I want to make this very clear: Tumblr is not a bad website.
There seems to be some confusion lately.
Blurred lines between a bad website and bad people running it.
Tumblr is not a bad website, it’s just run by idiots.
We have to consider the base foundations of this website and how miraculous they are for artists who want to get noticed.
If you draw something really good, someone with more followers than you can reblog it and get all their followers seeing it, and then their followers reblog it for even more followers, etc. etc. etc.
I spent 6 years on FurAffinity trying to establish a fanbase, and I was quickly coming to a realization that I wasted my entire middle and highschool education practicing drawing and getting F’s in everything but art, and I had no other skills than art, and couldn’t make a living off it.
Enter: Lil Miss Rarity, a blog I made as a silly joke to take out my frustrations with FurAffinity and my lack of ability to support myself financially as an artist.
4 days later, Lil Miss Rarity had triple the followers of my FurAffinity blog, thanks to reblogs, comments, asks, direct communication and input to my followers.
Tumblr is a place where it’s extremely easy to pass a post around, get notes, get seen, and of course, make a living.
Tumblr is a website that through its most basic functionality makes being an artist and getting by financially as well as interacting with your fanbase EXTREMELY easy.
So while people sit there day in and day out, especially today, talking about how much this website is a shit-hole with no redeeming qualities
I just want to say, no website has what Tumblr has
Let’s take a look at how you get noticed on FurAffinity
1) When you submit art, it falls into a pool of every other piece of art submitted that day, and if someone is browsing that they might find it
2) If you tag your stuff people might find it in the search (Which, reminder, the search feature is NEW and didn’t exist for like a decade)
3) If someone favorites your picture and someone else goes to their blog and looks in their favorites they’ll see it.
Tumblr, you go to your dashboard, start scrolling down, and see “Dingus-fringus-fanblog reblogged hoobastooba’s pic” and you’re like “Whoa that’s good art” and you click follow.
Until Pillowfort finally happens, Tumblr is the only website that functions that way seamlessly without being clunky and hard to navigate.
Because let’s face it, reblogs and asks and comments are wonderful.
And you know what else is wonderful? Being able to make text posts bigger than 250 characters so I can actually be specific about what I’m trying to say rather than having to turn this whole thing into one little quip.
And let’s not forget that I can toss pictures or videos in here.
Anyway this is my long winded way of saying
If Tumblr staff changes their mind, I will be staying here
