#shaming posts

[9ofspades]

If you see a post saying

”Oh my god, I cannot BELIEVE how many people don’t do X, do you not even REALIZE that X is good for you?! You are ruining your body and your mind by not doing X. Everyone, start doing X already!!”

(or something to that effect, shaming you or yelling at you to do a thing or stop doing a thing that has health effects on you, personally)

When you see that kind of post, do you

Ignore it and keep doing what you’re doing

Get mad, decline to engage with it, and do the opposite out of spite

Get mad, decline to engage with it, and keep doing what you’re doing

Take it as a wake up call, like or reblog, start making healthier choices

Take it as a wake up call, like or reblog, keep doing what you’re doing

Take it as a wake up call, decline to engage with it, make healthier choices

Take it as a wake up call, decline to engage, make no change

Get mad, engage with it, and keep doing what you’re doing

Get mad, engage with it, but grudgingly make the healthier choice

Other (please explain)

Voting ended onFeb 6, 2024

[yuzuruswanyu]

This is Merlin.

He is v chub and perf, and he is here to glare disapprovingly at those “reblog or something terrible will happen” and “if you don’t reblog this you are a bad person” posts for you. He will also eat the post (and probably the op as well, tbh he’ll eat everything). He’s a good baby like that and very protective.

(And if the post is too scary he’ll get his brother, Mogget, to deal with it.)

[sunfleur-ish]

Shaming Posts: Please Stop

What’s the point of  “[people on tumblr] care more about [fandom related or lighthearted funny thing] than [ongoing genocide, cultural or political event]” posts, or “I’m tired of seeing posts about x, don’t any of you care about y?” posts?

I’m serious. What’s the point of posts passive aggressively shaming people for not reblogging posts about specific things? Are people more likley to reblog whatever the event of the week is if they feel attacked if they don’t? Not to mention that it’s difficult to reblog something if it hasn’t come across their dash. That isn’t to say that people checking other news sites and searching through tags aren’t going to find information, but you can be the single most politically minded person in existence and still miss current events. Or not want to include them in your blog.

That’s without tacking the issue of tumblr as a questionable first source for news, which is at least partially magnified because of snap-reblogs. To what extent do snap-reblogs happen because people feel guilty if they don’t?

Shaming posts, as I’ll refer to them as, are another issue-filled aspect of call-out culture, only here there’s no direct target, so it becomes be equivalent of screaming rage into the abyss with the certainty that it’ll hit someone. This aspect of the culture, that tumblr often falls prey to, isn’t productive. You want to educate someone, or provide meaningful information? Great! Attaching that information to anything along the lines of “If you don’t reblog this, unfollow me” or, “I’ll know you don’t care about x if you don’t reblog this” or, “Only unfeeling, uncaring people won’t reblog this”, does nothing but personally make me want to avoid giving you notes and go find a different source, if I choose to reblog it.

Tumblr is a hobby for most people. Blogs are what you want them to be, be it aesthetic, or fandom, or sports, or music, or rp, or whatever combination of all of the possible things. Other peoples’ blogs are none of your business unless they are doing something that actively hurts other people. Or, more simply put, you have no business shaming strangers for not reblogging your post. 

No one is saying that the tumblr collective is apathetic or isn’t angry or otherwise doesn’t give a shit about what is happening in the world around them, or to people around them. That’s a baseless assignation of blame, and I’m still trying to figure out how it could possibly benefit anyone, aside from maybe coercing notes out of other bloggers.

Carry on reblogging the damn Canadian Raccoon post. It’s funny. It’s a teasing stab at a failure of civil services and a collective joke that led strangers to collaborate on something harmless. Your blog is your own. Do with it what you will.

Is this the first post that attempts to even begin to dismantle something that can be incredibly toxic? No. Do I expect this to have much impact? Not particularly. But the tl;dr of it is simple: It’s not productive. Please stop.

[stormfather]

dont reblog petshaming/childshaming/whatevershaming posts okay unless they have some sort of commentary that dissects them. 9/10 times they highlight abusive behavior and try and cast a humorous light on them and really its not funny at all. treat carefully with things like pokeshaming/charactershaming because while no actual harm occurred irl it still glorifies the behaviors shown in other -shaming posts.