Blacklisting the word “kpop” has
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Blacklisting the word “kpop” has made my Tumblr experience so much better, oh my god. Thank you so much, kpop fans, for always using tags. It helps so much. (It’s not even that I object to the stuff, I just literally don’t know what it is or where you’re getting into it. I don’t even hear American pop, so I don’t get this at all.) (It’s cool, I know everything I want to, except why, and I don’t really need to know that either. Thanks!)
(yes I’ve also figured out the names of the top like 2 or three… groups? bands? singers? i don’t know. i just know i could discern that they were the photos. Thank you times one million, Responsible Tumblr Kpop Fans, for using consistent tags. This is the greatest thing.)
Blacklisting the phrase “buffy the vampire slayer” and all its variants has made 0 difference because some of you seem to believe tags are anathema. Listen, I never watched that show and don’t really care. It is incredible how many gifsets of it I scroll through on the daily. I’m not even sure how many of you are responsible for this. I know it is more than one person.
Blacklisting “Doctor Who” has been great. Thank you. I get it, you all love it. You also use tags. Bless.
There’s a baffling array daily of very large-sized photo sets of people who are clearly actors and clearly acting in TV shows or movies, but I don’t know who they are or what the context is. Some of these are compelling. Some of them are upsetting. Since I can’t parse the tags, I can’t always tell what the fuck is going on. I also can’t learn any more, because I don’t know what the thing is. Tumblr osmosis alone doesn’t always explain to me what’s going on. I’m sort of resigned to this, and I know I’m guilty of assuming everyone knows whatever it is that I know, but you’d be amazed how much of my dashboard is just totally opaque to me. It’s worth it, to get exposed to new stuff, but man.
Listen I don’t have very good Internet connectivity. The Internet at work is punishingly slow, and when I’m using wifi tethering in the yurt, every megabyte is precious and excruciating. Sometimes photos don’t load. I hate it when nothing on my dash loads because Tumblr decided to prioritize yet another gifset of Buffy fucking Summers. I PostBlock regularly but that doesn’t help reposts.
Text screeds and meta are sometimes more entertaining when you don’t know what the fuck the people are talking about, because those load. Reading all the way to the end to try and figure out which fucking “Steve” it is can be really entertaining.
This rant was brought to you by a morning of watching my fucking work computer not actually install any updates, during which I have been scrolling Tumblr like a disaffected Millennial.
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Blacklisting the word “kpop” has made my Tumblr experience so much better, oh my god. Thank you so much, kpop fans, for always using tags. It helps so much. (It’s not even that I object to the stuff, I just literally don’t know what it is or where you’re getting into it. I don’t even hear American pop, so I don’t get this at all.) (It’s cool, I know everything I want to, except why, and I don’t really need to know that either. Thanks!)
(yes I’ve also figured out the names of the top like 2 or three… groups? bands? singers? i don’t know. i just know i could discern that they were the photos. Thank you times one million, Responsible Tumblr Kpop Fans, for using consistent tags. This is the greatest thing.)
Blacklisting the phrase “buffy the vampire slayer” and all its variants has made 0 difference because some of you seem to believe tags are anathema. Listen, I never watched that show and don’t really care. It is incredible how many gifsets of it I scroll through on the daily. I’m not even sure how many of you are responsible for this. I know it is more than one person.
Blacklisting “Doctor Who” has been great. Thank you. I get it, you all love it. You also use tags. Bless.
There’s a baffling array daily of very large-sized photo sets of people who are clearly actors and clearly acting in TV shows or movies, but I don’t know who they are or what the context is. Some of these are compelling. Some of them are upsetting. Since I can’t parse the tags, I can’t always tell what the fuck is going on. I also can’t learn any more, because I don’t know what the thing is. Tumblr osmosis alone doesn’t always explain to me what’s going on. I’m sort of resigned to this, and I know I’m guilty of assuming everyone knows whatever it is that I know, but you’d be amazed how much of my dashboard is just totally opaque to me. It’s worth it, to get exposed to new stuff, but man.
Listen I don’t have very good Internet connectivity. The Internet at work is punishingly slow, and when I’m using wifi tethering in the yurt, every megabyte is precious and excruciating. Sometimes photos don’t load. I hate it when nothing on my dash loads because Tumblr decided to prioritize yet another gifset of Buffy fucking Summers. I PostBlock regularly but that doesn’t help reposts.
Text screeds and meta are sometimes more entertaining when you don’t know what the fuck the people are talking about, because those load. Reading all the way to the end to try and figure out which fucking “Steve” it is can be really entertaining.
This rant was brought to you by a morning of watching my fucking work computer not actually install any updates, during which I have been scrolling Tumblr like a disaffected Millennial.
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Date: 2018-02-07 02:45 am (UTC)I don't even have fancy blocking stuff installed; I just want to know who the pretty person is/what all these random gifs have in common/how to find that amazing costume porn.