“I’m exhausted, Chen.”
THEM TJEM!!! THEM ! EVERYONE, THEM !!!
You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it
but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.
Reblog if your ask box is open.
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You can change labels at any time for any reason. Labels are like clothes, you can try things on, see how they feel and discard them if they don't fit or they aren't your style.
“ο παναγιώτης στο πολυτεχνείο δε χρωστάει ούτε ένα μάθημα” χ ε σ τ η κ α και ΣΚΟΥΠΙΣΤΗΚΑ
I hope every trans person makes it out safe. I hope we're all okay in the end. And I hope the journey to wherever the end is.. is easier from now on.. with companionship.. community.. food and stability..