Picrew Thingie I Put Together In 2021. Ah Yes, The Very Cis Urge To Have Looked Like This. God, I Was

Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

Oh god, from now on that's what I'll call it in my head xD

nobody is thinking about princess dick enough these days. have you noticed this

Very important PSA.

ok!!!!! its wearing cat ears so. :3

W-wha? Cute!! *pat pat* But...what?

Naw, slutty lil mutt. Too bad I'm not up for that, but I'm sure you'll find someone who can help you <3

Awww, lil pup wants some asks, wants attention? What an adorable little pup in need, it deserves sooo much attention and care <3 *pat pat* Will puppy feel good from cuddles and kissies though? Or does its slutty mind crave other things?

Rurururfff rufff arururf yyeshsh cuddlezz an kisses are good ^w^ buttt yeaggg am maybe able a little bit a slut right now arururrfff rufff heheheee >W<

*bites u very girlilie*

Doctors take just one look at me and say "needs more girl bites"

Hey since I haven’t been active in forever, who wants to hear a story about how I became a local cryptid in my town?

Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.

Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.

He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.

And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.

Loserlord indeed