Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2020: Week 6

All this talk about unpopular writers reminds me of how tumblr fandom is really lonely was an untitled Tumblr post by linzeestyle, responding to an anon ask. It was posted on or before August 23, 2015, but was later deleted along with linzeestyle's entire Tumblr. The original post had 586 notes as of September 5, 2015.

Anon's ask was lamenting the "lonely" nature of fandom on Tumblr, given the difficulties of engaging and interacting with other fans on Tumblr since the platform is optimized for image-heavy content and not for text and comments. linzeestyle's response argued that while Tumblr has its merits, it should not be the primary platform for transformative fandom, instead suggesting simultaneous use of both Dreamwidth and Tumblr to gather the best aspects of both the pre-Tumblr fandom culture and the low entry to participation offered by Tumblr. This sparked a great deal of discussion from other Tumblr users, who reblogged the post and added commentary discussing whether or not they agreed with these points, and how the issues could be solved on Tumblr or other social media platforms.