I actually agree with that tweet that was going around (by ex-tumblr user Amina btw) about how tumblr is now one of the calmer places to be on the internet. Tumblr is quiet now, and lonely. Obviously it still has elements of the madness it always did but here it’s up to you what you tune in and out for. All other social media is monetised and manipulated for maximum anxiety and stimulation at all time. Twitter has it’s sidebar of awful global news co-mingled with celebrity gossip nothingness, stan twitter hashtags and #X-person is cancelled/ #X-is over party. Instagram has replaced where the post button had been for them for years with a fucking shop button. I haven’t gone near facebook in a long time but i don’t need to explain to any of you how bad it is.
The reason so many of us have stuck with tumblr for so long is because it is impossible for them to monetise (none of us have any money anyway) and despite the thousands upon thousands of hours that each of us may have put in it doesn’t have an obvious valuable output - no one can immediately see how many followers you have or any actual impact you have, unless they themselves are willing to be a part of whatever it is that’s going on on the dashboard.
I suppose I’ve learnt from being excised from tumblr for so long that you have to appreciate how great the buffer is on this website in comparison to the constant psychological warfare that facebook, instagram and twitter wage on all their users, and in turn their users wage on one another. The over-exposure to this insidiously designed advertising that ramps up the more you go on the app - the more it knows you are desperate for content; and the over-exposure to far too many other people and opinions that lead to unnecessary ideological warfare.
Tumblr by comparison is a haven. They don’t throw politics and sinisterly targeted adverts at you - because they don’t know how. And they don’t need to throw other people’s posts at you because they know how irrelevant we all are here anyway.
if you never understood why these movies got the dislike they received then there’s a good chance you’re probably a really really really big fan of the Found Family trope nowadays