Essential Tumblr experience #137: clicking into an art blog and finding its front page full of twiggy anime boys gazing soulfully into each other's eyes, and realising only too late to save yourself that a. you recognise those outfits, and b. you've never had strong opinions about the source material before, but evidently even you have limits – seriously, shipping SpongeBob SquarePants with that guy?
taylorswift: WELL. Last night was a rush. Thank you to everyone in that glorious Glendale night 2 crowd for giving us all you had and more. Counting down the hours til we get to play again. See you in Vegas 😆
So... you thought you would make political engagement a pivot to your image. And, hey, it worked! It lured people in. But then you got bored, or disillusioned, or just sidetracked, who knows. The problem comes, though, that your inactivity leaves people cold, and they walk away as well (but just from you and what looks like your former performative persona).
[For the record, I believe his IG numbers would also look like this if his team wasn't actively buying.]
“My name is Lucy Carlyle. I make my living destroying the risen spirits of the dead. I can throw a salt bomb fifty metres from a standing start and hold off three Spectres with a broken rapier.” Complete fiction pictures via twitter.