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Don't worry, it's not a SJW Tumblrite, just a fandom blog.

So there was this blog I used to like because of their well written meta and decent fic. But the longer I spent on their blog, the more of their opinions that I began to disagree with. For one, they seemed to always have their shipping goggles on. Like, for character relationships, they only see romance complex family dynamic-esque bonds, or something slightly above hostility between two characters. In other words, platonic does not exist to them. They also keep reblogging confession blog posts to point out how "wrong" the confessor is. Then, when they wrote posts for another fandom, for a game that I played through a good amount of times, I think they missed a lot of points in the game.

My problem comes in that I have to put in some effort to not just hate-read through their Tumblr and see their new posts since my Chrome suggests the URL from time to time.

So F!S people, anyone have a similar problem with Tumblr blogs, where you just can't stop reading them, even when it frustrates you?

There's one blog I hate-read in particular, and I'm convinced I just do it in the hopes that someday someone will come in and tell this person just what a whiny talentless idiot they are.

And to see them getting posts wrong, misunderstanding things and causing trainwrecks of their own, that's always funny. Not so funny when they do all that and nobody dares call them out on it because they're sooo~ perfect and can do no wrong. Even when they really do.

I'm trying to wean myself off this (because lbr it's not exactly the healthiest thing I could be doing for my own self-esteem) but it's horribly addictive.

There's this person I follow because she's really good at finding magazine scans and rare images of a certain anime fandom, but she's such an specially snowflake I get frustrated every time she makes a text post and she never tags them, so I can't just block them.

So far she:
-Has complained about having followers with empty tumblrs.

-Has complained about any follower whose tumblr has a similar name to theirs (and please note hers is named after a very popular character).

-Has complained about people rebloging and liking too many of her posts at the same time.

-Has complained about not getting enough notes.

-Has complained about people using her gifs as reaction gifs, because she only makes them so people reblog them. She uses others people gifs are reaction gifs all the time.

-Has complained about someone using one of her edits somewhere because it took her FIVE MINUTES to do it, how they dare to not respect her hard work.

-Has complained about people rebloging her non-scans posts without adding anything, because apparently those post aren't public and shouldn't be rebloged (but her tumblr is public).

-She announces she is leaving tumblr every two months because she can't stand *insert one of the things she complains about* anymore. She is always back a few days later.

SA

*so I can't just block them and I don't really want to. I can't deny it's strangely fascinating (as well as frustrating) to see their rants.

FIVE MINUTES!

Oh, sweetie!

As she said that three times in her rant. Twice in capital letters and several exclamation points.

that first one is particularly amazing

hating on people for literally nothing

Her reason is that she feels "stalked" if she can't know anything about the people following her.

NAYRT

That, especially when it's added to the rest of your list, makes me think this is one hell of a controlling person.

They also sound alarmingly similar to someone in my fandom, except for the empty Tumblrs thing. I almost wish it was the same person because the thought that there's more than one like this is pretty awful.

lol sounds like a real piece of work

i think she just do a favor or just doing the thing she like and judging you never encounter any problem with follower either.

don't think any guidelines for her to make just to satisfy a minor follower.

(yeah, the tumblr itself is trainwreck!)

I honestly find tumblr a huge timesuck anyway, and am trying to pull away. (Which is how I came to F!S!) I never hate-read, but I definitely realized my dash was making me feel grimy, cynical, and apathetic, none of which is useful to me.

So I axed something like 20% of people I followed. (And note that probably half remaining are defunct tumblrs like fuckyeahamandawaller, in the vain hope that one day they'll resurrect.)

If I spend too much time on tumblr I definitely feel grubby and depressed. That's not even to do with the people I follow. It's to do with the format, I think. The random nature of the dash as many different blogs feed into it.

The randomness is a trick to keep you addicted. It's the same thing they use in games, those random drops from defeated enemies. It works on a deep part of the brain that's hard to control. It's what gets people addicted to gambling.

When I go on tumblr, I tend to spend many hours on it without wanting to, and feel tired afterwards. That's why I limit my exposure to once every few months. It's a pity because there's lots of genuinely good stuff there, and I like the people. Just the format is too deliberately addicting. A Skinner box with pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber

Same here. I no longer even check my friends' tumblrs. :( (20+ posts of pretty pictures, 10 memes, 10 random conversations, 20 more pretty pictures, 5 links to interesting sites, 5 music videos, all mixed up, every day! One week or two of not logging in and how could you possibly catch up without spending many whole afternoons? D:)

You really are spot-on with the why it works like that - it had never occurred to me...

My solution is to just check on tumblr blogs separately - as long as they're not very active personal blogs, to ensure a lack of multiple topics barrage -, visiting their urls directly, without being logged-in.

The only downside is that, if they change their usernames and I wasn't following them, then it's very difficult to track them down to their new url.

There IS a lot of good stuff on tumblr, but good luck EVER finding it again afterward, unless you download or keep a really rigorously strict tags index. The format really does make everything worse, and I wish to god it hadn't become the SJ hub of the Internet.

Definitely have this problem.

I sincerely wish I could stop because it only makes me miserable and trapped in Comparison Hell, but it's a compulsion I have a lot of trouble with.

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