also i think it's funny how tumblr was like "you can pay to see someone's posts" and we were all like FUCK you and they were like "... pay to... inflict your own posts... on others?" and we were like
yknow, people talk about the tumblr userbase being reclusive and stubborn (and we are), but its worth noting that we’re also aggressively social.
we dont NEED algorithms, because thats OUR job, and we take pride in it. we WANT to do the work ourselves! we WANT to tell people ourselves!
we dont NEED our blogs to look the same, because we wanna make our OWN themes, and share them with each other, and experiment!
our most successful april fools days are the ones that just gave us new avenues to SCREAM REALLY LOUDLY in (promoting candidates in the 2016 election, turning our dashboards into semi-randomized rube goldberg machines of text and emojis in 2022).
we’re always constantly ramping things up to eleven, so the best enrichment toy for us is just. see this ball? feel free to throw it as hard as you want.
> we're also aggressively social
oh. I just realised.
this is what actual social media is. instead of the other websites, which are advertising media that pretend they're social media.
This exactly what I mean when I distinguish between Marketing Media and Social Media.