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@painted-lemon
hello hello my name is Painted lemon. You can call me PiL. I'm a figment of someone's imagination with a passion for animation. I am talented and beautiful and a Literal work of art. I was born and raised in a local museum and i am a proud sister of nine. I have a newfound taste for traveling outside of my frame and interacting with real people other artists. I can't wait to start sharing.
so i’m going to be a cats blog now, for a little bit.
https://glaad.org/fcc/
to go straight to the comments report page, it's here:
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=19-41
this is so cool!!
It let me make this
this is so cool!!
this website is always finding new and exciting ways to prove this image true
not to post about cats the musical on main but i LOVE those silly little cats so much they have so much whimsy they're a family they're strangers they all live in a giant junkyard together year round they only see each other once a year every character is queer in some way there's ten different background cats they have the silliest names each fan has one specific blorbo who gets 2 seconds of stagetime and they'll create the angstiest backstories there's a version of the show that takes place at a circus and one that takes place in a ww2-era train station this show has one of the most iconic broadway songs of all time as the act 1 finale the actors of this show often participate in the fandom the us tour six cast was literally scrolling tumblr and happily interacting with the fandom and fans of this show are ride or die go feral if people insult the show if you ask people what their favorite production is you'll get 200 different answers every fan has their own specific canon of the show and character relationships also the fandom used to have a dismemberment anon like this is the show ever
I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."
Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.
Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.
Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.
You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.
At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.
growl tigers last stand is kinda hilarious and baffling to me because it’s literally like: “racism is horrible and racists should die” they say to the audience as racistly as they possibly can
the Magnus archives fandom is like the Harry Potter fandom for cool people
hamber
flashback to nevermore’s most iconic panel
hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways
(doodle) its not easy producing 7 kittens out of a hat
(drawing template by ilitiaforever on twitter)
The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr
@staff
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.
as a denizen of this busted ass website for half my life now i do know how staff works and i’m going to lay out what they think will happen as someone who has witnessed this exact thing play out
People get very mad for a few days and then roll over and accept the change to the enclosure. This is what they are betting on. They have had meetings about this.
Getting around it: set an alarm. Get mad not just now, but in a few days, a week, two weeks. They are expecting people to sigh and get over this very odd edit to the site in a few days. Keep flooding them for more than just tonight. Be mad for the week, for the month. Leave a message every day.
this is what this post looks on desktop (where the change has gone into effect)
and this is what it looks like on the app where i've disabled updates
this is what it looks like after i added this rb to it
Also it’s really important to note that I can still edit and fuck around with this post and reblog it a thousand times even if op deletes the root or disables rbs. It’ll change nothing. They no longer have control over their post. Hate campaigns are about to get much much worse
got stuck on the toilet earlier and my inner monologue started coming in cookie monster's voice for some reason
#man cookie monster you're fighting bc the lid is closed!
me pretending there was artistic intent behind me bad drawing
ok so responses to this post have mostly been in one of three camps:
"i always think this too"
"no cookie!! the lid is down!!!" (incorrect, see above)
"reblogging from the toilet" in solidarity with cookie monster
but there is one response that i found, well, extremely jarring:
these tags from @wingstothesun put an image into my head that i now inflict upon them and the rest of you:
twas no someone--it was me! dio! the artist!
as far as i'm aware only the original poster of an image can add alt text, so as long as that's the case, you know who to credit the effort to~
