Okay I see a lot of the discourse going on and I’m just going to add my 2 cents. The tumble tagging system has been broken for a long time. I have fics that I’ve taken off of my masterlist and can’t even find myself that other people can find no problem. Not only that, but I consistently see the same fics when I look at the tags under popular….because they’re popular. It’s not the authors fault. As someone who has always tagged every member in my fics, I can tell you that I have never once gotten traction for it. I’ve only managed to get notes over the years that I’ve been posting.
Some of the authors that I see being attacked have been on here for YEARS. And yeah, maybe for some members that have more individual fans it isn’t fair, but that’s just it. It’s not really going to fix it because tumble has the tagging problem. AO3 tags the same and it works. It’s the algorithm that fucks over everyone.
People need to stop seeing one post and going on a rampage to threaten and discredit authors. This behavior is the same behavior that has sent authors away from tumblr. It’s why the community is continuously losing people. I’ve seen many mutuals and writers that are just trying to share their works leave over the smallest of things.
It just sucks that the only time people want to leave comments on authors work or send them asks, it’s to be rude and intimidate them.
