The-roboticspaceidiot - Mo Your Choom

UNDEAD AUSTRALIAN: ah bladdy 'ell. oim fackin undid. oim a damn creachuh of tha noight. a fackin zombie. wha' a cunt. this is bladdy orriboh. fack me

bought an item on etsy and the store shut down and disappeared the second i got the package in the mail. classic cursed object story but instead of a cursed object its a skyrim shirt

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?

Transparent dark cottagecore/fairycore dividers for you! If you save/use, I would appreciate a reblog. 🌿🐈‍⬛