wow!

ART BLOG: starozoa! TWITTER: @starozoa! hey, i draw things! this place is mostly reblogs so check out my art blog for just art

[iwilleatyourenglish]

i have a friend in his 50s who doesn't give a fuck about pokemon so we showed him random ones and the way he responded to them made me feel like i was doing flashcards with a very serious baby

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[sugar-petals]

josh hutcherson has me crying with this one 

[werewolf-transgenderism]

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

[werewolf-transgenderism]

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

[werewolf-transgenderism]

happy world frog day, 50 frogs to go until we hit 8,000 species described!!

[patheticwheeler]

@markscherz

[markscherz]

There is a small but real chance I will get to Do The Thing. Watch this space.

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

100 dracula sit-ups, hold franeksntein pose for 10 minutes, 150 mummy swipes, 20 wolfman chest releases,

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

forgot the fucking jiangshi hops im never gonna win miss halloween

[maruti-bitamin]

pet

cara/insta/bluesky/ store

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

I really don't know what to do with the fact that my teeth have been toothpaste flavored for over 24 hours despite much eating and no additional toothpaste. Like what's even happening there. Perplexing.

[charlesoberonn]

Maybe your tongue is toothpaste flavored?

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

The rest of my mouth doesn't taste like toothpaste though. Like it's very clearly concentrated in the teeth.

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

For the record, it lasted for about 36 hours in total. Still no idea what that was about but okay

[xadnem]

someone was brushing your teeth when you weren't looking.

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

...for 36 hours?

[xadnem]

i had a lot of time on my hands

[xadnem]

i mean they

[brosser-les-dents]

Yes, brush all the teeth!

[fourleafisland]

older angel devil

[murraysiskind-deactivated202406]

THE FENG SHUI OF THIS WEBSITE IS FUCKED

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[chiefofboatwatsonstittymug]

Equivalent in Leeds, England

[sreegs]

lmao ait's all fucked

[sreegs]

reblogs are fucked

[sreegs]

the way this works is, someone up the chain gets an idea in their head that "tumblr is too hard to use for new users" (which is true, more on that later) and the easy scapegoat is "why are there THREE different ways to reply to a post: replies, reblogs, and tags???" they bounce a few brain cells together and come up with a plan, albeit not a good one. they usually try to copy what other platforms are doing because those are known, working methods for building a feed with likes and re-(verbs). in this update's case they finally pulled the trigger on the idea that reblog chains should split off from the main post because they're effectively new posts (in the tumblr DB, every reblog is its own post but that's not important) i'm gonna be honest: when I was working at tumblr, I had this same exact thought. I thought "why don't I get activity on my reblog comments that get their own likes/reblogs/etc". Then I thought about it for more than 10 minutes and realized it's a bad idea. I was also an engineering grunt and not a product decider so I had no real say anyways.

Anyways, plan from above gets executed with "A/B" testing, sometimes. In this case I'm not sure if it was but, in my experience, even when Tumblr had more competent knowledgeable people working on it, they never did a real A/B test the way you should. They got close, but in the end things just got rolled out if they didn't disturb things "too much". They also look for signals that it's working if people post more. do they separate out "people posting about this saying this is a bad idea" vs "posts in general"? No. I was there for the "no more replies" then "replies are back!" fiasco. The justification for ditching support for a feature (any feature, not just replies) is that anything that's an extra thingamajig upon the Tumblr codebase requires you to maintain it and fix it if it breaks. Less unique features = less stuff to fix. In this case, they saw replies were barely used vs other methods of communicating, so they figured they could get rid of replies when they introduced Messaging! Because now you can just DM the person rather than leaving a reply!

obviously that backfired. Tumblr once again touched the hot stove of "small but vocal group of users use this, actually" and they had to revert it. What they did do, at least, is fix a bunch of stuff with replies before bringing them back. I can't remember off the top of my head what they fixed but it was something like making them easier to use and read.

back to "tumblr is too hard to use for new users". it is because not many people use tumblr vs other places. so its patterns are not familiar. but that's not a good enough excuse for companies that own tumblr because infinite growth is the goal. most posts = more users therefore friction between users and making new posts must be eliminated. however this conflicts with what makes tumblr unique, which is why people stick around to use it. catch 22.

this is going to keep happening as long as people, at any company, in charge of "product decisions" do not actually use the product they're making decisions for, or don't bother to use it in a way that people who really like it use it.

[thekidsfromyestergay]

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

[crane-legs]

[vedurnan-archive]

If you prefer video gaming, you have an “action” soul. If you like to sit down with a glass of water, you are a “breeze” type person. Those who love to play music are “wish type” person

[chestharrington]

PSA: For fan works, reblog and like from OP

Tumblr is rolling out a new reblog/notes system that completely disregards creators. In their new system, they're taking a twitter-style approach where reblogs will have their own notes that DO NOT contribute to the original post's notes.

Because of this, creators will no longer be able to see an accurate display of likes/reblogs/etc. This is completely altering the way feedback and responses to works are going to be received on this website.

If you come across a fan work that you enjoy, please take the extra step to go to OPs original post, and leave your comment/like/reblog there. Or go one step further and send an ask to OP directly to tell them what you liked!

I really hope Tumblr staff reverses course and reverts to the original reblog system for the sake of the large base of creators who use this site to share their works, but until then, please be considerate and make sure the creators here see/feel the love.

[staff]

we fucked up

[dragongirlsnout]

It's to be expected as part of the capitalist death spiral, really, but it truly is hilarious just how disconnected from material reality a lot of recent tumblr updates have been. It beholds a sort of "spherical cow in a frictionless vacuum"-based methodology in which "more popular social media sites than us have this feature, ergo, we can attract their users by replicating them 1:1" is a logical thought form and not pure fallacy. Even ignoring the realities of user retention, appeal in uniqueness, and the popularity of the actual features being copied, it requires a sort of Maxwell's Daemon-esque exchange in which users will leave an established service for an imitator that offers no additional benefits.

[junkratsadstuck]

here at the sandwich shop, we’ve started to notice some people who are new to sandwiches aren’t used to meat and cheese between two slices of bread. they find this practice strange and confusing. that’s why we’ve decided to cut the bread out all together. from now on, we’ll just serve slices of meat and cheese on a plate.

[junkratsadstuck]

we know that many of our loyal sandwich shop customers have been coming here for years to buy our delicious sandwiches. but some people don’t “get” sandwiches, and we need to try and appeal to them with an easier-to-understand meal format. we will no longer be serving sandwiches. all of our food will just be cold cuts on a paper plate. we love our customers and appreciate your understanding <3

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Yes we know Craig's Cold Cuts down the street does cold cuts better than we do and has millions of customers. That's why we need to switch to cold cuts, to get their customers. We hope that our long-time sandwich loving customer base will be patient in this transition to cold cuts and welcome the certain influx of Craig's Cold Cut customers who will surely come here to enjoy our worse cold cuts with you, our sandwich-deprived customer base, whom we value so much.