simoneashly:

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vampmilf:

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i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

actually i’m reblogging this again with commentary, fuck it.

There’s people in the notes talking about “not basing your worth off numbers”, and like. that isn’t what this post is about. It’s not a threat, either, it’s a comment on how this site works, at a mechanical level.

Likes are worthless. Let me say that again.

Likes. Are. Worthless.

They don’t do anything. They’re a bookmark. They were never part of how tumblr works - in the early days we didn’t even have a like button, and the site still more or less acts as though we don’t. They’re personal bookmarks and the only people who “get” anything from them are you (you bookmark the post) and the OP (maybe a very slight serotonin boost), but they don’t keep the post in circulation, they don’t keep it alive.

Without reblogs, a post will be dead in the water within an hour. No matter how good it is, no matter how many hours of painstaking love and attention its creator put into it, it will be dead within an hour and never seen again. It gets pushed down the dashboard and nobody aside from the followers who were online when it was posted will see it.
And there’s a huge difference in engagement on posts that get even one lucky reblog from someone with wider reach - that one reblog shows your post to five, ten, fifteen other people, and if one of those people also reblogs it, and so on and so forth, that’s how posts stay alive and in circulation.
It’s like a contagion, but we’re sharing creativity instead of disease.

And that matters. That “lifespan” of the post matters, artists and writers give up on this site and go to sites where posts have longer lifespans because it sucks to spend hours of your life, maybe even days, to get two notes and some fucking pocket lint for your efforts.
We create for ourselves, but we share because we want people to see it, because that engagement offers positive feedback and encouragement to continue.
But more than that, if every post (whether art, fic, gifset, whatever) is dying within an hour or a day of being posted, that means it’s not making it onto your dashboard. And if it’s not on your dashboard, you won’t see it. This kills the site, after a while. You stop seeing the posts, because nobody is putting them on your dashboard, because this site doesn’t have an algorithm like twitter and insta’s and it shouldn’t, it’s the last bastion of chronological timelines.

Forgive my giant fucking rant I am so tired right now and full of the plague but like stop acting like artists and writers are just being whiny little babies, or “threatening” to withhold our fucking work (you’re not entitled to it! it’s ours! if we get nothing out of sharing it we’re well within our rights to keep it private!) when we say this site will dry up without reblogs. We’re just stating facts.

also I’ve seen some people in the tags say ‘oh there have always been more likes on posts’ no there haven’t ???? 

these are posts from 2013, look at the ratio

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not to sound like a nursing home resident but back then people know that the point of this site was to reblog things and share them, not to bury them away among your other 23k liked posts

Anonymous said:

since you make gifs/edits a little warning

https://twitter.com/charlclerc/status/1767596267817857507?s=20

her tumblr is the same as her twitter if you wanna block her

alexalbongf:

alexalbongf:

thank u anon <3

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yeah im sure. finding the video, downloading it in 1080p, splitting up into parts for each individual gif, importing it into photoshop, turning it into a looping gif, sharpening and enhancing the quality even further because you want people to be able to see whats going on, color correcting it because socmed admins couldnt care less, exporting it, and compressing it if its too large of a file size…….. all of that took me less than a minute actually!

kosmogrl:

16 year old me thought current me was gonna be so great and do amazing things and here I am just rotting in bed all day

evilscuderia:

don’t let ollie bearman’s 18 year old newborn baby slay distract you from the fact that lando norris got caught in 4K jumpstarting but didn’t get a penalty for whatever reason

userhamilton:

non gifmakers will never know the joy this simple tag brings us

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comraderoscoes:

and that’s daniel ricciardo still with more incidences of misogyny than points in f1

thearchercore:

xavi: charles we’re going into safe mode, don’t risk it

charles:

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petit-papillion:

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Tomorrow, Oliver Bearman and Charles Leclerc will be the youngest pairing ever to line up for the Scuderia Ferrari and the first to be made up of graduates of Ferrari Driver Academy (FDA).

📸 Scuderia Ferrari

cr.