I am cordially inviting all of you to post this in the comments/reblogs of any and every Al post you come across, on any platform. Especially useful for accounts who “teach” people how to use Al.
There are SIX questions total in reblogs, the end will be marked by large green text. If you don’t see all six, check reblogs and grab the version with the ending note.
1/6 - Do you identify as some flavor of white?
White
Non-white
Only considered white outside of imperial core
Insecure Mixed Person externalizing my family racial issues here
Voting ended onJul 22
Answers amended from the 2025 census based on feedback. If you’re mixed, choose what feels right to you I’m not here to do phrenology or paper bag test you but don’t make it my problem either. When in doubt, ask yourself: would the whites kill you too in the race war?
This census is US-centric because so is tumblr, unfortunately. This poll is also starting with a heavy Black/racialized bias due to my personal followers. The main point of this census is to see how white-dominant the site is currently compared to prior years, as well
For the purpose of this census, Imperial Core will be defined as the following: United States, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, basically all of Western Europe, Japan, and Israel. If you want to argue about any of these designations, too bad maybe they should stop colonizing.
Otherwise cultural gender (please share I wanna know!!)
Other not listed
Cisgender
Voting ended onJul 22
Note for clarification:
*For those who don’t know, TMA means transmisogyny affected (such as trans women, some non-binary people, etc.) whereas TME means transmisogyny exempt (Cis men, cis women, transmasculine individuals, etc). If you want to ask for clarification for which applies to you for the purposes of this poll, feel free to ask and I’ll try to reply, but if you try to argue or quibble about the terms themselves, I’ll block you.
6/6! How many TMA* (Transfemme, some non-binary, etc.) people would *actually* call YOU their friend?
I’m TME, 0
I’m TME, 1-2
I’m TME, 1-2 but I have <8 friends
I’m TME, 3-6
I’m TME, 7+
I’m TMA, 0
I’m TMA, 1-2
I’m TMA, 1-2 but I have <8 friends
I’m TMA, 3-6
I’m TMA, 7+
I have less than 3 friends total
Voting ended onJul 22
*For those who don’t know, TMA means transmisogyny affected (such as trans women, some non-binary people, etc.) whereas TME means transmisogyny exempt (Cis men, cis women, transmasculine individuals, etc). If you want to ask for clarification for which applies to you for the purposes of this poll, feel free to ask and I’ll try to reply, but if you try to argue or quibble about the terms themselves, I’ll block you.
THIS IS THE END! Please reblog for bigger sample pool 💖🙏🏽
Thank y'all for answering, and a special thank you to @aceynk for doing the math on the last two questions. Please keep in mind, this is not a captive poll so not everyone answers every question, meaning that as we progress the number of responders decreases. This is obviously not authoritative, its a fucking tumblr poll, but it has a big enough response pool to be decently representative when comparing consistency with last year.
This poll was done with a positive bias for Black, nonwhite, and transfeminine (TMA) responders due to my initial follower pool, meaning these groups are initially represented comparatively more than other groups regardless of their population density on the site. Take this into consideration when viewing the below information.
Question one, "are you some flavor of white?" garnered 22,110 responses, over twice the 2025 survey results but slightly less than the 2024 survey.
Tumblr is 78.5% white this year, a small 0.3% increase from last year. Nonwhite dropped from 16.1% to 13.5%, but this can be accounted for in part by the addition of the "only considered white outside of imperial core" option and a 0.6% increase in people choosing the "mixed" category, from 4.8% to 5.4%.
Question two, "so is you Black?" garnered 19,013 responses.
Tumblr is 3.9% Black this year, whereas last year it was 6% Black. The category for "willingly identifies primarily as Mixed rather than Black" was split out into "Mixed" and "Only considered Black outside my own country", splitting last year's 1.4% to 1% Mixed and 0.3% "Black abroad" (no good way to shorten it lol).
Question three, "are you trans?", garnered 18,755 responses.
The major change in this year's question was splitting the non-binary category into TMA and TME, as there are significant cultural differences that change how each group marks their primary identity. I will elaborate about this at the bottom of this post in FAQS* - Additionally, I'd like to note that this year 78 people responded as being Two-Spirit and 28 as having some kind of culturally-specific gender. I'm glad y'all are here :)
Last year, Non-binary/Genderfluid as a singular unit was 25% of responders. After splitting it to be better culturally representative, we can determine that TMA individuals made up at least 23.1% of responders. Transfemme alone increased from 21.6% to 27%, Transmasc alone decreased from 20.4% to 13.1%, "Non-binary but not trans" increased from 5.6% to 6.5%, Agender had a small increase from 5.6% to 5.8%, Two-Spirit decreased from 0.6% to 0.4%, "Cultural Gender" decreased from 0.3% to 0.1%, "Other" decreased from 3.5% to 2.8%, and "Cisgender" increased from 17.4% to 20.7%.
Question four, "are you currently inside or outside the Imperial Core?", garnered 18,244 responses.
Tumblr is at minimum 6.7% people from the Periphery/Semi-Periphery, with 3.6% living in a Periphery country and 3.1% living in a Semi-Periphery country. 1.5% of responders said their current situation is complicated and they couldn't claim a specific place. 91.9% Imperial Core residents, with 1.5% of that being immigrants from Periphery or Semi-Periphery countries. This question is new this year, so I have nothing prior to compare it to.
The format of questions five and six will be slightly different due to functionally having two question sets in each. Numbers in [these] next to current numbers are last year's numbers. I will not compare last year and this year because I changed the way I asked it this year to account for people having few friends, as 1-2 out of 8 and 1-2 out of a couple dozen are wildly different percentages of total friend group.
Question five, "How many Black friends do you have?", garnered 17,595 responses.
Non-Black responses (pop. 15495):
24.98% (3871 responses) said they have 0 Black friends.
36.08% (5591 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends.
17.12% (2653 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends, but less than 8 friends total.
18.4% (2851 responses) said they have 3-6 Black friends.
3.41% (529 responses) said they have 7+ Black friends.
Which means that 78.2% (12115) of non-Black responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 Black friends.
Black responses (pop. 703):
8.25% (58 responses) said they have 0 Black friends.
18.78% (132 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends.
24.18% (170 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends, but less than 8 friends total.
24.18% (170 responses) said they have 3-6 Black friends.
24.61% (173 responses) said they have 7+ Black friends.
Which means that 51.21% (360) of Black responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 Black friends.
Question six, "How many TMA* (Transfemme, some non-binary, etc.) friends do you have?", garnered 16,693 responses.
TME Responses (pop. 9860)
13.17% (1299 responses) said they have 0 TMA friends.
25.63% (2527 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends.
17.57% (1732 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends, but less than 8 friends total.
29.79% (2937 responses) said they have 3-6 TMA friends.
13.84% (1365 responses) said they have 7+ TMA friends.
Which means that 56.37% (5558) of TME responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 TMA friends.
TMA Responses (pop. 5461)
5.6% (306 responses) said they have 0 TMA friends.
9.14% (499 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends.
11.77% (643 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends, but less than 8 friends total.
28.77% (1571 responses) said they have 3-6 TMA friends.
44.72% (2442 responses) said they have 7+ TMA friends.
Which means that 26.51% (1448) of TMA responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 TMA friends.
Last year, 11.9%/11.4% of responders reported they had less than 3 friends total. This year, only 7.9%/8.2% did. I'm proud of y'all for going out and making friends.
FAQS (below cut)
*Why the TMA/TME non-binary disparity?
Explicit cultural differences in how those affected by transmisogyny are treated and have to live their lives in order to survive leading many TMA people who would otherwise predominantly identify as non-binary to predominantly identify as transfeminine, often as a form of class solidarity.
To use myself as an example, I would describe my gender as primarily a TMA genderfluid non-binary, I use Fae/They pronouns, and I *generally* only allow other Black people to use she/her for me. However, to both the world at large and the systems that oppress us, I am functionally a trans woman even though I do not identify as a woman. I am discriminated against as a trans woman, I commune as a trans woman, I find solidarity with other trans women, and I'll die as a trans woman, even if my ACTUAL gender is more complex than that.
Beyond that, TME individuals (trans or cis) WILL use our non-binary-ness to erase our transfemininity, to further other us either in derision or in a misplaced attempt to make us "one of the GOOD ones", so many TMA non-binary people solely present as trans women to all but other trans women, or close circles, because being misgendered into being a woman - whether we are or not - is better to us than being misgendered into a man, or worse, a "man in a dress".
So while I, on my own poll that I know is safe, mark myself as TMA non-binary, others that don't know me and don't know my intent with this will more often mark "Transfemme" because I am not someone they know, and even if answers are anonymous, it still means they can't be made back into a man or have their transfemininity stripped from them if they solely claim transfemme publicly.
But what about transmasculine non-binary people?
That's not my lived experience so I can't say authoritatively, but I've met a lot of transmasculine nonbinary folks, in particular over the last year (Tumblr, other social media, and IRL), who have seen a surge in anti-feminism and Men's Rights Activism in transmasculine spaces and behaviors that have made them feel deeply uncomfortable/unsafe to be associated with or in community with them. As a result, they've stopped identifying as non-binary trans men or even as trans men at all explicitly to revoke community/solidarity with those they see as betraying the rest of the community by going further right/fascist in a response to the *gestures at everything* happening right now.
If it was just a handful I'd be willing to say its just a small amount of y'all but like.. it's not. I started seeing it happen around 2022 and I've been seeing/hearing more of y'all do it the more vocal that TMRA/Transandrobro types get. I also think that this is represented in part in question three's transmasc results compared to last year - I have a LOT of transmasculine followers and moots so for it to drop as much as it did is Notable, but I think that it can be, in part, accounted for in more of y'all out-and-out identifying as predominantly non-binary vs. trans man/transmasculine year by year as things get worse.
But again, I'm not transmasculine, I'm not in y'all's support groups or discord servers talking about this stuff in-group. This is just my best guesstimate.
Why are you so mean to Mixed people? :c
So I'm Mixed too, specifically Black-white mixed. Every year I do this census and other white-mixed people specifically (beyond legitimate questions) are by far the whiniest and most annoying group I have to deal with for this week-long tribulation. Every year y'all force your racial insecurity and family trauma and fear of abandonment/rejection on me and any other racialized people that say something in response to you, and show exactly why mixed folks, especially white-mixed folk, have the reputation we do.
Bestie all you have to do is not make other racialized people your free therapists about your racial issues/make them have to comfort you about your own insecurity, act like you belong with other racialized people because you fucking do, and you'll usually be fine. The issue is almost wholly on you - some monoracial people will always be freaks about us but let me tell you its usually not gonna be the racialized ones wanting to euthanize or lynch us for being "tainted" or some shit.
I'm mean because you show up trying to make us fix your problems and reassure you without our consent every damn year and then get up ya own ass over us not simply giving you our time and energy when we ain't even know you. Don't be on some cracker shit and you ain't gon get treated like a cracker, simple as.
You guys need to see this because my brain has decided "have you heard of seventy dollars??" is a widely known meme I can reference regularly (it is not)
ngl I feel like this archetype of the trans man who transitions and passes and then begins to join cis men in their misogyny and say awful things about girls without batting an eye is probably more based in hypothetical than anecdotal experience. not saying it cant happen, but all the trans men ive ever talked to are deeply disturbed by chauvanist men. theres an innate sense of "oh this guy is a creep" when talking to misogynists. and trans men may have had experiences of being too uncomfortable or afraid to speak out against cis men when theyre being misogynistic, but they dont just fall in rank because most often they know what its like to be a woman.
and its not like men are the only groups that come together to be misogynistic, either... some of the most misogynistic people ive met were girls; "pick mes" or "not a girls girl" etc. I think this idea that trans men are somehow more susceptible to becoming misogynists in order to fit in with sexist cis men is rooted in the terf belief that we are traitors who will kill all our morals to be men. but thats just not true.
and again im not saying it cant happen, because everyone is capable of being a misogynist. I just feel like the stereotype is much more common than the actual guy, and theres a (transphobic) reason behind that.
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:
generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.
analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.
game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.
losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.
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