reblog if your name isn't Amanda.
2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!
We’ll find you Amanda.
this has almost 11 million notes what is this
I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site
This is a relic from the days when you could edit other people’s posts, and the original post said “reblog if you always follow back”. I remember seeing it because I clicked on the original post years ago, before OP deactivated, but you can still see that that’s what it was if you sort the comments by oldest first.
The oldest comment is from March 28th 2016, and the oldest ones I can see that are replying to the edited version are from August 2016.
But it was edited much earlier than that - I joined tumblr in early 2014 and remember seeing it that same year and you can do a google search for just things from 2014 and find this post.
But there was also a “reblog if your name isn’t Ashley” version, which I think is the one I saw first because I remember mentioning it to someone named Ashley. So there are possibly a lot more versions of this post with a lot more names.
For anyone who’s too new to remember post editing- I should clarify that you couldn’t edit the posts on someone else’s actual blog, but if you reblogged it to your blog you could just edit all the text in it, including whatever the original poster wrote, and any comments. I’m pretty sure you could also edit the urls. Just the entire post was an editable chunk of text. You could make it look like they said anything. Then the original version would still be on their blog and the edited version would be on your blog and the blogs of anyone who reblogged it from you, so you could potentially have lots of different versions of the same post going around.
And the OP wouldn’t necessarily notice right away, they’d just get a notification for the reblog and any comment you added. Completely bonkers that that’s how it worked for so long, and that any of us posted text posts at all when they could be so easily vandalized by anyone.
That’s how we got posts like “who the fudge changed fudgers to meaners”, and that’s why it’s impossible to tell how many of the millions of reblogs here are from people who always follow back and how many are from people not named Ashley or Amanda.
