Nathan DeLuca @nathanmakesstuff - Tumblr Blog

unsettlingstories

Why don't you post your stories on r/nosleep anymore?

Too much theft and negativity.

nathanmakesstuff

Where should we go to get your content? I had your Reddit bookmarked!

Just mass effect stuff

#mass effect #kaidan alenko #kaidanalenko #nathan deluca

Evil Within with Michael Hamm! Molotov shot by @thehowlingshoopuf Asylum shot by Hillary Ann

#the evil within #joseph oda #sebastian castellanos #michael hamm #nathan deluca

Trying something new

#ootd

Practicing leather work!

#leather #I don't know what else to put here

Went out and did a shoot with @paintedqueencos for some of the good boy

#the evil within #tew #joseph oda

pandoraas-deactivated20180227

O be careful little eyes what you see

There’s a Father up above

And He’s looking down in love

Just some Evil Within tests

#joseph oda #the evil within #bethesda

unsettlingstories

If you’re happy and you know it

From here

Red Hood stuffs

#red hood #Jason todd #cosplay guys

unsettlingstories

Something horrible is happening to me on Tumblr.

Facebook. Grindr. Myspace.

I started up a Tumblr blog last November so I could get better exposure for my writing. I was surprised by how quickly it took off. There’s a big horror subculture that seems to enjoy the type of stuff I write, so it didn’t take long before I’d gotten well over 10,000 followers and was cruising along pretty well. As the blog got more established, though, some frightening things started to happen.

Before I go on, I need to give a little background info. For those who don’t know how Tumblr works, they have something called “reblogging,” which just means you repost something that someone else had put on their blog. It shows up in your own blog with the creator’s name linked to it. It basically can allow content to go viral very quickly. Like, you can post something and then someone with a large and established blog might reblog it to all their hundreds of thousands or millions of followers, who can then do the same, and over and over and over until it eventually dies down.

Obviously, wanting to spread my stories and “brand” as far and wide as I possibly could, I sought out opportunities to get my content reblogged by one of those well-established bloggers. After a month or so, it happened. A story of mine got shared well over a thousand times. I gained hundreds of followers. That type of thing happened on many occasions over the following months, leading me to where I was late this April.

In April, after one story did particularly well, I started getting weird messages in my inbox. All of them said something similar. Something along the lines of, “hey I reblogged your story and started getting really personal messages from you - can you please not?”