Blocking - Tumblr Posts
I know I'm probably late but this is still important
new to tumblr?
found yourself getting blocked for seemingly no reason?
does your profile look like this:
you're getting blocked because people think you're a bot
do yourself a favour and change your profile images to literally anything except the defaults. give your blog a name, give yourself a bio even if it simply says "new, figuring this out" or something. please, just do ANYTHING that shows everyone you're a human. then you wont get blocked anymore and you'll have a lot more fun here!
oh and while we're here, another hot tip: reblog things. likes do nothing here, there's no algorithm
okay happy tumblring tumblrinos, tumblrinas and tumblrinehs!
I know I have been inactive
I have been inactive, I have been busy again. Something caught my attention, though, something explicit. I was absolutely disgusted. I found it in my inbox and I have made sure to report and block that person, well tried. There is a small problem, but I am going to try and a few hours. In the mean time, I will just block for now and delete it from my inbox. They said I asked for videos (I did not) I have asked for requests for stories.
Sincerely, Seggggga
The woman I've had some successful dates with currently lives in a town adjacent to his home town. Upon fb investigation, some of her friends went to his highschool.
So I'm in a panic of course.
Im going through and blocking any fringe people who may make connections. I stumbled across his Dad's fb, and curiosity got the best of me.
There is a pic of him, his sisters and his dad at a hockey game. He has a beard now. It sort of suits him.
He looks happy. And I have that age old ache in me.
But then I remember that he's probably sitting there complaining about the cold, the food, and the crappy seats his parents made him pay for.
I look a little closer at his eyes and they look the same. He's the same.
I've just blocked his dad and I feel nothing.
i realised that i never did post my tea cosy so! here she is! my tea cosy!
i initially thought she was way too fussy, between the pattern detail and the yarn speckling, but she’s grown on me. she keeps the teapot warmer for longer by a pretty substantial amount. plus, I got to block her by soaking her, filling the teapot with boiling water, and then putting the tea coat on for the ambient heat to dry, which was Super fun. i wish i could block everything like that…
This is a PSA that you cannot promote blocking people or announce whenever you block someone because they're ~wrong~ then turn around and mock or harass people because, shocker, they blocked you.
If you're an anti, you can't go after proshippers for blocking you and curating their own space the way you do.
If you're into a certain character or ship, you can't mock the people who aren't who block you so they don't have to see your content and so you can't see theirs to attack it.
Its pathetic. Its hypocritical. Its just a blatant announcement of the fact that you think you have the inherent right to target people and engage with someone against their wishes based on your personal views. If someone did that to you you'd be the first to cry foul and start a witch hunt.
Let. People. Curate. Their. Own. Online. Spaces.
With or without you.
Blocking and the right to block and not see content or engage with someone goes both ways.
Pre-emptively blocking people is good for everyone.
Seriously. The amount of times I see people whining or laughing about being blocked when they 'haven't even done anything' just tells me that not many of you know its actually a really good way to properly curate your online space, and its not something to be offended over.
Blocking is a form of protection. Its also a form of mutual protection.
Especially on websites that don't offer more extensive or usable filtering, tagging and avoidance options. Twitter, for example.
Blocking isn't some personal insult. Its a method of saying; hey, we clearly shouldn't interact, so I'm gonna build this soundproof wall between us to make sure we can't.
To use The Salmon Analogy, if I run a restaurant based on salmon as the main ingredient, and you're allergic or or severely dislike salmon, me refusing to serve you isn't a personal sleight. Its me recognising that you can't or really don't want to eat salmon, and its me protecting you from an unpleasant experience and myself from you inevitably screaming at me for serving salmon.
If you are someone who enjoys 'objectionable' content, such as gore, and you stumble across an extremely anti-gore blog, its absolutely a viable option to pre-emptively block them. Maybe your paths never would've crossed, but its better to ensure they don't than potentially wind up the victim or hate or harassment.
Blocking is an absolute sure-fire way to ensure that you do not see something you do not want to. It should be used as liberally as you want to.
As I Brazilian, I think most of us will be moving to Bluesky. Threads had more people here, but ever since the Twitter block, Bluesky has surpassed Threads in the number of active users (4M against 3.3M).
Idk, there's just something unique about watching an app sprout from the ground. And it's great that Bluesky isn't owned by any super powerful billionaire like Zuckerberg or Musk who doesn't respect our democracy.
Oh, and when you block someone on Blue, they actually get blocked. From you and anyone interacting with you. No clout. No seeing people you don't want.
It's great 💙
Why did someone send me adult content in an ask...... Like no just no
YouTube’s algorithm…I mean yes this is about flat-earthers, and we all like to laugh about them, but something has to be said about the fact that conspiracy theories are spread so easily to impressionable youth at a GLOBAL scale. And its not just flat-earthers, it’s Naziism, it’s anti-Semitism, islamophobia, it’s all the terrible radicalization that is happening. It’s all connected, and it’s so so easy to become radicalized because of YouTubes algorithm.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/looking-for-life-on-a-flat-earth/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Ok I want to say something controversial
But you are responsible for your own safe spaces. You can block tags, block words, block people.
“But i thought fandom was supposed to be a safe space” —yeah you have to curate it.
Unfortunately one persons’s safe space may be another persons’ trigger. That’s ok. Simply block them, block the tag, block the word etc. They can do the same for you.
Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’ve been around since the days of “don’t like, don’t read” and that’s a good philosophy. If it squicks you, scroll past. If it causes you anxiety or upset, block! Plenty of people are responsive if you ask them to tag an upsetting trigger. And if they’re dicks about it, block em.
hi quick question ,is there a way i can block certain tagsor like inaproriate content al togtaher? like i know acoounts can b blocked but like evrytime i am scrolling down a normal fandom tag or some other tag like climate change,feminism, etc etc inaproriate content comes up, and i dont like to see that . is there that stuff cann be permantly blocked? @tumblr staff
among other things i block based on vibe and some of y'all have absolutely rancid vibes
aura sphere + extremespeed
The Kids Aren't Alright
* ~ I'm sorry for making this ~ *
Doomers & Fatalism
Regardless of your age, you need a reason to move forward. You need hope. Yet, it's hard to find hope for teens and young adults.
Not a year goes by without an update on the planet's decline (at our hand), wealth is only feeling more unstable and unequally distributed, a pandemic destroyed any hope of sociability for some, and social media does more harm than good when it "connects" people.
There's no true community, nothing to take pride in, there's hardly motivation for ambition or wealth. Hell, we grow up being told we'll be a generation of renters, because it's a statistical improbability than any of us will EVER afford a home without working 3 jobs into our grave.
I can't speak for America, but I know my government haven't made any real effort to prevent renter's from taking that news and slowly inflating rent costs each month.
I'm a part of the generation that is thought to deal with the broadest range of mental health concerns; however, I'm also part of the generation that's most likely to be told to "deal with it," or "grow up," by the people perpetuating our suffering, or the peers that fell victim to toxic hustle culture— enabling the shitty circumstances.
When you start adulthood with so many problems that directly impact your life, most of which come at no fault of your own, you'd hope for help in addressing those matters, but it never comes.
We're told we're lazy, we don't try hard enough, and we've got it easy (which is a demonstrable lie). How is it any surprise we became hopeless doomers? At some point you just get the idea that we were destined to fail.
Threats of War
Now we're told to be ready for World War 3 and I'm struggling to understand why. What values am I defending? Why should I die for a country that doesn't care about me?
Sure, Ukraine and Palestine are in shitty situations, but saying that doesn't require me to do anything. Though they demonstrate something: the government will risk our lives for money, and turn a blind eye to genocide if it suits them.
All that matters is that we're made to feel like our interests align. They don't represent us. They represent themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I don't support either conflict, and I sympathise with the aforementioned nations; however, I am not willing to die for them— I don't think you are. So is it even fair for us to bother complaining? It's not like diplomacy has done a thing so far.
Whether we're roped into a war or not, it doesn't feel like we'd have a choice.
Hobbies and Corporations
Normally I'd propose finding an outlet for everything. I'm not sure that's ideal anymore. Commonplace hobbies like gaming, sports, martial arts, reading, and art, they require 3 things: time, motivation, and effort.
Thanks to hustle culture, holding 3 jobs, running a drop shipping business, and abandoning any meaningful social life is considered just enough and reasonable. That doesn't leave time for personal hobbies, entertainment, or time to actually live. A life like that is no life at all. You're an animal operating on the exclusive goal of survival. You're alive, but you're not living.
Among those of us too physically or mentally scarred to work like our peers, we compassionately took to pen and paper, or software and devices, writing stories, drawing and animating worlds, or making music.
I fear that pocket of joy is getting smaller. AI image generation has already impacted artists, AI voice recreations are already being used in place of some voice actors, and we've all seen the AI voice covers for songs— claiming "you don't need to learn to sing." It didn't take long for me to see "generative AI" being proposed as a source for track samples and stems in music production.
Considering such things, it's hard to motivate yourself to put your work out there. You struggle to justify spending time creating anything, and you're probably not ready to put the effort into producing enough algorithm optimised works per day. After all, no one will see it. No one cares.
That's how it feels.
Social Media
Maybe we still have digital spaces? Really. Are cespools like Twitter spaces you can enjoy? Even Tumblr is quite detached, with small accounts struggling to get so much as a couple likes— nevermind a reblog, and god forbid you get a comment or DM.
That's minor though, it's the relationships that bother me. The ability to lock someone out of your life, within 5 seconds, for the slightest of perceived infractions. You're sensitive and a snowflake if you need boundaries, and you're "rude" and "mean" when you're pushed too far for not establishing them.
You can join a fandom or community and run into those issues, but do you really need more trouble? Ive hung around with furries since I was 13 or 14. It wasn't a furry that SA'd me, and I've never been groomed. But as a child online, I was labelled as a dog fucking groomer (at 15), because I was in a furry community discord server. I don't like to think about how that made the young adult owner of the server feel.
Social media is good for "satirical trolls," who take pleasure in hurting as many people as they can, and then claiming it's OK because they're joking, and you should've known. Is it really worth the effort for anyone else? You know, us "normal people," not bogged down by million strong fanbases, actively managing parasocial relationships and morally questionable stalking.
Closing Statements
I'm not entirely sure why I wrote this post. I guess I'm just another girl crying on the internet when I should save it for the therapy I can't actually afford.
I want to be hopeful, to feel like there's something attainable to desire, or even just things to look forward to. It's been a long time since I woke up and felt there was a good reason to be awake or even alive.
Thanks,
- The Girl That Doesn't Exist
