RIPRest in peace r/TumblrInAction

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[–]thaw800 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

i'll miss the old sub.

had many good discussions there.

however i won't miss the latest times when the focus was almost only on trans people.

maybe this is what tbis place becomes too.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

however i won't miss the latest times when the focus was almost only on trans people.

What is it with trans issues lately? It's been literally all anyone ever talks about for the past few months. Is the government doing something extra-secret that they need a bigger fight than normal to distract the people with?

[–]Fork 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's because they hold the most power on the internet and are incredibly prolific in creating the dumbest shit possible.

Not to mention that all the classic subcultures TiA used to joke about (otherkin, tulpas, gamer girl feminism, weird fandoms, etc.) have been completely overtaken by genderspecials, spicy straights/asexuals who have sex, and AGPs preying on kids. It's impossible to find good content nowadays that isn't plagued by one of the aforementioned.

[–]GrilledTofuIdentifying as a block of tofu 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sad to see the intensification of the clowning. Everything that's a norm now would have been satire 7 years ago

[–]ClassroomPast6178 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They banned the gender-critical feminist subs, so all the gender-critical feminists flooded TiA with their stuff.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But it's been everywhere lately. Even irl it comes up way too often (because it's all the media is reporting on).

[–]Sentinell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, TiA became a weird place. It was founded to mostly laugh at the Radical Feminists and weird shit like "wolfgenders" or some shit, but there were a lot of RadFems joining too.

[–]PopsicleToes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, it's probably the group that's currently furnishing the most material for critcism or satire.

[–]gameboi_playboiincel rights activist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nobody pays for social media, so revenue for social media companies primarily comes from maximizing impressions and views (ex. why LinkedIn changed their app to be more like other social media because they want everyone to check it once a week instead of twice a year which is easier than multiplying their userbase by 20). Data algorithms are then built to maximize views (ie profit) which ends up meaning that the losers who use it all day are elevated by the algorithm, especially when they have followings of more losers that use it every day and their posts generate arguments from lots of "normal people" who are more and more tired of seeing it. This also goes for other far right-wing stuff not just Tumblr/Twitter/etc. Covid and quarantine made a lot of normal people have to stare at this shit for quite some time so now everyone's at least a spectator of the topic. And traditional media is riding the waves of this topic because it generates views/impressions for them too, but I don't think traditional media was involved in starting the big push.

When Jack Dorsey (co-founder/former ceo of twitter) said that he doesn't think one person should be in charge of twitter, but the primary problem is that it is a company and he trusts elon to be able to fix that, I think that this was kind of what he was getting at. The money needs to be driven from something other than quantity of views.