you say “5th of the month next month” and it’s like yeah buddy it sure it. you say “3 years since destiel love confession scene next month” and it’s like who said that.
3 years since destiel love confession scene next week
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i remember when we were in typography II and also editorial design I we got shown the fucking text hierarchy image
and I’m seeing more and more people not grasping this concept when editing so i thought that if for some reason you haven’t seen this image i probably shouldn’t gatekeep it. Text hierarchy is literally essential knowledge to make yourself understood. Try to have an order in your text, investigate, test things, show your edits to people and ask “hey what order are you reading this on?” because the golden rule is that your design should be easy to interpret most of the time.
It was bugging me that I couldn’t actually read the fine print, even pulling the image out - too much deterioration from shrinking!
So I re-made it:
ALT
Text from the above image, in similar relative weights and approximate placements, as line formatting in Tumblr allows:
YOU
At some point you may come back to read this line or maybe not.
WILL READ THIS FIRST.
And then you will read this line next.
You will go back to read this body copy if you want to know more. It takes the most effort to read because it has a lot of text in a small font in a light weight with tight line spacing. Many people will skip paragraphs like this if they aren’t engaged right away. This is why it’s important to draw attention to your message using visual hierarchy.
See, the thing is, I don’t think Tumblr is A/B testing.
A/B testing is for shit like “Which subject line gets a better response to a mass email.” It’s meant to be invisible to the consumer or end-recipient. With a massive sweeping shift in UI of a social media site, there’s no point in A/B testing if you aren’t actively soliciting organized feedback; it’s not like the change isn’t highly visible. There’s no reason not to institute this change and then pop up a window asking exactly what we think. There’s no reason to do it on a Wednesday and then have Support direct everyone to a blog whose only meaningful way of gathering feedback isn’t open until next Monday, and who has until now basically been a PR operation.
And frankly even if they were A/B testing, who fucking asked me if I wanted to be tested on? Did they think I’d welcome being told that I’m their guinea pig?
This isn’t an A/B test. It’s a tolerance test. Give half the site an untenably bad UI and tell them your hands are tied and see how long it takes them to acclimate. See how long it takes them to cobble some shit together to make it tolerable so you can keep your garbage new design when everyone else inevitably gets it too. How uncomfortable can you keep them and still keep them? That’s the question they’re answering.
Fine, you motherfuckers win. As long as this site is still 5% less garbage than the others, most of us will stay. Where are we going to go? So don’t bother testing in future. Just push your fucking code. I’ll be gone as soon as I can, but for all I know that’s years away. I hope that makes you feel powerful, assholes. You’re curating a site based on learned helplessness. I hope that makes you feel big.
You could tell Eggman you’re trans and he’d immediately be like “Hoho! How would you like to try my brand new ULTRA MEGA TESTOSTERONE?!” And like it’d absolutely work but he’d definitely be using it as one of the benefits of joining the Eggman Empire. Which also has dental.
You’d work for Eggman and be like “Hey boss just so you know I’m a girl now,” and he’d be like “Oh okay, do you want more giant spikes on the robot mech I gave you?” Because his only frame of reference for girly things is Neo Metal Sonic and Amy so it’s either huge spikes or huge hammers.
I know I shouldn’t be biased on my own poll competition, but please go vote for her. the fight against the eva series is literally the best fight in all of evangelion!
“BERSERK UNIT 02 IS NOTHING BUT PURE RAW GIRLPOWER FINALLY UNSHACKLED FROM THE PATHETIC RESTRAINTS OF COSMIC MORTALITY. RIPS. TEARS. ABSOLUTELY FUCKS. Clearly Best Girl.” -@dee-the-red-witch
Kaworu Nagisa
“while he might not be the first light-haired anime boy to die tragically for the plot, kaworu definitely popularized and gave form to that character archetype. oh so your favorite character is an anime boy with white/silver/light blond hair who’s subtextually gay and dies tragically? you Must thank kaworu.” -@nonbinarygrimwalker
“Kaworu was introduced and died on the same episode, but not without making a huge impact on Shinji and the audience! He was created and raised for the sole purpose of destroying the world, but fell in love with Some Guy and made that his purpose instead.
Kaworu is both doomed by the narrative and stuck in a timeloop. While gay. He’s also kind, almost always smiling despite The Horrors, and is really talented at playing the piano. Clearly best girl. Vote Kaworu!!” -@tomaturtles
normally I wouldn’t be biased and try and influence my own poll, but please stop voting for this twink! Unit 02 please you need to win!