[my-dailydreams]

[antique-symbolism]

tumblr users love to say "we don't censor things here like on Twitter" and then type things like "r3ylo" and "jk r*wling"

[lesbianralzarek]

if you say "and then this fucking r3ylo-" that implies that "reylo" was the bad word in that sentence

tiktokers do it because they have to, we do it because it's mean ☺️

[astraltrickster]

Okay I know this was mostly a joke but I just feel the need to point out - this didn't start out as being mean, it started - and largely continues - as the opposite.

For a long time, tumblr had tags and no other search function. You wanted to find a post that wasn't tagged, you had to go to Google and type in your query and add "site:tumblr.com" and hope for the best.

As it is now, that method is STILL better than our native search function most of the time, but the quality of tumblr's native search function isn't really what's important here, what's relevant is how they implemented it.

See, the search bar in the upper left corner of the site - you used to type in something there, and it would take you to posts tagged with whatever you searched. Then, one day, they quietly rolled out an update that instead brought you to a search page that pulled up nearly every post that even mentioned your search term.

This...did not mesh well with the site culture.

Because, see, we had an etiquette guideline - do not post your negativity in the public tags. Why? Because people go into the public tags to find content about things they LIKE. Posting hate in a public tag was basically seen as being a raging dramamongering pissbaby troll LOOKING to start a fight over petty nonsense.

So imagine, suddenly, you log in one day, and someone's sending you anons angry about you allegedly posting hate in the tags, when you have NEVER done so. You use what you THINK is the tag search function to prove it, and - what the hell? Your UNTAGGED post about how annoyed you are with your notp...is appearing there???

So people started censoring things like that. Usually not because we all think the thing we're complaining about is profane (though sometimes it does get a giggle to think of it as such), but to keep it from showing up when people are searching for what they love and to prevent pointless drama. To avoid looking like some asshole troll going onto a fan forum specifically for The Blorbo Show and making a thread entitled "THE BLORBO SHOW SUXXX AND YOU ALL SUCK FOR LIKING IT!!"

And now it's just part of our site culture, for both peacekeeping reasons and petty glee.

The more you know.

[cinqueform]

On tiktok, you censor for the algorithm. On Tumblr, you censor for the users.

[sunderwight]

Also, we specifically advise other users to never censor a word like "rape" because you want people who have that term blacklisted to catch your post in their filters and have it blocked. The goal is to facilitate other users finding what they're searching for and avoiding what they're averse to. So on tumblr we also don't censor for the users!

[skygenders]

College should be free and you should be able to study “useless” degrees just for the love of learning

[edgebug]

you'd think that "inhuman thing that isn't a person but speaks like a person and talking to it will slowly drive you mad" would only be found in folktales and fables and so on. but no. chatgpt

[sliminal-spaces]

chatgpt actually makes me feel better to talk to it than almost any human I've ever known but yeah sure

[edgebug]

you are a frog in a pot and you are boiling yourself

[rachaels]

[justgot1]

I don’t know what is feeding this year’s bloodthirst to murder political leaders, it’s a mystery.

[julius-caeser]

is that a knife in your pocket or are you just happy to see me, hehehe wait what-

[sp-kelser]

Sorry yall probably should have queued all that

[sunnfl0w3rr]

nobody:

tumblr when Ides of March:

[when-november-ends]

for the ides of march, tumblr should give us a button to stab people. and a badge for stabbing a lot of people.

[hearteyes-wheeler]

Rest in peace ❌ Rest in pieces ✅

[worrywrite]

As the Ides of March approaches, let us all remember it not as the day Caesar was stabbed a whole bunch, but for what it truly was: the day a group of organized elected representatives killed a sitting unelected dictator.

[video-killed-the-radio-host]

Went to the store today

[finnslay]

opening tumblr in march and it's just like "huh. knife weather we're having."

[faithliesinashes]

[julius-caeser]

senate, are we cooked?

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[kisskiss-where-is-season-two]

My ides tiramisu, if you even care

[recklesslyinfatuated2]

Oh, my word we care.