oh my god. they changed the “hide my blog from search results” setting to “discourage searching of my blog”. ie it’s no longer possible to stop google & co from indexing your blog.
this feels like the kind of change tumblr should give a heads up about rather than silently make. if you have a blog, google is indexing it now. there is no way to stop google from indexing your blog now. regardless of previous settings, your blog is now being indexed by search engines. you can’t turn this off.
if you’re like. 14 and trans on tumblr rn and getting ur first anon hate from terfs. word of advice. stop responding to that shit. theyre only gonna send more, it’s only gonna make you spiral even if you put on a strong face. report + block messages as soon as they come in, don’t let them sit in your inbox it’s gonna make you feel like shit. turn off anon for a few days, block anyone suspicious in your notes liberally for a little while. repeat as needed. don’t give them the time of day. it sucks, but like. i dont know any trans person on the internet with any following who hasn’t gotten some disgusting messages. just. be safe yknow
so many young teens feel the need to have a snappy comeback, to explain you could never be cishet bc you’re actually t4t!! or whatever but like. just. don’t say any of that. they love that shit, they eat it up. do what u can to bore them into stopping. and sometimes they dont stop, and that sucks too but like. you do not want to get in public arguments with people who can hurt you more than you think they can, its not cowardly to delete discourse posts and shit if you feel like you can’t handle the notifications anymore. like just. you may not be able to completly prevent this stuff but take a few steps if you can, it will at least lower your chances
I used to answer nastygrams, and I can tell you the single most convincing reason I found to stop, and it’s not for my feelings or because I can’t handle it or whatever.
You know why terfs (and really anyone else) send people nastygrams? Because they don’t have enough of a following to say that shit and spread it around by themselves, and they want your following instead. Tumblr is user driven, not algorithmic. The only way their nasty-ass bullshit gets spread is if YOU spread it.
Every time you answer an ask like that or reblog one of their posts… you are ceding your platform to them. You’re handing over publicity. You’re letting them use you to get at the people who follow you. You’re letting them use you to try to hurt others. They’re not necessarily even trying to hurt you specifically, they’re just trying to be seen, and you publishing their ask means they get seen by all the people who follow you. The absolute best thing you can do is make sure that doesn’t happen at all, regardless of what you might say in response.
The first time I ever saw it framed like that, I immediately stopped ever addressing any kind of nastygram. Because that, coupled with the mental image of some asshole wasting their time repeatedly checking my blog to see my response, only to find out that not only did I not answer them, I blocked them and I’m still having a great time, makes it a lot easier to brush aside the whole thing. It wastes less of my time on someone bad. It doesn’t expose my followers to hurtful sentiments at all. Everyone gets on with their happy little lives except the horrible little gremlin that didn’t get what they wanted out of me.
No one gets to use my platform to hurt others, and they don’t get to keep access to me if they can’t be nice.
*also as an aside- you can shut off reblogs on an individual post now. That’s an option. If you want to make a post about something and some asshole starts discourse or whatever, you can shut off reblogs without deleting the post if you don’t want to delete the original post.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
This is the beginning of the end of Harajuku as now they can “live” copy straight from the source, leading to the last few remaining indie brands to close and small creators losing their jobs.
Don’t support Shein/Romwe (they are the same company).
june is NOT pride month. it’s the month when people on the internet who have never been in irl lgbt spaces or have irl lgbt friends will be like “lgbt people need to STOP sucking and FUCKING during pride parades” and then when you go to a parade, instead of seeing the promised sucking and fucking, you get pelted with gay pens from bank of america
With the announcement of the Harry Potter TV series, you will be made aware of the people in your social circle who are excited about it.
Now is a good time to stop knowing them.
The play here is fairly blatant.
Hire new 12 year olds that haven’t condemned JK Rowling’s horrendous views
Aggressively condemn the inevitable people who say shit about said 12 year olds online to take the moral high ground
Turn it into a show that people hate watch for maximum revenue
Friendly reminder that JK Rowling is the executive producer for this show. So in addition to benefiting monetarily from its very existence, she will be an active participant in creating its narrative. I won’t be watching it and I encourage everyone else to ignore its existence as well.
Don’t hate watch it. Don’t even pirate it. Let this shit drop off the face of the earth.
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