Alright, I Think I Like Tumblr Now.

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

A Tumblr reblog graph. It shows "Original Post" and "My Addition" in the bottom right, and a long, winding path of reblogs leading to a popular post on the far left

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

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smolsiren

1 month ago

i think either would be interesting

mtf would have potential for angst, with troy using her nickname as her actual name to avoid her birth name like it’s a plague, saying troy isn’t her real name being simultaneously true and false

ftm would be much funnier in regards of name. like think of troy coming out to his dad and saying his new name is troy. and his dad is like “unacceptable. you must have a more proper name. tramilton would be much better”

for now i will teter back and forth like a pendulum, creature creating both

okay so we can all agree troy is trans but is he ftm or mtf?????

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smolsiren

2 weeks ago

reblog if but i still hold out hope that maybe someday i'll be worth more than all the silence left in my way, and when you break the surface, oh without me, please don't return me to the dark of all the memories

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smolsiren

2 weeks ago

somehow I got 95/20 on an assignment

I hope they never fix it and leave it this way forever

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smolsiren

4 months ago

i don’t think i’m great at making fudge-

Gemcyt people!

I was listening to the SU ost out of happenstance (it’s all bangers) and I remembered that each gem has her own unique instrument/specific musical cue, probably so they can be incorporated into a fusions theme without using a leitmotif, which don’t stack together at the same time the way instruments do.

Garnet has her buzzing synths. Amethyst has her drumline and vocal “hey” callout (you’ll hear it if you relisten). Pearl and lapis both have piano, but with Pearl in major key and lapis in minor (I think, idk music stuff this is why I’m asking y’all). Even jasper exclusively has cymbal crashes in her themes.

So basically, everyone give me ya thoughts for the gemcyt character’s instruments/cues.