digitaldiscipline:

kyraneko:

celticpyro:

warmheartworm:

tumblr sucked yet its the only thing people like us could ever have posted on. tumblr was a deep sea geothermal vent and we are all pallid, desperate crabs snapping at the dark toxcic nutrients spweing from its hole, and bringing us into the harsh light of the instagram influencersphere would kill us instantly. 

It’s because we like the format. Posts are in chronological order, there’s no word limit on text posts, and there’s a level of anonymity that other social media sites don’t offer.

On Facebook or Insta or Twitter they want your full name, date of birth, address, phone number, and the last four of your social and your follower count is on full display. On Tumblr the only person with a notable name and face is Seth Everman and everybody else is just shitposting into the void wearing a mask of their waifu.

Also Tumblr’s model is extremely friendly to “hey look at this new thing” type interactions where you’re showing cool shit you’ve found to your followers rather than having to produce everything, and also the reblog-with-additions model of primary communications means it’s beautifully easy to build a shitpost or a question into eight speculations, two stories and a comic via the stone soup principle.

Tumblr enables cooperative creation and organic post boosting to an extent that no other corner of the internet has even approached, and it’s so amazing that it wouldn’t surprise me if the current fuckery by Staff is a deliberate attempt to kill it and force us to settle for inferior but more profitable social media models.

I am not a “pallid, desperate crab.”

I am a wickedly venemous cone snail, or, more probably, a scaly-foot gastropod.