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Howdy there, I’m Liv and I’m a vtuber much like you, but I’ve been here the whole time so I’m here to compile stuff for you to help make your transition less scary.

To start, here’s is a post with a lot of tips for general tumblr use and here’s one for giving your blog a custom theme.

Beyond that here’s other things that aren’t mentioned but are gonna be relevant for you:

If you’re coming back to tumblr know that you can’t follow from your sideblog, if you want to follow back it will be from your main, as will your likes, replies, asks. Decide what to do with this information now before you settle into a blog.

Fully explore the settings, there's a ton of stuff hiding in there. AND do it on PC at least once, some stuff is not in the app.

Blogs have individual block lists, no idk why either. So if you want someone banned from everything you need to do that manually.

 Also enable tumblr Labs! It’s got reblog graphs which are rad (my beloved orbs) And alternate dashboards, the Blog Subscriptions one is my fave because it means all you have to do is turn on notifications to get all your fave guys in one dashboard.

Contrary to popular belief there is still a porn and adult content community here, if you want to get anywhere near them you have to have age in bio or they’ll smite you. EDIT: I posted more about how to navigate lewdposting here.

Tiktok embeds don't play nice with tumblr for some reason, if you also do tiktok then just reupload your videos and link your account there underneath.

The link post type will show up for your followers but there’s a chance it won’t show up in any tags, so don’t do going live posts like that.

BUT you can straight up embed your stream into your posts! As long as you're using the New Post Editor you should see this menu:

Click the video camera, link to your twitch and bam. There it is. You can also do this with the video post type! If you're ever worried about your post format getting bonked just go through the tags and see what posts that DO make it are doing. Together we can overcome spaghetti code.

General "tumblr culture" is to not comment on posts but its not one thats set in stone, your fellow small vtuber account is probably dying for interaction so comment on posts! scream in the tags! send funny asks! Getting interaction right now is going to be a big comfort during a weird time.

Oh yeah we have ask boxes built in, no marshmallow needed.

ALSO we have pinned posts just like twitter, but as long as you want! Put your ref & socials & art tag (yes you can keep your fanart tags) & your minors DNI & a picture of your cat if you want.

OH I do suggest picking out tags for your personal content if you plan to also do reblogging, makes it easy for newcomers to find what you're doing.

#vtuber and #indie vtuber are full of fanart for the big guys. If you wanna find each other use #vtuber uprising

Okay this post is getting so long but final tip: check out custom pages. They're on the custom theme menu and they're basically mini webpages on your blog that can have their own coding. You can do Literally Whatever. Lore! Credit page! Ref sheets! I once put a choose your own adventure where you navigated by clicking specific parts of a picture on tumblr pages. I Mean Anything.

That's all for now, please add other tips if you want. And please reblog! Not just this post but other peoples too! This will all be way less of a drag if we can find each other. 💖

It's been over a week since things picked up and I've been watching y'all like a wildlife researcher and I've got a few bonus tips from that:

Use spaces in your tags! Its Allowed! It also will help separate your posts from accounts that are just mass stealing from twitter and instagram since they usually default to the tags they used over there.

ALSO make sure when you repost commissions you make sure that you put in the description that you have permission to do that! (And double check with your artist if it's okay!) If you look like an account that steals art you could get blocked!

Sidenote: if you see cool art that has just a credit link in the description, click through to it! A lot of the time the og artist DID crosspost to tumblr! It's discouraging when twitter users grab your art and then repost it to get 10x the interactions, it sucks just as much here.

A good way to set up your queue is to go through tags you like or are relevant to your vtuber, queue a bunch, find posts from mutuals, queue a bunch of those too, make a ton of original posts in the queue, then hit shuffle! It'll help give your blog an even spread of things and make your content last longer.

Also if you're one of those vtubers with a "Schedule" (never met her) then you can schedule going live posts! With the embeds and everything! Amazing.

On information posts (like this one) check the notes! More info could show up in the replies or reblogs with comments.

If you want your pinned post to "last longer" add a read more! Edits don't show up in reblogs! BUT whenever someone clicks the read more it takes them back to your OG post, so everything thats been edited will show up. Also mobile users won't cry everytime your lengthy intro post shows up. Think of their poor fingers.

Readjust your internal metrics for if a post "succeeds." Vtubers are technically OCs, your posts will likely never blow up the way fandom ones do. If you get over 10 notes That's A Lot! Good job!! But also don't get stressed if you don't hit that, play with posting times, shuffle your tags, use your queue, and try splitting up photo sets! You can do it!

Finally I saw this asked around: when it comes to a posts search ranking in the "top" or "all-time" sections of a tag, it's hard to tell if replies and likes count, so when in doubt, reblog things you think people should see!