hey
i know
you may have
an aesthetic
but this
shit
is
incredibly fucking discouraging
support content creators. this isn’t instagram or twitter. simply liking is not enough and isn’t seen by anyone but you. it’s just not enough. not when no one sees it. stop letting peoples hard work go unnoticed. stop contributing to art dying on the creators blogs. this also goes for writing and basically any other art on this platform. if you liked it, please share it. it takes about the same amount of time and i assure you, seeing a reblog makes a creator much happier than a like.
OKAY THIS POST WENT OFF IN A VERY UNEXPECTED MANNER AND I WANT TO CLEAR UP A COUPLE OF THINGS:
- a reblog is when you hit that little arrow button and share something to your own blog from your dashboard. - it is then seen by your followers and anyone who sees your blog thus enabling it to be reblogged more and seen by a wider audience which is good for the creator, keeping a source link to the creators blog in tact. - a reblog is NOT the same thing as a repost - reposting is bad bad bad and you should never do it - reposting is when you screenshot, save and re-upload the content on your own blog and is not given the proper credit so the person who spent their time and effort on it will not be recognized for their work. this is gross and anyone who does it needs to learn how to fucking stop.
i did not make this post as a callout or an invitation for arguments. i was merely venting my own frustration and others added on just as they should have because i am not alone in this. i implore anyone calling us entitled to actually read the thread, look how many talented creators are discouraged by this behavior and genuinely hurt by their work going unnoticed. i’d like to reference another post on this hell-site that puts it into basic terms for those of you who still don’t understand and want to apply your shitty two cents anyway. “’Your art isn’t valued by the number of notes you get’ okay but. If you spent 6 hours baking a cake for a party, but no one at the party eats your cake, it’s still disappointing.” [credit]
And for the people saying it was always like this? No, it wasn’t. People used to actually reblog original content.
These are notes on my gifs from 2012 - 2013:
These are notes on my gifs made in 2018-2019:
And, of course, making original content isn’t purely about notes - and ANY recognition toward original content is always appreciated - but when you’ve been on this website long enough to see how people used to treat and cherish content creators as opposed to how content creators are treated today, it can be very disappointing and discouraging. I don’t know what changed but something visibly changed. People are not reblogging posts anymore.
Meanwhile, so many people today have no problem skipping posts entirely but save the gifs to repost over to Twitter or Instagram with zero credit to the Tumblr user who actually made them so that they can gain followers on other platforms for somebody else’s work.
