bobbybrowns replied to your post “a heart is not a slap in the face”
The thing is that we (I speak as a content creator) don't ask people to reblog EVERYTHING they see (they can reblog half or even less of what they see!), we just want people to understand that sharing the og content/fanarts/fanfics etc is important to keep people creating and having a lot of new content daily. Not reblogging is killing creativity (+ reposters in twitter and tumblr..) and that we very much encourage people to share what they love ~
You see, I don’t think that’s true. Not reblogging isn’t killing creativity; nothing can kill creativity. Not on tumblr or anywhere else.
As a so-called ‘content creator’ myself, I understand it’s disheartening to put your time, effort, and love into creating something and then finding that it doesn’t resonate, or that it’s reposted somewhere else and takes off (believe me, my sister drew a very popular GoT/Iron Man piece of art about the Starks and she gets notices every couple months about her artwork being sold on t-shirts and whatnot without a penny or even artistic credit being given to her, so I understand).
But really? You play the game, you takes your chances. Nobody’s obliged to reblog what we create. Nobody’s even obliged to like it. It’s lovely when they do and even lovelier if they reblog/promote/feedback it, but that’s down to every single person’s individual choice. Neither you nor I nor any of the fishies in the deep blue sea can ask that people do otherwise.
The best way to encourage people to share is to share other people’s work. The best way to get them to talk about what they love is to talk about what you love. Fandom (at least, as I know it, and granted I’m a Fandom Old) isn’t about the ‘content creators’ -- lord I hate that term -- sitting up on high gifting the peons with their gifs and art and writing. It’s about an exchange, of works and discussion and enthusiasm and creation and love and thinky thoughts and happy squee. There’s no hierarchy.
Creativity’s in no danger of being murdered. Maybe ‘content’ and all of the consumer economy insinuated and inherent thereof is, but not creativity.
-maggie
