Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation
hey go fuck yourself
Oh so now the Columbine fanblog with an Annoying Orange icon is gonna preach to me, huh
tumblr is a website made entirely of glass houses through which people are constantly throwing stones
Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear so immediately that the two of you, on some level, belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you’re in love or creating things together or foxhole buddies or partners in crime. It’s so clear, right off the bat, that this is what you’re supposed to be doing, that this is what you’re for. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest of circumstances, and they help you make a life. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but. It definitely makes me believe in something.
ppl talk shit about tumblr but it’s delightfully ungovernable and chaotic. That has its downsides but watching companies try and fail to control it is amusing as fuck though it’s making the site garbagier than before.
I really think we shouldn’t overlook the impact of xkit here bc tumblr is like the one site where the user base wants and uses the ability to “push back” on site development. Most companies these days just roll out changes to force the user base to push whatever new behavior they think will make them millions and give the users no say. Tumblr does the same except *a bunch of use can push code back* because some awesome people make xkit available.
Like between that and the lack of visible follower counts tumblr really does offer the best at-will low pressure social media experience compared to the busy, forced user experience on other social media platforms.
