[ SECRET POST #3210 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3210 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #459.
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

[dratinis]

Yeah, I'm kinda surprised to see a lot of lurkers, too. I mean, I understand to a point; I lurked for a while before finally plucking the courage to jump into the discussions. But I guess all the talkative people moved on to tumblr or whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is that you don't even need to have the courage to talk on tumblr. You just have to press the reblog button.

And there's not much discussion either. It's just reblogging some wall of text someone wrote, maybe just add a small comment. It's a mind-numbing echochamber.

[dratinis]

That's a good point, too. You can have a post with thousands of notes but not very much discussion going on. I think part of that has more to do with how messy conversation threads get once a lot of replies has been posted, though.

[(Anonymous)]

This and there's not much willingness to interact with different opinions. It's more the need to prove how clever your opinions are so people with different opinions are seen as a hindrance instead of an occasion for discussion.

I think this has to do with the fact that reblogs are the currency that counts today.

[dratinis]

And the fact that some corners of tumblr-based fandom can be really toxic and terrible to people who don't agree with them. That's not to say that it was any better back when LJ was king, but at least then it was easier to contain the toxicity within their respective communities.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this. At lj a discussion was contained to a private journal or a community. At tumblr it's basically available for everyone. And though people on lj could be massive dicks too, I can't remember that I ever came across the pure toxicity that can be found on tumblr. It's online-bullying and psychoterror of the worst kind.

And the way tumblr works, I get the impression that people foster and encourage this kind of negativity instead of overcoming it. It's scary to see, especially if you've been in fandom for over a decade and witnessed other platforms that weren't this extreme.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeesh. I'm cautious about saying anything at all on Tumblr, because it's not worth the emotional energy in case someone might somehow manage to read a problematic context into something I said. And I mean, if you're really trying, you can interpret absolutely anything as problematic, and a certain segment of Tumblr users seem to have developed this into a hobby of theirs.

Disclaimer: I'm not waah waahing about the fact that mean sjws aren't letting me get away with blatant bigotry or some such. I meant the thing where you say something genuinely innocent and harmless, and then someone takes the effort to somehow read that as having had a harmful intent/content that really isn't there.

Granted, it seems like the absolute worst of this is starting to pass, and tumblr is growing up a bit and realising that the "problematic culture" got a bit out of hand to a ridiculous extent. I'm not saying tumblr is great and fine now, but there is a bit more self awareness now than there used to be.

[dratinis]

In my experience, as long as you don't tag, the chances of someone finding a "problematic" post you made are pretty low. An instance of that was how I was belly-aching about Korrasami (tl;dr I'm a queer lady who didn't think the writers did a good job romantically coding their relationship), but I got no blow-back since I didn't tag it. But I definitely get where you're coming from; the call-out culture that has been fostered definitely keeps people from posting since they don't want to say the wrong thing on accident.

It kind of sucks because a lot of people there seem to be into feminist theory, but again, the culture makes it an awful place to get introduced to it.

[solticisekf]

I guess lurkers enjoyed reading LJ discussions.