Gurlfren :)

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.

Trans Zero Suit tucks.

I’m sweet, squishy, and kinda hot. Also I make real bad puns and am very autistic.

I have accidentally become lesbian bait.

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

:0 Imperial Japanese Navy ship as a profile banner!

Mhmm! The Takao

I just think she's really pretty. In my top 5 for prettiest warships

Woah, you're such a smart boi :3 *pet pet*

wish it was acceptable to wear a collar as a normal part of an outfit

When university makes you read ancient Roman smut...this is the life

in the psyched ward. straight up "getting it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My eepy meepy

Wonder how many cute girls will join us, heheh x3

god autistic girls are so cute