Carlisle, typing furiously: And now he’s telling me how to feed a human. Can you believe it? I am a DOCTOR, four times his age! Did you see this, Alice? Why didn’t you warn me?!
but there will be no prophesying, speculating, speaking into existence, etc about next year
no “I feel really great about next year,” no “I’d love more time at home to work on my hobbies,” no “surely it can’t be any weirder than 2020,” nothing
hey y’all i work a support line for a place that handles money and i just dealt with a young dude who just got scammed through Steam/Discord so fucking bad and i know a lot of my followers are younger so like. pls be careful because this guy is likely out of over $500 that legally nobody can retrieve for him
the scam was:
rando “accidentally” reports the kid and gets his account frozen on Steam
rando apologizes and promises to help him get unfrozen, provides “direct contact for an official Steam dev” and gives the kid someone’s Discord handle
the kid goes and talks to the “dev” on Discord, the “dev” tells him that they just need to verify that he isn’t a bot
the “dev” tells him to go to a 3rd party exchange site and transfer money with a debit card in the kid’s legal name, promises he’ll send it back
of course the “dev” is fake and the rando who reported the kid is part of the scam ring, and the kid is not going to get his money refunded by the scammer. the issue here is that since the money was willingly sent through a 3rd party transfer service (anything like paypal, venmo, cashapp, etc) the kid has almost NO WAY to dispute these charges, even though he was scammed.
tumblr’s algorithm only cares about posts that are reblogged, it doesn’t count likes. posts don’t get promoted or circulated when they only have likes (the way instagram functions), only reblogs matter for increasing reach on tumblr as a platform.
support content creators.
like y'all are fuckin killing tumblr (& content creation) but okay
you think that’s not a lot of notes? that’s cute.
but yeah, tumblr’s system definitely doesn’t advantage non-popular artists, but there’s a big problem from within the community too. i have over 400 followers and i consider myself lucky when more than 2 people reblog my art, so imagine how much worse it is for people with even less followers.
reblog content creators, guys. liking posts doesn’t do anything.
THIS!
Reblog art and writing.
Seriously if you like something, SPREAD IT!
Sorry to break it to you but they’re all right. Tumblr isn’t Instagram. Likes don’t get us anywhere. Everybody’s “drop a heart and keep scrolling” mentality has murdered all of my original content sideblogs. Each and every one of them.
