Maybe I’m being alarmist, but I tried to reblog this thread a few hours back and I was scrolling through my dashboard and recent posts and was surprised to find that it wasn’t in my posts. Now normally I just hit the alt key so things reblog automatically and don’t bother with the screen where it goes so you can add your own comment for expediency, so I thought maybe that just bugged out... but no
I tried clicking reblog normally and I got a post that said “this post can’t be reblogged.” And I thought ‘that’s weird’ but I gave tumblr the benefit of the doubt and went directly to @askfirestarterspitfire‘s post.
No dice. It gave me the same “this post can’t be reblogged” message
so I went to @askmovieslate‘s post. Same. And the same went for @yourplayersaidwhat. I was physically incapable of reblogging this post.
I didn’t go back any further than that because I would have started to lose the actual content of the thread if I went back any further, and besides, it was clear what was happening. Again, maybe I’m being alarmist but tumblr was KEEPING ME FROM SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT WHAT THEIR SHITTY NEW POLICIES ARE DOING. They actually don’t want their shitty practices being spread around, so they’re locking the post.
Now again, I could be reading this situation really wrong. There could be some legit reason that I can’t reblog this post I suppose. But the weird thing is, I’ve never ONCE come upon a post I couldn’t reblog on this site before... and it seems REALLY SUSPICIOUS to me that this post... the post calling tumblr out for its stupid bullshit new practices... is the one that I suddenly can’t reblog.
Maybe I’m an alarmist that’s gotten overly jumpy in this increasingly censorious world... and maybe I’m a conspiracy theorist for thinking the media is trying to control our opinions by using algorithms and shit to fine tune what we’re exposed to... but I’m just saying that this shit is making me suspicious, the word still needs to be spread about tumblr’s shitty practices and if tumblr is REALLY putting a lock on posts that call out their bullshit...
...well that just speaks to how fucking sinister they’re willing to be... And how much they don’t give a shit about our criticism...
Also I have no intention of deleting my account or changing my name so everybody watch to see if I get my account deactivated for this... or if suddenly you can’t reblog THIS post.