Sorry for being cranky, Reddit found one of my stream-of-consciousness posts that blew up and, because they're Redditors, missed the part where posting on Tumblr isn't the formal, high-effort act that Creating An Entire Reddit Post is viewed as.
There's a huge cultural split between "and yet you made an entire post about it" websites and "do you know you can make your own post" websites, which means that posts on the one type of site will be completely recontextualized by screenshotting them and putting them on the other type to the single-website segment of the userbase.
On a Redditlike site, which broadly also includes forums, creating a Post is a privilege reserved for someone who's done their time in the comments by standing out and saying Important and Related Things, such as highlighting the flaws of the original post. Making a Bad Post is a crime, and if you're not putting in the effort to pander to the specific type of content that the sub-community wants, you're making a Bad Post.
On a microblogging site, posting means that you have a text box in front of you that you're encouraged to dump whatever the fuck you want into. Firing off three posts in quick succession vaguely centered on the same topic because that's what's on your mind is called "using the website." Replying to someone else's post with your own tangent is annoying, because you can just make your own goddamn post.
This clash is why I do not like when Redditors hallucinate about some block of text I put on the internet while waiting for the bus several months ago as if it was some deliberately crafted Statement and not like, me seeing some stuff on Tumblr and participating in an ongoing conversation at the time.
