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yâall have my apologies for not being super active on this blog lately, both for the lack of posting and not answering asks. iâve been absent mainly because iâve been dealing with Some Shit irl and havenât really had the mental energy or the inclination to be on this blog but also iâve gotten really just tired of the discourse on this site and disillusioned with tumblr as a platform as a whole.
iâve posted plenty before about how the discourse people get so angry about on tumblr is not a reflection of real life views or issues or particularly important in the grand scheme of anything that actually matters in the world and how toxic this site is but lately iâve particularly been feeling it. i spend time away from tumblr on other sites and out in the real world with people who donât know about The Discourse and i enjoy it
and then i come back here and see the shit everyone is so violently angry over and itâs just....so fucking senseless. it doesnât matter. it amounts to nothing. itâs the same âvoltron fandom threatening to kill voltron staff for the 20th timeâ / âthe fic you read makes you a monster but watching an hbo show with the exact same content is okayâ / âan ace was mean to me once so now i hate all asexualsâ / etc etc etc bullshit fucking garbage over and over and over again. the people who know itâs bullshit call out it, they write essays detailing why those viewpoints are bs with sources and history and basic common fucking sense backing them up, and the people who are perpetuating that bullshit just keep on doing it, never listening, learning nothing.Â
and tumblr as a platform continues to be shit, run by a staff who does not give a fuck about its userbase both in terms of their safety and the functionality staff offers them. the latest purging of blogs of people who have never broken a single term of service while people who suicide bait other users on a regular basis continue to be able to do that without being deleted is just another example of that.Â
and iâm just super over it. iâm tired of the antiintellectualism on this site, iâm tired of being surrounded by people who can be so high on authoritarianism and still think theyâre the Wokest of The Woke, iâm tired of seeing and participating in the same foolish discourse over and over again with people who -- letâs face it -- are never going to change their mind until they want to no matter how many essays you write them about why theyâre wrong, and iâm tired of people who legitimately think tumblr discourse is in any way a form of activism much less a meaningful form of it and who think spewing such vile hatred on this website towards anyone who disagrees with them in the slightest about anything is in any way enacting a positive change on the world or helping anyone in it.
iâm tired! we can talk about how problematic it is to tell people to âgo outside!â but hey, i fucking went outside and it was nice! and then i turned to look back and realized what a toxic, echo-chamber of a bubble i had exited because normal society is not tumblr! normal people do not get so violent and vicious about the nonsense tumblr does to the degree that we do. hell, normal people are shocked and appalled at the thought of someone telling another person to kill themselves over a fucking cartoon because the idea is so foreign to them -- it is not something that they see as a regular, every-day thing that happens in the environment theyâre in at such a frequency that theyâre used to it.Â
so iâm just kinda tapping the hell out of this shit for the moment.Â
iâm not going to delete this blog (tumblr might still purge me though lmao) but iâm not going to be particularly active on it either and at some point in the near future i plan on transferring most of the content over to other platforms (which iâll link yâall to when i do it, probably within the next few weeks) because iâm at the point where i hope tumblr finally dies and we all collectively fuck off away from it like we did with livejournal way back when too.
and like i recognize that this post reads very negatively, iâm not in a bad mood about any of this and i feel much lighter getting this out and i hope yâall understand where iâm coming from.Â
thanks & have a goodnight!
