On unnecessary negativity in the tags (or comments):
This weekend I had someone write something really toxic in the tags on one of my posts. (I already inflicted the specifics on one kind soul (sorry/thank you! đ), so I wonât make anyone else look at that.) It wasnât anyone who follows me (plus Iâll be blocking them), and Iâve never gotten negative tags from anyone I recognize as following me (youâre all lovely! đ), but Iâd still like to throw this reminder out for Tumblr at large:
Donât do that. Please.
The people who make GIFs are pretty much the only people guaranteed to read your tags. If you leave us nice comments about our creations, it delights (andâbonusâmotivates) us. But when you say negative stuffâeven if itâs about the underlying subject matter and not our editsâitâs a real bummer. Weâre just other people who like whatever the subject matter is enough to make stuff about it. We donât want to know that you donât like the movie/TV show/ship/character/actor/artist/etc. (Most of the time, we *really* like them.) You wouldnât go into the AO3 comments and start talking about how you donât like whatever the author chose to write about (you wouldnât, right?!), so donât do it here.
Iâll refer you to this post and this post for some othersâ more in-depth thoughts on the subject.
