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Hi everyone! So I've been back in the Tumblr IE fandom for a while and I've noticed some users don't have pinned posts and/or links to their other social media.

I feel like the fandom is quite spread out across the internet so I would love to know people's socials outside of Tumblr, in particular Mastodon and Dreamwidth. Hey maybe this post can also be a place for people to find other other people, who knows!

For those unfamiliar, Tumblr is releasing a new update dictating that reblogs in a chain now get their own notes, effectively siloing interactions into fragmented pools.

Something like this new update requires action, no matter how small or insignificant it might feel. The only way to even attempt at fighting back is to make your voice heard

Send in a feedback form:

Select "Feedback" and add a polite message in the "the more details, the better" box underneath it. You can select any number of grievances, but there are a few good posts floating around that succinctly break down why this new update is bad:

Here is a great breakdown on the many ways this update hurts small creators

Here's another

Do not vent in the feedback form. Do not cuss. Explain what you do not like about this update, what your personal course of action following the update might be, and if you have any, suggestions or alternative ideas.

Here is what I submitted, feel free to copy-paste:

"The new "reblogs in a chain now get their own notes" update actively goes against the core principles of Tumblr, and the way community interactions have been carried out and encouraged thus far. It is detrimental to small creators, as their engagement now gets refunneled to larger creators, rewarding those with an already large following and actively discouraging new creators from joining the site without resorting to "spam"-induced or inflammatory tactics to drive engagement, which are largely considered distasteful and uninviting. It removes the concept of chronological and collaborative conversations that make Tumblr stand out from contemporary social media platforms, which made it sought out by people who actively did not want to join other platforms, ensuring user retention. The absence of an algorithm removed the time-based pressure of a posts' success that plagues other sites, whereas now original creators are entirely removed from their own post's interactions, creating a new and possibly even more hostile system that actively discourages original posts. The community's preference based on comments released so far is for the feature to be reverted entirely. If this is not possible, then at least the original creator should still be able to receive notifications of any engagement their post receives, even if said engagement originates from a reblog (who would have their own engagement stream)."

Is it perfect? No. And there is so much more to say.

But here's another important thing: you will not get a substantial reply to your feedback. At most, you get a stock reply. But that's not the point. The point is numbers. The point is for as many people as possible to submit forms, to FORCE them to LISTEN because they cannot IGNORE EVERYONE. Comments on the original post alone won't do. Perhaps the feedback form won't either.

I first got wind of the Tumblr changes on Mastodon. People were also really concerned about it on Bluesky. You know it's bad when news of an update is all over other social media sites. I'm not that well versed in how Tumblr fully works, as I came here well after being used to other places like LiveJournal, Facebook, and Twitter (before I left all those services). So it took me a minute to educate myself on why the changes to how reblogs work is bad.

Now that I understand they would work more quotes on other sites like Mastodon, Bluesky, or formerly Twitter, that's kind of shitty. I like the fact that reblog text posts were one big chain. It made for some really cool conversations. Not only would the changes get rid of that, but as people point out on here and other socials, they can take engagement from smaller blogs, and act as a vector for harassment.

Other changes over the years were bad enough. We had changes to the dashboard that make this place look more like Twitter, the AI training data inclusion being set to "opt out" instead of "opt in", and before a ban on NSFW posts. It looks like this update could push a lot of remaining people off this platform either out frustration, fearing for their safety, or both.

It's a good idea to make some noise and hope that Tumblr understands that shotgunning themselves in both feet is not the way.

@pitchblackespresso has a really good post, a call to action, and a script to send into Tumblr feedback if you're not good at this sort of thing.

If you want the feedback form here's the direct link: https://www.tumblr.com/support

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for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:

and here is what it looks like now:

holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.

maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.

but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.

do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.

it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.

But at the same time, the anime brings in a complexity to her by making sure to show that despite it all she really was hoping that she gets to talk to him at some point still and that he truly hasn't changed and forgotten about her. That deep embarrassing attachment, as kidou stated, really seemed to run in the family (a lot of times in a toxic attachment degree like how easily kidou forgave kageyama and chose to remember the good parts of him when he "died"). And that I think is a very important point to her character as much as it is kidou's.

I didn't see that much acknowledgement of this which is a bummer but I think people don't see at all that haruna also has the same level of "fighting" to see her brother again much like he wanted to see her. Or at least her fight was about not attaching soccer with this brother of hers despite this being HIS WORLD (as systematically constructed by kageyama) and pretending or insisting that she doesn't care about him. A kind of pretend that immediately shatters if you think about how she joined a soccer team that his team directly targeted (that she knows for sure teikoku will go after again or at least face in the regionals) and the only one they lost to.

Like, think about it. What was haruna thinking from the first raimon v teikoku? From the way her brother played soccer against a newly formed team? And at that point where teikoku wasn't even trying to score but only used the ball to hurt the members under his command. I think it cemented to her how much he changed and how right she was at who he became (and that her hope to see the brother that she knows was no longer possible).

#really good analysis op :3 #it's a shame that GO doesn't fully utilize her love for soccer in her job. she's never really allowed to councel the team- #because there's always a (male) coach taking centerstage leaving her in the same position as the managers despite her being an adult #either way- tho i see her in a different career i think it's sweet that she went for a job she mentioned at the end of og season 3

I have exactly the same sentiments when it comes to that. Although i love that she's a teacher and is still completely embracing her love of soccer, they didn't really give her much to do since the story aims to service kudou, endou, and kidou's coaching/administrative skills/guidance.

Among the og managers, I've always thought that haruna was given the shortest end of the stick. Despite the depth that they gave her character and so much personality and uniqueness, she was not given a lot of agency and usually shares her arc with other characters.

I do love that they showed her grief and loneliness an entirely different way than they did Kidou overall, however. She loves connecting with people and has a passion for getting and decimating information, and I feel like there's a lot to say about that being connected to feeling left behind by her first family. From a place where everyone she knew was gone and being left in the dark (ghosted by her brother), rises an individual who wants to know everything and wants to know everyone. I think that was really cool. I'm not surprised that she became a well-known character outside of the series when the anime aired.

Personally, I hc that she was a sports journalist freelancer in college and then a hobbyist sports writer while she's a teacher and a counsellor in inago!!

Continuation of tags:

#at the moment if i were to add anything i'd just repeat what u said kshfjfhks i have to rewatch the og show i miss those characters #i find it curious that the line abt "embarrassing attachment" got changed in the eng dub (and polish dub that was my first exposure) #if i'm not mistaken you mean what kidou says when he talks to his adoptive father? i may be misremembering stuff 😭 #if we're talking about the same moment then in the dub the "embarrassing attachment" wording is absent #anyways the only reason why im bringing it up is bc i remember finally watching that moment in sub and doing a double take- #bc of the dialogue difference to the dub

Yes, that scene!! I have the screenshots of that here in this post if you want to see the entire dialogue (just ugh ignore my angry bitey tone in that post, I was really peeved back then). Also, I got the phrase wrong. It's "embarrassing emotional attachment" actually 😭😭 but my point remains.

That's really a shame that they didnt include that amazing line in the dub because I really feel like it's kidou's core character trait. He has an embarrassing emotional attachment to everyone he meets and towards soccer (affectionate). He's sentimental and sensitive and he will never forget or let you go in his heart regardless if you hurt him or not (unless you hurt the people he cares about the most).