It’s gonna be ok
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| Title: | it's gonna be ok |
| Creator: | cupidsbower |
| Date(s): | December 4, 2018 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | |
| Topic: | Tumblr NSFW Content Purge |
| External Links: | Tumblr, archived |
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it's gonna be ok is a 2018 meta posted to Tumblr by cupidsbower in the wake of the Tumblr NSFW Content Purge. The meta contextualizes the anticipated migration of fans from Tumblr in response to the platform's policy changes within the broader history of fandom and past instances of platform migration. As of February 16, 2019, the post has 3,945 notes on Tumblr.
Excerpts
We are fans, and the internet has always been our playpen. We all have multiple social media accounts, many with the same handle. We can find each other again. It won’t be the same. Of course it won’t. Tumblr fandom is different from Livejournal, is different from GeoCities. But it will still be fandom, it will still be good, and you will still find people you like, including some of those currently in your fannish circle.
We have the advantage of the OTW now too – this kind of thing is exactly why we built it. It’s our safe harbour, no matter what, because we own it.
Some people will disappear, and you never will find them again. But mostly, you will still see the same handles, having the same conversations, sharing love for the same favourites, just in new places. You will find them on Dreamwidth, Pillowfort, Instagram, Twitter, Google docs, discord, fanfic.net, Wattpad, Deviant Art, YouTube, Vimeo, and so on. Most importantly, you’ll find them on Fanlore and AO3, because they are run by the OTW and we own it.
Fans and fandom will still be here long after Tumblr is full of rolling tumblrweeds.
We’re good at this. No matter where we end up, you will find your people again. Fandom will go on. It will be okay.[1]
Responses
Most fans responded to cupidsbower's post with appreciation or in agreement.
As fairly new, two years into the fandom thing, I appreciate this post :) I've seen many sites I've enjoyed disappear, but that always meant I just lost touch with everyone. It's nice to know simmers will stick together :)[2]
Out of all the posts I have seen about Tumblr reaching peak idiocy, this is the one I like the most. This has happened before. We’ll be okay. See you wherever our next home will be. 💛[3]
Fandom’s going to find some other shore to wash up on. I’ve seen it before. Fandom has been around for for decades, it’s not going anywhere. It will find a new home. This, unfortunately, happens. Fandom scatters for a while and then finds a new home. Although given that it’s happened again and I’m way too tired to be more than exasperated because it’s a huge pain in the ass, it is an argument to have a social hub for art and such that we own, too.[4]
The important thing I got from this, apart from the wonderful sage advice, is to keep same handle everywhere! Good to know. And AO3 is wonderful. We can put in our AO3 profiles wherever we eventually migrate to, though for now, we all seem to be staying here.[5]
A few fans seemed to feel that the level of concern expressed about the Tumblr NSFW Content Purge was overblown or unnecessary.
This is fucking embarrassing lol. Fandom's been around decades before Tumblr even existed, probably before the Internet also. Don't shit yourself over it. There's so many other websites y'all can be weird on.[6]
One fan offered another criticism of the post:
but that's the problem for some of us, who have jobs, lives, families, etc, and don't have hours to comb over 6 different sites looking for our fandom friends and fandom content.Tumblr gathered a lot things together and was easy to use. I think this attitude also discounts those of use who aren't experts with social media and whizzes at using 6 different sites. Don't discount the huge loss that tumblr is going to be to some of us by saying "oh,that's okay, blah blah blah will happen and you'll be fine. We won't.
So those of us who don't have the time to use all these different sites will be lost. Sad, a lot of us are great fans and good people.
If this post is meant to be reassuring, it fails.[7]
References
- ^ Tumblr post by cupidsbower. Posted on December 4, 2018. Accessed on February 16, 2019.
- ^ Reply by simssprout. Tumblr post by cupidsbower. Accessed on February 16, 2019.
- ^ Tumblr post by glorfindel-of-imladris. Posted on December 5, 2018. Accessed on February 16, 2019.
- ^ Tumblr post by purplemoonfox. Posted on December 4, 2018. Accessed on February 16, 2019.
- ^ Tumblr post by burning--amber. Posted on December 6, 2018. Accessed on February 16, 2019.
- ^ Reply by hottopiccore. Tumblr post by cupidsbower. Accessed on February 16, 2019.
- ^ Reply by juliaaurelia-blog. Tumblr post by cupidsbower. Accessed on February 16, 2019.