so as long as tumblr keeps this, here’s the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter’s quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:

• for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source
• otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist’s notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)

reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.

so as long as tumblr keeps this, here’s the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter’s quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:

• for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source
• otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist’s notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)

reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.

so as long as tumblr keeps this, here’s the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter’s quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:

• for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source
• otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist’s notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)

reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.

smth i used to see a lot in fandom that in hindsight was dumb as hell was people describing a characters ethnicity as albino. just albino. wheres he from? whats his heritage? pssssh. as everyone knows when you have albinism you transcend all racial identity forever. thats how it works. trust me. trust me. tr

putting my feelings into an image

look im not saying aromanticism makes characters more interesting automatically but yeah no thats exactly what im saying

tumblr staff adjusting a dial to fine-tune exactly how much they’re imitating twitter while occasionally looking back at their userbase for approval except the userbase is just booing the entire time “we hate twitter” “why do you even have that dial”

Not once have I looked at tunblr and thought “man I wish I couldn’t tell how people are reacting to my posts. I hate seeing the comments in reblogs”

it is absolutely hilarious when a transphobic detransitioner starts saying things like “you’re lying to yourself” and “you’re confused” to trans people. honey. I could say something and you wouldn’t like it. I will say gender is a journey and you turned on the wrong exit and are now trying to block people from turning onto that exit even though they know their destination and you did not. you could have found a spot to turn around and politely gotten back on the right road like a normal detransitioner but you have no idea what you want so you are blocking traffic and yelling in the street.

“you can’t go down this street because this was the wrong street for me. what? your house is at the end of the road? you can see it from here? I don’t care. I made a wrong turn and I’m not letting you turn at all”

There are two basic arguments for shutting the fuck up about cishets at Pride.

First: What if a trans kid asks their parents to show their support by attending Pride with them? What if a lesbian can only attend pride if she gets a ride from someone and the only person willing and able to drive her is her straight brother? What if a bi disabled person can’t attend a large outdoor event without hands-on assistance from their straight partner? What if someone just wants to bring their fucking friends? What if, contrary to popular tumblr discourse, most queers don’t inhabit perfectly pure social bubbles populated only by other queers? What if it’s none of your business?

Second and perhaps more important: If you think you can tell that someone is CIS, let alone HET, by LOOKING at them, you are a cop and an idiot.

me to the accursed whispering amulet: hey can you speak up please i have an audio processing disorder

things to say after fucking up egregiously

• pack it up boys we’ve made a social blunder
• let’s run that again
• one more time normal style
• I’m going to become a statistic
• further proof god is out to get me
• it’s because I tore my acl senior year
• I couldn’t do it for religious reasons
• my ex took my talent in the divorce
• good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)

It’s always “how would this fat character be strong and athletic”

And not “how would this dehydrated skinny character even survive with the amount of physical exertion they go through”

if they go through with this–and i can’t remember a single time tumblr dot com course corrected in recent memory–i will genuinely be really really sad. one of my absolute favorite parts of this site was being able to look at the notes of a post and see the conversations it had sparked, see if someone had already raised a point i was planning to raise, see if the op had responded to a response i found interesting. this will massively hinder this from happening, while also making it much harder to use the notes of posts as blocklists (a basic proactive safety precaution to be a trans woman with any kind of following on here) and much easier to direct harassment at whomever one pleases

Tumblr is like our elderly dog and when she makes an especially scary cough we apparently think “oh god it’s the big one”

They’re trying to kill her. Go send Feedback about the shitass update it’s apparently the only place where they sort of listen

y'all need to find a new phrase that expresses the sentiment of “there’s no platonic explanation” without being blatantly incorrect in every situation. like. there is a platonic explanation and its that some of us love our friends. hope this helps 👍

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you’ll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog’s author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn’t add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn’t lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we’re only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be… a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

ALT

A tale in two parts

Yknow what I LOVE about the Star Trek fandom? It’s ANCIENT. I had a talk with a nice old lady at the old persons home that my great grandma is in and she noticed my Spock shirt and was like “oh I love that show I thought the premise was lovely” and you all know THE PREMISE is trekspeak for spirk and I was like “do you accept the premise because I do” and she looked at me with the eyes of someone who is reliving their otp moments and she said “the premise is all I wrote about, dear” and we just talked about spirk for a hella long time and I just love how age doesn’t matter in this fandom you can be ninety and still be the biggest spirk bitch ever how rad is that

I was today years old when I learned that particular euphemism

I was also today years old. Fandom codes man

Reblogging to spread knowledge about the Premise, because I absolutely love that bit of fandom, and I want to make sure that it survives. (and yay to everyone who is part of today’s 10,000!)

This post is in the Fanlore Article

The Premise - Fanlore

This makes me so happy

They’re so funny let’s all read the book called ‘the book that kills you’ from hit audio drama ‘do NOT under any circumstances read the book called ‘the book that kills you’’.

yall seriously actually report this to support and explain why you don’t like this new feature. most of these idiotic new features are things i’ve just shrugged and dealt with but this really feels like tumblr wants to separate art from its creator (even if the original post is just a silly joke post), and who knows if tumblr will listen to us, but they have listened before and undone shitty changes, so just. go give feedback.

bigots can now reblog your selfie or personal post, mock it, and block you, and if you don’t see it the second it happens, it can spread to thousands of their ilk with literally no possible way for you to know, unless you happen to be on one of their blogs and come across it. are you comfortable with this? i know i’m not.

yall seriously actually report this to support and explain why you don’t like this new feature. most of these idiotic new features are things i’ve just shrugged and dealt with but this really feels like tumblr wants to separate art from its creator (even if the original post is just a silly joke post), and who knows if tumblr will listen to us, but they have listened before and undone shitty changes, so just. go give feedback.

yall seriously actually report this to support and explain why you don’t like this new feature. most of these idiotic new features are things i’ve just shrugged and dealt with but this really feels like tumblr wants to separate art from its creator (even if the original post is just a silly joke post), and who knows if tumblr will listen to us, but they have listened before and undone shitty changes, so just. go give feedback.

Since some of you don’t seem to understand how this ‘new notes’ thing works, I’ll break it down:

I’m the OP. I’m making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I’m the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However…

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won’t see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog…as OP I won’t see that. I won’t see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they’re, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn’t see it, doesn’t get notes for it, but they’re gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it’s not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!’ then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They’ll only see my reblog. So it’s possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it’s been seen by that many people.

It’s killing blow to the community we’ve built here, by someone higher up who doesn’t understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That’s what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr’s support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback’ and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?’, try that way of wording it). They’re more likely to listen to you if you’re not an asshole about it. I’ve already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.

*staring up at the crumbling building* no bob the builder…I don’t think we can…

This makes the bluesky engineer who recently went for a swim with his phone to cool it off seem like a genius

GO FERB GO!!!🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

‘you can smoke whatever drugs you want idgaf’ and 'apartment building etiquette is such that i should not be able to instantly smell your rank-ass weed stank through our shared wall’ are two sentiments that can both be true

sure

Your moral ocd is lying to you and tumblr is lying to you. you do NOT have to reblog any post you dont want to and you dont need to justify it and youre not prejudiced against a certain marginalized group if you dont reblog an Upsetting Post about a Current Issue said group is facing