#like I know tumblrs algorithm is dogshit but FUCKING COME ON

[ask-ciaphas-cain]

Tumblr, what the ACTUAL fuck could I POSSIBLY have liked to get fake ass Ghibli AI MORMON posts recommended to me?!?!?

[derpoprime]

i'm gonna be a little hater on like, 90% of the selfshipping fandom i've personally come across on tumblr for a little bit.

because i've talked about it a lot on my blog, and i'm sure i've made my stance clear on it, but i know my talk posts are far and few in-between and people might not see them anyway even if they aren't so scarce. that's just how algorithms work sometimes, i'm afraid. but like... i never go into it in depth. how pissed off i am at the whole proship drama going on. and it IS drama because it doesn't fucking matter and nobody cares. ever heard of dead dove do not eat? ever had other shit to worry about? ever not given a shit about what ships other people enjoy because 1) cringe culture is dead, and 2) you can talk to people you don't agree with and have fun..? no. no, these people haven't, apparently. now selfshipping is a safe space for people, i don't wanna tell anyone that their safe space is bad and they shouldn't have it. it's just that hey, these people you call proshippers are also in the same sphere as you trying to find both comfort and community like you, and they're not really harming anyone. why insult them and drive THEM away from what's also THEIR space?

i. hate. making media pure. stories do not have to be pure. stories do not have to cater to your sensibilities. stories that DO have to have good morals and role models are children's stories. because they're catering to an audience that will say slurs on you on xbox call of duty in real life and hurt real people otherwise. children, although not as dumb as people think, can't exercise critical thinking and distinguishing of real things vs. fake media in the way that older people and adults can. and that's only GENERALLY. TYPICALLY. but if you're eighteen or above, you'll usually have an easier time! and you do not have to interact with that stuff if you don't want to, i should know, this is tumblr and hey, i don't want to interact with media that makes me feel really horribly bad either. especially not in an unpleasant or vulneranle head space. but these people totally are exposing themselves to content that is inherently "proshit" anyway! this is on god the same people who will say proship (a label where someone enjoys noncon, incest, toxic, and/or otherwise taboo relationships in media) go away, but then SELFSHIP WITH SUPERVILLAINS, VILLAINS WHO ARE INCESTUOUS IN THEIR BASE MEDIA, AND SUPERCOMPUTERS WHO WOULD MAKE YOU RAPE EVERYONE BECAUSE IT HATES YOU AND PROBABLY EVERYTHING ELSE THAT BREATHES.

i get it, transformative media, headcanons, you can water down that character all you want until the point of their role and character disappears if you want to. i don't like it personally, but i respect and admire the drive and am not gonna forbid you from talking to me about it. i am genuine about this. selfshipping is different from being totally in line with canon, something most fandom work generally doesn't have to do at all if they don't want to. that's cool. i just think it's something else to say "if you enjoy bad media you're bad! and i don't want to talk to you! but i can do it though, because i'm doing it the non problematic way" essentially.

and you know what else? this is cringe culture. in the first place, shipping two characters has never been exclusively "i want them to live happily ever after and be so good for each other! 😊" shipping is "wouldn't it be awesome if these two were in love". which can be, and HAS BEEN, taken in a million ways. what if they made each other worse? what if they made each other better? what if the relationship is dogshit but considering who they are this is quite possibly the best outcome and not honestly as bad as it could be? what if the relationship is dogshit and then they fix it? what if the relationship is dogshit but it was so funny? what if the relationship is dogshit but they do really love and are committed to each other, in their own fucked up little ways? these are all stories. that media make. all the time. why can't people enjoy having a selfship that's like that? enjoyment itself encompasses a huge array of emotions, starting from "this is my guilty pleasure thing i do on the side sometimes, i know it's wrong and i microdose and try to make up for it everyday i prommy 👉👈" to "i kinda like this thing. sometimes" to "i'm crazy and everyone will know it forever and i could kill and maim someone about this and i'm righteous for enjoying this and i look down on you if you don't". is all of it so abhorrent to you? makes someone a horrible person to you?

oh, but dude, they're talking about proship SELFSHIPPERS! like people shipping themselves with kids or with characters who are their brothers! — see my rant up there about people whose partners are literally villains and hateful to everyone with no exceptions and that's the core of who they are, because the whole point of the proship label is "people who enjoy taboo relationships in media" like, in general. i have a problem with anyone incessantly hating such a general view of media. and if the definition doesn't encompass bad things generally being portrayed in media? no problem! so. many. anti proship people also have "darkfic darkship neutrals variants dni" on their shit as well! people HATE variations of this term! people HATE variations of taboo things even existing in media! is that not the impression you'd get eventually, after seeing so many people say that at least? ALSO. specify that if that's what you mean! on the website where people are neurodivergent and take things literally a lot (the easiest way to take sentences in my case, because my head's so tired of looking for the hidden meaning sometimes), you don't think to specify which proshippers you meant? ALSO selfshipping is a fucking fantasy, who cares? it's like the scenarios we imagine before bed or some shit, it can be personal and mean a lot to someone. i know that i'd probably recoil a bit by second nature if i like, see some guy shipping themself with caillou, but i wouldn't completely demand they never be in the same space as me, now would i? they have their reasons, and for all intents and purposes, i don't know what they are. they could totally be caillou's age with extremely good writing / drawing / technological smarts and abilities for a four year old and have no parental supervision because their parents don't care, i don't fucking know! the point is that you never know what specific circumstance led to this! that's THEIR business, not mine, and i'm not going to immediately ridicule them or think they're a criminal for doing that. i'm not gonna say "never talk to me ever, we can't possibly have a good conversation together or understand each other" because that's ridiculous if that piece of info is the only thing i know about this person. i'm not going to jump to conclusions based on that. and if this post looks like i'm doing the same thing with anti proshippers to you, then i'll tell you now that there's other stuff coming up ahead that kinda makes it sound like some people really do think being a proshipper is the same as being a criminal. those people are the ones i probably don't agree with most. because fuck man, people are having fun. doing their thing. just like you, by the way. they don't harm real people unless you decide you or someone you know will be harmed by looking at a controversial piece of media. which, likewise, that would be YOUR business, not theirs.

fiction does affect reality to an extent; the reason we're always vying for more representation in media is because if people only ever see skinny white strong cishet men do everything, everyone's gonna eventually think that's what they oughta look and be like, yeah? but that same extent can vary wildly from person to person. it's not fair to assume someone else reacts the same way or internalizes the same things as you do to fictional things. this topic is a whole different can of worms, too, and one that i will not be getting into here in the interest of not derailing to points that are tangential to what i'm talking about.

fucking also, so what if some selfship fantasies involve some weird shit? what if that fantasy is too freaky for you? is it always "match my freak" until someone's actually freaky? what if they want to engage in toxic fucking yaoi in their selfships, do you not want them breathing the same air as you then? every time someone interacts with you, they're not asking you to look at everything they're doing and making. they might even be totally nice and normal by even YOUR standards outside of their shipping proclivities! do you not like that because you think it's someone "pretending to be nice to cover up crimes"? or are you not willing to know that people are multi faceted? i'm not saying people are never cold and calculating and comically evil and shit, but are you sure the guy also engaging in what a lot of people outside the sphere would say is "really cringe shit" anyway is any different or worse than you? selfshipping is cringe and taboo to a group out there somewhere too apparently, i've seen people make the argument that "fictional characters can't consent because they're not real," and selfshipping at large is seen as a weirdo activity, right? especially because the more serious you are about them, the more "sad" it looks like to the outside world because you don't have a real life partner and "have to get obsessed with your fictional one instead". people have been making fun of "sweaty weebs" with waifus for years. to engage in that and then not also understand that something like this — shooing away everybody who doesn't make sure nothing too problematic is in their ships — maybe shouldn't be happening is wild.

there are thousands and thousands of romance tropes — general story tropes — relationship dynamics and tropes — that many many many people can honestly say "i love this in fiction, but i'd hate it if that really happened to me or someone i know," not to mention KINKS that you'd love to fantasize about but never ever do in real life. that's also part of critical thinking and separation of what's real from what's fake, babes. and, unfortunately for YOU maybe, some of those kinks do include incest or huge age gaps or toxic relationships or what have you. that does NOT translate directly into someone's morality profile. maybe they like thinking about morality and testing it or edging the line on it. maybe it's just fucking hot. in FICTION, no less. we're talking about characters, characters that you can make healthy or unhealthy or any shade of gray in-between depending on what story you'd want to tell. for the umpteenth time. video games do not cause violence, proshipping does not cause you to get into toxic shit. it might even deter you because now that you've experienced it through fictional ragdolls, you never have to try it out yourself. oh my god. i'm losing my mind. if i'm missing something crucial about this, because i feel i must be, then please let me know. it feels like most of the selfship community on tumblr is like this and even look down on those who think different, and i know there's probably a good reason, but from where i'm standing (and because of the reasons i'm stating out) that reason doesn't look all that reasonable. and i know, i know — i enjoy overclowning on things and people i don't like as well! i already think so hard about so many things, i'm allowed to not wanna think about at least one topic too hard. human flaw, sue me, i understand that people hyperbole their distaste a lot for the funsies or because they're tired of explaining their nuanced take on it over and over and over again. cool. but god, you know you don't have to put, and i quote, stuff like "PROSHIPPERS AND BIGOTS GO AWAY SHOO" and "if anyone notices a pro/com/dark.shipper reblogging or liking my things people shoot me an ask or message letting me know! I can't always get all of them since I average like 100-300 notes a day! I appreciate it <\3" and "proship/neutral on proship (meaning you ship and enjoy pedo/incest/other weird illegal shit in media)" right? such intense reactions to people minding their business in the goddamn cringe and free selfshipping fandom. first of all, huh, it kinda sounds like you're lumping proshippers and bigots together? "bigot" is such an umbrella term for so many things generally, the fact that it isn't listed out what specifically they're looking to avoid (plus of course the GO AWAY SHOO) makes me think that first dni is overtly simplified, and, in cases of overt simplification, sometimes people who do so in lists like that group everything in that list in around the same ballpark.

"whimsy and fun" and "magic and potions" and the like, right? all this to say i don't think that person was saying "proshippers and bigots" as two different dnis. correct me if i'm wrong.

you don't need me to tell you proshippers and bigots aren't the same thing, but hey. just in case. because i thought i didn't have to say that sometimes media is taboo and that's what the artist/creator/etc. was going for, and that furthermore stories like that can be interesting and good for you to consume every once in a while, but here we are. i'm gonna use the actual definitions for these words. "a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group," for bigots, and "one who supports a ship or shipping deemed problematic (e.g., due to incest, age differences, abusive dynamics, etc.), and/or believes in the freedom to create and consume fanworks with such elements" for proshippers. they can be the same. i'm not saying they can't be. but they are not similar nor can they necessarily be clumped together by concept alone. UNLESS you assume proshippers are unreasonably attached to their beliefs because you haven't heard their reasons for it, or you find their reasons unreasonable for some reason? or you make a point to turn this into a mini separatist civil war in yume fandom where proshippers are on one side and antis are on the other. wherein in this reality, proshippers are prejudiced against antis and antis are prejudiced against proshippers. second point. where do you find the time and energy to siphon out every single proshipper in your sphere? it sounds like you're hunting them for sport, calm down. if this is the only space you have on tumblr then sure you'd wanna make it your best space, but you are treating people like pests. last but not least, legality is not morality, either. and just because something is "weird and illegal" doesn't make it wrong to exist in fiction.

I'M finding the time to copy and paste these extra statements unneeded in your regular good old dni (which may not actually work if the people you want out are THAT bad) because i don't want anyone — not even me, when i read this back years later (if this post is still up) — to think that my claims of people equating shipping in fiction with real life morality are unfounded. i want you to see i have examples that i have seen on the regular. these are real blogs, with real people behind them, and i know they're most likely decent people so i don't think they'd harass me because they found out i made this post with their words as examples. i think they'd just block me, shit talk me on their own circles and their own time, and/or also put me up with the proshippers on their dni. if they acknowledge me at all. any of these options happening would be an honor! because believe you me, i want to live and let live. i hated having to go back and gather those examples because it pissed me off and i wanna not get myself in trouble by getting too pissed off. like, i could be playing a card game right now. but my reason for doing this still stands. my reason for writing and posting this (so others know where i stand, so i make myself very clear, so i have some peace of mind having gotten this out now, to analyze this for enrichment and to train my brain, many such reasons) still stands.

so what am i saying? "selfshippers, let anyone you're uncomfortable with into your circle"? i don't fucking care what you do, i'm just fucking pissed off. just some dude speakin his shit, and that's my prerogative, alright? who am i to tell you what to do? who am i to tell you what to think? i ain't your fuckin mom or nothin. i just don't like people suddenly deciding media needs to be morally good now. in any capacity. i don't like this "no proshippers allowed!!" treehouse mentality. and am i saying proshippers have no issues? hell no also, i've seen both sides play to this "war" thing, i've seen people go "anti antis fuck off i hate you!!!!" or whatever, it's also annoying. and for some people out there, maybe being a "proshipper" really does reflect their real life morality. there's always this non zero chance that it turns out most proshippers are criminals and can never hold a pleasant conversation and i'm insane and never saw them or whatever. either way, we have tags for this. we have content warnings for this. to shift the warning over from content to people to whole groups and/or beliefs isn't my thing. which is why when i selfship now, i sit by myself in a corner and make things. it's why i'm leaving the community before i ever got in it. and if there's any thought of "you can just ignore them" or "why get so angry if you can mind your own business", it's because, to reiterate, this is most of the fandom space i've come across. the blogs i'm referencing i have seen around the selfshipping community like a dozen times and seem to be pretty big names, populating so much of the self ship tag whenever i check it. and they're usually very angry and vile talking about those they deem proshippers. i couldn't ignore them if i tried. and i did! i do have the little "proshipper dni" thing (+ the spelling "pr0ship" because, woah... is that the censorship of a whole group of harmless people?) in my post text and tag filter settings. the space is so concentrated with it that it doesn't work effectively, though. AND let's not forget people don't apply these dnis only to the blogs — they slap the thing onto basically every post they make as well. tell me why i keep being recommended posts on my For You thing where people will just say the most benign shit and tag it "proshippers dni!!! 🤢" arbitrarily, like

"imagine your f/o just sitting there PROSHIPPERS GET OUT!!!!!!!!" that's been my experience on yumeblr. every. day. that i decide i wanna see what's going on. what is that. for what reason do you have to randomly exclude people on posts like that? do you think some proshipper will find your post about someone's f/o sitting down and go "oh yeah, and then they would TOTALLY fuck children after" or something? is tumblr being dumb or is this seriously what the fandom is.

because i wanted to reach out, to have a community, to be around people who were also engaging in a chill hobby. and now i'm too annoyed to, because the fandom doesn't like it when you enjoy anything not good and nice in fiction? and i'm barred off from talking to people simply because i don't take to the extreme belief that "if you like imperfect ships, get out". i'm wrong about that, whatever, i'm hyperbole-ing, again, sue me. i'm done. if festering and perpetuating a community where there are only the purest ships was the goal, then good for every anti out there! i'm never coming back. because disgusting humans like me should be kicked out, right? sigh. respond how you want. unfollow if you want. if you feel you might wanna rage at me (understandable, i made this raging at the public air first and wrath is a sickness that spreads, so to say) be aware that

for one, i made this post to get it off my chest first and foremost, if you want to argue with me about it you're barking up the wrong tree because i believe in this very strongly and inherently.

secondly, i suffer from the horribly human flaw that is "big hordes of people opposing me all at once is scary"; if you're planning to do that, wait for me to respond, ask me to clarify whatever point of contention you have with this. don't ask me to never form an opinion again. or kill myself. or whatever harmful thing you can say to people.

thirdly, i have hobbies and interests outside of this post, discourse (i actually... don't really like talking discourse outside of this), thinking about anti proshippers, the selfship community as a whole, and tumblr. clearly, it's why i can step away from the selfship community in the first place. lucky me! instead of arguing about this one thing, i can also talk about things like bears. or being in art block and dying smoke out of my head so sad. or my crippling card game addiction.

last of all, that i use tumblr for fun. i know selfshippers who hate other shippers so much also do too. i'm pissed off for my own personal reasons. you may as well take this post as screaming at the open field. kay? ok. i think i've covered my bases. if i post this to crickets, that'll be alright too, because now it's out there. and i've "old man yells at cloud"ed it.

a lot of why i'm upset anyway is mostly just the fucking putting that dni on random posts thing and the having to divide a fandom into like, fighting factions. i'll still continue interact with posts and prompts that don't have dnis on them in the future, because i'm going to try and have a good time no matter what. if anyone doesn't like me reblogging their stuff because their overall blog is a "proshippers go away" space, then they can block me liberally. beautiful world and all that. i'm gonna straight up microdose a community! yay!

HEY! hey also! you reading this RIGHT NOW! just because i'm being a little bitch about this doesn't mean you can go and send hate to people. there's a reason i didn't mention names and made (maybe obvious) allusions to people and blogs. no matter how obvious these allusions are to you though, nobody take this post as a signal that they should start a war with random guys for real. everybody sit down or go do something that makes you happy. (i surely have to, after having to proofread this so many times to make sure that the "piss on the poor" website knows what points i'm trying to make). i'm just speaking and rambling and stuff like. in fact, positivity can be a fun challenge game in a community like this: go out there and find a selfship blog that isn't annoying about this proship business and send them some love (ideally unrelated to this post; i don't wanna get on my own high horse like antis do or confuse anyone osjdis. get in some general "hey, cool ship!"s in there or something). that is my mission for you should you choose to accept it. maybe... recommend me some "proship safe" (what a weird way to say it) selfship imagines blogs... for fun and love and happiness.

thank you for reading to the end. thank you for caring this much about my opinions, i seriously appreciate it. big thumbs up from me to you!

[ballsballsbowls]

I suspect my insights into the new tumblr Core Product Strategy are no dumber than anyone else’s. To be fair, I workshopped an idea in my gc a couple of years ago that was nearly identical to Blaze, so while I don’t have my finger of the pulse of the youth, I have had a few good guesses what would fix tumblr. 

I understand they are kind of frantically balancing the needs of Someone Like Me (a 2013 sign-on who will be here until they shut the lights off and posts a good bit if not in a way that gets viewed and reads a lot more than 25 posts on the average day AND is like 80% browser user which like...seriously, use fucking browser it’s so much better) with the kind of Line Go Up forever growth that justifies spending money on a fucking sinkhole like tumblr.

I am also very interested in seeing if they can improve their algorithmic content because I’d be interested in the algorithmic content (explore, for you, even if they added something else I’d be interested as long as I have a chronological followers-only feed as one of my options). But I don’t use these things unless I’m desperate to Look At Post because...the algorithm is either very very good or very very bad, in that it nearly always serves up posts I’ve been seeing all day (so points for guessing what I am already seeing) but had no interest in interacting with. 

Please tumblr I WANT to see more posts I am not already seeing. I cannot look at the same out of context undated twitter screencaps passing as political commentary all day every day. I just also want the option to not see that shit in my chronological dash. In tumblr’s heyday I never hit my post limit but I was posting upwards of 100 posts a day, and now you rarely get double digits from me because there is simply not that much interesting content.

Unsure about the threaded comments. I think it COULD work but I’m unsure if it will depending on how it’s implemented.

ALSO pleased to see The App on their list. The app is dogshit and it’s been dogshit for a couple of years now. It’s genuinely hard to SEE more than 30-40 posts on the app in an WHOLE DAY of intermittent scrolling because of the app’s tendency to freeze/crash/only show you those 30-40 posts no matter what you do. I have mutuals who LEFT TUMBLR because they were app-only users and the app just got so unpleasant to use they quit tumblr, and I’m sure they are not the only people who did so.

I desperately would like more control over who follows me/who can interact with me/who can interact with my posts. I’d love a native mute function, especially something that would let me choose how long I don’t want to see posts for. Sometimes I just need like five days so they can get their untagged blorbo stuff out and I don’t have to see it, you know? 

I’d love an option to not allow blank blogs to follow me, or blogs newer than 7 days, or blogs that have NEVER generated an original post (which also tend to be spam). You have everyone’s birthdays now, you should be able to generate a “nobody under 18 according to the account birthday can follow” (I care less about that but I also am not generating much of my own content.) 

tl;dr I am not sure the issue is tumblr is difficult for new people, but I think a slow, buggy app and the lack of new and different stuff on the site is what keeps them from coming back. 

[lancecharleson]

Well well well...

This one goes out to all the tumblr influencers who helped much of this site’s userbase migrate to Twitter.

I have a lot of things to say that I know some of you don’t want to hear.

But before I do, I want you to know that I am fully aware that Apple's policies and Tumblr (circa 2018)'s irrational decision making is what resulted in The Tumblr Exodus of 2018 happening. What I want to talk about is how many of you with more clout than most were ready to flock, nail and rivet yourself to the birdapp, let complacency run it's course, and why there needs to be accountability from those who influenced the direction of the Exodus. So...

Congratulations! You ended up wasting so much of people's precious time, forcing them to rebuild their audience again on a platform that was doomed from the start to be taken over by genuinely godawful people (thanks largely to how the site's algorithm works). If I were you, I wouldn't plan on sticking around to see it get worse with Lonnie Muskrat at the helm, who's planning to allow all the cultists and bullies who were banned 2 years ago (for PR reasons and not the constant breaking of community guidelines) back onto the platform, who continue to pretend having no semblance of an ethical compass is the same thing as having a "differing opinion." But no, you keep insisting: "OH but there are people on there who can't afford to start over again!"

"OH but it's the place where everyone and everything is (no it's not)!"

"OH but the alternative sites you recommend aren't the jack of all trades social media sites that twitter is!"

"OH but there are extensions to help you block out all the horrible stuff and curate the site in a way that makes twitter a more """comfy""" experience!"

"OH but-

OH SO WHAT?

Some of us were telling you for YEARS since The 2018 Exodus to seek alternate sites that aren't like Twitter, or at least diversify to multiple sites and use your influence on the birdapp, to spread the word around to help people connect with each other (if you're reading this right now and you're someone who's done any or all of these things, then disregard this rant).

Yet you didn't want to listen.

You made ZERO effort to plan in the long term how to keep your social presence on the internet known by alternate means, just in case a catastrophe like the twitsla merger happened. You had MONTHS in advance to make a good head start on just that, and you chose to stick to that hellsite. 

I don't care what you say to convince me there is no alternative to Twitter, I am never going back.

This is the final straw. I've had enough.

I have always hated Twitter, ever since I moved there.

4 years of experience on there has resulted in far too many painful memories to count than good, and I’m not staying to make more.

The first year I spent on there wasn’t so bad, but then 2019 was the year when I was given a glimpse of just how awful that particular side of site’s userbase can be.

Beyond that though, the site is dogshit when it comes to elevating artists, it’s limited word format has destroyed attention spans, there is no way to sort or archive posts, it has a genuinely triggering trend feed designed in such a way to solely generate clicks, and it has a heavily biased algorithm that does not favor voices who genuinely want to be a powerful force for good in this world.

But worst of all, I am disgusted to even occupy the same space as the billionaire worshippers who laugh, circlejerk, and delight in their insatiable desire to destroy democracy, society and human life. Bullying and harassment from those bad actors has always been a big problem on Twitter, a problem that, believe it or not, was actually getting close to being solved by the site’s software engineering team, who’ve been pushing for algorithmic transparency and choice, and inventing and building ethical AI tooling and methodologies to deal with the problem. Too fucking bad that’s been thrown away by a multi-billionaire manchild, who has signalled loud and clear he intends to exacerbate that problem, as he’s fired the team, without notice no less, along with another notable team that is vital to ensuring hate speech isn’t normalized on the platform.

Those bastards are coming en mass to harass and dox all your friends who either come from marginalized backgrounds or don't have the same level of clout as you do, and I highly recommend you start instructing them on where to branch out and ensure them you have their backs every step of the way right now.

Despite what happened, communities on Tumblr continue to thrive, and while it's nice that the site’s company is more lax about artistic nudity in the same vein as DeviantArt (to whatever extent that is), I still wish they did more by, at the very least, doing what Discord did and only restrict access to the nasty stuff to Apple users only, rather than the scorch-the-earth approach they did 4 years ago. 

There's also places like Pillowfort, Cohost, and if you're an artist specifically there's sites like DA, Newgrounds and Itaku. There are many more sites that I’m probably missing that some people know about (and can recommend in the replies), but they exist. The key is to spread the word around and let your friends know where you are. 

There’s also the spiritual successor to Twitter coming soon called BlueSky, being developed by jack and all the former employees that muskrat fired, which began right as lonnie announced his intentions to colonize Twitter. But who knows how that’ll turn out. Whether or not they’ll also take onboard the HR team and the software engineers to continue working on their ethical algorithm and AI projects, remains to be seen.   

I can already see coming from a mile away all the people coming to tell me “All those sites are shit because of one or two flaws” or “Barely anyone goes there forehead, it’s a ghost town.”

What is stopping you from trying anyway?

You want to stay on Twitter so badly? Fine, more power to you. 

But I promise you moving shop is better than being on a social media site that is quickly becoming an amalgamation of everything wrong with Youtube, 4Chan and Facebook.

If you made it this far into the post, thank you for reading, and welcome back.