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Can I just like Taylor Swift without people either on the internet or irl being a dick?
⚠️ Minor tw for mentioned pedophilia, car crashes and home invasion. Also I talk about harassment (sexual and regular) and referenced slut shaming. And some swearing.
This is a really long (like 12 paragraphs) and pretty negative post btw, if you choose to read it then it's on you
"I'm existed to listen to Taylor's new album! I like this song!"
The internet: have you considered you're just a white supremacist? (I'm not joking I actually just saw a post calling swifties white supremacists)
Ffs let me like things, it doesn't affect you in any way. I like her as a person and I love her music. You don't have to.
You don't like Taylor's music? Don't listen to her. You think she's annoying? Okay, I clearly dont, stop trying to make me upset over something that doesn't affect you. Notice how I keep my mouth shut when you rant about basic singer boy #7? It's pretty easy.
There are so many things I don't like that other people do and unless someone actually asks my opinion I will shut my mouth and let them enjoy it because it's none of my business.
Once someone I know saw me listening to music (with headphones!) and asked if I was listening to Taylor Swift bc they knew I like her. I was so I was like "yeah I'm listening to __ by Taylor :)" and then suddenly I couldn't listen in peace because they spent the next 40 minutes bitching about her. In no point during this did I make them or even suggest getting them to listen with me. I was literally just doing my work while listening to a song a like.
And the argument that she is single-handedly destroying the environment? Really? Yeah she has a private jet which isn't good for the environment but if she took public transport do you realize how much harassment she'd get? Say she just goes in a car, so many people have intentionally caused car crashes when around celebrities in an attempt to meet them or hurt them. Several people have tried to break into her house obviously she wouldn't be safe in public transport.
Even without the safety hazard you'd see how fast it goes from "taylor is polluting the air!" to "taylor is causing traffic on purpose!" or "taylor wastes loads of petrol/energy in her car!" Because she literally can't leave her house without getting blamed for something. She goes to see her boyfriend play football? She's ruining football. She dates someone? Slut. She breaks up with someone? Player/whore.
It's none of your business what she does. She makes people happy and she didn't hurt anyone intentionally, what about that is so awful that you need to yell at any random person that likes her? Sure some people take being a swiftie too far but even then, most of the time you don't know their life and even if there isn't more to it, it's not an excuse to judge an entire fan base for the minority of problematic people.
Imagine if I said every single singer is a pedophile because I found two singers that actually are. Would that be fair? What if I said every man harasses people just because some men do? Would I get yelled at?
People need to stop taking "I like this" as an excuse to make someone feel bad. Stop looking for excuses to be a prick because most of the time if you stop looking for reasons to be mad, your life gets a lot happier.
At the end of the day if I like Taylor Swift then there's another thing that makes me happy. If you don't then you should just not listen to her and let the people that do enjoy themselves because your misery shouldn't hurt other people.
Sorry for the angry/sad and long post but holy fuck it feels so necessary at this point
Israel has killed more children in Gaza since October than in four years of worldwide conflict
when random porn blogs just keep following you
Me every time unrelated fanfictions pop up when I scroll on a particular tag because people love to tag unnecessary to get their shitty ass fanfic spread:
didn’t know that not wanting ppl to write rape was such a controversial opinion lmfao, ur so right it’s weird of ppl to write non-con like??
It’s genuinely so fucking annoying seeing it. And I feel like tagging it non-con is downplaying what it actually is. It’s straight up fucking r*pe. I just don’t understand why a 30 year old was trying to fight me on this. Like no matter the circumstance “non-con” fics will ALWAYS be weird and disturbing and gross. Them trying to say that weird is subjective, NO CUNT IT IS NOT SUBJECTIVE!!!!
Also people try to defend writing non-cons for the riddler say “he’s a murderer”. That’s not the same?? He’s a murderer not a r*pist. He never r*ped anybody in the movie.
And just a couple hours ago on the riddler tag I saw somebody send an ask and said they LIKED reading this persons r*pe fic… what is actually wrong with people?
sorry in advance for going off in your inbox you dont have to answer this if you dont want but LITERALLYYYYYY. LICHERALLY!!!! its one thing when the subject of r/pe is included in fiction- it can be handled well. but its a completely other, absolutely fucked up and inexcusable thing to write graphic r/pe fic for the purpose of causing yourself or other people arousal. because that's what your doing? you didn't write your pwp non-con oneshot to seriously explore the topic, you wrote it because you think its hot. that's disgusting, its making a fetish, making porn out of a very real, very horrific thing that very real people go through. especially when its x reader fic where the reader is r/ped? like bro if youre fantasizing about getting r/ped uhhhhh get help 😳 like actually seriously sorry for ~kinkshaming~ or whatever but get help
don’t worry abt it you’re good. but yeah there are times it can be written about in an appropriate manner and not in a way to fuel people’s sick fantasies. it’s absolutely unacceptable to write about it in such way. i do mean to kink shame i’m not gonna lie. it’s disrespectful and disgusting. like it is low key glorifying it, the way tumblr & ao3 writers write it. i’m just so tired of grown people defending it with their fucking life. riddler or not riddler idgaf about who you write about, writing non-con/r*pe fics from a request or to fuel your sick fantasies is disgusting and inexcusable.
i am sobbing this is literally my favorite line from the song and it is depicted perfectly in the film T_________T
we’re dancing round the kitchen in the refrigerator light
What Racial Fetishising looks and sounds like.
Post created by @vibesofablackgirl on Instagram.
7.26.20, Seattle
Local Seattle police begin a random attack on a group on protestors, including macing someone excessively while they’re already on the ground. Notice how they’re covering their badges. These aren’t “trump’s” feds, these are local police.
sorry people are being weird to you about headcanons for a dnd show in your ask box. for what it’s worth i completely agree with you. if people want to headcanon riz as aro that’s fine! but they also need to understand that it is not canon, and they can’t get mad at people for not having the same headcanons as them.
i am aroace, and while i don’t headcanon riz as aro as well, i really connect with him and his ace representation. like, the thing that he was uncomfortable with was not the fact that his friends were in relationships, but that they were talking about sex and kissing so much. it felt very realistic to what i felt, even as a non sex-repulsed ace. i think that you could also interpret that as a disinterest in romance, but to me as an aroace person it seemed way more on the nose for my experience as an asexual teen than an aromantic one.
Thank you so much! I'm glad Riz resonated with you. He resonates with me, too, despite the fact that I'm not aromantic.
I really don't want to start arguments, and I've been getting some mean DM's. It's been a crazy response for me, just saying he isn't canonically Aromantic, which is a fact. I don't care what anyone headcanons him as because someone else's headcanons don't affect me. I just think that if you're ready to get in someone's DMs and insult them because they said a headcanon isn't canon, you're in the wrong. It doesn't matter what your headcanon is. Please just respect people. If another person's headcanons bug you, block them.
Daily Reminder: Don’t repost my art.
Please it’s very annoying & I know a lot of peeps on whatever website they’re on who see my art being repost won’t bother to check the og source & just like the repost pic then move out without having second thoughts.
I don’t care if “giving me more exposer” or the classic “credit to the artist” bullshit: WHEN A ARTIST SAY TO NOT REPOST THEIR ART YOU FUCKING RESPECT THEIR WISHES AND NOT BE A HUGE DICK ABOUT IT. That also goes with if someone or the actual artist is asking you to take it down: DO IT, don’t whine, don’t cry, don’t bitch, just TAKE IT DOWN.
If you give a damn about me or other artist you love and care about: why not share all the links that your fav artist is on and show a screenshot of those accounts to show other peeps to check them out instead? It’s way better than taking their stuff & posting it on another site that no one is gonna bother to look for.
Saying this because a friend notified me that one of my oc pic is reposted onto Pinterest even tho I said to NOT REPOST. Idk anyone beside my friend who has it but please report it.
Here’s the link to it:
https://pin.it/43FUPsV
So I played the sway house game...
Wtf
Wtf is this. It looks so bad.
Josh bittig his lip and the face of the other dude.The other dude looks like his on drugs smiling like that wtf.
They couldnt choose any better photos?they look horrible.
Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy
Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.
The Diagnosis
In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience.
Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content.
To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.
Our Guiding Principles
To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.
Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
Retain and grow our creator base.
Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.
Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.
Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up.
We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.
Actions & Next Steps
Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.
Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.
Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.
The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.
Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant.
Actions & Next Steps
Deliver great content each time the app is opened.
Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are.
Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds.
Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.
Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.
Actions & Next Steps
Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.
Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs.
Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.
Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread.
Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads.
Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed.
Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.
Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.
Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.
The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.
It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.
Actions & Next Steps
Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it.
Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.
Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.
Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.
Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.
Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.
Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.
Actions & Next Steps
Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.
Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.
Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages.
Test what the right daily push notification limit is.
Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.
Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.
The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.
Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.
Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users.
Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.
Conclusion
Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.
when I find a brilliant, jaw dropping, amazing x reader fic but suddenly I’ve been given a first name, last name, hair colour and eye colour
Hey, uh, this was sarcasm. I appreciate the numbers going up but can porn bots please stop following me?
I’m so happy that porn blogs keep following me and my art account 🙄 thank you so much Tumblr.