Good Luck Out There - Tumblr Posts

Hi. How are you doing today. Sorry for invading your privacy. Your blog looks fascinating and kindly Dm if you’re interested being in a sugar relationship 😊

No thank you, but I appreciate you asking. Love a daddy!

My enjoyment of drawing over the Spamton plush has done me great enjoyment, and it's about to be everyone's problem. (and by that I mean I'm gonna go on a raid of drawing people's lil Spamtons if they got goofy photos)

The block button is my love

So you have crawled to the hellsite and are planning to resist the tribulations and stay

Welcome. There is a saying that the devil knows best because he is old, not because he is the devil.

I am that devil here and I've been here for 7 years now. Have some tips.

If no algorithm then how content?

Content gets to you via the people you follow. Everything you see in your dash will be things the people you follow posted or reblogged.

And thus the first thing you should do is start following people whose content you wish to see in your dash. And how do you find those people?

You go to Tumblr's search function, type the name of the fandom or character you want to see content off, and then you'll find a ton of content organized by popularity. Give a click to the posts you like and look around a bit at that person's blog see if you'd like to see them more often. Repeat this as many times as you'd like.

If you'd like to follow smaller blogs, you can set it so the results prioritize recent posts, and thus you'll find newer posts that you can click on and take a look at the blog see if it's to your liking.

There is no easier way than that. Sorry. But the good news is the more you do this, the more posts you'll see on your dash, and the more blogs you will be introduced to like this.

Hey I do not like the person/post that has landed in front of my eyeballs

Good news you are in possession of a very powerful tool called. The block button.

If you see something you despise and that it somehow missed the filtering and blacklist (we will get to that don't worry) you can block the person that posted such heinous things one quick tap/click on their profile pic and you'll be on their blog from where you can push the three dots (in pc)/ little icon person (in mobile) to block that user.

Peoples use the block button very generously, and you should to! Didn't like someone's take? Block. Annoying? Block. The theme of their blog is too saturated so it hurts your eyes? Block.

Block. Block. Block.

Curate your online experience since afterall is yours and also no one will know better than yourselves how you'd like it to look.

And also because inciting drama raises the chances you get blocked, kung pow penised or just obliterated

Any filters? I definitely want things to just never get near me

As obtuse as Tumblr tagging and search system can be, the blocking and filtering feature can do its job arguably well. If you want something banished to the shadow realm you can filter it (so it never even appears on your timeline and searches) or you can block it (so the post will appear in front of you but with the content obscured so you can choose if you have the mental spoons to deal with that today)

To block and/or filter open your blog's settings -> general settings -> visible content

And there will be the option to add tags you wish to filter and/or block.

How interact with posts? (BY REBBLOGING)

Okay reblogging is just one option you have commenting, liking, and reblogging. Let's go one by one

Commenting: by pressing the dialogue bubble icon on the lower right corner of a post it will open the "notes" of the post where you can leave a comment. If you do only op will see a notification, but anyone that opens the notes section can see your comment and @ you to reply

Liking: by pressing the heart icon in the lower right corner of a post, the post will be liked and stored in your personal liked posts (that list can be made private in the settings and I encourage you to do it). That's it. The number of total notes may go up but it serves more as a bookmark than anything else, it won't boost posts. So if you want to boost a post you should Reblog.

Reblogging: before we go in how to reblog is important to stablish a difference.

Rebbloging =/= reposting

Rebbloging means taking a post you see and using Tumblr's function of reblogging it so a copy of it will be in your blog, where the original poster and contributors are still visible and the notes your reblog garners will still go to them, meaning you have helped op further their reach. This is not stealing.

Reposting means taking a photo of a post, or the images on it, downloading it to your phone/pc, and then making your own post with those images and claiming the content is yours so you get all the notes and reach. That is stealing

With that clarified, this refers to the former. To reblogging.

Now. Here is how you reblog.

By pressing the icon of the two arrows pointing at each other you can reblog a post. This means the post you reblogged will appear on your blog and will be visible to the people that follow you. This is how posts get around Tumblr, by being reblogged so they reach more people that will eventually reblog them. Don't worry about the theme or consistency or aesthetics of your blog, you can reblog pretty much whatever (you can even reblog something multiple times but that might be annoying) and it'll be fine.

By reblogging some options open for you.

If you are interested in just spreading the post around, doing a quick reblog (hold reblog icon and drag to the pfp of the blog you wish the post to appear on) is the easiest solution.

A regular reblog opens you to add something to the post, that addition then counts as a post for you, and will get notifications if reblogged.

If you feel you just want to comment or your addition wouldn't fit in a post but still want to add it, the tags are your friends. They are there in theory to help you label things for easier searching, but Tumblr's search function is kinda broken, so they end up being used to comment. Want to show extra love to the op, or yell at them or just add to the chaos you are seeing? put in the tags. All the key smashes, all the I HATE YOU/POS all the blorbos of your shows go there