not to give tumblr rights but this is so funny

can’t wait until people start claiming to be shadowbanned on this site and we collectively get to inform them that there’s no algorithm and their posts just suck

There absolutely is shadow banning.

It really is real, I had to write to the staff to get un-shadow banned.

If they undid it, that was spaghetti code, not a shadow ban. See: this post

See this complete incompetence is why I'm on this site

there’s some old info in there bc the tags were increased to 20.

Oh my god I got an email from staff

Yeah okay this is fair

Common tactics: cease andesist order

Tumblr staff: this shit funny, don’t stop, just prevent confusion, pls

having been on tumblr for 10 solid years without ever leaving and now watching all these people come crawling back in after scorning it all this time makes me feel like a haughty king on a throne but also the court jester but also the castle itself but also the alligators in the moat because alligators are really cool

the jesters have taken over the abandoned throne

Can we see the alligators tho? I love those guys

yeah they’re married actually

Let’s see what this whole hummus thing is about

If you're a fan of gay sex I cannot recommend hummus enough

it’s time we start oppressing ppl that use the word “hubby”

sorry but “Hubble Space Telescope” takes too long to say

@annabethisterrified you’re

w h a t

LOL yep that’s the day job! I started last year after graduating, working on the NASA side of things with the mission doing social media/outreach, so I’m going to do my obligatory HUBBY LINK DROP: insta, twitter, fb

[ID: The first picture is of tags that say:

as the literal social media manager for said telescope i promise I screamed and frothed at the mouth

with the desire to tweet a screenshot of this

The second picture is of a tumblr post by @stuffedgrapeleaves that says:

i can’t believe we’re all young professionals and academics and we’re still logging on to tumblr.com every single day to clown on ourselves. who let this happen

@a-singular-canadian reblogged that and said:

Look man this is the only place left im allowed to say clown shit without it impacting my career, just lemme have this

End ID]

tumblr users with the new blaze feature

ALT

This was already funny, but then catholicblr decided to use blaze to proselytize and now it's hysterical

Counter Reformation Time

While the merits of using Tumblr Blaze specifically to annoy people can be debated, it’s worth noting that the minimum buy-in to sponsor a post is ten dollars. Having ten dollars of disposable income and a willingness to spend it on something incredibly stupid that brings you joy is not a moral failing – I’m willing to bet that most people reading this post have spent ten bucks on something considerably dumber than sponsoring a shitpost.

Also, while concerns that Tumblr Blaze will simply be co-opted as another avenue for corporate advertising are well founded, it’s structured in a way that appears to be calculated to render it unappealing to large advertisers:

1. There’s no guaranteed number of unique impressions (all impression counts are “approximate”);

2. It can’t be precisely scheduled (your sponsored post goes live whenever the moderators get around to approving it);

3. It can’t be demographically targeted (the Tumblr users your sponsored post is shown to are chosen entirely at random); and

4. Sponsored posts cannot be flagged as non-rebloggable (i.e., so anyone, anywhere can reblog your sponsored post with awful shit attached, and that might be the version that trends).

And, like, it’s not that Tumblr can’t address any of these issues. They have an existing paid advertising service that already does.

In other words, it seems to be the case that Tumblr Blaze is cheap because it sucks on purpose.

Perfect

tumblr came up with "cancel", right? we did this, didn't we.

well. whoops.

Interesting to note that the blogger behind Your Fave Is Problematic now regrets much of what she wrote and says it came of feeling powerless and unhappy in her own life.

For years, I’ve regretted the spotlight I put on other people’s mistakes, as if one day I wouldn’t make plenty of my own. There can be an unsparing purity to growing into one’s social conscience that is often overbroad.

My brain wasn’t ready for nuance. I was angered by hypocrisy and cruelty; what I did about it was apply a level of scrutiny that left no room for error. I’m not saying that I should be canceled for my teenage blog. (Please don't!) I just know what we all should know by now: that no one who has lived publicly, online or off, has a spotless record.