Thoughts on Tumblr?

[Hatori]

I think it's okay, if you follow the right people. I love going through it for some funny jokes/posts, which is all I really do if I'm on tumblr. I don't have any problems with it but I hardly ever use it anyway

 

[visibleghost]

Yeah I had tumblr back in, 2010-2011 before it turned completely trash, mostly looking for music and game images and following some people. But yeah all this people "call me trans n-word or die" people are just cringeworthy.

tumblr was aWFUL back then tho the site broke like once rvery day smh...,

 

[Alienfish]

tumblr was aWFUL back then tho the site broke like once rvery day smh...,

Not really for me but I never really used it that heavily for other things than silly gifs and pictures I guess. And I'd rather have broken sites than angsty 13-20 years old lmao

 

[Shina]

tumblr is great, without all those people who are sensitive to 99% of everything i post.

 

[AquaStrudel]

its cancerous

edit: well in all seriousness, i guess its ok. there are a some genuinely nice blogs out there

 

[tobi!]

It's weird.

I followed a page that was called "funny funny pics!" or something. The next post from them was on the oscar fiasco. Not funny. Just pics and statistic. Like...what?

I also tried following artists but a lot of artists have social justice warrior mentality or some are just plain rude/weird. One artist I followed was okay at first but then started posting gore of her killing another artist. Reported and unfollowed...

Now I follow a lot of people. Some of those people hold ideas against mine but it's ok since it's not constant and they still reblog funny things.

meh.

 

[radical6]

my friends consist of alt right libertarians and radfems, it makes for a funny blog

 

[leftTBT]

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[boujee]

Nope. Originally I was going to get an account there to promote my art, but its layout/how it's run is horrible, and so are 98% of the people on there. I don't have time for that, I'll stick to Instagram.

Couldn't resist~

 

[Celestefey]

Nah I'm not a fan of dead horses let alone 3 in the same post.


Anyways, honestly there's like 80x more drama on my Facebook feed than on my tumblr dash. It highly depends on who you follow, there's exhausting people on every social media platform. If you just follow aesthetic or humour blogs you'll see literally none of the "crazy sjws" or whatever yall call 'em.

Good thing about Tumblr: you can pick and choose you follow and don't follow and people aren't going to (or are less likely to) get upset or annoyed if you unfollow them since you don't even know them!
Bad thing about Facebook: even if some distantly related family member of yours is spouting gross bigoted **** on your news feed, you can't unfriend them without some sorta judgement lmao.

Anyway I do like Tumblr, I think it's a cool site, I met one of my best friends on there, and it's cool to share funny posts I see on there with friends. But honestly I don't think that it's as extreme as some people say it is? Granted, you are going to get a lot of people on there who get offended by any small matter and take political correctness to a whole new level (to the point where it's actually more weird to be that politically correct lmao). But I think when people cite examples of people being "triggered by carrots" or w/e, it's like... No lol, honestly 9 times out of 10, when I've seen stuff like that on my Tumblr, it's people starting **** for attention and to be funny so that people will get angry and rant on about how Tumblr is a ****ty site. Not because they are actually triggered by something like carrots lmao. Also being triggered by things is not just a "Tumblr" concept, which is what a lot of people seem to assume. :\

So yeah overall, good website, as long as you avoid the ****ty side of it, which is easy to do as long as you follow the right blogs. I do find some of the social justice side of Tumblr to be a bit unbearable at times so I do try and avoid it ('cause it's almost always misinformed).

 

[debinoresu]

i like tumblr and i dont like when people degrade it into its worst parts. every community has a bad side

 

[santoyo.bay]

Sometimes I love it and other times I hate it.

 

[seliph]

Good thing about Tumblr: you can pick and choose you follow and don't follow and people aren't going to (or are less likely to) get upset or annoyed if you unfollow them since you don't even know them!
Bad thing about Facebook: even if some distantly related family member of yours is spouting gross bigoted **** on your news feed, you can't unfriend them without some sorta judgement lmao.

Anyway I do like Tumblr, I think it's a cool site, I met one of my best friends on there, and it's cool to share funny posts I see on there with friends. But honestly I don't think that it's as extreme as some people say it is? Granted, you are going to get a lot of people on there who get offended by any small matter and take political correctness to a whole new level (to the point where it's actually more weird to be that politically correct lmao). But I think when people cite examples of people being "triggered by carrots" or w/e, it's like... No lol, honestly 9 times out of 10, when I've seen stuff like that on my Tumblr, it's people starting **** for attention and to be funny so that people will get angry and rant on about how Tumblr is a ****ty site. Not because they are actually triggered by something like carrots lmao. Also being triggered by things is not just a "Tumblr" concept, which is what a lot of people seem to assume. :\

So yeah overall, good website, as long as you avoid the ****ty side of it, which is easy to do as long as you follow the right blogs. I do find some of the social justice side of Tumblr to be a bit unbearable at times so I do try and avoid it ('cause it's almost always misinformed).

Facebook is like opposite-tumblr where instead of everyone trying to violently be politically correct, everyone tries so hard to be funny by being offensive and then loses their **** when someone goes "uh that's not funny"

Also more on the subject of triggers since it's come up more than once now, I know some triggers seem so whack and ridiculous but you (using as a general statement, not directed at you ) don't know anyone's backstory. Triggers are misunderstood as being a solely war-related PTSD thing but they're also a result of any traumatic experience, especially abuse. Perhaps someone wants anything from LoZ to be tagged because their abusive ex-boyfriend loved it and seeing anything LoZ related makes them panic. Maybe someone needs freaking oranges to be tagged because they remind them of their violent mother. You never know, and people don't owe anyone explanations as to why they need these "stupid" things tagged. Someone else mentioned this before me so don't credit me for this but: A popular use of triggers in media was Sergeant Calhoun in Wreck-It-Ralph, where any time she heard the phrase "Dynamite Gal" she'd have flashbacks of her husband dying. But could you imagine if she asked people to trigger-warn the phrase "dynamite gal" on tumblr without an explanation? She'd have her head ripped off by **** heads joking about "PLS TAG UR BANANAS IM TRIGGERED Xd".

Anyways that's why trigger jokes were dumb in the first place and while I definitely acknowledge the bad and eyeroll-inducing parts of tumblr, people being triggered is not a part of it.

 

[Aloha]

It depends.If you're in certain fandoms on tumblr though (Steven Universe,I'm looking at you)it can be absolute hell.But there are some fandoms that are neutral/good.

 

[Alienfish]

It depends.If you're in certain fandoms on tumblr though (Steven Universe,I'm looking at you)it can be absolute hell.But there are some fandoms that are neutral/good.

Yeah I can confirm that. Used to follow like every other M*A*S*H blog there was (or is, I don't know if they are still there) and they were nice people but then people who like that old and somewhat "obscure" series tend to be sane.

 

[lostineverfreeforest]

It's like any other website or community, there's good and bad parts of it. The worst of it is pretty god **** awful though. I really dislike the design and formatting but that's just personal taste. If you can ignore the angry, emotionally unstable kids (or adults who act like kids) and its toxic bully culture it's not that bad, just meh.

 

[Kapriznyy]

In terms of toxic attitudes and angry kids, The Bell Tree isn't all that different from Tumblr

 

[lostineverfreeforest]

In terms of toxic attitudes and angry kids, The Bell Tree isn't all that different from Tumblr

There's an awful lot of Tumblr users on here, coincidence?

 

[Hulaette]

I heard a lot negative things about Tumblr so therefore I will never go onto that site. Why do narcs and psychos camp out at that site anyways?

 

[Llust]

it's not necessarily a bad site overall, just follow the right people and you'll be good. the 'side' of tumblr you expose yourself to depends on who you follow.