I had no idea about Tumblr’s shadowban until it happened to me. Since then, surprisingly quite a few number of people have texted me about them getting shadowbanned as well. Now that I’m aware of it, I realize it’s becoming increasingly common for legit blogs like mine to get shadowbanned for no reason at all. So hope this helps everyone who has to unnecessarily go through this.
What does shadowban exactly mean?
Basically, your blog exists and mostly functions as it normally would, but Tumblr has made it invisible to everyone else. Tumblr lets you believe that everything is fine and that you can interact with others, but actually you can’t. (Look at the wikipedia definition here.)
Why does this happen?
From what I understand, blogs get shadowbanned since they are suspected of being bots, or just sketchy, or they might be going against Tumblr’s guidelines. I’m not sure, but it might also happen if someone has reported your blog.
But more often than not, it’s just a tumblr glitch.
How to tell if your blog has been shadowbanned? And most of the things that happen during this state.
(These are the things that I personally went through. It might not be the same for everyone. Also, my main blog (@that-damn-girl) was shadowbanned. My side-blogs were fine. So in case your main blog is fine but your side blog is shadowbanned, you might have a different experience.)
(P.S. remember that commenting on a post and sending an ask are features reserved for the main blog only.)
If you still call tumblr the hellsite you haven’t seen twitter’s recent discourse over whether short women can be loved for anything other than a fetish
And they call us nuts on here.
I mean, we ARE nuts. We’re just a different kind of nuts.
Tumblr nuts is arguing which Pokemon ship is the best ship.
Twitter nuts is trying to lecture people that a character that is canonically a college student (making her anywhere from 18-20s) with large breasts and short height is child coded and liking her makes you a pedophile.
I feel like if I rebooted Scooby Doo for the 127th time I would just say screw it and make one of them goth. Having trouble deciding which one, though. Here are my cases for each of them:
Velma:REALLY into classic literary horror and stans the Hex Girls like in her Mystery Inc. incarnation. Still dresses like a dork. Shaggy: Listens to a lot of metal and wears cargo pants, thinks monsters and demons and stuff are sick as hell in theory but freaks out when actually in the presence of one. Daphne: Stylish, girly vamp-goth and reader of Twilight-esque paranormal romance novels. Fred: Actually, now that I’m typing this out, I don’t think it can be Fred. Fred is a big sunny golden retriever jock and therefore categorically incapable of being goth
All of you are SO smart and SO correct
Honestly, I feel this could work really well for a spinoff, one that could make Fred a prominent member of the cast without making him just a joke-not that certain reboots weren’t good as all get out with a funny, goofy Fred, but the joke I feel is a bit worn now.
Picture this: Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy fully believe in the supernatural and when they go after mysteries, the monster are 100% real. The ghosts haunting the abandoned theater? Is actually the ghost of an understudy who died mad. Ghost ship? Real ghost pirates. Women going missing in the streets? There really is a gargoyle who snatches them up in the dead of night.
The Goths + Scoobert are paranormal hunters and go after these monsters with full gusto (to varying degrees), but Fred is the one who doesn’t believe in the supernatural. And when the monsters are threatening his pals, he rolls up his sleeves and fights them with his fists!
And whent he monster is actually a subversion and its a misunderstanding, Fred talks the monster down and they become a reoccuring friend to the gang. (The Vampire girl stalking the night? Oh, no, she’s a real vampire, but those bite marks on those guys in the cold opening were just mosquitoes.)
Cue a running joke where Fred has to save SOMEONE and someone complains about it.
Shaggy: Aw man, why am I the damsel in distress? Like, I got kidnapped by the killer clown last week!
