#and idk if its just my shit algorithm or what

[mieldreams]

hello and a good day to all the lovely writers of tumblr but

WHERE ARE THE CHRISTMAS FICS???? WHERE ARE THE CHRISTMAS FICS????

[duskstarskies]

mugm for real is in everybody’s videos but his own im ctfuuuu😭😭

and btw idk why but mugm can never be normal with his teammates. (from manes new video) WHY are teamed with wyll again and of course he “”betrays”” for a single god apple😭. “mugm’s wyll not my will” normal things being said by manepear mc.

[virtuousvigil]

to everyone rb’ing/commenting on my art/everyone who fav’d it on tiktok n in general all the support for my writing n art n creations the last month??? i want you to know you have rendered me into a permanent state of this:

[kidflash7689]

Fellow zutaraians, idk how to find yall on tumblr this algorithm is shit but on TikTok, we getting dragged for the live action, which I refuse to watch even illegally, because apparently the writers are pro zutara? This info is unconfirmed and unless I see it with my own eyes, I won’t believe what some TikTok commenter says.

The reason for the dragging is because this tiktoker reposted tweets talking about the live action casting of toph. This is confirmed: toph is supposed to be older and more feminine in the live action. ans tiktoker SPECULATED that the creators may push taang instead. now zutara is getting dragged in the comments bc of proximity and its the most popular non canon ship. then u have pick me zutara stans who want the approval of the antis and canon loyalists sayin "im a zutara shipper but i dont what that to be canon to the livee action or taang" like girl bye who cares what u want. zutara stans be minding their business n then the canon loyalists and the antis drag us. we been quiet mostly. the live action can do whatever it wants idc. they can continue using the cartoon as a bouncing board instead of a mirror (thats what adaptations r supposes to do but i digress) and i wont care bc im not watching something that will not entertain me and make me mad bc im not braindead. Just Leave zutara Stan’s alone.

Anyways what yall think of this 😭😭

(Personally idc what they do w the live action bc I’m not watching. Why would I make myself mad. Yall love misery and its company bc yall will circle jerk each other and say oh u hate the live action and its decisions but keep pouring into it by giving it energy by talking abt it but yall do that with everything u don’t like: pour into it but thats another conversation)

[taffywabbit]

"why not just make your own website?"

with the announcement of cohost's death and amidst all the other tumultuous shit currently going on with social media as a concept (i am AMAZED twitter has survived this long given the circumstances), one suggestion that i've been hearing a lot is "we should just go back to the good old days of personal websites. let's all just make neocities pages!!"

(this is gonna be a long one sorry)

and like. idk! it's certainly something i've considered, i think it would be a fun thing to have, but it also feels like the equivalent of "capitalism sucks so let's all just run off into the woods and live in a cabin outside of society" to me. like it would be nice, it would be fun, but it doesn't ultimately solve the actual problems that are present with the modern internet, it just evades them. more importantly in my case and many others, it does not really help people who rely on the modern internet and the connections they're able to make there for their income. sure i can make a website and host my art and blog posts there, but who's going to see it? i can't build a consistent audience and make a living off of random passersby who peek at my website once, say "huh, neat!" and MAYBE add it to an RSS feed or whatever if they really like it. there's minimal potential for meeting and impressing new people outside my existing circles if i don't ALSO still have some manner of social media platform to promote the website on.

a lot of the "solutions" i see people proposing for the slow, painful decline of social media as a user experience keep coming back to old-fashioned, more isolated/insular systems. we miss forums, we miss personal webpages, we miss newsletters, etc etc. but like... those things were ideal in the "old web" because the old web was more about sharing hobbies and interests with whoever happened to pass by and check them out, and even just USING the internet was a niche hobby in and of itself for a lot of people. if you wanna be kinda cynical about it (and not unjustifiably so), web 2.0 is much more blatantly business-oriented, and its algorithms and carefully crafted UX's are primarily meant to funnel you towards viewing ads and spending money on products. looking at it that way, it sure does suck and Everything Was Better Before! but the modern web is ALSO more powerful than anything before it for just like. connecting people. spreading information and news. showing your art/music/writing/thoughts/etc to strangers who never knew you existed an hour ago. putting the tools to reach out to someone and tell them you think they're cool right there on the same website where their art is hosted, just a comment or a message away.

if you're able to avoid patterns of engagement-bait and obsessing over follower counts as a measure of self-worth (a big "if", i realize, but i view it like installing an adblocker - it's just kind of a basic prerequisite for modern internet safety and survival), a lot of these systems can genuinely be really positive and life-changing in ways that were simply not possible 20 years ago! almost all of my current closest friends are people I met through sharing our art on platforms like Twitter who were complete strangers at the time. all of the art clients that regularly pay my bills and support my work came from places like that too! the "social" part of "social media" is really what makes it ultimately worth keeping around in any form, and makes the pursuit of a Good social media platform still valuable.

there's a lot to love about the old web - its aesthetics, simplicity and freedom for personal expression - but every time someone says "just delete your socials and make a personal website" i am forced to confront the fact that i could never do what i currently do or be the person i am on the old web. if i was stuck hanging out in my own little space and only ever interacting with people who openly and loudly share my interests, i couldn't support myself with art full-time, i probably would never have met the kind and quiet strangers who are now my best friends and have made me who i am, and i'd just generally get a lot less insight into the vast range of experiences and perspectives that exist outside of my own. my life would be on a fundamentally different trajectory in countless ways without the advent of web 2.0.

and that's not to say "well twitter and facebook and tumblr all suck but you kinda still have to hand it to them" cuz you don't, obviously. they're corporations, and their job is to take the personalities and thoughts and art of the people who use their products and try to scrunch it all into something uninform and marketable that generates profit and pleases their shareholders. but like, you CAN still make a good thing out of them! these websites are tools just as much as geocities or myspace or IRC used to be. and the one thing these newer tools are pretty much all REALLY good at is discoverability. if you're just a hobbyist at the things you wanna share on the internet, then you likely don't have a lot of use for those tools, and perhaps you WOULD genuinely be happier just keeping a personal blog site or hanging out in private groupchats or sticking to specialized federated Mastodon instances or whatever. it just isn't feasible for me, and there are a LOT of people in my same situation. my entire industry of online freelance artists barely existed 20 years ago, and the web culture of that era is largely incompatible with my continued survival in the mid-2020s. i would LOVE to run off and live in the woods in concept, but all my survival skills are adapted for city living and i would just eat the wrong berry and die out there. i want- i NEED people to try and improve the spaces we're in, and support better forms of social media (like what cohost was trying and largely succeeding to do!) instead of just complaining that it all sucks, everything was better when we were kids, and digging ourselves little holes to hide in. much like all the other problems and frustrations and systemic issues of the world we live in, the modern web isn't going to go away if you just ignore it, so we may as well try to make it better for everyone.

anyways tl;dr i probably WILL make a neocities at some point. it could be fun, even if it doesn't help my career stability or whatever. but i do also need ALL THE SOCIAL PLATFORMS I USE FOR MY JOB TO STOP EXPLODING PRETTY PLEASE, and failing that, some actual half-decent alternatives that aren't going to fizzle out in a month would also be great thanks ✌

[cowbot-lumberjane]

For real this time

So like, what's the point? Day in and day out I spend time on this website being the saddest and angriest I've been. Like, idk. Harken back to the ancient texts: You gotta have something going on other than computer. I really think that a lot of us should just have more going on than tumblr. Internet is different, kinda sucks now in fact! And it pisses me off and makes me crushingly depressed to think of all the things I used to do or be able to do on the internet that are gone now. Its all been replaced with monolithic social media platforms. What the fuck am I gonna do, run a tumblr like a fuckin website? IDK. IDK what to do, honest. I barely do any of my hobbies anymore because of this fucking website and Ive come to really loath being on it. I hate my phone, I hate social media, I hate being plugged in. I wanna just go full internet cave woman and blast myself back to 2002 with the way I browse and use this thing, but I know thats not entirely possible. Im sad, im angry, and scrolling through tumblr is just as bad as scrolling endlessly through anything else. My carefully curated lack of algorithm has begun to do nothing but sadden me. Im outa here for a while. IDK what Ill do. I wanna just play a lot of video games and read but we'll see. Im gonna have to find some way to remember how to fill my time with things that arent fucking this. HTML is hard to me, we all know im a moron, but maybe ill keep building my website. Who fuckin knows. Im just so tired. Im SO tired. Keep up with me elsewhere if you have contact with me. Talk to your fucking friends. Stop posting, for the love of FUCK stop posting for a while. Maybe I'll never come back. Maybe the blog is dead. who. fuckin. knows. shit sucks. computer used to be cool and I want it to feel cool for me again. get involved in something. put 30 notes on this post and call me a loser because I dont fuckin do anything. keep bullying every trans woman who isnt a hacker or a funny artist with lax opinions. s'all you fucks ever do. sick of it. sick of the noise.

Sayonara you weaboo shits.

[unb1nding-t-b0y]

Transphobia/ micro aggression idk story cuz I see a lot of posts talking about transandrophobia but not as many stories about experiencing it. (Maybe it's just my Tumblr algorithm but regardless posting will hopefully help that too)

Anyways I'm 21 recently started transitioning and I've been performing at a drag place for a little bit. This elder queen (I don't even remember her name I think she was trans but with drag queens that have spent their lives In Drag it can be difficult to tell even when you hear them talk about themselves because many of these people kinda use male and female names pronouns etc interchangeably etc. I'll use she -her pronouns in the story because I'd rather not accidentally misgender a trans women and ik she doesn't care about being she/hered even if she is a cis gay) Anyways she asks bout me and I tell her my name, pronouns, and identity as one does in queer spaces. Upon hearing I was a trans masc she immediately feels the need to tell me the story of the time she *gasp* almost slept with a trans man. The story goes like this.

Shes at a drag night in some bar and a drag king approaches her and they hit it off. Shes into him and vice versa. They ditch the bar and make out in a car somewhere and when it's getting hot and heavy the dude pulls his strap out and tells her he wants to fuck her. All standard shit. But she goes on and on about how surprised and disgusted she was at both the fact that she's been fooling round with a "woman" and how off-putting it was to even suggest a BOTTOM get fucked with a dildo. She picks up. A. Drag. King. And gets surprised when he's trans. If a lesbian went to a drag night and picked up a trans woman and reacted in the same way people would call her an idiot for not bothering to have the critical thinking skills to consider that maybe that person performing gender up there is performing a different gender than they were assigned at birth. (Side note if you're gonna pick someone up without knowing anything about them you can't be mad about surprises. I swing both ways so a surprise is just fine for me but if you have a severe genital preference maybe fucking ask people before you're making out with them and wanting to fuck. Sorry you hate dildos but you should have checked, and honestly even if it's a cis dude you should at least try to verify that they get tested + use protection etc

Unfortunately the majority of drag kings I've run into have been CIS men. The place I'm in is very supportive and kind to cis men doing bare minimum performances (no choreography, no makeup, usually the dude just takes his shirt off at some point and that alone is enough to be praiseworthy. Or he wears a suit stands around and barely lip-syncs ) whereas drag kings that aren't cis or arent men are more often than not treated as outsiders.

The story also cemented what I was afraid of that ultimately I was viewed as an invader of the space. That for some reason cis queens and cis kings are more acceptable in a space that was pioneered by trans women and drag queens. The trans drag shows Ive gone to haven't had any trans men in them unless they are open call. It's hurtful it's alienating and it's frustrating. I AM STILL TRANS. IF YOUR TRANS INCLUSIVE SPACE ISNT INCLUSIVE OF ME ITS NOT INCLUSIVE. It's frustrating that as a trans man when I enter "trans friendly gay bars" I'm often treated like an annoying presence getting in the way of everyone else's dicks only zone. Sorry I don't have a cock but that shouldn't be a requirement to occupy these spaces and you can't call yourself trans inclusive when you really mean just cis gays and trans girls. At the time I couldn't really articulate how fucked up what she said was so I just kinda said some non offensive topic change and moved on but like most of the other queens ignored or avoided me and that moment I figured out why I always felt like the odd one out. Because I was.

[sigmaleph]

Look it's not that I think recommendation systems are evil. Recommendation systems are an attempt to sort through the immense flood of Content™ that is the modern internet. I like the option to, when I don't know what I want, to just let The Computer figure that out for me; it's not that great at it, and it's got its own goals to further that aren't quite aligned with mine, but it's better than random draws from the set of everything that exists on the platform.

But "option" is a very important word in that sentence; it's one tool among many. It's a thing to resort to when other things fail, like say "things tagged by a human being as relating to a specific subject" and "the things my friends are saying" and "keyword search". Various tools need to coexist, and I want some of those tools to be more transparent to me than "idk the algorithm decided you're into this now for its own reasons".

A chronological feed that contains all of and only those posts that were made by a specific set of blogs is very transparent; I can tell exactly why a certain post ended up in front of me, which gives me control to adjust my feed to include stuff i want to see and exclude stuff I don't. It's coarse-grained control, of course, which is why I think it's important to combine it with other tools like keyword filtering and tag-following and so on, but it very clearly exposes cause and effect.

Recommendation systems are opaque; I cannot tell why a post was recommended to me. If I'm lucky it's at least responsive to "no this sucks stop recommending it to me", but honestly I have not found that to be a very good tool to stop getting shit I don't want shoved in front of me.

Onboarding new users presents a problem when they don't know who to follow yet, sure. It makes sense to foreground other tools when introducing people to your website. Just don't take away the other tools. Let people transition from "new user who has no idea how anything works" to "experienced user who can use the tools at their disposal to choose the content they see"

[f1nd00l3y-haz-n0-lyf3]

someone please teach me how o draw 😭

(rant i wrote up in like 5 mins and put no though into editing so please dont read this i just want somewhere to rant)

i feel like none of the things ive been drawing are good and all my friends have things theyre really good at but i feel like my stuff just isnt up to that standard and im sick of it. i wanna do like shading and light and rendering studies and i wanna learn how to draw anatomy and people with different body types but idk how to study those things. ill look over at my friends paper and theyll have like some random pic on their laptop screen that theyre just copying and in like 10 seconds theyll whip up a masterpiece and ill just sit there like "damn my shit sucks". they tell me they dont like what they draw and then ill look at something they did and then be like "if they think that gallery level top tier most amazing beautiful piece of art is bad then wtf do they think when they see my stuff?". i just wanna make something im proud of but i feel like i just dont have the time or the energy or even when i get to doing smtn like studying smtn it never ends up improving my stuff or helping me figure out how to do smtn. i wish there was a quick and easy way to get to where i wanna be but ik that i gotta at least put in the effort.

i need to draw more often i need to do more studies i need to practice more but with school and everything it feels like i never have time and whenever i do have time like on the holidays im just too lazy to do anything but play games watch yt and go on c.ai.

i just wanna be able to make the things i wanna make the way that i wanna make them but im just not at that level and ik that if i try now ill think its too bad to finish or just hide it away because im too ashamed of it.

anyways i hope that absolutely no one sees or reads this and it just gets buried in the deep depths of the tumblr algorithm ^^

[ofmermaidstories]

merms tiktok is "back" in the states (idk i smell something real fishy here) but i deleted the app an its not in the store anymore so now im stuck having to use it on BROWSER

but honestly im so suspicious of how it's back/what trump has to do with it that i lowkey dont even want to redownload it

something is weird.

LMAO i woke up to the news and was like, oh. 😌 i knew u guys were gonna come back eventually but tbh i was expecting the ban to hold for like… idk, a little longer than 15 hours LOL. guess trump really couldn’t wait to roll out that propaganda. 💀 i mean, i’m glad!!! i missed you guys and tbh, the thing for me was that it was a really, really unsettling reminder that it wouldn’t take much to just like, lose you. snip a few wires or w/e and bam, we lose touch with an entire nation. 😟 like!!!!! i’ve seen some videos and tweets already this morning with influencers or creators being like aha oopsies sorry for overreacting 😝✌🏼 but tbh i think we need to overreact bigger LMAOOO. i think everyone—american or otherwise—should be upset at being toyed around like this, in a stupid, childish powerplay!!! it’s GROSSSS.

tbh i reckon if you can break away from tiktok then do it lmaooo. the accessibility of like, having so many people at your fingertips (with so many different skills and like, such a collection of knowledge) made it fun, but like. the format is definitely rewiring something important in our brains that we need lmaooo.

i will say though……. those few hours without you guys were fascinating. the low like count. the way that most of the content i was getting was like, canadian, aussie, and then uk. i wonder if it sent the algorithm scrambling??? one of my favourite accounts is a guy that just talks about like, music, like deep cut recordings of old shit, fancy music players, stuff like that—he made a goodbye video for his american viewers (it actually made me cry LMAOOOO) but then afterwards made another one being like, oh, it’ll be really interesting to see how we as an international community fill in the gap left by such a large userbase—what we’ll discover. he deleted it when u all came back tho LMFAOOOOO, but like. 💀 he was right, it would’ve been interesting to see. but it also would’ve taken time, and i’d rather just have you guys back on the playground right now. 😭 even if the playground is now like. tainted by meta hovering over it like a man with a white van and a lollipop dsflkjsdklfj.

[vannie429]

I can’t tell you how freeing it is to disengage with things you don’t like.

And I wish we didn’t live in a culture where you can monetize engaging with things you dislike.

I’ve been anti live action Disney movie since maleficent came out because I knew it was going to be the start of a never ending cycle if it succeeded. I didn’t want to be a figure that encourages them to make more.

And so many people I know kept reliving the same cycle, posting in Facebook about how excited they were when Disney announced they were remaking *insert movie here* then posting their dream cast, followed by some arguments over how it ended up being cast. Then to finally see the movie and (surprise!) be disappointed.

Then they repeated it all over again, like gambling, hoping the next try would scratch that itch. Meanwhile their children are not only getting sorry excuses of movies to latch onto as “their generations ‘lion king’” or whatever…but they also lose so much media literacy in learning that these versions their seeing are the “real” ones, not learning to value artistic mediums and instead looking to their parents to learn that “real” is “better.”

But no, cuz fuckin Nostalgia Critic and that annoying red head and every subsequent YouTuber and tiktoker needs to make their bag which is videotaping themselves saying that the obviously bad movie turned out to be bad.

Idk if that last paragraph is just me telling on myself, showing my algorithm, but I need to complain about it. It annoys me when people say they’re film buffs and cry and whine, begging Hollywood to make better movies….and yet they directly support the system with their hate watching.

Same with the Oscar’s. I can’t tell you the last time I watched it, but once I was in college and understood movies a bit more, and saw just how little people cared about Animation as a medium. (Maybe it was Frozen that made me quit the Oscars and eventually all awards shows). It’s so obviously not about merit….its just an asshole licking competition so people can get a few laurels that will earn them more money and faux prestige. The academy is a business first and foremost and is more about projecting an idealization of Hollywood to the masses than it is about truly commending artistic achievement.

It should have been obvious with Greatest Showman and its vapid, nothing message about being true to yourself and your passion for exploiting disabled people. But it wasn’t and we ate it up.

But if this year’s butt-licking over Emelia Perez doesn’t just shine a spotlight for everyone over how BS the Oscar’s are….then there’s no hope that people will ever get out of the cave.

Sorry for this obnoxious rant but I just used to be so passionate about movies and media and I just hate the industry more and more each year….and at the end of the day movies and tv shows are PIVOTAL players in how we learn to understand media (esp since most people just done read anymore). And if you can’t learn to break down messages and themes of a movie… what technical tricks they may use to make it /seem/ like a “good” movie…..what hope do you have of sniffing out the bull shit in real public media. In the PR stunts of Trump and anyone else who is so efficient at weaponizing media to their advantage.

[angelfevr]

i dont think i want to post my art online anymore.

this was kind of a hard decision and i had thought abt quitting for Months, possibly Years, but yeah im putting my foot down this time.

i restarted this blog earlier this year bc i noticed my unhealthy attachment to the internet, so i wanted smth that focused on my hobbies bc that felt more productive in a sense. and it was, and it helped.

i just wanna say this isnt anyones fault, and while i cant control how ppl decide to respond to this, pls dont feel at fault or guilty or anything . idk how to word things eloquently esp not during an emotional moment

anyway i keep thinking abt curryswirl's post and how true it is ..

like its so frustrating having to post stuff like "hey!! i made smth" and how it feels (keyword: feels) like nobody cares enough to share it around w/ others . and no doing it privately doesnt count bc like.. u couldve spent energy making a comment to the op instead

overall i feel like theres more cons than pros. i hate having my self worth tied to internet attention/validation and i rlly dont think its a me problem . i think its a problem w the internet in general, how the algorithm (and ik tumblr doesnt have one so thats not the only point im making) favors certain ideas/trends, how u have to sanitize urself, market urself in a way that strays from what u truly want to do . idc that "eventually youll have eyes on ur posts" bc why cant it happen Now ? why do i have to fight to get noticed? its such a competitive nature and i hate it

so im done

ofc im still gonna use this blog and if u wanna talk privately abt my stuff and send asks and shit im cool w that, i still want to be in community w other writers and such . im just not gonna post much or at all. maybe lil snippets here and there, participating in writing/fandom events but thats it

if u read this far, ty . if u didnt, thats fine too ^^

tldr: im quitting posting art on the internet bc of the competitive nature of said internet and how it fucks with my mental health. so yeah

[ophernelia]

Hi. Do you have any tips on how to grow your sims platforms? I keep tryig and posting and I hardly get any interactions or followers. Idk what to do. I wish bigger creators would help out smaller ones more by reposting the content so it gets more views. Its so hard starting out

Hey! Yeah, I have a few tips I can share! This is gonna be long so beware!

I keep seeing this sentiment reiterated about larger creators. I get it, but I think everyone's missing one thing in regards to it: you already have access to the same audience they have. Just like you they grew their platform. Maybe it was a stroke of luck from a viral post or something, but they still had to start somewhere. What it takes is getting your content to hit the algorithm. That's all! So even if a larger creator never looks your way, you can still grow and curate an audience without their help. Small accounts are what make up big accounts after all.

You NEED good SEO. I'll talk about TikTok specifically. If you want a boost in visibility then get on Tik Tok. Properly tagging your content is the key to working the algorithm in your favor. I think people believe the more tags the better. No. The more accurately tagged, the better. The hashtags "TS4", "The Sims", and "The Sims 4" are always trending. You should always use those tags. The rest depends on the kind of content you're posting. I'll use my most viral video as an example. My Stormveil Chateau post on Tik Tok got 141.6K views, 22.3K likes. Since it was for a maxis match build I used the following tags: #thesims4 #sims4 #ts4 #simstok #ts4cc #fyp #sim #sims4tok #sims4maxismatch #sims4build #sims4builds #ts4build #ts4gameplay. Most of the tags are related to TS4 and TS4 builds. I wouldn't include anything about CAS, mods, etc. It wouldn't fit the post. Don't flood other tags in hopes of getting more views. It'll just bury your post under a bunch of random content. People have to be able to find your content.

Visually appealing content performs better, period. Y'all give the aesthetic girls hell but they know a thing or two about working the algorithm. I'll give them that! People like things that look nice. Now, that's not to say you need to purge all the color or character from your game. You don't have to follow a certain style trend. Curate your own personal style. Do what you do to the best of your ability. Whatever you post, just make sure it's good quality. Focus on sharpness, clarity, etc. If you wanna curate a particular look then go for it! But most importantly, having clear clean images or videos is the main thing you need. And you don't need a beast of a PC to do it. Sharpen your images and videos before you upload them using Capcut or something. Make sure the lighting is nice. Make sure it's a good resolution for the platform you're posting on. A quick tip: Adding dof to lower quality images makes it look better! See how the left photo looks more clear than the right? A little bit of depth of field helps so the pictures don't fall flat.

Pick a primary social to promote your secondary ones. Usually your primary social may be the one where you have your largest audience. For me, it was Tik Tok. On there I'd promote my Patreon, YouTube, and Tumblr. You just released some cc? Post something about it on Tik Tok, let your audience know they can find it on your Tumblr. Use one to promote the others.

Slow organic growth is STILL growth. Growing your audience is one beast, but maintaining it is a whole other thing. As someone who has gotten shout outs from larger creators, that initial boost ALWAYS dies down. And socials like YouTube will not hesitate to tell you "Hey boo, your shit's failing now. You kinda suck." Been there, felt that. Boosts from other creators and giveaways don't have much longevity. Most times that audience will leave. On occasion you may get a few who stick around, but most won't. That's why it's important to build your audience organically. Yes, it may take longer but they won't just dip out after a few weeks. Things take time to grow. Things take time to curate. Understand you are BUILDING something. It takes time!

And lastly- if you just really want the numbers and it doesn't matter what content you post, then here's what you do: Sell. Still use good SEO, still try to have high quality photos, but give people something to consume. People like to see what they can get. Post some builds, cc, whatever. If you're not a cc creator, then do cc finds, mod reviews, tutorials, build recommendations, lookbooks. People love a good cc haul. They wanna see what they can get. And that's not to say people that make this sort of content don't care about their content. I know they do and it's a lot of work! It still takes time and effort to curate. It's just HOT right now! Especially maxis match content. It ruffles less feathers because a wide array of the Sims community has a vicious vendetta against alpha cc. (Yeah ion know. They will "uncanny valley" and "just play IMVU' you to death. If I say what I think it is.. My people know.) But if you really just want thousands of followers, then there's a way to do it.

With all that said, I know how annoying it is to constantly hear to not focus on numbers but don't. CREATE FOR CREATION'S SAKE. Do it only because you enjoy it. Growth for me has come as a byproduct of me doing whatever the hell I wanted. I make Lykaia because I want to make Lykaia. I love that people love it but it is for me. Not to be an influencer, or to inspire, or to receive praise and accolades. I love everything about the process. Hell, I love the stress that comes with it! I have four scenes to film and I'm still not done editing the ones I have filmed. The episode is supposed to air on MONDAY. I fucking love working down to wire. It's stressful as hell but it feels good! If it's out there, the audience will soon follow. Always. Take your time. Be grateful for where you're at every step of the way. Enjoy the process! And remember that all it takes is one post to take off.

[morggard]

tiktok sucks, there's no better way to say it. it's become even worse than insta, tbh. i see your stories talking about it and honestly i use viral sounds, tried to make my art "trendy", tried everything under the sun to try and go viral again and turns out NOTHING works if the algorithm decides its not "worth it". and the worst part? the quality of the content is irrelevant. i see crappy stuff going viral all the time and it makes me think my art sucks too or that it's not good enough for people to like it, but its not true. tiktok is gambling, that's literally it, it's luck and nothing more. so u have an idea, you're one of the only good artists i found in that hellscape. (im too much of a wuss to talk to u directly lmao)

also apparently the algorithm changed again, thats why we're all stuck in 200 views even though we have thousands of followers. it's not just you.

Thanks; TikTok sucks is like sky is blue tbh;

I wish it was only TikTok tho 🤣 cause I'm weirdly unsuccessful everywhere I go, idk why. I try to analyze what am I doing wrong and maybe it's my off-putting personality shines through my art or the aura of being annoyed with everything is what somehow makes ppl not care about my art; Or maybe it's me liking to draw shit that's considered laughable and cringe among most people so maybe it's my fate to be wildly unsuccessful forever lol

[maplebean2003]

I'm like fresh in the marble hornets fandom so maybe I'm missing context but I've seen so many conversations bringing up tim in the last few days that I've even stepped foot here and just wow ...this isn't what I expected from this fandom at all wtf.

Tim from marble hornets is literally not fat in the slightest he's got a average body type wtf is wrong with y'all being so fatphobic and weird in general when someone isn't even in the slightest bit chunky also literally why does it matter anyway plot wise :/ mind ya business,like...he's a real dude playing that character not some anime kawaii man

He probably doesn't need people even having 'discourse' over it when he's literally uncomfortable in general due to y'all sexualizing him as is why do y'all care so much about a person's body it's fucking weird

I don't understand why its bein mentioned in the first place - just leave people alone and be happy they even made something you enjoy/enjoyed,respect people and move on without making it weird dude it's not that fucking hard

And again maybe I'm missing context of some sort and assuming the worst but this has baffled me significantly where I'm genuinely concerned about it cause it's really not cool to be bitching about something that doesn't matter or effect anything or anyone

I've seen the conversations a lot on Twitter as well as here on Tumblr for context so I hope I don't just sound like I'm unhinged lol but I scroll passed anyway cause I don't wanna see it but then more appear and it's like ....okay clearly this is something being talked about currently

Idk maybe I'm butting in and shoving my nose where it doesn't belong as I don't think people are intending to be malicious or at least I hope not but it's...very odd to me to suddenly see especially RIGHT as I enter the door to the fandom ^^" I'm not trying to be a dick or anything it's just kinda appalling is all

I don't mind if people draw him fat to clarify or like skinny ECT I do not give a shit about that lmao do whatever you want its fictional art I just mean when people are specifically targeting Tim's irl actor in the conversation that it's really not cool

Sorry for the rant btw I just kinda wonder if I'm the only one raising an eyebrow at these conversations or if maybe I'm over reacting when it's not that deep or if maybe I have the right to be icked by it and am not alone

I don't have any @'s to tag to show the posts I've been seeing as again I typically scroll passed them as to avoid the algorithm from thinking I want to see more of that conversation

Now I'll probably be stuck seeing it by even posting this lol but meh I just wanna know if I'm tweekin about nothing or if this is weird genuinely

Or if maybe I'm misunderstanding possibly even! Please do be gentle with me in the comments I'm a wuss lmao I don't want to fight I just want to understand wtf is going on and why it's being talked about

Why do I care? Personally it just weirds me out in general to be so focused on someone's body like that is all so of course I am a bit concerned and curious if the fandom is always like this or what

[nityisdreaming]

my experience after 1 month on all social medias

jus cuz 😁 i find dis shit interesting

tumblr - i really like alotta tumblr's features and ways of interacting. while its my first time using it as a creator rather than just a consumer it feels the coziest, like idk its intuitive. interactions-wise im surprised by how different things perform better/worse here compared to other platforms xD

x - the only one i was familiar with as a creator, and honestly what i can say hasn't changed is the timeline that feeds you the best shit you've seen all day followed by the most horrific shit you've seen all week lol. also the reach is nonexistent unless some1 bigger notices u

bluesky - v cute, better reach than twitter in the beginning but since there's less ppl overall twitter surpasses it, but dat also makes it feel alot more intimate. tbh the feed isnt the best but again i think it's cuz it's a little empty, or i just need to interact w more things? idk

instagram - i disliked it as a consumer and i still dislike it as a creator xD except for the stories/highlights that feature's cute. and the fact u can put songs on ur posts. ok maybe i don't dislike it dat much but the reach is still subpar compared to other platforms. my feed is so like, plain too, like commercial? idk how to describe it its pretty but bland lmao

tiktok - this algorithm is goated, period point blank. both the reach and the feed are just 🤌🤌 muah. i've found so much good shit i wouldn't even know about otherwise (music, trends, artists), and my stuff keeps getting interactions way after posted compared to other platforms. i wasnt on it or interested when it was gonna get banned here in the US but now i'm so glad its back cuz it's a joy lmao

youtube - my fav ever <3 i can't say much cuz i've only posted animations/reposted tiktoks but the reach is better than instagram, and the interactions r hella cute. yes im biased cuz yt has been my main form of media consumption for more than a decade

saying creator sounds pretentious but ykwim user dat posts content not just consumes

i might join more 4 fun and update later hehe