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Tumblr: the worst website I have ever been on
11 years ago
I had to get this off my chest for ages, but I have decided that tumblr is possibly the worst website I have ever been a part of, and to say this as someone on furaffinity that is saying a lot. It is my philosophy that mankind isn't stupid rather it's just taught to be stupid by terrible and/or other stupid people, and there is no website that showcases this better than tumblr. To give a random example about this, there was an article about how the Westboro Baptist Church (AKA some of the worst people of the earth, though I think you knew this already) asked people not to picket Fred Phelp's funeral circulating the site for a while having everyone who read it up in arms about it, however there was a bit of a problem with it:
The article was satire
Yes, the article was written by the satirical news site The Daily Current, and the real WBC never held one for Phelps because of their outrageous religious beliefs. Don't get me wrong, the WBC are terrible people, but that isn't the problem here, the problem is that this is still regarded by tumblr as being true, and it only gets worse. Articles are being cited by sketchy sources to being flat-out fabricated on a daily basis and everyone is believing it.
Why do people believe it? Mob Mentality
As I probably established earlier people are constantly learning, so they tend to follow trends and mindsets set by others, and this where the real problem begins. There are two things tumblr likes to spread: misinformation and morale, two things that should never go together, and because of this, we get some of the most awful things to come from humanity. To elaborate, groups such as Gays/Transgenders/woman will constantly say they want their rights yet hypocritically refuses to get help from people who aren't like them (people who I might add, also want them to have their rights), while others are completely unlikable to the point where you have no reason to want to actually help them. This is not something that should be happening, if you make someone hate a group of people that you feel should be helped, then you failed human rights on a fundamental level. If you want people to sympathize with groups, don't make things up to justify your own agenda, because that's what is making tumblr devolve into propaganda for fascism
I'm sorry for the rant, I just had to get this off my chest
The article was satire
Yes, the article was written by the satirical news site The Daily Current, and the real WBC never held one for Phelps because of their outrageous religious beliefs. Don't get me wrong, the WBC are terrible people, but that isn't the problem here, the problem is that this is still regarded by tumblr as being true, and it only gets worse. Articles are being cited by sketchy sources to being flat-out fabricated on a daily basis and everyone is believing it.
Why do people believe it? Mob Mentality
As I probably established earlier people are constantly learning, so they tend to follow trends and mindsets set by others, and this where the real problem begins. There are two things tumblr likes to spread: misinformation and morale, two things that should never go together, and because of this, we get some of the most awful things to come from humanity. To elaborate, groups such as Gays/Transgenders/woman will constantly say they want their rights yet hypocritically refuses to get help from people who aren't like them (people who I might add, also want them to have their rights), while others are completely unlikable to the point where you have no reason to want to actually help them. This is not something that should be happening, if you make someone hate a group of people that you feel should be helped, then you failed human rights on a fundamental level. If you want people to sympathize with groups, don't make things up to justify your own agenda, because that's what is making tumblr devolve into propaganda for fascism
I'm sorry for the rant, I just had to get this off my chest
pouar
~pouar
The world is full of idiots and stupidity.
