You need to interact with people organically to start a following on tumblr. Its a much more community based website. If you go out into a quiet neighborhood and start screaming knock knock jokes people are going to ignore you. You need to introduce yourself to people on here and interact with them. Reply to people in the comments. Send asks. Talk to people. Learn the humor. Dont just show up and get mad when people dont know you 🤷🏾♀️
to be completely honest if i were to start screaming knock knock jokes in a quiet neighborhood i'd probably make a lot of friends real fast, that's exactly the premise i was working from
i'm not mad people don't know me as much as i am frustrated there doesn't seem to be a way to *get* known other than forming parasocial relationships that may or may not become legitimate - this goes for twitter too but at least twitter allowed for the chance of a one-off hit tweet, to even imagine that on here requires a massive existing follower base to begin with
and i recognize there is a specific kind of "tumblr humor" but tbh i kind of resent that as much as anything else. i have a voice of my own and i don't want to have to change it to get a following
thank you though, you are my first ask so for whatever it's worth it means a lot you reached out at all. truly. i think more than anything i am just sad about twitter going away.
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