You Know, An Interesting Tumblr Transformation That's Happened Gradually, And Which I've Seen No One

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

heye every one.

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unicornteacup24

4 years ago

That's awesome

fucking

god

everyone on mobile click on the rb button on this post and then when it opens the writing screen long press the post button in the upper right

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unicornteacup24

1 year ago

Mutuals please be aware I am walking between your desks and dropping lolly pops and small cards in your cardboard mailboxes as I go around

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unicornteacup24

3 years ago

I'm pretty sure my first anime was No. 6

Everyone’s starter anime is death note.

I don’t count sailor moon or dbz cuz you watched those as a kid and assumed they were cartoons.

I mean when you got “into” anime fully aware of what it was and actually became immmmmmersed in this bizarre weeb culture.

It’s usually death note.

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unicornteacup24

2 months ago

🔪 knife stop 🔪

Take a knife or two to complete any tasks you need to finish soon. Reblog to give your mutuals a knife for any group projects you may be working on

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unicornteacup24

2 years ago

Tell me why I'm just refreshing and scrolling through YouTube videos, right, and I see this short with music from Epic (ya know, the musical) and I watch it. Then pause. Cuz it sounds different (‘that's not- that's different. Huh?’) So, I hit the sound.

And there's an album cover! And vocal artists! And various cast!

And it's so exciting and fun to know that Epic actually got finished and fully made! Can't tell ya how many times I played ‘Luck Runs Out' and ‘The Horse and The Infant ’

Already watching the animatics omg!

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art Spotify why am i like this epic the musical musical animatics whoo hoo

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unicornteacup24

3 weeks ago

Honestly yes

I hope you like weird girl energy because that's all I got

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