#unless its reblogging minecrafter fanart..

[jalo-parker]

"-im also a fan of other things like pokemon and ghost (the band) though again I don't post about those things as often" <- edit to my pinned made moments before disaster (i have a major hyperfixation on ghost now) (or well the ghouls and the versions of them that exist only in my head at least) (they're my ocs now that just happen to share names with the actual band 😁)

[rachelsquill]

How tf You use tumbler i cant understand it

I don’t really know how to explain it but some good tips to keep in mind that I can think of are

reblogs > likes - especially for artists!

start a tagging system early so you can find things later on if you want to! for example i tag all my art with “#rachels art tag” so in the future i can find it all

mostly with reblogs its good to share your thoughts in the tags rather than as a reply- thats not to say you cannot reply sometimes the time calls for it but usually if you have a quick thought it goes in the tags!

also for tagging your posts its not like instagram where you just kinda pile on random tags to get more reach- just tag with what the post is about for example if i draw some wilbur fanart i could tag it as “#wilbur soot fanart” “wilbur soot” etc but you wouldnt necessarily add random tags

also since ur probably into mcyt do NOT tag things as “#minecraft youtube” or “#minecraft” or use “philza minecraft” unless they are just about the game itself- the minecraft side of tumblr is separate from the mcyt side of tumblr and its impolite to fill the tags for minecraft with mcyt stuff! and tumblrs tag system is kinda fucky so any mention of the word can add it into the main tag whcih is why philza minecraft isnt a good tag to use

i cant think of many more tips but honestly just have fun!! i know i dumped a lot of stuff on you but you’ll figure it out as you go!

[blindpapers]

i don't reblog minecraft streamer fanart*

*unless its fanart of ME

[khizuo]

hi! this is my main blog :) call me khizuo on the internet, i'm a trans queer chinese 19 y/o. this is a personal blog and its target audience is me and selected mutuals.

my art blog is @khizuart. commissions are open on my ko-fi (but also feel free to toss me some dollars whenever, it all goes to mutual aid.)

I post about whatever i happen to be interested in at the moment, with subjects including but not limited to: punk/diy music + clothing, post-punk/post-rock and related genres, mcyt (qsmp/hermitcraft/some empires), vocaloid, alternative fashion, and lego ninjago. dr*am/dt*am supporters fuck off this blog.

important: i am an adult. all new followers must be 17+. all minors following me must block the tag "minors don't look" and confirm with me that you have the tag blocked by liking this post, otherwise i will block you.

some things to know abt me before u follow:

firm believer in full decolonization, dismantling whiteness and everything that encompasses, the end of global racial capitalism via revolution, radical queer/trans/disabled liberation

i'm loud about masking. covid-19 is not over and people are still being killed and disabled daily. if you're not being covid cautious you need to re-examine your liberatory politics.

beware the crit and negativity. I'm straightforward and I don't coddle white feelings on this blog.

shoot me a DM or ask if you need me to tag a trigger!

i'm vegan and i will talk about it. examine your speciesism and listen to marginalized vegans.

this blog is a place for me to engage in fandom, but I am critical of the cc's I watch and you should be too.

lego ninjago is orientalist and culturally appropriative. mcyt has a whiteness problem. unfollow me if you don't think this.

pr0shippers do not interact with my blog

tags!

my text — original posts

my answers — where I answer my asks!

my analysis — meta and analysis posts that I’ve made, usually related to either mcyt or lego ninjago

my art — art tag for both fanart and original art

about me — where I talk about anything somewhat personal

khizuo plays minecraft — my minecraft rambles tag

khizuo diys things — where I talk about diy and share my upcycling/diy work!

khizuo talks vocaloid — my vocaloid rambles tag

khizuo_irl — irl tag

khizuo vents — for personal vents. may include triggering topics (especially when my ocd gets involved) so block if you don’t want to see them. these posts will usually also be tagged with “don’t reblog”, so they’re not okay to reblog unless I specify with the tag “okay to reblog”.

i know i have a lot of ppl who follow me for mcyt who might not want to see ninjago content (and some that are vice versa) so block the tags for things u aren't interested in :)

please like this post if you have read it. do not reblog.

[dangoarts]

pinned post for organizational purposes

ugh looks like i'm actually using this account ok cool

hello, am arya/mochi (she/they)

am Adult(tm) (not willingly)

i draw (lots) and write (sometimes)

am violently aroace (sex repulsed)

going to college for game design, gonna become the true epic gamer

socially awkward, may or may not respond if you message me sorri :') (depends on the thing sent and if i panic)

interacts primarily with reblogs, too dumb to like stuff like a normal person /j

only gonna have this one blog, no side accounts because i will forget about their existence, so Everything Will Be On Here

tags and comfort under cut

me things

if you're interested in my all my art stuff, check out #art stuff

if you wanna see just the doodles, check out #dumb doodles

if you wanna see the stuff i tried on, check out #actual good art

if you wanna see me lose my mind, check out #just a ramble

if you wanna see me attempt to be coherent with people, check out #answered rambles

if you wanna see other people's cool stuff, #i will think about this later -> additionally: #art tutorial

if you wanna see my writing, check out #writing stuff

this is my one brain cell described in a video

go check out my fren @currently-simping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are rad and is the reason behind half of my ideas

fandom things

will switch between the mountain of fixations i have on a dime (ill)

things i posted a lot in are #deltarune, #batim/#batdr, #pokemon, and #mario tags

i posted a bit in the #cuphead, #a hat in time, #fnaf (security breach exclusive), #kirby, #pizza tower, #lethal company, #minecraft, and #ultrakill tags

#tron and #epic mickey live in my head rent free and have been since like 2010 (ill)

making #victory au for deltarune (on permanent hiatus because motivation!!!!!!!!!!! bad)

making #blotted au and #golden fins for batim (let's see how far my motivation lets me go) -> blotted au masterpost -> golden fins introductory post

made goofy ahh oc that i love dearly, check out #venposting -> his toyhouse page

since i KEEP LOSING IT, lethal company creature hcs

comfort things

i am ok with most things! am very chill and i do not care as long as it's not drama

fanart/fanworks of my characters/interpretations are one of the best things to ever happen honestly and you'll become my most favorite person if that happens, EXCEPT if it's 18+ (see sex repulsed above)

as with every other artist ever please don't repost my art and claim it as your own or use it for whatever ass backwards thing blockchains are fabricating nowadays, ik it's a cry on deaf ears for people who don't care about the ramifications of taking someone's work they put hours of their life into and yeah i'm aware of the risk i'm taking by sharing art on the internet, but this is something that i made with my own hands so i'd appreciate at least the bare bones amount of credit

i'm dogshit at replying unless it's about something specific, so a lot of messages that just say "hello" or smth one worded end up getting ignored. if it's a question like "omg did you see this thing" or prompts like "hey i also like this" end up getting responses. there's also a good chance i read the message and either forget about its existence or panic and never respond anyway

only two things that make me disintegrate into atoms is nsfw/18+ content and needles. eye contact is uncomfy but not really phobia-levels. i'm semi-ok with horror stuff, but it's a limit i'm still testing out. and ya i ship characters but i really only stick to platonic and romantic fluff stuff and i'm not gonna engage in any ship discourse if u don't like it just block it's not that hard

things i did

sketch requests, is closed atm

thas about it

[dreamteamspace]

Random and perhaps specific question, if there were to be, hypothetically an acc made specifically to reblog mcyt fanart to the point it can balance the like:reblog ratio, do you think this is a good idea? I'd like to know your thoughts and maybe suggestions

In general, making a sideblog to reblog mcyt things, especially fanart, is a great idea! It allows you to seperate things from your main blog and reblog as much as you want without worrying about spamming people, and hey, some people might even follow for exactly that!

As for the like/reblog ratio: Obviously when you reblog something, you improve the ratio a little bit (the more notes, the tinier the improvement, given you also leave a like. If you don't leave a like out of principle, I guess you theoretically move the ratio a little more (mathematically speaking), but not because it 'actually' moved or because more people 'actually' saw it, it just gets one note less.)

It's obviously still a good thing to do! It helps spread the post, and hey, one of your followers might reblog the post and get it going even further!

I'm not sure what you mean with "to the point it can balance the like/reblog ratio". One single blog simply cannot do that. Even if you spam reblog, the ratio might LOOK better, but same with reblogging without leaving a like: The ratio looking a little better doesn't always mean more people saw it. In fact, theoretically, a blog that spams reblogs until there's as many as there are likes (if that were even manually possible, although that would probably need a bot or something) probably wouldn't have almost any people following that blog because of the spam they'd have to scroll through.

One reblog is all that one sideblog can *usefully* do, other than maybe reblog once every few days perhaps over different timezones. Although this, again, wouldn't be enough to "fully" balance the ratio.

And since I've started writing this marvelous essay already and you've got my going, dear anon, I have something else to say that's on my mind that I feel like a lot of people miss (although isn't directed at you specifically, I just feel like this is a good post to talk about it):

A lot of people on tumblr yell for reblogs, and they're right for the most part! This site lives on reblogs. I recently learned how to quick reblog on desktop (Hold down "e" and hover over the rb button of a post), and I reblog as much as I can. Reblogging things you like is crucial to this site.

That being said...

given each user that reblogs the post also leaves a like (as I said before, not doing that *technically* improves the ratio, but doesn't *actually* show it to more people, making the like/reblog ratio statistically inaccurate),

given every user that normally would've simply left a like and moved on,

-because it doesn't fit their blog theme, -because they've already reblogged dozens of posts that day, -because while they agree with a controversial post don't want to shove it at their followers just trying to vibe, -because it's a theme more adult-leaning than their typical content and the content they're comfortable showing their followers,

reblogs the post instead,

is a situation in which the like/reblog ratio would be "balanced", but is not realistic.

Because the above reasons exist. We can't ignore them. It could destroy specific, trigger-free spaces, spaces for minors, blogs with themes entirely and blogs that insist on a positive atmosphere meant to relax rather than start things.

A blog that posts and reblogs exclusively pictures of frogs reblogging a fanart of a minecraft youtuber would maybe lose a couple followers and the people following that blog would only be very marginally interested in it. Which is, again, where sideblogs come in: If the person running the frog blog likes mcyt that much, they'd probably consider making a sideblog. But we can't force people to make sideblogs, so assuming we do NOT ignore the reasons stated above for not reblogging, let's present a more realistic situation:

given every user that likes the post in some capacity but does not plan or personally does not want to reblog it instead ignores the like function and does not give a like,

then the same post would have... less notes. Yep. That's it. That's all that would change, really. The like/reblog ratio would be "perfect", but like... the post would have less notes.

The only time where the "reblog things!" is relevant is when people who WANT and are WILLING to reblog a post do not do so for a reason that is AVOIDABLE, such as:

"Im scared people will think Im cringe/this isnt the content my blog is made for/I dont want to show this to my followers for whatever reason, but i still want to support this interest of mine" (make a sideblog),

"reblogging takes too long" (learn to quick reblog. Side note, though: as someone with high depression times, yes, even reblogging can sometimes feel mentally exhausting. Obviously your mental health always comes first, and quick-reblogging does not allow you to add trigger or content warning tags, should you use those for your blog.),

"reblogging isnt that important, it won't matter" (YES, IT IS. YES, IT WILL),

or anything else within reason.

And like, I GET it. People want to boil down the message as simple as possible so that people understand it while scrolling by at 80 mph, which is "REBLOG THINGS", in hopes to reach the people that don't reblog for one of the reasons stated above.

But like, if people that can't/won't reblog a post anyway for one reason or another, and never plan to, just stop using the like function alltogether- we'd have a perfect like/reblog ratio, but just like... less notes on posts.

What people need to understand is that *only reblogs truly help in spreading a post and likes don't do anything other than add a note*, which is valuable and important information, especially people who come here from other sites where the like works differently. I put "likes" on a lot of posts that dive very heavily into drama or criticize ccs (even if I half agree, although most times I just don't know enough to know whether that's even a good take or not). I reblog them only when I think that *my followers would in some way benefit from seeing that post*.

Even if we're on the topic of fanart: Some fanart needs a hell ton of trigger tags, some I vaguely think looks okay but is from a cc or character that I literally know nothing about nor have ever seen and that nobody follows me for, but I still want to add a note.

Where I'm going with this is that, like, we're never gonna have a "perfect" 1:1 like/reblog ratio? It's literally impossible, unless people want to get less notes on their posts alltogether, and I don't see the point in that, personally. Likes may not do much, they really only do a little compared to reblogs, but sometimes people just... want to do a little.

TLDR: We just have to tell people likes work differently here than on other sites, and that reblogs are important and have a much greater effect on the post, and that likes work differently.

This system isn't designed to have its ideal state be a 1:1 ratio: It's designed to have an option of giving only a little and much more covert support to a post if you happen to not want to reblog it for some reason.