Making note
I think its important to make note of the particular reason I and other creators may be leaving this platform. Alot of people will just be pissy and want to be part of the first crew to say “yeeh lets blow dis joint!” and its easy to misinterpret that. Ive seen a post or two trying to be positive and hold on after the purge and maybe some semblance of order can be brought back but the sad truth is that the trust of all the spurned users has already been lost, regardless of the stability of the system. Thats why were leaving. We don’t feel welcome anymore.
I like tumbr, i really do, i think that the reblog system gives a window into users and is a great way to show intrest and for others to see what your intersted in. Its really easy to scroll through, click a heart and move on, but a reblog shows that your actually interested in that post, so much so that you’d want to show it off on your own blog. And someone else can look through said blog and maybe see alot of similarities with their own interests and maybe decide to follow them or connect even! Ive a fellow artist who i consider a good friend simply because were clearly on the same page paragraph and sentence for most topics.
Im an artist. While im not as active as i should be, i need to draw and post more than almost not at all, i still felt that tumblr was a good place to grow. I have a small handful of regularly liking and rebloging followers (<3 you) and it feels great! That doesnt happen on other platforms. Insta has the problem mentioned earlier, press like and move on, twitter seems the best bet but id never be able to make a text post like this. And someone will have to really talk me back into deviantart because i always felt that it was damn near impossible to grab footing on there unless you were making balls out amazing works or already had a semi following. Arguably i dont have to leave because i dont make nsfw content but its already been clear that the auto flag system is rampant and im probably just lucky because i dont post regularly. Thus this has become a sort of minefield for creators and i myself would rather not deal with it. This is the most into and bespoken about a social event ive ever been, its weird.
We shall see how things go within the next 11 days. I would tag this post to reach further but honestly im terrified of tags now.
Side note; smash is coming out so im kinda gonna be ghosting regardless lol
