soc_puppet | This is one I feel strongly about, lol (Reply)

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I think unfollowing the biggest culprit is the right move.

Guilt trips are almost never motivating. The likes vs. reblogs discourse is one example. Another is the perpetual "why is no one talking about [serious subject], I expect all my followers to reblog this or else". Like... hah, what a great post about this topic. I would absolutely have loved to reblog it, but that guilt trip has instead just made me block you.

(I don't so much mind the posts that are more geared toward "hey, if you're new to tumblr, you should know that reblogging is absolutely the norm, and doesn't take attention away from the OP - the opposite, actually! It's the best way of sharing things and getting more people to see it across the site!", but the ones that are really shame-y about "likes are WORTHLESS, if you can't reblog EVERYTHING then you're a bad person and you don't care about artists/writers/etc." are awful.)

Both liking and reblogging are functions of the site FOR A REASON. I DO understand that artists/writers/creators of all kinds want their work to spread. I get it! And as a general trend, I'm sure it's discouraging to see a lot of people who like something, but don't want to share it. Bummer!

Quite honestly... I follow hundreds of blogs on tumblr. A lot of them are single-topic blogs that share a lot of content for A Thing I Like. I follow ones for birds, ones for bugs, ones for frogs, ones for Halloween aesthetics... I enjoy almost all the things they post, and I will happily "like" just about every single one. But I DON'T have a blog devoted to those topics, at least not entirely, and I don't want my blog to be hundreds of posts of all of those things. My blog isn't a carefully-curated thing by any stretch, but I have no desire to reblog hundreds of posts a day just because I saw them. I DO share a lot of art and writing, but I share the ones that I WANT to share, not the ones someone tried to guilt me into sharing.

I really have no patience for fandom bullies or entitlement, and like-shaming is both of those things.