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This is my favorite part if anyone cares

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this is steph and solomon coded

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now that workin boys is out

yall-

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Hatchetfield fans how’re we doing

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A black dragón floating above the clouds

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You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

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they are roommates

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HOT TAKE

Editing is more fun than the first draft

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so much of taking care of yourself as an adult is just learning to eat at home and going on walks

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i am skeptical you could do that actually, tiktok user

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おせーぞこら！

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What bothers me the most about the watcher discourse is the people that keep saying "this is eating the rich? You're gonna starve!" when they are definitely making over a million dollars a year. One drives a tesla, they can afford unreasonably expensive fancy dishes, they can afford to go on vacation to wherever they want, they can fund a whole company while doing so. That is more than living comfortably. How are people saying that they're not rich when they've probably made more money in the past five years than most of us will ever see in our lifetime? That's rich! The only people defending that are the ones that have never been broke. And the "you need to check your parasocial relationship, it's not that serious", yeah I get it (and personally speaking I'm just a loyal fan, but not really parasocially), but you do need to realize they could've just communicated with the fandom or have done literally anything else than this. Plus they're quite exactly doing the opposite of what they said they believe in.

All three of them are (I'm guessing) equally responsible for this decision and I'm equally disappointed in all of them. I don't think I will be following them from now on

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this fandom is low-key one of the most racist ones i have ever been in and i have been in here one and off since 2020!! like no ur soft uwu white boy bean was not kidnapped by gun-point by theeee evil ceo to make this decision and no he is not ur leftist anti-capitalist paragon who just so happens to buy hundreds of dollars worth of products at whole foods and no! ur not slick calling men of color robotic and greedy and soulless and worthless and claiming that they're responsible for everything you don't like about the company while obviously your white boy fave secretly agrees with you because you can tell by the twitch of his eyes! and don't get me started on people calling ryan dumb or gullible or that steven must have manipulated him into it or that shane is the only one smart enough to idk... see through the evil overlord??? like do y'all hear yourselves? are you not a little ashamed? do you have no self reflection or do you think that because you slobber over someone who says "eat the rich" in one occasional video that it makes you immune from being racist. tale as old as watcher's founding too!

Just gonna post this because it's true in a lot of ways. The narrative surrounding Steven has always gotten right out of hand and a racist under-developed brain can't even put together how detrimental it would have been to the company and Shane, of all people, if Steven hadn't been there for them.

All they care about is monopolising spaces to talk over people of colour for a retweet or two.

I am at zero tolerance for that this time round guys.