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🌈 -- nougat || 25 || creative, erratic, bookworm || wcif-friendly -- ✨ somewhat inactive because of uni // follows/likes from nougatbit

[nougatpocket]

𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖇𝖑𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖚𝖑𝖊

like last year, i've prepared four gifts for this year’s simblreen and i’ll give out one gift on each day i’m participating.

i’ll be keeping the light on between 10am and 10pm CET and answering asks in batches, so please be patient if you don’t get an answer immediately!

don’t worry if you miss a gift. all gifts will be posted publicly at the start of november.

weekend 1

saturday, oct. 19: gift 1

sunday, oct. 20: gift 2

weekend 2

saturday, oct. 26: gift 3

sunday, oct. 27: gift 4

[puppycheesecake]

Dandelion girl (Taraxacum officinale) & indigo milk cap girl (Lactarius indigo). 𓇢𓆸 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

[voidcreek]

[deadmelly]

🧛🏾‍♀️

[fl0pera]

And this is not a church and I do not preach

[mrsimqle]

[windbear]

Beverly Moore 🐞

[wotunciba]

★ We absolutely need more good shoes in this game @polysphere57

Inspo: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5

[puppycheesecake]

Y'know what. I'm posting her anyway.

[sapphling]

bigots can now reblog your selfie or personal post, mock it, and block you, and if you don't see it the second it happens, it can spread to thousands of their ilk with literally no possible way for you to know, unless you happen to be on one of their blogs and come across it. are you comfortable with this? i know i'm not.

[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.

[lonerslothful]

Next tumblr update: no tags

[transjudas]

reminder that staff has said they don’t pay attention to feedback on posts and the best way to tell them how you feel about this upcoming notes update is by sending feedback at tumblr.com/support!

[ahotknife]

welcome to tumblr, where the notes are made up and the user experience doesn't matter!

[dyrdeer]

for everyone asking, tumblr is making it impossible for you to add onto ANY post without making it its own separate post. If you put any addition on someone's post its now your post. The OP won't even be privy to any notes it gets unless they check that specific post. This makes it impossible to track anything which is really detrimental to artists who need to know their reach or just see what people are saying about their work. It also just means you can't reblog with any additions without taking notes away from your original post. This is part of what made twitter hostile and its the last gasping breath of a site run by people who don't understand it.

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[willgrahamscock]

UPDATE: we are making things even worse soon!

[willgrahamscock]

so any bigger blog reblogging your post just makes it automatically their post because of their reach