You Know, An Interesting Tumblr Transformation That's Happened Gradually, And Which I've Seen No One

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

Smol Titan Drill? We must haz the pocket Dragon to take with us on multiversal travels.

[Unknown Time; Coordinates 54.4786° N, 3.5185° W]

“What the hell happened to our Titan?” 

“Those Skibidies used some kind of experimental liquid on her, he’s not exactly the happiest at the moment considering a lot of things happened… Wonder what happened to that demon that was causing a ruckus earlier?”

“Thought that demon was killed by a wolf creature” 

“Demon was killed but no one can confirm what killed it, but considering that we just woke up in a ruined old base with our Titan practically scooping us up, a lot happened…” 

“Should we… like give him a sandbox to dig in? I don’t exactly want them tunneling anytime soon since we’re still cleaning up this new base.”

Chapter 4 is now out!!

This sure is a nice little tumblr post here

Sure hope no one turns it into a Analog Horror for no reason whatsoever

Oh I did NOT mean to make this chapter so damn angsty oops