foggy night collective!! @foggynightcollective - Tumblr Blog

a foggy night,,,

❝it's a foggy night out here,,, what are you doing out all alone? come with me, i'll keep you safe.❞

you follow the decidedly short person where they lead you. the area seems barren, almost nothing, and no one left to see. the person you're following has mid-length pink hair, that curls gently. they have long ears with many piercings, some connected by little chains that dangle down.

❝i'm not sure how you find your way here, but we're glad to have you! this is the home of the foggy night collective. there's a few rules around here, but not too many. my name is novac! i'm the host of one of our layers. my pronouns are hx/shx/xe/it/🩸, but if you're trans too, he and she work!❞

shx shows you to a board, with a list of rules on it.

‿︵‿︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ・❝ Rules, DNI, BYF ❞・ ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ‿︵‿︵

Rules:

①⁍ do not ask us overly personal information (where we live, full name, etc.) anything you shouldn't/wouldn't share on the internet, we won't either.

②⁍ respecting alters stated boundaries is a must. touch/flirting/nicknames can be iffy for some of us, so if you don't know, please ask first!

DNI:

①⁍ Basic DNI criteria. (Poppytwt, (No)Map/Promap, etc.)

②⁍ MLM/WLW fetishists.

③⁍ Anti-Endo/Sysmeds/Truscum

④⁍ Anti-DSMP, or any of our faves/hyperfixations/special interests.

BYF:

①⁍ We are bodily 18!!!

②⁍ Our jokes may be sexually implicit, or we may reference things of such. We will not, however, post truly sexual content.

③⁍ We smoke weed! We have enough of an understanding of our limits to be careful online, but some posts may be unintelligible due to being under the influence! (/silly /hyp)

④⁍ We're disabled, both physically, and mentally. We are completely deaf to tone, and require tone tags as a result of this.

➽────────────────────────────❥

novac waits for you to finish reading the list, before he gives you a grin, spreading his arms to gesture around the place.

❝well, that's all i've got so show you! if you have any questions, feel free to ask! and don't forget to have fun!❞

#did system #dissociative identity disorder #blog intro #mixed origin system #traumagenic system #endogenic safe #mogai safe #endo safe #neurogenic #metagenic

razzjamjar

got really baked and walked out my door and saw my neighbors leaves in trash bags and thought it was a giant squirrel

foggynightcollective

it’s a crime that you posted this without also posting the original images you sent me.

#artist rendition

foggynightcollective

i used to love melon :(

razzjamjar

meloncholy

i used to love melon :(

#allergies

the bible is just jesus fanfiction. and post.

-pluto 🪐

#endo safe #pro endo #anti endo dni #tumblr memes #religion ment tw

all fish are autistic. exhibit a.

-pluto 🪐

(this post was made with the help of @razzjamjar @sskeletalll and a lot of weed)

#endo safe #pro endo #anti endo dni #420weed #tumblr memes #weedmemes #studio ghilibi #ponyo movie

i am higher than a kite right now and im sitting at school, but our friend just came in wearing a onceler cosplay piece and i can’t stop thinking about oncecest matching costumes .

LIKE IMAGINE GOING OUTSIDE AND SEEING TWO BITCHES LIKE

I WOULD CRY 😭😭😭

-Pluto 🪐/osmp!Tommy 🐤/cc!Tommy 🇬🇧

#anti endo dni #pro endo #tumblr memes #weed mention #endo safe #mixed origin system

fruitsoftheweb

dzamie

ironfoot-72

Wow, are you sure that adds anything useful?

dzamie

I’m not here to be useful, I’m here for my own entertainment. Part of that is thinking about furry porn.

foggynightcollective

this reads like something i’d post -pluto 🪐

chocolate-and-discourse

Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me.

chocolate-and-discourse

Someone once asked me if, assuming we got universal healthcare, I would be okay with the rise in “healthcare tourism” where people who are sick come to our country to get their medical bills taken care of and life-saving medical treatment cheaper than in their home countries. I was just like, yeah thats fine, I’d actually prefer it if 0 people died from preventable causes kept behind a paywall for no reason.

spoopy-valkyrie

“even the addicts?” yeah dude did i fucking stutter

IM SO HIGH AND I MADE THIS MEME AND HAVENT STOPPED LAUGHING ABIUT IT FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES GUYD IS THIS A BANGER OR AM I JUST AN IDIOT 😔 -Xan 🌈

#endo safe #pro endo #endo memes #weed mention #tw weed #radiohead #mixed origin system

wintersongstress

foggynightcollective

4,312 "oh"s later, and we have ourselves a fanfic

wiiwheel

I have to be a slut online it's for my health

normal-horoscopes

Extremely funny that internet discourse around fiction has gotten to the point of "if bad things happen to fictional characters it's because the author is evil and horny"

foggynightcollective

callout

phantomrose96

I love tumblr. I love that tumblr is the best social media site of 2021.

Every other site has spent the last decade perfecting the art of targeted ads. I am a wallet of flesh and blood which must be stripped bare and profiled and picked apart for the maximally efficient way to squeeze profit from my presence. Every other site will fold and morph itself to a shape of my liking - like a fairy tale trickster stealing memories and taking their mold - to lull me into compliance and loosen my coin purse.

Facebook sees me searching fitness equipment and injects my timeline with athletic wear ads. Reddit profiles the subreddits I follow and eagerly promotes a new coding bootcamp or cloud service at every turn. Google overhears me lamenting over my moving to-do list on voice call and fills in my “how much to tip movers” query before I’ve gotten the third word typed out.

Tumblr never even tried.

They could have. The information is there. The basic infrastructure, presumably, exists. Tumblr can recommend me tags based on tags I follow, blogs based on blogs I follow, even posts that for one reason or another may strike my fancy. Tumblr could be - SHOULD be - funneling this framework into advertising, as the only means that free-to-use social media platforms can turn a profit in our capitalistic hellscape.

They just don’t.

Today I saw an ad for treating Hyperhidrosis - a condition, I think, in which a person sweats too much - and I saw it twice, four posts apart, and it is so incredibly benignly impersonally ineptly untargeted toward me compared to all other pinpoint-aimed advertising that I’m endeared to it. Tumblr knows NOTHING about me. 8 years, 51,000 likes, and tumblr has not learned a THING about me.

Advertisements for a mattress? Shitty mobile game ads that don’t make even the slightest pretense at being anything other than a candy crush rip-off? Choose-your-own adventure games either about Royal Espionage or Choosing The Wrong Dress For Your Date with ZERO in-between.

And then this. This here. The culmination, the crown-jewel of tumblr’s nihilistic non-compliance with the state of social media advertising. Any pretense of capitalistic exchange is abandoned at the gas station by the side of the road. This is not a company. This is not a product. This is not anything that fulfills the contract of consumer and seller.

THIS. THIS IS WHAT TUMBLR HAS TO OFFER INSTEAD.

“Pour vinegar on your bread, fuck you.”

“Put it in the garbage, fuck you.”

“Your wife says you’re a fucking dumbass, fuck you.”

That’s it. That’s the advertisement. You vinegar-breadless cuck. You virgin extraordinaire bereft of bread and garbage can. I am fucking your wife right now in our vinegar-soaked motel bed. She puffs a cigarette which I pulled from the trashcan and we both laugh heartily at her recounts of your immasculine ineptitude. I don’t want your money. I don’t want anything from you. Fuck you.

Amazing. Amazing. What a state of things to ring in 2021. What a great platform we all collectively choose to be on.

biglawbear

I started screenshotting my favorite ads

Just fucking take a bite out of your soap you piece of shit. Sleep with it and eat it

I don’t even know what this is trying to sell me. Tumblr doesn’t either. The ad doesn’t know either. Did I click on the link? Fucking absolutely. I think it was broken

Beautiful a+ 10/10

Ok, so before working on Tumblr, even before working for Automattic, I worked for the empire an ad network. We were the middle men that took money for advertisers and bought ad space from apps and sites to place their ads. What you need to understand is this is a totally automated process. Sites like this don’t sell space to every advertiser individually. They use another layer of middlemen called “ad exchanges”. Think about them like eBay for ads, but where the users are just computers.

Long story short, it works like this:

An advertiser (let’s say, Cornetto) wants to show some ads (of ice cream!) on the web, so they book an ad network for some cash.

The ad network goes to an ad exchange and tell them “hey, we need to print 50k Cornetto Soft ads, with this format, can you tell me when you have some space, please?

You are just chilling with your Tumblr app, which decides it’s time to show you an ad. So the app pings the ad exchange and tells them: “hey, we have one spot for an ad of this size”

The ad exchange sends the info to all the ad networks who were interested on this type of ads, and every one of them sends a bid and the ad to print. The bigger bidder gets the spot and prints their ad on your app.

Now, the price for those ad spaces increases exponentially when they include segmentation info. So the bare minimum you get for an ad space is something like “a space of this size, in this app/site, for a system using this language”. From there, a lot of crap about you can be added: with the exception of your name, everything else is fair game: where you are, which sites you have seen, your age, your gender, your friends, the apps you have installed… Facebook options are like a fucked up catalog of human behaviors you can micro-target your ads towards. Of course, if you are advertising something, it’s much more valuable for you an ad spot that can tell you is going to be seen by someone you think is the target of the campaign. So including personal info can make an ad easily 100x or 1000x more expensive.

Everything described happens, literally, in milliseconds, so no human intervention is possible, everything is programmed by folks like me. Folks like me that need to test what they are doing to make sure it actually works in a real life environment.

So we used to have some small real money budget to test things worked as expected. Basically you put a test ad, program it to bid the minimum amount possible (you don’t want to waste your budget and you can get impressions for something as low as 0.001€ if you don’t mind to get the spaces no one wants) and then open an app you know is using the same ad exchange you are using, and start to doomscroll until you get to see your testing ad showing up in the app. Until you get to see it and stop the automatic bidding, another few hundred or thousand totally unrelated folks would have seen it too. And it would have cost your company maybe 0.1€.

Since this is dirt cheap, you launch literally shitposts as an ad. My testing ad to go was a picture of a pony with a button that said “Ride now!” and a link to google.com. if you have seen an ad like that between 2013 to 2015, that’s on me, you are welcome.

Now, of course, the cheaper the ad space, the bigger the chance to get a testing ad from a bored chap that just needs to test the ads their company sells will still be shown after whatever chances they have just done.

So what happens if you have a (hell)site that generates A LOT of traffic, a lot of empty ad spaces, but shares no premium “personal info” segmentation data? The cost of those spaces is going to be the bare bottom, and since there are so many of them, every bid will probably have very few bidders and the price won’t go up. So… Testing shitpost galore!

So every time you see a weird ad on Tumblr, especially when they have broken links or the like… You are seeing a live proof that Tumblr is not selling any info about you (and we are getting almost nothing for every ad we show)

vaspider

So… our theories that Tumblr was just a testing site for ads was right?

foggynightcollective

this is the content that i still use tumblr for -eddie

guiltyiove

Nobody should have to experience googling their disorder for help and support and exclusively find articles about how neurotypical people can “deal with them”