I'm not sayin this to bee mean but yall really need to stay about Disney castin poc ppl in "yt" roles.
Its honestly not that serious.
They can say its not about the actress being black/brown but damn does it come off that way.
Mulan
Moana
Tiana
Pocahontas
Jasmine
Are always the ones being called on for cultural inclusion, not realizing[or ignoring] the fact that their stories are BASED around their culture.
Nothing about Snow White, Rapunzel, Aurora*[Sleeping Beauty], Cinderella, or Ariel were based in culture of any kind. If it were Anna, Elsa or Merida*[hoping I spelled her name right gimmie a minute its 2am] I could understand bc their stories are BASED in culture. Even if fictional [Frozen].
If yall weren't mad a British woman was playing a French role why are yall mad now??
Besides, none of these stories are Disney originals.. like almost none of them at all..
If yall wanna be mad at Disney, be mad but not for live action casting on a cash grab movie that just so happened to case a POC. There's SO MUCH SHIT to be mad at this company for and yall chose the unofficial fan casting of a live action movie that hasn't even come out yet.
Thats wild...
But, yo, didn't Disney cast Selena Gomez to play Cinderella?? Didn't we all bang to that??
Again. Shut the actual fuck up about fictional characters being brought to life bc yall have a non-issue over "culture". Yall sound childish as fuck.
Reading the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime doesn’t actually make you an expert on autism, and what you’re saying is super infantilising and ableist
I came here thinking it would be the perfect place to post my original art on and connect with/find fun communities. I was wrong. I couldn't have been more wrong.
I'm not angry, or mad, just... extremely dissapointed and sad, tbh.
As a traditional, mostly original artist you don't seem to have any chance on this app. If you want to build any kind of audience that doesn't just leaves you the second you post something unrelated to their community, you need to dedicate most of your blog to that community/audience. Any other traditional artists I've seen so far usually do stuff related to a fandom or astablished trope/community. Such as g/t for example. But if you want to make diverse, mostly original based stuff, the people here really let me down. Just having a few bits of different interests and fandoms here and there doesn't cut it either.
I have nothing against the fact that digital art is so loved by Tumblr. It is also loved by me, after all. And I get that what I draw is pretty damn bad in comparison to what others do... But partly seeing literally noone interacting with it really demotivates me to post more. I'm really starting to consider making this entire blog private, because the result would basically be the same. Though I see even less of a point in posting here, if it's private.
Another thing that really dissapointed me is the fact that the same people who voted on my polls never seemed to actually come back to see what came after. I was making those polls for my "audience", if you can even call it that, to be able to have a say in what I post next. I wanted them to feel like I care about them and their opinion, which I do. That's why I so far always "kept my promise" to make posts related to the results.
But seeing, for my standarts, extremely many people vote for sth and then never wait for the actual stuff they voted on? Where is the logic at that? I was getting my hopes up so much that I finally found communities, only for them to turn around and leave me alone.
Every single time a post of mine got over 10 notes I was getting excited. Thinking I finally found people to connect with. Only for then to get "slapped in the face" by as good as noone caring about things I've worked on for hours. No notes, no asks, nothing. It really makes me feel like the effort I put into things isn't enough. Like I'm not good enough. It's pretty discouraging.
I can't believe that I have more supportive audiences on TikTok (and Insta) than here. I thought Tumblr would be the perfect place to share my original, traditional art, stories and thoughts. I thought I'd have fun discussing different things I care about, finding others who I can relate to. Apperently I was wrong.
And the more I think about it, the more I start to understand why I hesitated to post things on Tumblr in the first place because of those reasons. While I could easily find people to connect with on other socials, I'm really struggling to do so here.
I tried to get this app. To understand it's culture and how the people here think and act. But nothing I did actually seemed to matter. Everybody keeps praising Tumblr for being unique and "not like other social media apps". Which is an aspect I really got excited about. But by being that "different" it also made it extremely exclusive so far. As if I had to get some kind of fucking VIP ticket to become part of the communities here.
It's pretty hard to find any communities and actually get what you post to your targeted audience, without any kind of real algorithm. With the only way to get there being by reblogs. Aka sth that many say you should do, but apparently most "ignore". When my posts got to the targeted audience, as good as none of those people decided to stick around. Even if I more often than not have/had some other posts that they might have enjoyed.
I tried to organize my blog more and put links into posts that are related to others, so you could find things easier and quicker. Mostly because I thought that might be part of the problem why noone seemed to find my other posts. But organizing things has literally changed nothing.
I also made a comic about all of this in a nutshell, which can be found here. But I doubt anyone's actually interested about it. Therefore I didn't bother to make it very readable and so on.
I'm really starting to understand why so many, from what I've heard, moved on to other apps and left Tumblr. I'm starting to understand why everybody keeps saying that "Tumblr's dead", cause it is. Except to those who are on it. Outside of this place though? It's dead. Noone really talks about it anymore.
I looked for other alternative to post my art on and find fun communities to connect with because of those reasons. I found some, when it comes to discussions and my opinions on things, but when it comes to art, fandom and random stuff, I couldn't find any. At least none that I would enjoy posting those things on. So I guess for now I'll continue using Tumblr for those things.
Another thing I want to mention, knowing that users can't change anything about it, are the porn bots. I won't blame any users for it. I know it's not their fault (most likely). But getting a notification that I have a new follower only for them to be a bot, is pretty dissapointing. It got to the point in which, every time I open Tumblr, I wonder how many bots I'll have to report and block.
For my few real followers: Thanks for staying around. I really appreciate it. :)
The same goes for anyone else who liked, commented on and reblogging my posts/art.
Also, because some don't seem to understand that posts like these are subjective and I don't want to attack or blame, etc anyone by writing this:
This post is about my subjective experience on Tumblr and with the people on here so far. I'm glad for everyone who's having a fun time on here, I really don't want to ruin that for them. I know that most prob don't see this app the same way I do and I'm most likely part of the problem. I'm not trying to attack or blame anyone for my experience, nor do I want to guilt trip anybody or make them feel like they have to interact with me and like, etc my posts out of pity.
I don't want anybody to interact with me/my posts just out of pity. I'm not writing all of this because I want to get attention by being a "special snowflake", "not like other Tumblr users" or similar.
I'm writing this to explain why I might not put that much effort into upcoming posts or not post regularly/as often anymore. I'll prob go down to making just one post per week. And I'm pretty sure some of you might have noticed the declining quality of posts over the last few weeks already.
I doubt I'll reblog, comment on, etc, many other posts, since I'm not spending that much time on this app anymore. None, besides the casually checking if I have any notifications. I try to mostly ignore it since it really drags me down, only coming to make a post or schedule stuff and that's it. Perhaps I'll reblog more on my "reblog blog", but here, on my "main blog" you prob won't find many reblogs in the future.
I also doubt that I'll post many opinion related things anymore. Might make a book review and a few random opinion posts here and there, but I'll try to focus on my art.
Because I'm really starting to question if all of that is even worth the effort. It really doesn't seem like the communities on here are into any kind of discussions.
If you honestly like my content feel free to follow, like, comment, ask away and/or reblog. But again, I'd really appreciate it, if you don't do it just because "look at that poor little artist".
More on all of that can be found in my last update. Because literally nothing has really changed ever since.
Personally I could do without 75% if not more of what was announced at the Disney Investors Meeting today. Like look, not to sound like a grump but I just want a 2D Frozen Show like what tangled got, Instead I got Ice Age, and more Cars, and a lion king prequel, and and a buzz Lightyear Origin movie without Tim Allen, and a whole lot of Star Wars. I hope something else frozen related happens, weather it be a show or another movie or whatever, I just want More Anna Content man.
