#bluebutsharp

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It's a combination of things, but I think it's partially a general shift away from clutter that was more prominent a decade back (but this could be biased based on who I follow).

This is what really long posts with multiple comments used to look like before they switched to the modern block separation they have now:

Unwieldy and near impossible to read with the words being stretched out, and sometimes these reblog chains would contain nothing but multiple additions of "^" or "this" or reactions gifs. Nothing really substantial being added, just something to show you'd been there. Again this might just be my bias showing based on who I followed, but there was more lighthearted, liberal use of all of this until maybe 2016 where posts of this length were widely shared among people on the site rather than just within smaller friend groups or fandom enclaves.

This was before you could delete the previous reblogs on a post from the person you were reblogging from who wasn't the OP rather than going to the OP's original post if you didn't want the extra editions, just the original post. This was also before hashtags showed up in your activity feed or in the notes of a post for easier viewing. If you wanted to see the tags, you had to manually go through each person's blog to view them.

Once hashtags showed up in the notes of posts is when people made more of a conscious effort to use them to avoid what they considered distracting or detracting from what they were reblogging, believing it was obnoxious or inane.

(I'll emphasize you definitely can still comment on posts unless the OP has turned off reblogs altogether, but this sentiment isn't uncommon on here.)

Sometimes when people like the previous tags on a post but don't want to add them in a comment for whatever reason (feeling they'll be perceived as annoying, not wanting to draw attention to themselves and their chain of a reblog, etc.), they'll copy them into the tags of their post and mention that they're the previous reblogger's tags as a quieter form of peer review.

I don't entirely agree with the "you won't annoy OP" part of this post because the OP can see all the tags on a post in their feed now (assuming the site is functioning properly and they haven't muted the post) and I've see people call out tags in reblogs on their posts, but I'd say the rest of it perfectly encapsulates what a lot of people enjoy about the feature that makes them opt to express themselves via tags rather than commenting directly on the post itself.

Other factors that play a role:

Whether the original post is text-focused. If it is, it seems more inviting for discussion and adding on with a comment. If it's art or a video, you might have a comment to make, but you don't think it's *that* important or funny outside of your group of mutuals and followers, so you're more inclined to put it in the tags to avoid it breaching your intended audience. - Alternatively, if you just want the OP, potentially the person who reblogged a post (if you're not replying directly on the OP's blog), and whoever else opens up the replies to see your comment, you post in the replies.

Tumblr largely moving away from reblogs to likes and people lurking (post on that here with visuals). Even when people do reblog, they might not add anything in the tags. Maybe they don't want to draw any attention to themselves and be perceived, maybe they think a post speaks for itself, maybe they don't want to interact with anyone on here and the site is merely a timewaster when they're trying to pass some time while they're commuting. Lots of scenarios.

tl;dr It's largely become a part of the tumblr's culture, whether that's right or wrong.

i had a bad day yesterday and yeah, here’s our grumpy emma with her bunker’s uniform : )

( i love this outfit the most lol i draw her with shirts and white ribbon all the time )

the context of this is emma after her argument with norman and she somehow bit into her lips which caused a small , little tiny wound 😛 i added blush just for fun , maybe she was really mad??? i drew this at 3am this morning so lolll please understand that i just want to draw emma because i’m really really sad and i couldn’t sleep at all, there’s no deep meaning behind.

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quick ranting (?) , i see that i get lots of reblogs (thank you so so much i spent lots of time reading them), and funny thing is that you guys always use hashtags for your comments 😆 i dunno why would y’all do that since every time i reblog someone’s blog , i don’t use hashtags to comment. i actually replied to some of you guy’s reblogs comments and tag y’all but no one replied so maybe that’s a feature in tumblr to comment by hashtags ??? lol anyway please have a good day , i just want to yap 🥺