out of sight out of mind

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore

FIJMU News 3-16-26 by Tor Mentnexus

For decades, reblogs have made tumblr a near-popular site, even inspiring platforms like twitter to include a retweet feature before it was turned into x-crement. Now, tumblr has successfully removed this feature to make the site far worse.

According to tumblr prime-minister Karl Lipidbrain, "Tumblr has always worked hard to alienate its users, from its harsh treatment of the trans demographic, to its ban of nipples (which nearly 1/5th of its users have at least one of) and all the way back to the time we deleted the whole site to spite the weebs. But now, we are making the entire note system into absolute useless shit. Soon, we should be able to boast a zero user count and make tumblr small enough to throw out in the back dumpster."

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.