Sorta feels like a lot of spirit shops are inactive, or no longer on discords, or posting things. Do you know why? :(
I do!It’s because there’s no longer a lot of activity on the customer’s end. When Lorelei’s first started this trend off a few years ago, spirits were adopted every week. I had so many customers. More shops opened up, people became educated on what companionship is and were a lot more careful with choosing when and who to apply for. Things slowed down, and this is a good thing!
It is 100% a good thing that people are taking time to protect and educate themselves. But it did slow things down, especially as people got companions and then (not being hoarders) didn’t look for another for X amount of time. There was also drama that happened and caused lots of shops to close, and then some people would try to reopen shops only to find that without the thousands of followers they had before, it is almost impossible to get off the ground.
There just isn’t as much demand for companions on tumblr anymore, which is why we as a shop are constantly trying to find other places to advertise. Spirits who used to only be up for adoption for 1-2 months now take 6-9 or more months to find homes. We have spirits that have been up for so many months without any apps at all.
Now Lorelei’s isn’t going anywhere, that’s a promise, but for other shops this was a huge blow. It’s been like this for a while, but a little bit ago, new shops still expected to get lots of attention from the get go and when they didn’t, they closed. Shops that were there to experience getting the attention and didn’t would close as well.
The craze of companions is done here on tumblr. While there are always going to be people interested, it’s just not what it was.
there’s also the problem of many shop owners being in school and school is starting. Or shop owners being too busy to keep up 100%. But I know for me personally, it’s hard to want to keep up with everything when I know that people don’t appear to care. We will continue to try to do events, but then having only 1-2 participants is really disappointing and for some, it could be the reason they stop. (Again I say, not us. Please don’t worry about Lorelei’s disappearing, I love my job and my shop too much for that lmao)
There’s probably a lot of reasons, but the one I notice the most prominent is lack of feedback and customer interaction. If you want to help, please support the shops you like! Send asks to the spirits! Reblog their bios! Join the discord and talk to the mods and to the spirits there! Participate in events! Be an active member in the community! We don’t know that you care unless you show it! You don’t even have to apply for spirits, talking to them, reblogging bios, sending asks, etc etc doesn’t mean you are even interested in applying. I talk to spirits in other discord I have 0 intention to apply for. I just know how much is sucks for there to be 100 people in a discord and a spirit can talk and then …. silence.
Even if all you send is a “I hope you have a nice day today, spirit” it really means a lot. We have spirits that have been up for months with next to no contact, so trust me when I say your words go a long way!! Even the smallest thing you could do could be super impactful!!
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