I'll actually be pretty sad when tumblr dies

[milo_r]

I know we're all joking about the curse finally lifting but it's the only "modern" social media site I get genuine enjoyment out of. And for all that I praise dreamwidth and mastodon to every fandom person I meet, there's a kind of visual fandom experience that only tumlblr is- I can't even say "optimized for," as tumblr is not optimized for anything. Mostly gif gazing. TikTok is for videos and Instagram is for carousels. Fanartists will migrate to even more inhospitable lands but I have survived that before. But where will I go to have narrative parallels highlighted via gifset juxtaposition? Where will I be graced with the sight of my blorbo covered in blood like I am graced by a freshly bloomed flower on my morning walk? Are you telling me I'll have to rewatch my shows??? Unthinkable.

(Not that I think tumblr doesn't have the addictive and enshittified social media features. I've looked up by an hour-long tumblr session with the same kind of malaise tiktok scrolling gives me, but overall the good has always outweighed the bad.)

Comments

[milo_r]

the culture was definitely not good for me either, and the more time i spend apart from it the weirder it seems when i go back (like, to this day it's insane to me how frowned upon it is to actually talk to people in so many contexts on tumblr or how the default mode of everybody is overtly aggressive/defensive). although on the fanartist front i feel like i already experienced a big deluge and it hasn't been the main platform for artists for a while, but that maybe depends on fandom.

[axolotls]

I suppose it does, I just never moved to Twitter and finding art on there is basically impossible, so it's hard to gauge without being embedded in a fandom, I think. (So much fanart lost on Twitter, not just from people deleting accounts due to the management, but also just not being easily findable... I hope the next big fanart place actually has tagging!!)