I dunno man I just live here

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
snowenpointcity
aropride

CALL YOUR BOY LIBRARY BOOKS THE WAY IM CHECKING HIM OUT

aropride

CALL YOUR BOY A HARDCOVER THE WAY I’M TAKING OFF HIS JACKET

aropride

CALL YOUR BOY A BOOK THE WAY I WANT TO GET BETWEEN HIS COVERS

aropride

CALL YOUR BOY A BOOK THE WAY IM RUNNING MY FINGERS ALONG HIS SPINE

aropride

CALL HIM AN E-READER THE WAY IM TURNING HIM ON

aropride

CALL HIM MORE FUNDING FOR LIBRARIES THE WAY EVERYONE WANTS HIM

aropride

CALL HIM A WELL-LOVED BOOK THE WAY HE'S FALLING APART IN MY HANDS

alphabetcompletionist

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lonestatus
amtrak-official

Am I allowed to address my followers as "sluts, bitches and whores"? I don't want to exclude anyone by saying ladies and gentlemen

joe-quixotic

I'm pretty sure the current handbook reccommends "attention all Amtrak passengers" but hey, it's your semi-privatized national rail network so do what you want.

amtrak-official

That's for the passengers on a train, none of you fuckers are on a train

justplainsalty

If the wi-fi ever fucking worked on the trains, maybe we would be.

shadyuck
eggshellsareneat

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

A Tumblr reblog graph. It shows "Original Post" and "My Addition" in the bottom right, and a long, winding path of reblogs leading to a popular post on the far leftALT

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

brightlotusmoon

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reject algorithm return to user curation