Sigh - I miss tumblr

[kitewithfish]

I miss Tumblr

Not the current version of tumblr, which I can go and visit, which is like the children's exhibits at an art museum, with half the important but controversial people left out of the conversation and all the bits covered up by papal fig leaves

I miss the weirdness and the art and the random porn that also commented on character and stumbling into a three-month-long fight in a fandom I legit have never heard of that turned into a gif dance off and a watercolor porn fest at the same time.

It was weird, and now it’s gone, and I love dreamwidth, don’t get me wrong, it’s much much better at having conversations and community and I think it’s better at keeping people from being harassed, and maybe I’ll get into Pillowfort if enough people I like show up there, but. Man.

I miss tumblr.  

Comments

Re: Yes ...

[kitewithfish]

Ha, you're rigtht- Tumblr did have a great graffiti element going for it - or a bathroom wall! You don't know how the post got there but it's there now and everyone has Feelings!

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

See, that's exactly why it got shut down. It was TOO free expression. It said a lot of things that society doesn't want said, and can't afford to have said too much. This is why graffiti is illegal: certain ideas, and certain people, are not permitted public voice. Graffiti is when people take that voice by force and refuse to be silenced. It irritates the hell out of the authorities when "those people" won't shut up. So of course Tumblr got painted over by the censors. They're basically allergic to freedom.

No, I don't like seeing "motherfuckr" sprayed on walls, although I have seen some glorious pieces painted on trains. I don't like people praising Trump as a 'great president.' But they have a right to their ideas and a free society needs places of open discourse. Without that, we're limited to what is pleasing to the masses. Doubleplusungood. So I mourn the loss of Tumblr-that-was, even though I never spent time there. It was of value to me as a safety valve for other people. And sometimes people would point out a cool thing on there and I'd go look, like pointing out cool graffiti on a wall.