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yvannairieOne thing I didn't realise about The Youth That Grew Up With Social Fandom is that reading through another person's backlog isn't, like, normal to them?
Like, somewhere like on Twitter that's understandable b/c Twitter is all about New Content, All The Time, but on Tumblr people get weirdly apologetic about reading back through other people's blogs and reblogging stuff from two-three years ago -- something I also started doing because I'm usually also dropping people a notice that I'm informally "following" them (neener neener my dashboard is clean and my RSS feed finally works as intended, thank you DW), which means that Your New Content is the only way people really find out about what you're into and what you're passionate about.
And, well, in the attention economy new content is how you make it and please the almighty algorithms/get eyes on your stuff, so it makes sense The New Stuff is the only thing people pay attention to.
... and that's. IDK. That makes me inexplicably sad.
I have a massive backlog for anyone who cares to go through it. I used to have a tag I used exclusively for reblogs if people wanted to know who I interacted with and how, or to browse around for what I used to talk about in my tags, I used to have a tag for comments I added on reblogs, I had three different personal tags (a tradition I'm continuing on this journal -- some of y'all are not here for my life, you're here for the Spicy Takes About Fiction), and I tag for fandom and topic pretty heavily.
I have a tags page. I even had a tag cloud once upon a time so people could find out what was "big" on my blog, although that no longer works for reasons unknown to me. And that's how I had it set up while I still had search turned off. Now I don't care -- if someone wants to hate-search my blog for content to complain about that's no skin off my back because I'm done posting original content on Tumblr anyway. Finding out what I am "about", what I like, what I think about and how I go about thinking about it is easier than ever, but... it's no longer the norm.
The majority of my content up until I quit using Tumblr for anything but self-promotion was original content. I was always posting in a way that would make my tags fun to read backwards through -- or if not fun, at least informative or expressive. One of my big joys was finding people who had interesting things to say, and reading through their personal or fandom tags and getting to know their opinions. That's why getting the hell off Tumblr and back into a more sensible journal-based site did so much good for me, because while I was never embarrassed to be a primarily self-post blog, at least I know that the people who are subbed to me here are here exclusively for my thoughts and not just using me as a tertiary filter on their experience of the internet.
Oh well. It's not like I need any more reasons to hate the attention economy.
Maybe reposting and backdating my stuff finally gives them the attention they deserve, too.
Like, somewhere like on Twitter that's understandable b/c Twitter is all about New Content, All The Time, but on Tumblr people get weirdly apologetic about reading back through other people's blogs and reblogging stuff from two-three years ago -- something I also started doing because I'm usually also dropping people a notice that I'm informally "following" them (neener neener my dashboard is clean and my RSS feed finally works as intended, thank you DW), which means that Your New Content is the only way people really find out about what you're into and what you're passionate about.
And, well, in the attention economy new content is how you make it and please the almighty algorithms/get eyes on your stuff, so it makes sense The New Stuff is the only thing people pay attention to.
... and that's. IDK. That makes me inexplicably sad.
I have a massive backlog for anyone who cares to go through it. I used to have a tag I used exclusively for reblogs if people wanted to know who I interacted with and how, or to browse around for what I used to talk about in my tags, I used to have a tag for comments I added on reblogs, I had three different personal tags (a tradition I'm continuing on this journal -- some of y'all are not here for my life, you're here for the Spicy Takes About Fiction), and I tag for fandom and topic pretty heavily.
I have a tags page. I even had a tag cloud once upon a time so people could find out what was "big" on my blog, although that no longer works for reasons unknown to me. And that's how I had it set up while I still had search turned off. Now I don't care -- if someone wants to hate-search my blog for content to complain about that's no skin off my back because I'm done posting original content on Tumblr anyway. Finding out what I am "about", what I like, what I think about and how I go about thinking about it is easier than ever, but... it's no longer the norm.
The majority of my content up until I quit using Tumblr for anything but self-promotion was original content. I was always posting in a way that would make my tags fun to read backwards through -- or if not fun, at least informative or expressive. One of my big joys was finding people who had interesting things to say, and reading through their personal or fandom tags and getting to know their opinions. That's why getting the hell off Tumblr and back into a more sensible journal-based site did so much good for me, because while I was never embarrassed to be a primarily self-post blog, at least I know that the people who are subbed to me here are here exclusively for my thoughts and not just using me as a tertiary filter on their experience of the internet.
Oh well. It's not like I need any more reasons to hate the attention economy.
Maybe reposting and backdating my stuff finally gives them the attention they deserve, too.
