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Look, I’ll be real, a part me is really glad that this website is going to be somewhat revitalized by the inevitable migration of Twitter refugees post-Elon purchase. Staff has been doing great! Tumblr deserves an active userbase because this website fucks harder than any other social media bar none! It is unequivocally the best social experience online! But oh my sweet Lord god in heaven help me the existential terror of having Twitter slither in its normalization of persistent social abuse, its puritanical means-testing of surface level ideological commitment, and its disgustingly narcissistic perpetuation of pervasive cultural pessimism is a genuine nightmare that I am not prepared to deal with.

Like, Tumblr has a such a unique and rare method of social interaction that disincentives the kind of low-effort, low-stakes (until it’s suddenly not) engagement that runs wild on Twitter. Somehow, beyond all odds, Tumblr’s culture of artful lowbrow mixed with thoughtful consideration has SOMEHOW managed to survive the whitewashing of the internet. We’re a living fossil in a fragile ecosystem. Twitter is an obliterate of any positive subculture; it panders exclusively to the lowest common denominator of online engagement, and then further feeds that into a toxic mentality of enabling the weaponization of internet clout. You can’t get clout on Tumblr because engagement is anonymized, and the userbase in general has deliberately fostered a culture of not giving a shit about being popular. And that is a good thing – that is something we should want to protect and encourage.

And don’t get me wrong, Tumblr is built on the fundamental lowbrow. We all appreciate being crass, being strange, being ‘unmarketable.’ But this is Shakespearean lowbrow at its core. It’s shitposting painted by Picasso way more often than it is shitposting sold as a fucking NFT. It actually somehow contributes positively and uniquely to engagement (most of the time), and that feeds into even more positive and unique engagement as users reblog and add their own contributions the post. Retweeting something will just never have that effect.

I cannot remember the number of one-off dumb jokes I’ve seen reblogged into beautiful efforts of collective poetry. I’ve seen posts asking if Ezra Pound and T.S Elliot fucked like rabid animals turned into significant contributions of literary analysis for their respective works. I’ve seen the stupidest fucking takes morphed into powerful pieces of social commentary by people who cared enough to contribute their time, their effort to do so: to create something worthwhile. That one post about the value of gold and silver in the post apocalypse comes to mind. Like, that’s the kind of thing that could never have survived, much less become prominent and valued, on Twitter. It would sink to the bottom of the bottom there and never resurface: digital echoes that promise something special, something unique, but are fundamentally wasted in the chaotic din of scramblingly awful takes. 

I guess I’m just saying that I don’t want that to happen here. I like Tumblr, and I want Tumblr to prosper, but not at the expense of all the things that make it wonderful in the first place.

Elon Musk bought Twitter because he’s a man-baby who can’t accept criticism. I’m probably going to start collecting anti-Musk screenshots before they get banned.

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