#tumblr blaze

[iamat0m]

[ll-again]

Finally saw my first blaze post and it's just

[geffjoldblums]

u will never catch me using the blaze function I will churn out my no note flop posts w pride

[diorpoisonapple]

“Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

-Oscar Wilde

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[fallintosanity]

psst, let me tell you a secret

are you listening? 

ready? 

Tumblr Blaze is the biggest fuck-you to Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, and other advertising companies in basically ever

wanna know why? 

On Facebook, I could show this post only to white, politically undecided, lesbian college students aged 18-21 who live in zip codes 75023, 75024, and 75025 (yes, even after the changes Facebook recently announced). Anyone who interacts with the post, therefore, is extremely likely to be a white, politically undecided, lesbian college student aged 18-21 who lives in Plano, Texas. If this post was an ad, and you clicked the ad and bought the thing it was advertising, then I’d also know your name, physical address, telephone number, email address, and approximate financial status. 

You probably don’t want me to know all that about you, right? 

Do you want your health insurer to know? What about your employer? If you’re queer and not out to your family and friends, would you want them to know? What if you’re a domestic violence survivor, hiding from your ex-spouse?

All they need to do to get all that information is buy a Facebook ad for under $5.

And before you say that you don’t share all that on Facebook: too bad! Even if you don’t, Facebook (along with pretty much every ad company out there) buys, sells, and/or trades the data it collects about you with other companies. Facebook collects data about you even if you don’t have a Facebook account.

Wanna know what’s scarier? 

Bad guys can also buy targeted ads, and use them to convince you to do things like vote for a particular presidential candidate, or vote against unionizing Amazon workers. This is a very common tactic used by hostile foreign governments to foster extremism and isolate vulnerable minorities, and influence elections and other political and social events. Even the tech companies themselves can and do use this data to manipulate your emotions, making you happier or sadder according to their own whims.

(why do you know all this, Sanity? because I’ve worked in information security, fighting for data privacy and security, for over a decade)

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and other advertisers claim that collecting all that data about you, and letting anyone target you with it, is absolutely, 100% necessary for the existence of the entire ad-funded Internet. They want you to believe that nothing bad could possibly come of it, despite proof to the contrary being in the news every other month. They want you to blindly continue letting them collect and use YOUR data to influence you to think, feel, and do what THEY want. 

But. 

BUT!!!

Enter Tumblr Blaze. 

(from the Blaze FAQ)

Tumblr looked at advertising and said, you know what? we don’t need to target anyone. Targeted ads don’t actually work anyway. All that hyper-specific targeting is just an excuse for ad companies to raise prices and collect more data to use for their own purposes. 

Tumblr said, we bet people will pay real-life dollars to share their posts with up to 50,000 people, whether or not those people will care. 

Tumblr said, we’re going to blow up the entire online advertising industry.

That is fucking amazing, y'all.

[marlynnofmany]

Now we’re going to start seeing Schrodinger’s Blaze posts, where you can’t tell whether some mad bastard blazed a stranger’s post, or the OP did it on their own.

[maybeonedayillfindout]

Tumblr users this past few months have truly been through it all. Horse plinko, blorbo, live slug reaction, ps5, KPP return, tiktok refugees, tumblr blaze, horrific ads, shortened posts (rip colour of the sky), gay pirate show, superwholock 2.0, taika waititi, elon musk buying twitter, twitter refugees, bi misha, closeted straight misha, heartstopper, shortening notes, prev tags, its been wild

[iamafanofcartoons]

Tumblr Folklore Stories/Blogs Directory/Masterlist

There are so many great Tumblr Blog stories here! But things are best when organized! Here you are! I’m going to use Tumblr Blaze in a couple weeks to spread this to everyone, but if all of you can reblog this to everyone you know, we can spread the joys of Tumblr to EVERYONE!

Credit to https://www.tumblr.com/dannnnnnnnnnnnex/700073427344736256/love-how-tumblr-has-its-own-folk-stories-yeah-the

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

 The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

Doctors Without Borders

The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

Well, now they’re categorized.

 https://www.tumblr.com/inkvoices/700033965299531776/love-how-tumblr-has-its-own-folk-stories-yeah-the

https://www.tumblr.com/lightningladybug/699931426130444288/love-how-tumblr-has-its-own-folk-stories-yeah-the

https://www.tumblr.com/blitzlowin/699840636252225536/love-how-tumblr-has-its-own-folk-stories-yeah-the

Also, this is a RWBY-positivity BLOG, so please watch RWBY

[prokopetz]

The best genre of trying to win an argument via Tumblr Blaze isn't even the unhinged ones – it's the indecipherable ones. Like, yes, this person thinks that Blazing a post is a good way to win an argument, so there are necessarily some flaws in their reasoning, but beyond that, they've also clearly lost sight of how much specialised knowledge is required simply to understand the argument that they're framing, much less be persuaded by it.

I think my favourites are the fandom ones where not only do they never explicitly indicate which piece of media they're talking about, it doesn't even occur to them to expand their initialisms. Like, exactly how many of the 2500 randomly selected human beings you've just put this post in front of do you imagine are going to know what "JGW" stands for without prompting? Give me a number.

[savagebeautyqueen]

🤤

[animentality]

oh my god tumblr allows you to blaze other people's posts.

god bless.

i can't wait to inflict tumblr fame upon ye.

i hope you enjoy your fucking clout as I beat you in the head with it.

[straight-edge-hippy]

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