So, If You Don’t Want Your Artist’s To Disappear Or, You Know, Uh, Lose Their Entire Income, Please

Wow, people really don’t reblog on here anymore. I mean, the ratio of likes to reblogs has really changed a lot compared to even a year ago. (This is even on relevant, popular blog posts)

It used to be more even, people would ‘like’ and reblog it right after or put it in a queue. It seems like less and less people are seeing artist’s work and I couldn’t figure out why until I noticed the ‘like’s going up and the reblogs going down. I see more people stealing art and reposting it on Instagram than reblogging these days, and it’s kind of really bad for artists.

This kind of thing is costing a lot of us our livelihoods. Myself, and a ton of other disabled artists rely on reblogs to get commissions, merchandise sales, and Patreons.

Tumblr is a community (sometimes it’s a pornbot community but I mean) and we rely on those in the community to boost our stuff out to those who maybe don’t follow us but would be interested, or those who are looking for an artist to commission and haven’t seen us in the fandom tag yet, or those looking for that exact gift for someone and, hey, I make that.

If this is simply just a matter of the site dying and folks moving to another site, maybe let us know? Because I know that I’m not the only one struggling with this right now, and none of us seem to know what to do about it except keep posting and hope that people deem our art important enough to share on their blogs like they used to.

(Which is getting harder and harder to do when we’re feeling discouraged by the seemingly lack of interest, and, you know, our own personal problems.)

So, if you don’t want your artist’s to disappear or, you know, uh, lose their entire income, please remember reblog.

reblog if ur bi, ur not biphobic, or ur best friend is a beautiful valid bisexual

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onlyiremain

6 years ago

YOU are the powerhouse of the cell

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onlyiremain

6 years ago

How dare Justin Trudeau call himself an ally to the LGBTQ+ community when yesterday, March 23 2019, the federal government rejected the plea for a nationwide conversion therapy ban. How dare he come to our pride, shake my hand, only to allow Canadian LGBTQ+ youth to suffer in something we all thought was already illegal. Ottawa states that the decision to ban it up to each individual province or territory, and only one province (Ontario) has made it completely illegal.

I know no one gives a fuck about Canadian politics, but please stop painting this perfect picture of Trudeau when he stands for shit like this.

Source for those who can’t believe it. I couldn’t.

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onlyiremain

4 years ago

wishing all of my muslim followers a beautiful and peaceful ramadan!

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onlyiremain

6 years ago

You know, this is why content creators end up abandoning their works, right?

80 likes compared to 10 reblogs means that only 12% of people decided that what you did is worth showing other people.

If you like the thing, reblog it. You don’t even have to add tags, just spread it so that a) other people can see it, and b) the creator gets recognition for what they did.

Obviously, those numbers are never going to match, but the divide should not be that huge.

It’s even more important right now, because tumblr is garbage and they’ve stopped allowing anything with an outside link from appearing in tags. Writers/artists cannot tag things to their twitter/store/writing website. That can cause a significant drop in views, especially for newer creators.

Like… we aren’t asking for much. A few reblogs. Reviews/comments. No creator should have to beg for that much.

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onlyiremain

6 years ago

Reblog If You Can Take Off Your Bra Without Taking Your Shirt Off.

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onlyiremain

5 years ago

Every girl has had the experience where a creepy guy asks for our number and we don’t want to give it to him, but we also don’t want to get gutted in a back alley. “Give him a fake number!” I hear you call, okay and then he says “okay let me call you real quick!” Because they are learning. “Give them your number and then block them!” Okay and then they can plug it into something like Spokeo, pay $10 and know everything about you. So what do you do?

First pick a fake name, I use Jessica, then download the Google Voice app, hook it up to your email, pick a number, and set up a fake greeting with your fake name. You can set it to ring your actual phone like a normal call or text but they don’t have real info on you.

Go forth and don’t get murdered, ladies!

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onlyiremain

5 years ago