Yeah, I've kind of noticed that the RPC is a little TOO lukewarm and silent about this new "update" being rolled out. I expected so much more outrage from our corner specifically, because we rely on the people this update targets every fucking day to essentially have our blogs function. I would expect the community to be a little more up in arms, but I guess because it "doesn't affect the RPC as much," it doesn't matter as much.
It could be because all of the PSA type posts have just started to come out, but all of the psa posts I've seen being spread around are all about how this won't affect us and that there's already a work around and all of that fuzzy shit.
What if I told you that those posts are more wrong than they think?
Maybe it's because people don't realize just how much this will affect us all until it's too late. Allow me to summarize who in our sphere (aka the users that keep some of us going and sustainable btw) this update affects, even if it's really not roleplayers themselves too much:
Musings Creators / Users we reblog musings from (and the blogs that compile them together... with this new update, they will be essentially stealing posts from random people)
RP Resource Creators (think templates, psds, pngs, all that good shit)
Icon/GIF creators + fanartists that we may get our FCs and aesthetic posts from
Fellow Roleplayers who are one of the above categories
Dashboard Games that require reblog chains will be heavily affected by this
OUR THREADS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS IF SOME RANDOM PERSON REBLOGS IT ACTING LIKE IT'S FANFICTION
This update makes us all content and engagement thieves if we so much as add a WORD or a TAG to a post that isn't ours. Do y'all realize how fucking bad that is for blogs like ours? Blogs that require tagging for organization purposes? Blogs that require reblogging things while putting our own words on them to function on a fundamental level???
Also, this clearly makes turning off reblogs on a post and being a private blog a moot point. So don't think you're immune just because your RP blog is private! All it takes is one public blog reblogging your stuff, and you're done for. Also, turning off reblogs on your OOC posts, after someone you don't want reblogging it does so, won't do a thing anymore.
I will not be tagging this post at all so it reaches the most amount of people, and I highly encourage you to do the same if you reblog this post due to a documented website breaking bug where reblogs DO NOT SHOW UP if you tag it or add anything to the reblog post body.