[ SECRET POST #2989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2989 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


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02.
(Digimon Adventure/02/Tri)


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03.
['Allo 'Allo!]


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04.
[Colby Keller]


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05.
[Kokoro Kiseki - Vocaloid]


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06.
[MSPaintAdventures, Homestuck]


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07.
[David Mitchell and Robert Webb]


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08.
[Graham McTavish from Outlander]


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09.
[Game of Thrones/ A Song of Ice and Fire]


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10.
[Alfred Hitchcock's Rope]


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11.
["Darkness Falls," World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor]


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12.
[Avengers]


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13.
[Bob Bryar from My Chemical Romance]


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14.
[Criminal Minds]


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15.
[Vikings]


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16.
[Gunnerkrigg Court]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #427.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can definitely understand the frustration of someone speaking as if their headcanon is canon. Most of the time I just ignore it because this shit happens in every fandom. Every fandom has it's delusional people and those who follow them like mindless sheep. If it's really bad then just xkit and blacklist them so you'll never have to see them again.

Though I wonder how many of those reblogs/likes are actually agreeing with the original poster? A lot of times someone else will reply with their input, try to argue with the OP, or correct any false info and then other people reblog/like THAT post. Not every note is an agreement.

In my fandom I sometimes see posts with a lot of notes and I read the tags and find a lot of debate and replies going on.

If this persons meta's are as flawed as you say, maybe someone who has knowledge of the books has called them out.

[othellia]

Though I wonder how many of those reblogs/likes are actually agreeing with the original poster? A lot of times someone else will reply with their input, try to argue with the OP, or correct any false info and then other people reblog/like THAT post. Not every note is an agreement.

Yeah, there have been posts with instant corrections with a bunch of notes. First I think "oh thank god this corrected version is going around" but then I realize I have no each which is actually going around.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

That's one of the things that irritates me most about Tumblr's platform - there's very little point correcting anything (or even editing your original post if you realize later that there's an error; unless something's changed since I left Tumblr a few months ago, your edits never showed up on existing reblogs) because the incorrect/unedited version will still keep making the rounds and there's nothing you can do about it.

[sky_queen3]

Sadly they don't, I'm still waiting for tumblr to do that. (But I can also see how one could abuse it as well.)

[(Anonymous)]

No more potential for abusing it than there is with locking DWs or LJs, or editing blog posts. We managed okay with screencapping and cached versions then, I don't see how letting Tumblr be this uneditable mess is protecting anyone or anything to any greater level than before.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. It's so annoying.

They couldn't have invented a better format for spreading bad information. Sometimes I see genuinely dangerous first aid information with hundreds of thousands of notes. That's a lot worse than stupid fandom theories.

People have probably already been killed because of doing something they read about on tumblr, while thinking they were helping.

[(Anonymous)]

My personal breaking point was one of those posts with a graphic of a word definition. This time, it was something like, 'Drapetomania (n): An uncontrollable urge to run away.' And thousands of likes and reblogs, often accompanied by things like 'OMG this is so me, exams are so haaaard I just wanna get away from it all tee hee.'

I kind of blew up, and did a reblog where (mixed in with some general rants about Tumblr) I explained that it was an old Southern concept from the mid-1800s, a 'mental illness' explaining why slaves wanted to flee their masters, and the prescribed cure was heavy lashings and the amputation of toes so they literally couldn't run any more.

Then I scrolled through the entire notes list. Exactly one other person had brought up that concept before me. Between the two of us we got maybe half a dozen reblogs. The rest of the five thousand-plus notes were all uncritically accepting.

Abandoned my Tumblr account that day. I still sometimes manually check on individual blogs, but otherwise, I'm done.