, our beloathed sugar daddy bot who comments on every post with a significant amount of notes.

I joined like a year and a half ago and after like 2 weeks i picked up the etiquette so easily, like i took things at face value and i was like ''ooh haha funny gibberish'' and then when more than one person used it I was like okay this is normal and I should also say these things

@WEEDNUTZ

Жыл бұрын

SAME. GIGGLES

@busterb7482

Жыл бұрын

@@WEEDNUTZ omg Homestuck guy

@WEEDNUTZ

Жыл бұрын

@@busterb7482 EXPLOSION SOUND EFFECT. NOO WAAAAYY

I joined tumblr back in 2014 and have only ever reblogged stuff bc I’m scared I’ll look odd. This has helped. Thank u lol

@00muinamir

Жыл бұрын

The only cardinal sin on Tumblr is attempting to look like a normal, well-adjusted person. You could post a picture of a possum and text that just said "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" and it would probably get a substantial number of reblogs.

Here I am watching this, as a forever tumblr user that will never leave the hell site. It is fun to see some of my posts from college and even high school.

“Son, 😐 you’re gonna have to talk to some internet strangers” I CACKLED 😭❤️

ive sort-of-recently joined tumblr (not too recently like a little bit before the whole twitter monstrosity happened) and idk how i did it but i adapted pretty fast but its pretty nice to see what is *actually* going on

@birdbrain8933

Жыл бұрын

the way that "the whole twitter monstrosity" happening isn't specific enough anymore because there have been like 20 twitter monstrosities in the last few months is wild 😭😭