#bot discourse

[srcbias]

i don't normally post much on here behind just reblogging silly haha memes, but if you're not aware, the #asexual tag on tumblr has been swarmed by bot accounts trying to sell stuff.

It'd be really great if you could take a few minutes to report all the bot posts in the asexual tag

An online space for a marginalised group is not real estate for commercialism :]

[lordnot]

So uh

The reason that it was so worthwhile to make fun of people who believed that everyone who disagreed with them is a bot

And that sinister agents are spending their time and resources trying to change the discourse on Tumblr Dot Com in fucking 2024

Was not just that they had the wrong opinions on the issues of the time.

Fuckin gottem boys

[justdavina]

@justdavina of San Francisco AI Fashion Design

[anonforlackofabettername]

Y’know in all the “is the Murderbot casting the right flavor of nonbinary gender” discourse, I can’t believe the discourse made me forgot that MB doesn’t have a fuckin gender. It (it/its pronouns) is agender the same way it’s aromantic and asexual on top of being really fucking autistic. A real triple-A+ king if you ask me. Why are we arguing about gender and nonbinary actors when the character itself doesn’t have one?

[ingravinoveritas]

The first Insta story is from today, and was reshared by both Anna and Georgia. The second two Insta stories are from last October, just a few days after Georgia and Anna's episode of Big Finish was released, and were also reshared by them. All three accounts have almost the same names (doctorwhofan or doctorwhofanpage followed by numbers), the pictures in all three stories are the same, and the wording of all the captions is almost identical. Not sure what is going on here, but it certainly seems strange...

[hylasregilla]

That fucking mpreg poll tournament is like the superbowl to me.

Some dude is promising to get a Megatron tramp-stamp if he wins against Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls. There's voter fraud drama. The Onceler was out in the first round. Quark ds9 has rolled every sexy anime man he's gone up against. It's all so fucking funny.

[thejdog2000]

Because the Gaza scam bots keep bothering me, anonymous asks are now indefinitely disabled.

[mayadoesfandomstuff]

Had to block hazbin hotel as a tag because holy shit the amount of ship discourse coming in to the aroace tag because of Alastor was way too much like ffs some of them weren't even tagged as hazbin hotel so I still have to see some of those posts even if I block it out

please for the ever loving fuck TAG YOUR FUCKING HAZBIN HOTEL SHIP DISCOURSE POSTS

THOG DON'T CARE IF THE DEMON FUCK OR DON'T FUCK FOR FUCKS SAKE LET ME BROWSE THE AROACE TAG IN PEACEEE

[circusclowne]

ii bot / ii fandom rant 😙😙

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why is every relationship with bot labeled as family (besides tt and fan ofc)😭😭

LIKE LET THAT ROBOT HAVE FRIENDS DAMN

i'm trying so hard to respect headcanons but every thing people post about bot being a child is viewed as canon

NONE OF THEM HAVE CANONICAL AGES!!!..CABBY IS NOT THEIR AUNT, MEPHONE IS NOT THEIR UNCLE, GOO IS NOT THEIR SIBLING IM GOING TO CRY

like if you hc any of these idm!! you do you

but i'm so tired of it all being viewed as canon and having to explain how i DONT headcanon bot as a minor!!! sorry but it's not canon and i'm not the majority!! i don't think they are minor coded at all!! they just had a midlife crisis after finding out theyre not who they were built to be!! they're exploring their identity!! who cares if they like cartoons and drawing damn !! paintbrush likes art and none of you hc them as a minor, bow likes cartoons (although they did specify crude cartoons lol) AND THEY WERE MADE IN BOWS IMAGE??? WIULDNT THEY BE THE SAME AGE???

hell APPLE HAS A HARD TIME TRYING TO SPELL, LIKES ARTS AND CRAFTS, DOESNT KNOW A MAJORITY OF COMMONLY USED WORDS, PLAYS WITH TOYS (as seen in ep16, i am assuming!), AND IS LABELED AS "IMMATURE" AND I STILL DONT SEE A MAJORITY OF THE FANDOM HC HER AS A CHILD

WHERES FUCKING MEPHONE4???😭😭

bot is more than just a child of a fantube family dynamic. in fact, i don't think they are a child at all. they aren't minor coded any more than the average character! if you just go off the fact that they have parents/creators, everyone on earth no matter how old is a child. they are independent and heavily dislike being seen as otherwise!!

tldr; you can headcanon whatever you want!! i respect that!! but when you treat it like it's canon and expect others to view it like that, . don't do that please!!

[brodinsons]

might've spent sunday night cobbling together a megop/opmeg server because i'm going to explode if i can't yap about these fucks

18+ only!!!!!! not to be darkwing-core here but this is not a space for minors thank you

adults-only, no drama, yap or lurk, no judgment...moots got first dibs but opening it up slightly in the hopes of luring more like-minded chill robofuckers into the multi-million year yaoi divorce saga

comment here or dm me directly for the invite link!

[statementlou]

https://www.tumblr.com/louisupdates/754934426217152513/goodbye-faith-in-the-future-world-tour-272024?source=share

did he or did he not lose fans then?

I will answer this because this anon actually brings a concrete question to the table rather than just "hurhur but you're a larrie??" (tell me you can't actually refute any of our points…). Anyway this post shows the decrease in Louis instagram followers between the screenshots taken directly after the release of Faith in the Future in Nov '22, when he changed his bio to promote that album and the tour tickets, and now, when he changed it again to mention the current release. But I'm putting that response under a cut because I'm tired of the actual POINT of all this nonsense getting lost in a sea of made up things people insist are important:

There is no rational argument you can make to say that Louis has less fans now than he did 2, 4, or 6 years ago. You don't need a spreadsheet of details you need to USE YOUR EYES! He has gone from filling theaters to filling arenas and stadiums. His second album made a higher chart position than his first album. His festival has doubled in size EVERY year of its existence. And for that matter: his insta post engagement numbers remain about the same (despite the fact that older posts should have way MORE likes due to having been there longer, even aside from follower counts.) SO WHO FUCKING CARES ABOUT HIS INSTA FOLLOWER NUMBER???? Serious question: what does the word "fans" mean if these things aren't what matters? ALL of this quibbling about what he should do to make things better and people can't even see that THINGS AREN'T BAD.

Anyway to address the specific question- (con't......)

NO- HE DID NOT LOSE FANS. HE LOST SOME INSTA FOLLOWERS. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME THING. As I said above, literally what does it mean to lose fans if that number change coincides with him having higher sales, more audience members, and higher engagement than ever before? Whatever he lost ISN'T FANS. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant factor was something like a bot purge, but also yes: I'm sure a lot of casuals followed him around the time of his big album release and later unfollowed him. That's extremely normal because that's how casual engagement works, and why the definition of fan really matters. Louis and his team understand this and have referenced it repeatedly, talking about how lucky he is to have *us* specifically, to have the kind of dedicated fanbase he has, to have the KIND of fans he does who will allow him to do what HE wants. @dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram named the issue of depth vs breadth with regard to fans a long time ago, and pointed out why having DEPTH is so much more important. It's like this- artists who are on top 40 radio have more numbers on things like insta follows, and for a time on sales and tickets. But those aren't FANS- they're people with a casual interest. And as soon as that person isn't being forced in their ears 10x a day, those people lose interest and stop supporting them, stop buying stuff and unfollow, and those artists end up doing the 'opener on the jingle ball' circuit rather than their own tours. One Direction as a whole, and Louis maybe most of all or near to at this point, have something MUCH MORE VALUABLE than that- DEPTH FANS. Louis has fans who will support him even if he takes years to release music, or stops parading around with a pretend girlfriend to stay in the headlines at least once a month, or completely changes his image and genre, and that is UNHEARD OF. It's ASTONISHING and worth SO MUCH MORE. And they get that! THAT is why he always bragging about us, why industry people he works with are always so agog about us, why he will do anything for US- not for randos. He is also growing his breadth- and it's OBVIOUSLY WORKING whatever his follower counts are, but that is always going to be secondary to doing things for THE FANDOM because that is his sustainable business model. That is what keeps him onstage and reaching number one. And not coincidentally, the things they do are also working to grow that- much more valuable- commodity. So the fact that that's exactly what these chuckleheads complain about- that he does things that are just fandom facing or serving rather than everything being aimed at recruiting casual fans- does nothing but betray how completely they, unlike Louis and his team, misunderstand the actual drivers of his (actual, existing, happening) success. Luckily for Louis, he and his team rely on their own data harvesting (they do a LOT of it) and growth metrics (they're off the charts) rather than the smug assumptions of random (mostly quite new to this) fans and the few bitter people leading the complaining about everything Louis does.

[c-rowlesdraws]

hell. Hell. We are in hell

[diospore]

Okay what is up with me getting notifications for replies and not being able to see them to respond?

Anyways lmao default icon loser 🤣

The post they're talking about is my "if you hate trans men I hope the women you look up to transition". And if you think that's hateful then you're the one I'm talking about ^_^ I hope your mom transitions

[tchaikovskaya]

🫥

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

one thing that bothered me about s4 was glimmer complaining about how adora and bow gets to go out and fight the bad guys, while she's stuck in the castle with queen duties.

it's such a tonal whiplash because she just lost her mother to the war and the world was almost entirely destroyed, and she's here like “aw man, you guys get to do all the fun stuff like battling the ruthless war criminals and risk getting killed!”

[mishaesque]

did they initially give Dean that big ass amulet just so his tits would stand out more