Crystalw-725 - ✧crystal✧

『明けの明星』

“with the dawn”

After a week of being tied to my bed from my health issues, I’ve finally drawn something to get back to my usual riff. I think I threw my artstyle off the window again

Original post of the challenge: Twitter

tenmas but kagamine-fied!!

slowtember // wind

this show broke my brain and now it’s your turn

Day 11: this was surprisingly fun

She’s everything. He’s just Joe.

Day 3499 - 13 May 2023

furry tablet stand

⁽¹¹ ᵐᵉᵒʷᵐᵉᵒʷ⁾

.//projectTiGER

Everytime I make a post like "don't spend money on gacha" I get a bunch of angry replies to tell me "actually it's POSSIBLE to gamble responsibly" and "mh how AM i a bad person for deciding to spend MY own money that I earned MYSELF?"

and man... I really wish that people understood that when I say "Don't spend money on gacha, it might kickstart a gambling addiction" or "if you regularly spend money on gacha you might already have one" I don't mean it as a moral judgement. Addiction isn't something that solely affects "bad" or "stupid" people. Addiction isn't some punishment that is deserved. If you suffer from any kind of addiction, you deserve help. But the first step of getting that help is acknowledging there is a problem in the first place.

also: while this applies to all addictions, gacha addictions especially suck because people keep trivializing it. There are so many memes and so much enabling like "lol just spent all my savings on gacha :p" "3000$ for my waifu, a pretty cheap price!" "lol it's too late for me I already spend so much on it but you guys stay safe!" "Don't spend on gacha? No, spend MORE on gacha!" which I believe only adds fuel to the virulent hostility against any post that goes "hey, this isn't normal, please be careful."

So yeah all this talk to say: the best way to not get a gambling addiction is to not start gambling at all, so don't spend money on gacha. If you do spend money on gacha, be careful and watch out that "I'm just spending ten bucks and nothing else" doesn't morph into "I just spent 140 bucks and got nothing out of it, might as well add ten more at this point." If you have a gacha addiction and are aware of it, I wish you safety and recovery.

honestly i hate posts like this, they’re so condescending and also just. incorrect?

tumblrs algorithm doesn’t work like instagrams, true, but like… the amount of reblogs a post gets doesn’t really factor into whether it gets promoted onto other peoples dashes or not? unless you’re talking about reblogs as like, a direct way of spreading to more people, which only really helps if you have a TON of followers to see said post and potentially reblog it. whether or not a post takes off on this site can be extremely random, as people who’ve made unexpected viral text posts probably know.

the truth is, tumblr is just a pretty bad place to promote art. You can’t really game the algorithm with popular tags like on tiktok or instagram, because tags on this site are used for categorisation rather than trends. You can hope to be randomly featured on someone’s for you page or suggested posts, but most people don’t look at that or actively block them. if it’s fandom art you might gain a small amount of interest with fandom tags, but original art is way harder to get popular on here. instagram is still better in that regard.

like i said, the best way of getting a lot of notes on here is to be reblogged by a popular blogger with a lot of followers, and the chances of that happening (unless you’re already popular yourself) is slim unless you beg. Blaze seems like a waste of money since it’s random who your post will actually be shown to.

Anyway my point is: stop guilt tripping tumblr users for liking posts and not reblogging them. people can use this site in any way they want, and you have to accept that sometimes people don’t want to reblog something. this is fine. a reblog gives you 0 dollars. a like also gives you 0 dollars. commissions posts fizzle and die on this site, as does fundraising for those in dire situations. if you really are desparate to make money from your art, you have to realise that trying to do so on tumblr is a terrible way to go about it. make an instagram page, a facebook page, try to get some freelance work outside of the internet. it’s hard to make money from art.

it’s hard to hear for a lot of people it seems, but random users not reblogging your posts isn’t why you’re broke. and it’s not because they don’t know how this site works or how to use the reblog button. posts like this are so condescending and unnecessary.

and i say all of this as an artist who posts on tumblr and struggles to get reblogs so it’s not because i hate artists and want them to die. it’s just how this site works