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jack wolfe the gabe goodman you are
Something that all the people shouting "the Twitter invasion will ruin Tumblr!!!!!" are not understanding is that those newcomers... belonged here all along.
We are talking about people who are willing to uproot from their social safe place and move to a wild new frontier... Because Elon Musk bought Twitter.
See, your average Twitter user who don't care about Musk, or even may dislike him in an abstract manner, is not going to move anywhere.
It's the people who oppose what Musk ideologically represents who will end here. Those who will get harassed there for being leftist, gay, trans, socially conscious, etc.
You know, the people who will fit well in the site of the blue haired people with all kind of pronouns and genders and identities.
They are our stranded siblings, they belong here. Be nice to them!
“That sounds like a good idea…….”-“Is there something bothering you with the idea?”-“No, the idea is GOOD…..🙂”
Can someone explain this to me?
Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.
And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.
So an old person could type something like:
how are things going with your “boyfriend”….
and what they mean is
How are things going with your boyfriend? [Im so excited for you, sweetie, and I wanna hear about it]
But a young person would interpret that sentence as
How are things going with your so-called boyfriend…. [I say, while seething with contempt for him and possibly for you too]
The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you
tumblr really has gone from being an open pvp zone to being my chill little retreat from other social media sites. nobody is trying to hock NFTs. i'm not forced to hear about joe rogan. i mean i know statistically people like this and things that are even worse also exist on tumblr but it's out of sight out of mind. they aren't being forced into my view by an algorithm. it's all just among us babies
i often wonder how many ppl from 2012 tumblr are still active on here
are u also still here, lurking in the shadows????
