Maelien @miaowmae - Tumblr Blog

Saeran/Ray animation!! Unintentionally finished this on the twins bday, sorry 707 :( // ib/rm bommiinn on tt // this took 13 1/2 hours pls don’t flop

miaowmae

Pork Soda Mystic Messenger animation in 2026 featuring a beautiful man, and on his birthday. Incredible.

#mystic messenger #animation meme #saeran choi #mystic messenger fanart #mysme #mysme saeran #mysme ray

sparrowvarrow

707 has entered the chatroom!

I've entered my yearly Mystic Messenger phase, and I got the strong urge to make a pixel Seven and an 8-bit cover of Geniusly Hacked Bebop (which I of course called Geniusly Hacked Be-bit). I've never made any sort of cover of anything before (and just barely know the basics of logic pro x lmao) so this pushed me out of my comfort zone for sure. I'm decently pleased with the result though! :3

miaowmae

#i am grooving #want this song in my bones #mystic messenger #mystic messenger fanart #mysme #mysme fanart #707 #mystic messenger 707 #mysme 707 #pixel art #8bit #8 bit music #8bit art #fanart #digital art

arium-bee

The thumbnail for my new Mystic Messenger animatic! I liked it enough i figured i could post it on its own here!

ravioliet

freak4freak is always so awesome but another character dynamic that i think is really great is freak vs freak. you're the only person who understands me and i'm the only person who understands you. unfortunately this also does not stop either of us from hating each other and in fact it might even make everything significantly worse for everyone involved

hispartyinvite

making mystic messenger memes in the big year 2026

bardic-tales

The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr

@changes (Edit: I already sent this to Tumblr Support under the feedback option. I encourage everyone to send feedback on how bad this feature actually is).

For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.

Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.

Erasure of Creator Visibility

Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.

If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.

On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.

Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly

This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.

When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content last—not the person who made it—reaps the rewards.

Impact on Collaborative Conversations

Tumblr’s unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.

If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.

The Disincentive to Create

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.

For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.

This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.

By making it harder to protect and track one's own work, the platform is effectively telling creators that their presence is secondary to the conversations happening around their work: conversations they may no longer even be able to find.

egcalledgari

you guys see it too right

mycielomort

グリズリーに襲われたら♡

morutaesic

noot fandom stuff but its still pretty!! (please look at it)

seven0hseven

This fandom has got me downloading picsart again in the year 2025

What if your eyes were mouths and your mouth was your mouth and you had three bowls of ice cream but one of them would kill you?

What are the flavours of the ice creams? Either way I'm eating two bowls, one with my eye mouth and one with my mouth mouth, but I'd just like to know if I'm at least going to enjoy them or not.