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[dickgravson-rkive]

🌼~BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out.~🌼

one more? my lil heart can’t handle 🥺 love youuuu ♥

[dickgravson-rkive]

💞💞Thank you for existing 💞💞 Send this to 10 people who you think deserve a sweet and kind message in their inbox💕

you are literally the sweetest ever ♥ 

[speaknow]

I really don’t care.

[mwagneto]

Y'all: ugh I wish fandom content creators would post more 😩😩😩😩😩😩

Also y'all when someone posts fanart/fanfic/edits/etc:

[hpnextgenastrology-deactivated2]

look im not popular in any way when it comes to my content creating and i absolutely understand that more attention makes you feel good about the content you’re putting out but I think that one, depending on other people for your own drive to create content isn’t really okay. also there’s always going to be more likes then reblogs like I don’t know, I don’t think this is something worth complaining about.

[kyojuuros]

The main issue here is that it didn’t used to be this way. At all. And I’m certain a lot of the people who are making a huge issue out of the like to reblog ratio are people who are been here for a while (like myself) and remember the days when reblogs dominated the hell out of likes. 

Up until around 2016 or so, the like to reblog ratio was the total opposite of how it is now. And it applied on posts with fewer notes and posts with a large amount of notes:

You get my point. But over the last few years it has flipped completely:

And, of course, see OP’s screenshot.

It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that the posts with more reblogs have an astoundingly higher amount of notes because of increased exposure. Reblogging allows more people to see the content, that’s more people to either continue reblogging or at least give a like. For artists in particular who would benefit from the exposure in terms of commissions and patreon and all of that, this is a huge deal. It can make all the difference. 

Tumblr as a blogging platform was created with the intent to post and share content. It’s not meant to be a consume-only form of social media like Instagram. For fandom blogs in particular, it always boggles me that people don’t share content that they like. Tumblr was appealing for fandom in the first place because of the ability to plaster your blog with amazing things that other people made - this used to be unheard of. For me, it’s like saving something precious so you can always come back to it again. It’s giving the people who follow me something awesome to look at too. Creating and sharing content is the heart of fandom.

People rely primarily on their dash for content. Most people avoid going into tags/searches because of wanky fandom drama. So reblogs are crucial for exposure! Likes are a nice gesture, but they do nothing to help share and promote content. That’s why content creators are frustrated or moving to other platforms, or why they stop making content altogether. Tumblr has its issues, but it’s still one of the best places for exposure due to its reblog function and overall post formatting. It’s discouraging seeing content creators on Tumblr as a concept die off. This site is nothing without them.

We can enjoy making things as much as possible but when we share it and no one cares enough to show it to others, it does make us wonder why we bothered in the first place. And this isn’t a new complaint from content creators. But it has worsened over time as the likes started dominating the reblogs. 

It’s not that we don’t appreciate likes at all, notes are notes. But reblogs equal more notes, which equals more exposure, which equals happy content creators, which equals more content for fandom to consume. It’s a wholly positive chain of events that circles back around. Your reblog could be a deciding factor on whether that content creator chooses to keep contributing or to give up entirely.

Reblogs mean the world to us. They can really brighten our day a whole lot.

[deepspacepirate]

yeah, it’s absolutely a result of cringe culture. the whole atmosphere on tumblr has changed radically. with cancel culture, the constant policing of fandom content, calling everything ‘problematic’, harassing creators for doing literally anything, and unmitigated sense of entitlement to other people’s work, it’s literally impossible to like anything without someone crawling up your ass about it. creators are afraid to create, and consumers are afraid to share.

[molinaesque]

I think it’s also a combination of a lot of things:

- as above states ‘cringe culture’ and ‘cancel culture’ DEFINITELY plays into this and makes people super conscious about what they can reblog fully (without some twat who shames them or for them to lose followers)

- the whole ‘like’ habit is very much adapted from various other social media (a lot of people on tumblr I’ve noticed are super young and are used to this function i.e. facebook, twitter, instagram, etc)

- there are certainly way more people who aren’t creators and only come on to tumblr to either browse like those other sites and give likes and (sadly) either can’t be bothered to or have no incentive to reblog a post (again I’ve noticed this is a recent thing due to people coming into tumblr later and not recognizing the reblog function’s importance (or they honestly just don’t care)

- the search/tag function was never perfect but now it’s even more BROKEN

- the recent policing/flagging of posts earlier this year (ALSO BROKEN) that is dissuading people even more from reblogging/posting things

- and BECAUSE of the recent policing people are dissuaded and so many people have moved to other platforms

- some people are super into keeping to the aesthetics on their blogs (I have a habit of doing this)

Also I’ve noticed most of the people who stay on here have either been a really long time user of tumblr/are content creators who have accumulated and built a solid following/content creators who, popular or otherwise, rely on this platform for exposure and get work/have a lot of mutuals still on here/are willing to adapt to the constant bizarre changes made throughout the years on this hellsite (and the most recent changes are the ones that causes even the most grizzled of tumblr users to move on to other sites or at least to not solely rely on it so imagine those of which who don’t feel like they should even bother because they have no stakes in doing so)/all of the above.

Some people question the importance of the reblog over the like, and have this odd mentality of ‘ohh don’t just do it for the notes, JUST do it for the love’ which is honestly just baffling and screams of ‘hey thanks for making something I’m really into YOU SHOULD DO MORE FOR FREE’ or someone offering you a job and saying ‘oh don’t do it for money do it for EXPOSURE’. To these people let me tell you something:

Reblogs are free. And if you want to talk about EXPOSURE, reblogging a post can do WONDERS. Take it from someone who has gone through the various experiences of going to sleep after hours of work, posts it mostly for fun and for the fandom to enjoy, and then waking up to see that someone in the industry who has influence and power has noticed you. Even better? They’ve decided to hire you for work or to ask if they could spread your work around to people they know!

Reblogs help. Reblogs are important. Reblogs CHANGE lives.

[dickgravson-rkive]

“i am once more... the green arrow.” barry allen in arrow 7x09

[dickgravson-rkive]

guess who feels inspired to gif? haha. get ready for some barry allen perfection ♥

[dickgravson-rkive]

guess who is still alive! god i miss making things. i started a new job so that’s taking up most of my time but once it settles down im coming back ♥

[dcmultiverse]

You’re not Robin anymore.

[movie-gifs]

Daphne Blake in SCOOB! (2020) dir. Tony Cervone

[winterskim]

color palettes by ally

sooo, a few different anons told me they were interested in a page with a bunch of palettes for their themes, so.. here it is! there aren’t a whole lot of them so far, but i’ll continue to add more as time passes & i’ll try to make them vary as much as i can in tone/hue so it’s not just a lot of the same! a like/reblog would be awesome if you end up using any variation of one of my palettes, but it’s of course not necessary!

[leesjeno]

✦*.･ﾟ THEME X: “YESTODAY” BY GLTTER ( PREVIEW #1 / PREVIEW #2 / CODE ) + more themes

contained theme with sidebar tabs ( desc tab, faq/askbox tab, & navigation tab )

350px posts

toggles — day mode, version 2, show title

img dimensions — wrapper ( 740x500px ), tab 1 header ( 250x80px ), tab 1 icon ( 66x66px ), tab 3 header ( 250x100px )

2 accent colors

preview #1 features night mode, version 1 & preview #2 features day mode, version 2

don’t make the title too long lol ( but if it is you can change the font size )

base code by neonbikethemes

do NOT redistribute/edit and redistribute, remove my credit, use as a base code, or take parts of the theme for your own use. LIKE/REBLOG if you plan to use this !

[dickgravson-rkive]

oldie but goodie

[dcmultiverse]

I like doing something which is kind of something an audience doesn’t know that it wants and to kind of get it out to them. Robert Pattinson on Actors on Actors 

[sandsmark]

Everyone likes a guy who finishes their homework. I’ll bring my report card. CHELLA MAN as JERICHO / JOEY WILSON in DCU’s Titans

[gothskxrth]

me @ me: no offence but literally what the fuck are you doing

[loltias-deactivated20210610]

Seeing people the same age as you doing awesome things with their life

[forbescaroline]

ultimate top ten ships meme → the flash dynamics (as voted by my followers) #6. barry/joe “You did save me, Joe. You took an eleven year old boy with a broken heart and you gave him a home and so much love. No son ever felt more loved from a father.”