ATTN!✋✋🏻✋🏽✋🏿 REBLOGS HAVE CHANGED!
ETA 3/17/26 @ 1PM PST - WE WON!!!! TUMBLR IS ROLLING IT ALL BACK!!! HAPPY ST.PATTYS Y'ALL!!
‼️the tl;dr:
In order to effectively support artists, writers, resource creators, etc. please DO NOT leave photos/comments/content in reblog posts as of March 16, 2026 until further notice.
If you would like to reblog a work from a creator with a comment please do so in the tags only. Tags in reblogs are still OK!
the longer explanation:
Tumblr has changed reblogs to mirror that of twitter/x. Reblogs with commentary in the post (words/pics/etc) now work as "quoted posts" with an independent set of notes displayed for likes/reblogs/comments on the quoted post. This is effective immediately and is NOT retroactive.
While this is objectively good for opinion or discourse posts where the user rebloging is adding independent thought or opinion—it is bad for creators as it is not a true reflection of the reach of our posts. New and smaller creators suffer the most. If someone with a bigger reach reblogs a small/new creator and leaves content/comments in the post of the reblog, further interactions with that reblog will be attributed to the reblog and not the original work. Meaning the artist is missing out on lots of feedback, praise, likes and motivational words that encourage them to continue or interact with the community.
This is bigger than caring about the amount of notes a post gets, even if it only gets 10 interactions, that creator should be able to see it and be attributed that.
how should I interact moving forward?
To be safe, please ONLY interact with the main post and ONLY put comments in TAGS if reblogging.
Here is a photo example of what is okay/not okay:
is there anything we can do in the meantime?
Interact with creator original posts only and only add commentary in comments or the reblogs using tags. If you would like to raise concerns of this to tumblr directly, please send in a support ticket: https://www.tumblr.com/support Or you can interact with the official tumblr changes acct post or the original main tumblr staff acct post.
if you do submit a ticket this is a great idea how to do so:
UPDATE: TUMBLR BLACK OUT HAPPENING MARCH 20TH MORE INFO HERE FROM @veejiez and HERE from @everythingwsnormalhere NO NEED FOR BLACKOUT WE WON!
