Should I record myself reading funny tumblr posts and share them here?
What?
Nah, sounds lame.
You do you, girl! Dance like no one’s watching!
That sounds entertaining and now I need you to do it.
I personally have no opinion. Maybe tag them though?
The pangolin pines for peonies.
See ResultsImagining social media sites and the celebrities on them as kids with dolls and action figures like
Twitter: The collector kid, has a HUGE stock her parents keep adding to, cycles which ones she brings to school to show off every day. Can’t actually name most of them but will brag about having the most, especially if they’re particularly popular at the moment.
Instagram: Dresses all of hers up in fun outfits and takes photos of them like they’re always on vacation or going to movie premiers. Just a massive scrapbook of pictures. She tends to hide or downplay the pictures of ones the other kids say aren’t cool anymore, though.
TikTok: Constantly filming his in little videos with the camera his mom gave him. Always texting his friends the videos featuring the most popular figures but also likes to slip in ones that “you probably wouldn’t recognize but trust me they’re cool now.”
Tumblr: “This is Neil Gaiman and this is Lynda Carter, they aren’t that many but they are the best ‘cause they’re mine and I love them.”
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
An actual World Heritage Post
how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it
one week until ten years of Spiders Georg
Great work everybody, hit the showers
“oh one time my—” (abruptly stops myself from saying the words “tumblr mutual” in public) “overseas colleague”
don’t let anyone on this website call you cringe they literally have a tumblr account
necnill asked:
Have you considered a voluntary subscription for the site as a whole? It's the last social media site standing for me, I wouldn't mind paying per year for it.
photomatt answered:
Yes! We launched the Supporter badge which is 29.99/yr or 2.99/mo. You can also subscribe to ad-free which is a similar price. Subscribing, and encouraging as many people to also subscribe is the best way to support Tumblr. If you do it on the web we pay less to Apple/Google. Out of the 11.5M monthly active users of Tumblr, only about 27k have subscribed, or about 0.2%. If that were 10 or 20% we could run the site forever.
oh yes i know of him. not in the sense that i am familiar with his work but i have seen my mutuals make insane and nonsensical comments about him. so
doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR
GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS
THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO
HOPEFULLY
We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.
maybe
7/22/2013
happy decade anniversary to this post
I'm lurking.
This is an excellent “dont block me because you mistook me for a bot” post! Well done and welcome! :D
Holy CRAP you guys!
So I recently learned that all new tumblr accounts have to follow a few accounts before they can change their user icon and backgrounds? And I was curious, so I went back through my blocked accounts list and checked them out.
Guys there were MULTIPLE accounts that are clearly being used!!! Like, I must have blocked them as a bot RIGHT AFTER THEY SIGNED UP, and they made them fancy later! I accidentally shunned newbies in my ignorance!!! They wanted to enjoy my content but couldn’t!!! (And unblocking them does not renew their following you, jsyk.)
That’s it, from now on I’m only banning empty accounts that follow me if they have a picture of a young woman as the usericon (clear bot behavior) and/or are only Liking sketchy stuff. If they have the Likes hidden, that suggests to me that some person made that decision. If they are ACTIVELY LIKING STUFF and it’s a good healthy random assortment, even more evidence it’s a human. Maybe if I go back through my list a significant time later and an account still looks empty, then they get blocked. But I am indignant that this aspect of tumblr I didn’t know about (having joined over 10 years ago) has combined with the bot plague to cause me to unknowingly shun new people. NO MORE!
(P.S. Yes I DID get my eyes burned a few times while checking the blocked accounts. Proceed with caution, or just don’t worry about it, save your brain from the porn. XP)
I know we’re all sharing bot names that we’re indignant aren’t real usernames because they’re accidentally great, but I want to share what is now the funniest one I have seen yet:
I’m not sure how you AI-generated your way into that combination of words, but it is now my favorite possible outcome.
Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.
In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience.
Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content.
To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.
To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.
Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.
Hey guys! So I have definitely had some Feelings about this post, but you know what? Despite my severe dislike of some parts of this, there are some good concepts in this plan, too. I do want to acknowledge the bits I think sound like good ideas and show that we as users aren’t JUST raging about everything. So in an effort to be fair, I’m going to point out a few points that are smart AND a few that do not make any sense from my 10+ years experience. I hope this will be helpful!
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This is a little vague, but I do like the direction. Tumblr CAN be cofusing when you are just getting started; the tag system especially was mystifying to me when I first logged on in 2012. I’m all for exploring ways to help new users understand how to get started! Perhaps a simple popup tutorial when a person makes their first account, like on some game apps?
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What… I don’t… what???? Literally every person I have ever talked to or heard from on this subject (in OVER TEN YEARS) has said that the ability to curate our experience is a PRIMARY OPTIMAL FEATURE of tumblr! Who are you guys talking to who made you think this only serves a small portion of your audience?!? Curatability is one of your most unique and biggest assets!
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That sounds like a good idea, honestly! I personally enjoy getting lots of notes, but I know lots of people seek ways to mute notifications when they have a post go viral. This seems like a nice way to help users be less afraid of their posts blowing up (or at least minimize the debris XD) I don’t use push notifications myself but I assume this would also apply there.
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I’m guessing this is one of the points that had people thinking you guys were messing with the chronological feed. I point again at my confusion over your claim that a curated dashboard experience is a negative—we do not want random posts from people we don’t follow showing up on our dashboards, mainly because we do not trust algorithms to understand what we as individuals like. Consider how many of us never touch the For You tab because most of the posts on there completely miss the mark.
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I’m down for this! The app is certainly slow and buggy sometimes. (As I type this, my keyboard is lagging at least one letter behind what I am typing.) The second claim is kinda vague, but I think we can all agree fewer bugs would be appreciated!
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Tumblr.
@staff .
I am holding your face gently in my hands.
I am begging you with tears in my eyes
PLEASE OH PLEASE PLEASE NO DO NOT!!! COLLAPSE!!! THE REBLOG THREADS!!!
There is NO WAY an algorithm can reliably differentiate “clutter” from “vital pieces of a reblog conversation that are essential to making it funny.” This will inevitably truncate the conversations that are the main reason most viral tumblr posts go viral! More times than not, it’s not the FIRST part of a post that makes it classic—it’s the responses that build off it.
And remember your point about making it easier for new users to engage with the site? Skipping to the end of a chain or not being able to see WHY a post is funny or compelling without the extra (annoying) action of clicking some tiny dropdown arrow will make new users AND old users even less inclined to engage with posts! If ANY bullet point on this list can be rescinded, I BEG you to make it this one!
To wrap up: I do think some of the changes and improvements you guys are working on sound good! I just ask on behalf of myself and other users: Please consider how you can improve the TUMBLR experience, not how you can make us into a new twitter or reddit (both sites that use collapsible reblogs AND are currently having Major Issues). We’re not looking for more of those sites; we love tumblr because it’s the only social media site like it: a self-curated place to interact at the level each of us is comfortable with and share each others’ great posts and interactions, without feeling like products instead of people. That’s why we’re here. That’s why we stay.
