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Tämä piti postata jo eilen, pahoittelut että olen päivän myöhässä, mutta tässä nyt vihdoin on Faiteosviikon aihelistat!

Listoja on toisaan kaksi joissa kummassakin yksi prompti per päivä, vasemmalla oleva aihe on ns. yleinen, oikealla oleva on jotakuinkin suomiteemainen. Aiheista voi poimia vain toisen, tai voi käyttää kumpaakin, tai voi toki olla käyttämättä kumpaakaan ja tehdä jotain ihan muuta, miten vain itsestä tuntuu hyvältä. Eikä tarvitse mitenkään sitoutua siihen että käyttäisi samaa listaa joka päivä (toki jos nimenomaan haluaa niin näinkin saa tehdä)

Näitä aiheita saa myös tulkita niin luovilla tavoilla kun tahtoo

Kiitos kaikille jotka lähettivät aiheideoita, ja pahoittelut niille joiden ehdotuksia en tullut käyttäneeksi! Tietyissä tapauksissa myös yhdistelin useita eri aihe-ehdotuksia (esimerkiksi eri historiallisiin aikoihin sijoittuvia AU-ehdotuksia tuli niin monta, että päädyin laittamaan minkään näistä nimenomaisista sijaan aiheeksi "eri aikakaudet", ja tuo samalle päivälle osuva "Suomimusiikki" on kans yhdistelmä muutamasta eri aiheideasta)

Pistän read moren alle tuon aihelistan vielä tekstimuodossa, jos joku sattuu kaipaan sen sillai

Järjestelin tänään vähän juttuja, ja jokaselle faniteosviikon päivälle on nyt aikataulutettuna oma postauksensa, jossa on sen päivän teemat vielä erikseen. Ne postaukset on aikataulutettu julkastaviks aina kello 12 sinä päivänä, tosin kokemuksesta voin sanoa että tumblrin aikataulutettujen postausten julkasemisessa on usein muutaman minuutin viive.

Tapahtumalle on nyt luotu myös oma collection Archive of Our Ownissa. Se on toistaseksi suljettu eli sinne ei pitäis voida postata mitään, mutta avaan sen sunnuntai-iltana. Tuo collection on nyt jo linkattu tän tilin kiinnitettyyn infopostaukseen.

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@changes (Edit: I already sent this to Tumblr Support under the feedback option. I encourage everyone to send feedback on how bad this feature actually is).

For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.

Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.

Erasure of Creator Visibility

Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.

If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.

On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.

Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly

This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.

When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content last—not the person who made it—reaps the rewards.

Impact on Collaborative Conversations

Tumblr’s unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.

If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.

The Disincentive to Create

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.

For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.

This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.

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