#internet curation

[myfandomrealitea]

I really feel like people forget that fandom is a fun hobby and not some sort of like, activist group.

Like, one of my hobbies is wildlife photography. If I follow a bunch of wildlife photography accounts and it's the only thing I see on my dash, am I in an echo chamber? No, I'm just engaging with my hobby.

It's really not that deep lmao is that person okay

Honestly the growing trend of forcing accountability, activism, virtue signalling and moral hunting in every single space is exhausting and crippling and it will eventually succeed in a massive cull of fandom spaces and creators. It already has, even, we've seen 'purges' of creators and content in certain fandoms and from a majority of websites and in revised policies.

That said, per your example, your internet space is allowed to be curated any way that you want it to. This blog, for example, is vastly different to my other account, where you will not find even a speck of political content. Not even a whiff of discourse. Its all cat pictures and the occasional shameless thirst over a man's thighs and probably an unhealthy amount of astronomy. They are both my spaces, they have just simply been curated very, very differently, and with two different intents.

"Isolated" (by content) spaces are not bad. Even in regards to some "negative" aspects. Some people are very, very set in their ways, and cannot or will not change. In such cases, its simply best to allow them to box themselves into their hate and not have a wider outreach.

[eroticlamb]

Kinetica Art Fair, 2012, featuring 'Pony' by Tim Lewis  (video source)

edit: i feel the need to specify that this is a robot for everyone who's confused 😭

[rosieandthemoon]

Chainmail Kitty, 2005 \\\ [•via•]

[thisischeri]

instagram: cheri.png

[nudityandnerdery]

I must not click on rage bait. Clicking is the algorithm-killer. Clicking is the little-death that brings more rage bait articles. I will face my rage bait. I will permit it to pass my for you page and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the external eye to see my algorithm. Where the rage bait has gone there will be nothing. Only I and Muppet gifs will remain.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Is it still too soon to put in an application to be the next girlfriend?

too late actually, the job’s been taken for awhile now

[elixir]

"Click-Farms" in Vietnam Photographed by Jack Latham — 2024

[pnglove]

hi!! would you please consider doing those frutiger metro cats? thank you if you do this!!

[erinwantstowrite]

when people send me asks or comment on my videos about how they hate spider-man and batman crossovers im like

"hey babe... now I want you to listen with your big kid ears okay? I know that's really hard for you, but we're going to make it through this... you can just... not see those things. I know, I know! super scary new concept that you've never thought of before! don't panic! but there's this thing called filtering a tag on ao3... stay with me, stay with me! and it gives you the ability to... not see those things you don't like. I know that's amazing isn't it!!!! now let's try doing that... and while we do that I'm going to teach you what a block button is so that I don't have to hit you with a cartoon hammer for going on my page to specifically tell me how much you don't like the thing i enjoy and put my time and effort into"

[fixing-bad-posts]

u can delete and block replies. Enjoy your life yaa lit

[myfandomrealitea]

They blocked me because they couldn't actually explain their own argument, but just to clarify, even if curating your own space was "forming an echo chamber" that is not inherently a bad thing and stating it is dismisses the fact that fandom spaces are not and do not have to be forced to be activism or awareness spaces.

I can have a Tumblr account where I see literally nothing but thirst traps of celebrities. I can have a Tumblr account where I only see positive content about a morally complex or morally unsound character. I can have a Tumblr account where I do not see even an iota of real life politics.

None of that is bad.

I am still aware that that character is morally complex. I do not need to be exposed to character analysis or opposition in order to be aware that character is still morally complex. I do not need to deliberately expose myself to negativity about that character in order to not magically become a raging axe-wielding murderer.

Echo chambers are not always bad. Stating that you absolutely must expand and expose your personal space to things you do not wish to see literally contradicts the entire point of online curation and curating your own space. It is literal contradictory hypocrisy.

"You're allowed to curate your own space as long as you actually don't curate it too well!"

The implication that people need to be constantly exposed to things they don't want to be violates literally core point of curation and emotional respite.

[eroticlamb]

collection of women of sodom photos 𖤐

“Women who have their own power, whether it’s sexual, or whether it’s material -- we still don’t know how to label them; they’re still a threat. We still want to brand them either a witch, bitch, or a psycho.”  - women of sodom

[puriteenism]

this website is so easy all i have to say is jason grace and you all come running like

[thisischeri]

VAIO Seasonal and Timer Changing Wallpapers, Sony, 2000-09

Instagram: cheri.png

[housecow]

have to say i am SO excited about tiktok being gone (for now). it’s like the same exodus from tumblr in 2018 but exponentially larger and funnier