mo troper's king of rock & roll

Ethan. Late 20s. he/him, tme. who the fuck even knows

[cryingwavinglaughingsmiling]

hello! it's ethan, formerly spliffinjimmy/themoonbase. I had to remake. pls rb to help me find my mutuals :/

[entryn17]

tumblr trying to be like tiktok then trying to be like twitter then giving us the 3rd unreality inducing immersive ad, its staff members being condescending to the userbase, the marketing team trying to parasocialize their way into your pockets, youtube trying to do away with adblockers after upping the percentage of ads by 40% and making it so even if your video is demonetized watchers will still get them, youtube removing the dislike button then making it so you don't get a home feed if you have watch history turned off, google being able to remove your synched bookmarks if they don't comply with their policy, if i listed every way in which twitter has gotten worse in the last year this post will be as long as a novel, ai generated articles and images everywhere, google searches sucking ass in general, reddit charging for its api, KOSA being introduced into the US senate, tiktok in general, every social media under the fucking sun introducing log in walls, being unable to browse most sites on mobile from the sheer amount of popups taking over your screen WAUUUGH social media being products and thus requiring infinite growth and thus trying to introduce newer and newer shit that alienates its dedicated userbase. saturated sludge era of the internet

[veeranger]

the evil clown is your sign to get off tumblr and do something else with your day

[veeranger]

not me though i’m on mobile

[fazmid]

I love opening up this website first thing like the morning paper and immediately seeing multiple posts like "how to get rid of the evil clown on the dashboard". like oh is this what we're doing today

[nottiredenoughtosleep]

I'm gonna start adding this to every post I see about this advertising bs that tumblr are pulling

not only is it annoying, and in some countries probably illegal for not declaring a paid partnership

TUMBLR IS CROSSING THE PICKET LINE

They are taking money from Netflix to promote a show.

Actors and writers are unable to promote work because of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Netflix is under the AMPTP, so it is a struck company, making One Piece a struck work.

So they are using alternate ways of promoting their products, including paying companies like tumblr.

Both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have made statements saying that they consider anyone or company taking payment to promote struck work as crossing the picket line.

Tumblr is spitting in the face of struggling actors and writers to make a quick buck from Netflix

[mortalityplays]

2023: missives from desktop tumblr suggest that per the latest update my mutuals are being hunted by some kind of grotesque clown. staff assure us this is driven by user feedback.

[strangestcase]

I think people would armchair diagnose bad people with cluster B disorders much less if psychiatric disorders hadn't all been given names by ableists who of course picked the traits most unberarable to "sane" people to name them rather than, you know, the ways it affects the people that have them. It's like, when doctors are all "this disorder gives you extremely low self esteem. and it's called the Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder" or "this disorder makes you want to die so bad. and it's called the Hysteric Bitch Disorder" or "this disorder disconnects you from your peers. and it's called the Insane Evil Cunt Disorder" and so on and so forth, so of course you have people going "oh, this person is a selfish fucking asshole, they MUST have Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder! this further proves that all people with this disorder are like that in the first place!" Do You See It

[strangestcase]

"Psychiatry is an inherently harmful institution" "ummm source?" ok imagine you had an illness that impairs your day to day life. now imagine it was called the Shitty Bitch Disease.

[fernwah-funzone]

oopsie our administrative staff (smol beans) just happened to enforce the bigoted status quo and selectively upheld rules against minorities while ignoring the actual hate speech and harassment that goes on under their watch! oh well, human error! "mistakes" happen, you know! 🤗🥰

[ruby-cloud]

   doing some embroidery ⚝

[beemovieerotica]

ok since tumblr is removing profile pics from the dash, I'm resurrecting early 2000's forum behavior and adding a custom signature to all my posts. this maintains user recognition and is a vast improvement to this site.

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~*☆ beemovieerotica ☆*~

[piromantic]

apparently netflix is ending their dvd rental service at the end of september and letting people keep whatever dvds they got so. if anyone wants up to 10 free dvds uhh

[piromantic]

wait if there's anything niche on there. might be good to order it in case it gets destroyed

[fishing-lesbian-princess]

I hate reblog bait posts but sometimes I really do want to give prev a bowl of soup or huge boobs or whatever

[furryprovocateur]

not to be mean but it's very weird that you guys are harping on staff saying that the website has a lgbt population that's only a quarter of the site or whatever when you should be narrowing in on the fact that they confessed that the transmisogynist post filtering was caused by "human error" (read: not a bot flagging content but instead most likely some content moderator with a pulse).

[quebecbyween89-deactivated20240]

*Dictating suicide note to my secretary who is typing it in on a big antique typewriter*

*Phone rings, i go to answer it*

Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. I see. Thanks. *hangs up*

Sharlene you can go ahead and cancel that, i've just been informed that We're Back

[bonivers]

if people know a showrunner by name then u just know they were committing war crimes throughout their shows

[marisatomay]

every sex scene in a movie is necessary actually. we voted on it when you were in the bathroom. yeah it was because you were being a whiny child and we don’t like you.

[branzinos]

ok, so my other account has finally been unbanned, so I will say this again, one more time:

if you are using a vpn on tumblr, stop.

yes, vpns are a fundamental of internet security, I use one daily myself, however:

if you use a vpn on tumblr, it is not a matter of if you will get shadowbanned, but when.

if you go look at r/tumblracctterminated nearly every single user was innocently using a vpn while using tumblr.

my theory is that they are using a autoblock on ips when banning the pornbots and spambots, which are going onto an internal list, so that theoretically any other bot accounts from the same user/ip are also caught in the net. it's a lot quicker to automatically feature-block (shadowban) an account, which prevents it from appearing in tags, in people's notes, or be able to DM, than it is for the account to be time-consumingly and expensively manually checked by a human.

which is all fine and good, but obviously, those bot accounts are also using vpns and so when you, innocent person using a vpn, make a post, it checks your ip against the banned list, and oh would you look at that, a spambot used your ip! and so it shadowbans you. it always happens right after you make a post, which is the trigger - I believe the only safe time to use a vpn is when browsing the dash but not interacting with anything (replies, dms, reblogs) but it's not worth the risk.

and once it happens to you once, it will keep happening to you because your account is now flagged - my previous account got shadowbanned twice in one month, and it took 15 days+ to get unbanned both times, and in the interim, my account was also completely deleted for 3 hours at one stage. when this happens the only recourse is to email support and wait for them to unblock you, and they never offer an explanation or solution when they do ("just a glitch" they say) - and in the meantime, none of your posts appear in tags and you cannot interact with any of your friends' posts, send/receive messages or asks. for upwards of two weeks.

I have had to completely abandon that entire account and start over to avoid this happening again, losing everything I built up on that account, which sucks ass. I do not want this to happen to any of you.

please stop using a vpn on tumblr!

[alexgadart]

In light of @staff ‘s recent post, let me remind you of the absolute irony of this piece about censorship of trans identities and bodies getting hit with a mature label

Which I cannot seem to be able to appeal 🙃