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For the low low cost of (insert price here) per month, you too can shut me up for a whole month!

No you can’t

Like my work? Want to support what I do? Check me out at https://www.patreon.com/anonymousartist or ko-fi.com/anonymousartist to help me out! All it takes is a dollar a month to really make a difference for me!

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Lmao 😂

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This guy has it good.

This is so wholesome

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my favorite calvin and hobbes comic is the one where his dad just rolls up and casually destroys his entire night by pointing out some neat trivia about record players

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:/

:)

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Animal snaps

via @animalsnaps​

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Real world animals that inspired Pokemon

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sometimes putting out art is hard, but reblogs and tags REALLY REALLY make it worth it 

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Meh.

I want to make this very clear: Tumblr is not a bad website.

There seems to be some confusion lately.

Blurred lines between a bad website and bad people running it.

Tumblr is not a bad website, it’s just run by idiots.

We have to consider the base foundations of this website and how miraculous they are for artists who want to get noticed.

If you draw something really good, someone with more followers than you can reblog it and get all their followers seeing it, and then their followers reblog it for even more followers, etc. etc. etc.

I spent 6 years on FurAffinity trying to establish a fanbase, and I was quickly coming to a realization that I wasted my entire middle and highschool education practicing drawing and getting F’s in everything but art, and I had no other skills than art, and couldn’t make a living off it.

Enter: Lil Miss Rarity, a blog I made as a silly joke to take out my frustrations with FurAffinity and my lack of ability to support myself financially as an artist.

4 days later, Lil Miss Rarity had triple the followers of my FurAffinity blog, thanks to reblogs, comments, asks, direct communication and input to my followers.

Tumblr is a place where it’s extremely easy to pass a post around, get notes, get seen, and of course, make a living.

Tumblr is a website that through its most basic functionality makes being an artist and getting by financially as well as interacting with your fanbase EXTREMELY easy.

So while people sit there day in and day out, especially today, talking about how much this website is a shit-hole with no redeeming qualities

I just want to say, no website has what Tumblr has

Let’s take a look at how you get noticed on FurAffinity

1) When you submit art, it falls into a pool of every other piece of art submitted that day, and if someone is browsing that they might find it

2) If you tag your stuff people might find it in the search (Which, reminder, the search feature is NEW and didn’t exist for like a decade)

3) If someone favorites your picture and someone else goes to their blog and looks in their favorites they’ll see it.

THAT’S IT.

Tumblr, you go to your dashboard, start scrolling down, and see “Dingus-fringus-fanblog reblogged hoobastooba’s pic” and you’re like “Whoa that’s good art” and you click follow.

Until Pillowfort finally happens, Tumblr is the only website that functions that way seamlessly without being clunky and hard to navigate.

Because let’s face it, reblogs and asks and comments are wonderful.

And you know what else is wonderful? Being able to make text posts bigger than 250 characters so I can actually be specific about what I’m trying to say rather than having to turn this whole thing into one little quip.

And let’s not forget that I can toss pictures or videos in here.

Anyway this is my long winded way of saying

If Tumblr staff changes their mind, I will be staying here

I’m not leaving

It’s a good website

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For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

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Cute

Me: Alright, are you ready, Hattie?

Hattie: Meow

Me: *sings* ♪ If you’re happy and you know it, say “meow” ♪

Hattie: Mraaow

Me: ♪ If you’re happy and you know it, say “meow” ♪

Hattie: Mrah

Me: ♪ If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it, if you’re happy and you know it, say “meow” ♪

Hattie: *rolls over* Mwraaah!

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Tumbler just flag me for nothing! Let’s celebrate 🎉

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Just.....because

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Chompette is mah biting buddy

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Angry furball

I’m the kitten, the toy is all the Avengers, and the hand is Thanos (not my video) source was pretapets

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Crying babies

Who remembers the Periconcept?