It’s happened! The first Blaze post has haunted my dash, and it’s the fucking 95 theses.
When I say hellsite (affectionate) this wasn’t the context I was thinking
you wanna know something even funnier? the metrics report i got on the post at the end of the weekend showed absolutely garbageengagement. the post that inspired me to do it got thousands of notes. the post where i said i was going to do it got several hundred as my followers and mutuals cheered me on.
the post i paid an entire crisp and refreshing hamilton for got blasted out to more than 13 thousand dashboards… and then netted exactly 92 reblogs, because it’s a genuinely awful post and no one sane wanted to touch it. it’s a total flop… except this is like the fourth or fifth post i’ve seen about it.
Tumblr has promoted this post to me, the author and the person who Blazed the post. Which feels like a fitting conclusion to a very silly project
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Thank you to everyone who left me nice notes in the tags, you’re all wonderful. One person reached out to tell me about their mom’s scythes & how she mows their meadow garden with them, which absolutely made my day.
If you’re looking for information on scythes or where to buy a scythe there’s lots of resources at ScytheConnection.Com! If you’re like me and have no lawn to mow (well, there is a lawn but i cannot wrest control from my father and his motorized lawnmower obsession), you can watch videos of people using scythes on youtube and fantasize about a scytheful future….
On one hand, I am loathe to spend money on something as fleeting and useless as a tumblr post. On the other hand, I want to make everyone look at this picture of my cat:
I scroll down and see “Blaze” on one of my posts. Think I’ll stick to getting notes the old fashioned way, i.e., posting and letting people find said posts on their own.
so I get that Tumblr doesn’t want to let you blaze other people’s posts because of the potential for harassment
but what if, when you saw a blazed post on your dash, you had the option to pay in to re-inflict it on even more people
I think this has potential, we’re all really petty people
I love this fucking site. We’re just a bunch of goblins cackling at our newfound power, screeching “this is so annoying! Bet we can make it worse!” while throwing fistfulls of cash into the blazing dumpster fire that is tumblr.com
For anyone looking through the notes wondering “Why? Why would you blaze this?” This is a recreation of a very old ad back when Tumblr ads would greenlight literally anything.
Other classics include the Burrito Scope
And some REALLY odd photoshops
Since these gems no longer exist, but I, humble Tumblr user squid-ink-personal, have the capability, I figured that if the ads aren’t going to weird themselves, I’M going to weird them.
Also, the oldest record of this frog photo is this one here, from 2007. This frog pic is as old as some Tumblr users.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW DIFFERENT THIS IS??? because as someone who works in digital marketing, my jaw literally dropped.
When I put out an ad for a client on Facebook, I can target like… new moms in their 30s who are looking for furniture within a 10-mile radius. Or people who have an anniversary coming up. People who have just moved. People who are in a new relationship. People who have elementary school kids and tend to vote Republican. People who have liked certain Pages. It’s absolutely unnerving.
the utter chaos of this, though.
it’s just… incredible.
Honestly though, as someone myself who works in infosec and data privacy, what this suggests to me is that Tumblr either doesn’t have, or isn’t willing / able to use, that detailed targeting information about its users. Which is great!! Every other company out there - not just social media companies but everything from your grocery store to your car insurance company to your operating system provider - actively collects as much demographic data as it can about its users specifically for this kind of ad targeting purposes.
Obviously Tumblr still collects some data and uses it for ad targeting; they do have this in their Privacy settings:
But the fact that they’re either unable, or are choosing not, to make that data available to people buying Blaze posts is such a huge win for data protection and a giant thumbing of the nose to the FAANGs who believe that the only way to make ad revenue work is to make ads as targeted as possible.
I can’t express how much I hope Blaze succeeds with this insane and chaotic model. XD
saw a sponsored post about knotting. this is the only website
the only website
staff approving this post
How anyone can get mad Tumblr is requesting a couple bucks a month to keep from being ad-supported while staff goes, “Fuck yeah we’re gonna let this A/B/O post go through our paid content system. HERE IT IS Y’ALL” is just confusing to me.
Staff understands our chaos. They want to make it easier for us to create chaos. Fuck, if they can get us enough of us to go on the ad-free option, we may even get full-on smut art back. Because they won’t have to answer to advertisers.
As much as I love the @anyone of tumblr blaze, I wish I could target a fandom. Like, anyone who tags crap as #Merthur or whatever, so I could blaze my fic links and know people who saw them actually maybe cared.
Can totally see how it would be a slippery slope, though.
The right to life, liberty, safety going about our daily lives is in danger. The people require responsible governance to put these inalienable rights foremost.
THE EXCEPTIONS HERE OR ELSEWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION, MADE IN FAVOR OF PARTICULAR RIGHTS, SHALL NOT BE SO CONSTRUED AS TO DIMINISH THE JUST IMPORTANCE OF OTHER RIGHTS RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE
WE ACT THE PART OF WISE AND LIBERAL MEN TO MAKE SUCH ALTERATIONS AS SHALL PRODUCE THAT EFFECT.
– James Madison, July 8, 1789
Progressive liberals were the Founding Fathers; conservatives today are the antithesis.
Why, exactly, is this tagged “#gun control”?
We could certainly argue that gun control is a violation of the right to life - through the state denying the citizen the right to protect his own life, by denying him access to effective (and therefore lethal) means of self-defense to do so.
Likewise we can argue that “defund the police” in combination with gun control is a human rights violation - not only is the state denying your right to life by refusing to let you defend your own life, but the state is refusing to even provide an alternative, and is instead openly choosing to let criminals prey upon the population.
Is it your position that the proper “Progressive” view - in the sense of human progress rooted in prosperity through physical mastery and not in the sense of following moral fads - now requires that people vote Republican?
That would’ve been a hard sell in 2003, but given the left-wing embrace of post-modern race science (including attempted racial medical rationing), I think there’s a good case to be made for that now.
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