#Tumblr's algorithm sucks

[the-brucest-fan]

Monthly Luigi Sketches Pt. 2 (AUG-JAN)

Here's the rest of the Luigi sketches I drew the 21st of each month. With the January one, I've finally completed a full year of sketching Luigi once per month. I think here is where the change of how I draw him is more noticeable 💚

As you can see, the one from August is not Movie!Luigi, since at that moment I was still deciding if all my sketches had to be of that version especifically, or if I could draw any version (me and my own silly rules, hehe 😅). At the end, since I had been practicing a more cartoony style, I chose to draw Luigi like that.

This was such a fun project (and to think it all started by the biggest of the coincidences three times in a row). I won't be continuing this for now, at least not until the next movie gets announced.

Thank you so much for all the love you gave to my 12 Luigis 😄💖 Now that you've seen them all, which one did you like the most? 👀

You can find Part 1 here.

[owlsocks]

Hunters Mark

[theproboscismonkey]

YIKES!!!😰☝️

[strange0-0storm]

Hey uhh... I just wanted to talk about the fact I posted my first art on Tumblr and I can't find it in the related hashtags (it was smg4 and smg34) there are a few other people that have the same problem I won't say that I have a great art but the fact that it only got one like made me depressed (I just want senpai to notice me lmao)

I think I've noticed this happened too a couple people, I hate that tumblr isn't pushing your posts, sometimes algorithms SUCK. Seeing posts on tags are so weird and I hate how it's not showing up for you :(

ALSO HELP SENPAI. THATS A NEW ONE

HI HELLOOO‼️‼️👋👋👋

[k--havok]

So, I actually am curious about this.

I use quite a few different programs for editing my work, specifically I prefer using ProWritingAid but have also used Grammerly in the past too before I wanted something with more features and specialized.

Both ProWritingAid, Grammerly, and other editing software often have features that can reword sentences for you for numerous reasons, such as getting rid of a "passive voice," for clarity, or just to make it sound better.

I'm not entirely sure what sort of program is running to do this. Is it AI based? Perhaps. Or maybe an algorithm of some kind? I am not sure. I know very little about software.

Personally, I find it really helpful and it speeds up the line editing, which I hate doing. Content editing and rewriting? Fine. LINE EDITING? Ugh.

But what is everyone else's opinion on this?

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[aceenxl]

Dunno how the Tumblr algorithm works here— my art gets very little traction here compared to Twitter..I'm not gonna stop posting whenever I can though

[wrongcaitlyn]

every time i feel like i spend too much time on a social media app i delete it from my phone to resist the urge and now i've limited myself to just insta and so all that time that used to be wasted on social media is now wasted playing sudoku

[pendinganchor]

Billy was sitting at the kitchen table— one hand being used to hold open the book he was skimming for the fifth time, the other trapped in a loose thumb war with Steve. He wasn’t sure what Steve was doing— but he started winning any time it distracted him. He wasn’t sure when he had stopped worrying about his father coming home— but he’d pay for that later.

Hushed whispers sounded in the doorway. Billy tensed for half a second before relaxing when he saw Max and El out the corner of his eye. Then he heard the all too familiar sound of Max’s polaroid camera going off.

“I bought that for you two months ago and I’m already regretting it,” Billy groaned, placing his bookmark— that was actually just an old receipt— into his book then letting it fall shut.

“Come on, Billy,” El teased. “You look pretty!”

“Well then, let’s see it.”

Max reached out with the photo in hand. Billy abandoned his thumb war with Steve to grab it— which caused Steve to realize other people were in the room with them. “See what?” he asked, using his now free hand to push up his glasses.

Billy looked at the photo— his face forming into a slight frown. “Why do I look like that?”

Max raised an eyebrow at him. “Happy?”

[utilitycaster]

The thing about the "official" CR Reddit is that it was founded by the same person who founded the Fandom Critical Role wiki. At the time of founding in late 2015 he was 18, and in my experiences with him through the Fandom wiki I found his management and personnel skills to be...shall we say, understandably lacking, given that he's a programmer in his early 20s. He also stopped keeping up with the show with the end of the Vox Machina campaign if not before; and I think was just generally entirely unprepared for Critical Role becoming more than what it was in late 2015 in terms of actually having large fandoms in need of serious moderation in spaces like Reddit. He also equated being a frequent contributor to the Fandom wiki (cannot personally speak to the Reddit) as being a worthy moderator to the point of asking someone whom a more competent admin had once admonished for outright plagiarism if they were interested in being an admin. This persisted, despite, at the time of his leaving, him and one of the other moderators of the Fandom wiki having held those positions while being almost entirely absent from editing for years.

So anyway I say all this because as result of those communities being created by someone young, inexperienced, and lacking in the awareness to realize these limitations, these issues have propagated. Moderators in a lot of fan-run Critical Role spaces have been selected not on the basis of any merit or community consensus but rather by sheer volume or by ingratiating themselves to the previous mods. From personal experience on the Fandom wiki and from reliable hearsay about the Reddit it seems that they tend to embrace their privileges as mods while eschewing their responsibilities. I also find that there's an ongoing hangover in both these spaces of not really knowing how to deal with the fact that Critical Role is still rolling nearly six years after the end of the Vox Machina campaign, because a lot of these people were ultimately fans only of Vox Machina and more generally Critical Role as it was during that era. They're still acting as though the cast is very directly involved with the fandom and are the final word on various decisions, as they were in the very early days, even though that's long since ended. This in turn is I think behind the knee-jerk resistance to change - moving away from the old chapter system on the Fandom wiki and even implementing basic infrastructural changes to accomodate the fact that there are now multiple campaigns, for example, was met with pretty significant pushback. They still really struggle to cover anything that's not Exandria canon because, well, in late 2015 no one could have predicted Candela Obscura. And on the Reddit side, I think that's why changes that are purely production-related and should not affect your enjoyment of the show as a work of fiction (pre-taping, merch, having other people GM one-shots sometimes, taking longer breaks) are similarly treated as harbingers of doom.

And, that in turn is why I suspect the other CR-related subreddits that have since sprung up have such a reputation for being all negativity - it's people who got understandably fed up with the ridiculous rules and culture of the first Reddit, so their roots are in venting, which is valid. But it can be very difficult for a community built on venting to stop being only that, especially under Reddit's structure, and they're also still largely influenced by that Reddit and share and propagate those biases towards what the show was in 2015-2017.

[bl4ckbox]

has anyone else just been getting straight up literal 4chan nazi posters in the for you page constantly

[evelyynnnnnnnnnnnnn]

seeing yourself on the following tab is the tumblr equivalent of when your phone is like loading or something and u see ur reflection

[sjokomila]

man idk why people think tumblr is really gonna shut down now. yes tumblr is a hellsite and it sucks, there are threats like this every 5 months.

regardless though, if tumblr does in fact, shut down. you can find me on (I kid you not) pinterest. <- link to my page

[theadventuresofoliversykes]

Ao3 crashing has got to be the worst thing bc it’s trending on tumblr and is now covering up for the fact that tumblr recently has informed us that they’re trying to implement an algorithm that will make this site 200000 times worse

[vaccariia]

ty for the notes and follows on the march and balor art 🫶🫶 didnt expect my fields of mistria art to pop off here, ill do the rest of the cast i promise 🥹

[cloudystrwbrry]

Does tumblr know what an algorithm is? I’ve been seeing a LOT of a fandom that I don’t even know what it is. I haven’t interacted or shown any interest in it at all. In fact I’ve said “not interested in this post” to every single one because there’s been SO many. I had hoped that it would catch on to why I’m not interested and stop showing it to me. Tumblr also decides that when it shows you something it shows you ALL of it and nothing else. You like landscapes? That’s all you’ll see until you refresh. You like dangonronpa? Yeah here you go I’ve got tons of that. Refresh. You like this super obscure fandom that you’ve shown 0 interest in whatsoever and in fact have told us you don’t want to see it on multiple occasions? HERE IT IS! WE HAVE SO MUCH OF IT TO SHOW YOU THAT EVEN IF YOU REFRESH YOU’LL ONLY SEE THIS UNTIL THE DAY YOU DIE!!!