I'm Sure Y'all Are.... Definitely Serving Some Purpose In Society - Tumblr Posts

TW: Vent Post ⚠️

I just realized we're so close to 200 followers... But I have no idea if we can actually reach that milestone. I've lost so many mutuals and followers out of nowhere, and it still keeps happening. Every time I gain a new follower, I lose 3 more. Sometimes my follower count decreases after I gain new followers??? It's just painfully comical, seeing my follower count fluctuate randomly. I swear this must be some sort of technical glitch or something. Because there's no way people are actually unfollowing me as I gain new followers, at the same time?? Something's definitely not adding up. The first couple of times this happened, I didn't mind it as much. But then it became a consistent pattern. Losing around 3 followers for every new follower I gain, so that there's never a net increase in followers. The graph is always a goddamn plateau, if I'm lucky. And the saddest part is, I have to follow people back if I want to ensure that they keep following me. This is why I feel incredibly hurt when a mutual randomly unfollows me for no reason. Another really interesting thing I've noticed is that, my follower count only "increases" when p0₹n bots start following me. 🙂 I wish I was kidding. And then it goes back to the previous count after they're blocked and reported. But this never happens when I gain actual, human followers. Then the follower count decreases, like I mentioned before. It's so frustrating.

People say this is the site where follower count is insignificant, but I don't think that's true. Every other day I come across posts celebrating the event of hitting a particular follower milestone, and their follower count is always MASSIVE. I'm talking 1k+ , sometimes even 10k+ . And then I think of my pathetic little blog which hasn't even managed to reach 200 followers in 2 fucking years. I feel miserable. It seems like only the blogs that literally spam-upload posts are the ones that have thousands of followers (by "spam-upload" I mean posting like, 20-30 posts in a minute??? 50 in half an hour??? And they always seem to upload stolen posts with irrelevant, clout-chasing tags 💀) It's so unfair, because this implies that you have to blog like your life depends on it, in order to gain followers. You can't be inactive for a few months, because then you'll lose all the engagement. This isn't me begging for followers btw, just a vent post because I felt like screaming into the void.