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YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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You can see how many followers you have but the information isn't visible to other people, so you can't brag about how popular you are. Also the number is a lie because it counts bots, spammers, and anyone you have blocked. Only ten percent of my listed followers are actual human beings, the rest are pornbots and the one guy who exclusively posts Bruce Lee gifs.

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YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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The nice (?) thing about Tumblr is that it's basically too dumb to monetize. There's no timestamps on posts, so when you find a blog you just have to guess if its most recent post was yesterday or 2011. For a while when you reblogged something you could just edit the reblog and pretend the OP said something else entirely.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Oh, y'know, the usual. People (often teenaged girls) who think Ted Bundy was 'dreamy', or started the #justiceforjahar hashtag after the Boston Marathon Bombing, or mention that they wish they were at high school with the Columbine shooters, surely they would be the one to heal his heart!

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Up until, like, 2018 it was trivially easy to download embedded mp3s right out of Tumblr's servers and every time you did the file source read something like "plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio">

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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Tagged pairings aren't necessarily the focus of a story, Amanda/Sarek probably gets high numbers just by virtue of showing up in anything about Spock's backstory.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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How many TOS fanfics only exist in fanzines from the 70's? How many stories never got digitized? That poo poo keeps me up at night.

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YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

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I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of its hosted elsewhere, MLP was enough of a juggernaut fandom that it had a lot of its own fic websites.

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