Just speaking as a content creator, my personal philosophy that I believe in strongly is that content creation is a two way street between the creator and the audience. Without the creator, the audience wouldn't have content, and without an audience, the creator wouldn't have engagement. My experience (which to be transparent is mostly with fan fic writers and gif makers; I don't tend to see this as much with fan artists or original content creators) is that a lot of content creators aren't appreciative about their audiences and are rude to and about them while expecting their audience to kiss their feet and treat them like royalty? Like a lot of content creators treat their relationship with their audience as an adversarial one full of rage and disrespect while expecting nothing less than their audience worshipping them.
I'm not gonna sit here and tell people not to be sad or angry when your art or edit or whatever else doesn't get notes; that's a perfectly human response and completely valid because it does suck! But I am gonna say that it's bad form to position your audience as a gaggle of ungrateful leeches who take and take and take and nothing else, and couldn't possibly be human beings like you are.
(Also this is just a personal thing for me but the concept of saying "thank you" to content creators for every little piece of art/fic/etc. is odd to me because, unless someone commissioned the thing from me, no one asked me to make it. I did it of my own accord, so I have no need for people to fall all over themselves in gratitude.)
So yes, of course reblog stuff you like! Leave comments/tags if you can and/or want! But also recognize that the audience is important, as well. It's a symbiotic relationship here, not an adversarial one. None of us would exist without the other, and we should start seeing it like that often.
