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kerpingtack) wrote2011-07-23 01:57 pm
kerpingtack) wrote2011-07-23 01:57 pm
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i need to eat something
tumblr is such a shitty platform. It's literally only good for pictures; anything else tumblr people have tried to expand with (gifs, vids, blogs, conversations) turns out low-quality and/or messy as fuck because of how poorly designed that fucking place is. The internet is being strangled to death with all these shitty grainy gifs. No one wants to make gifs normally anymore; they'd rather fit with the ~tumblr size restriction~ because otherwise omg can't share with people on tumblr~ I'm thinking about learning how to make gifs just for myself even though oh god I am not good with computer.
Additionally tumblr's feeding into the general spam culture/frenzied attn whoring of social networking today. Why do you even have to gif everything? Why do you have to comment on everything? All these young teenagers with nothing better to do than hang around online and bitch angrily and/or troll to be ~offensive. Or are just stupid. (I'm not trying to be mean or funny here but more and more I'm like WOW your brain is seriously still developing when you're a teenager. There are some things most of them just cannot cognitively process well. Lack of experience with... people and life also contribute. They're emotional wrecks swept along by the drama of their internet groups.) There's really something to be said about how social media today enables an unhealthy immediacy. Your reaction to real life becomes your real life. And yes there have always been tasteless shitheads, but they've never had so many high profile outlets as they have today. Like people on tumblr who made gifs of the earthquake in Japan earlier this year (literally DURING the news reports), and now people apparently making ~fanwork of the Norway shooting? The fucking fuck. And again, it's not the impulse itself that is special to things like tumblr, but the spam mentality and enabling.
tumblr's especially annoying to me in this regard because tumblr's not 4chan; they have a different justification and reputation for doing this. It's hipster clusterfuck central and everyone's always getting up on their high horse and I feel like they'd defend their tasteless insensitive trolling by saying it's art or that it's fine not to care or something. Dear god. idk.
The design of tumblr is just really stupid and counterintuitive and messy to me (HOW CAN A SITE SO OBSESSED WITH AESTHETICS BE SO FUCKING UGLY), I hate how people just exacerbate this shitty interface by the way they use it (shitty fonts, shitty tumblr themes, trying to make tumblr accomodate all types of media even though it is LITERALLY only capable of handling pictures properly), and I hate 95% of the people I see on there. Also I hate anything that packages reactions/humor into REALLY standardized phrases, which okay, why am I on the internet then, but tumblr humor in particular makes me want to punch my way through concrete walls. I guess it's the way it seems like EVERYONE uses it or how it's often repeated because people like and reblog. Plus people seem to be obsessed with getting followers/attn so if they see it work one time, they repeat it, and the way tumblr's designed in a fucking cesspool, you can't easily parse out the people/things you want to avoid, so almost invariably you just see the same things over and over and over again. And often it becomes ~stylized (badly) because they're all hipsters.
And my perennial complaint: WHY DON'T PEOPLE ON TUMBLR CREDIT THEIR SHIT OMFG
Additionally tumblr's feeding into the general spam culture/frenzied attn whoring of social networking today. Why do you even have to gif everything? Why do you have to comment on everything? All these young teenagers with nothing better to do than hang around online and bitch angrily and/or troll to be ~offensive. Or are just stupid. (I'm not trying to be mean or funny here but more and more I'm like WOW your brain is seriously still developing when you're a teenager. There are some things most of them just cannot cognitively process well. Lack of experience with... people and life also contribute. They're emotional wrecks swept along by the drama of their internet groups.) There's really something to be said about how social media today enables an unhealthy immediacy. Your reaction to real life becomes your real life. And yes there have always been tasteless shitheads, but they've never had so many high profile outlets as they have today. Like people on tumblr who made gifs of the earthquake in Japan earlier this year (literally DURING the news reports), and now people apparently making ~fanwork of the Norway shooting? The fucking fuck. And again, it's not the impulse itself that is special to things like tumblr, but the spam mentality and enabling.
tumblr's especially annoying to me in this regard because tumblr's not 4chan; they have a different justification and reputation for doing this. It's hipster clusterfuck central and everyone's always getting up on their high horse and I feel like they'd defend their tasteless insensitive trolling by saying it's art or that it's fine not to care or something. Dear god. idk.
The design of tumblr is just really stupid and counterintuitive and messy to me (HOW CAN A SITE SO OBSESSED WITH AESTHETICS BE SO FUCKING UGLY), I hate how people just exacerbate this shitty interface by the way they use it (shitty fonts, shitty tumblr themes, trying to make tumblr accomodate all types of media even though it is LITERALLY only capable of handling pictures properly), and I hate 95% of the people I see on there. Also I hate anything that packages reactions/humor into REALLY standardized phrases, which okay, why am I on the internet then, but tumblr humor in particular makes me want to punch my way through concrete walls. I guess it's the way it seems like EVERYONE uses it or how it's often repeated because people like and reblog. Plus people seem to be obsessed with getting followers/attn so if they see it work one time, they repeat it, and the way tumblr's designed in a fucking cesspool, you can't easily parse out the people/things you want to avoid, so almost invariably you just see the same things over and over and over again. And often it becomes ~stylized (badly) because they're all hipsters.
And my perennial complaint: WHY DON'T PEOPLE ON TUMBLR CREDIT THEIR SHIT OMFG
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But then my favorite thing about tumblr is that all the people who would like something like tumblr go there and stay there and I have to deal with them less.
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ommmg the public everything makes me mad. I don't like that any time you do ANYTHING everything can see it. And reblog it so it's just like taken completely out of your hands, and people can attach all their dumb opinions to it too. I mean I'm supposing that's why people make all their commentary in their tags (that's why I do it at least lol). But then some people don't make their tags visible and UGH how am I supposed to creep properly?? lol.
You know what, I think the lack of creativity is one of the fundamnetal things that bothers me about tumblr. Or maybe, like, the bastardization of creativity along with the selfishness. Because people can ~customize their tumblrs with the different themes, but they do it SO shittily and without regard for people trying to navigate that hellhole. Or all the ~beautiful tumblr edits~ where they remove the original watermark, photoshop it, and then put their own watermark on it. jfc.
Seriously, the way tumblr is so fucking disorganized makes me feel like the youth of today are crazy or something. How can they spend so much time navigating that shambling mess?? Like I wanted to cry the first time I saw what a long conversation thread looked like on tumblr. DO YOU KIDS SERIOUSLY READ THAT?? The longer you talk, the more you approach having like one letter on each line, what the fuck!
lol, very good point about welcome exodus...es. I think I'm mostly riled up because fandom is moving more and more toward tumblr and ugh people have to use the shitty tumblr gifs on lj and things. BUT WHY ARE WE GOING TO TUMBLR, PEOPLE? STOP IT!! we should only use tumblr for picspam and absolutely NOTHING more. ;~; (And also I think tumblr has really nice potential, because it really is honestly useful for spreading pictures and sometimes people do use it well to create an interesting/distinct aesthetic or whatever. that's why I keep creeping on it, lol. But overall it's just so damn poorly designed and used. smh)
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I like that you said "bastardization of creativity" because one of my least favorite things about tumblr is how it produces these gifs that are like, the same clip repeated four times in four corners, colorized into ~a rainbow~ because it's ~pretty~ or something, LIKE WHY WOULD YOU WASTE YOUR LIFE MAKING SOMETHING LIKE THAT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'D TAKE A LOT OF EFFORT but I guess it gains them followers. But yeah ugh that whole stupid watermark debate was the WORST, esp since usually the re-watermarked edits were generally worse-looking than the original photos. There's just like this constant gross sense of entitlement going on over there, I DON'T EVEN KNOW.
LOL I FEEL LIKE SUCH A GRANDMA, shaking my cane at them all the time but yes basically I agree it is totally ridiculous!!
No I am the same, I go back and forth between "GOOD RIDDANCE" and "but why is everyone gone", because idk I like fandom but if everyone does eventually completely move over there I just... can't. I (kind of) tried, but I just genuinely get nothing out of it!! I LIKE MAKING BIG LAME THEATRICAL LJ POSTS WITH MY OWN WORDS, and I like commenting on things but ughhhh. But ia that it is good for pictures/picspamming etc. I think I spend more time looking through tumblr tags for pictures than I do like, actually logged into my own tumblr dashboard. And despite everything some people do have really fun tumblrs that make for v enjoyable creeping. It's just that... most people really don't.
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I seriously don't think these kids know their own tastes really or understand what looks good; they just see what gets others attn and go along. lol omg I still rage so hard about rude-ass edits. It pisses me off a lot when people don't credit things properly, and modifying (ruining) people's work and REPLACING their watermarks takes that to another level. And then bitching about it!! You dumb kids, how dare you even make it sound like you have some kind of right to to the original photos (which are ALREADY edited to perfection by the original fans w t f). Make friends a more normal way!!!
The entitlement thing, ugh yes. tumblr reeks of ignorant privilege.
lol who would have known that tumblr was the big threat to lj fandom, not dreamwidth! I don't think fic will switch over at least, but I hope none of the fandom REALLY goes over. I really like the lj format too. It makes sense to me; you have your own space, and like you said, you have discrete posts that can be hidden away by cut-tags and no one has to see it unless they go looking for it, just like no one has to read your comments unless they're interested. (Secretly I want tumblr to collapse in on itself like a dying star somewhere down the line so people will be able to say "remember tumblr? lol." /MEAN) Discussion or like ANYTHING readable is fucking impossible on tumblr. I can't bear to think of those conversation threads. omg.
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SOMETIMES I THINK THIS IS INEVITABLE, if only because like... how the hell does tumblr even make money? Like seriously idgi at all, there are no ads and people aren't paying to use it are they?! A LOT OF PEOPLE USE TUMBLR, servers cost money, is this some trust fund kid's baby or what, I don't understand!! But yeah, I wish, I wish. I think/agree the fic aspect is pretty much what's keeping lj fandom alive, SADLY, so every so often when I see someone posting fic on tumblr I get really weirdly threatened, iiiiidk.
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D: but whyyyyyyyy tumblr is so STUPID. there's no better word I can think of! it's just DUMB. what do they even do there then?? how can they even talk? do they talk in gifs?? like the people who were born in tumblr?? lol what am I saying. but seriously, oh god why
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tumblr drama is like ten times more confusing than other internet dramas to me because the DESIGN of the site is such a cesspool; how can you even find what the fuck is going on? I feel disoriented just with infinite scrolling. maybe my brain isn't 21st century modern enough for that mess.
lol omg early facebook. and myspace, wow! that takes me back.
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also, tumblr is just a waste of fucking space in general. people tag shit wrong, tag their personal shit with fandom tags and i'm like i don't need to know this stop and take it to a chatroom. there's no way to filter things there, that's what drives me crazy. and people are so dumb i can't deal with them. i don't have a personal tumblr anymore bc everytime i'd log on and look at my dash i'd be ready to throw shit. it's the laziest fucking thing in the world to like a post and reblog instead of actually talking to people. there's no effort. it's sad. have you read this? it's about facebook/zuckerberg but this part really could be about tumblr: Connection is the goal. The quality of that connection, the quality of the information that passes through it, the quality of the relationship that connection permits—none of this is important. That a lot of social networking software explicitly encourages people to make weak, superficial connections with each other, and that this might not be an entirely positive thing, seem to never have occurred to him. & “You have to be somebody,” Lanier writes, “before you can share yourself.” But to Zuckerberg sharing your choices with everybody (and doing what they do) is being somebody. i think that's the problem with any site but tumblr seems to be really terrible bc it seems even more impersonal than fb and people legit judge based on things like gifs and edits.
idk these kids should just get off my lawn tbh
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There's no way to make a proper space for yourself on tumblr!! ugh everything is just continuous and shambling and you have to scroll forever because of all the stupidity. I really really can't with how conversations look or happen on tumblr. DO THOSE KIDS SERIOUSLY READ THAT?? HOW DO THEY THINK THAT IS ACCEPTABLE
I know every generation thinks theirs, or the one that comes after theirs, is the worst, but uh whatever, this generations suxx sometimes. I don't know why everything has a rate/like/thumbs up button now. it's making everything into something that can be judged in a really simple binary way and it makes people think that they're SUPER entitled to make their their dumb useless opinions known. who the fuck cares if you dislike a fucking status update?? NO ONE. I mean I get that it's about social support and connection but like that qt says it's really shallow and weak. And that's so true about tumblr, you don't have to say or do anything substantial to have an identity. you just have to accumulate other people's work and figure out the "proper" gifs and tags to use. (I'm gonna bookmark that article for later reads btw, ty for the link!)
(& okay this doesn't have anything to do with anything, but GOD I HATE THAT FACEBOOK MOVIE. I haven't watched it and I don't think I will, but seriously I think it's legit to hate the very IDEA of a FACEBOOK MOVIE. A FACEBOOK MOVIE!! O M G the amount of self-obsession in my general peer group will never cease to amaze me. and I don't just mean about facebook, I mean about watching the life and times about some dbag privileged white college student. WOW SERIOUSLY YOU COULDN'T FIND AN ASSHOLE LIKE THAT TO STARE AT FOR TWO HOURS IN REAL LIFE?)
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