Why I Quit Tumblr

     I love Tumblr, I really do. I loved the people and their blogs, I LOVED some of the memes, GIFS, pictures some of the bloggers. Hell, the Tumblr community was able to give a girl named Peyton a fluffy chicken. It's amazing what can happen when you get a bunch of people to do something out of the goodness of their hearts. I loved being on Tumblr and I loved being able to be a part of the community. I was on for about 4 years. 

     There were different parts of Tumblr and I, myself was not a typical hipster, let’s take some pictures, dresses and skirts Tumblr user but was more on the fandom side. (I have attached a picture for you and the picture is just a generalization and example. It is not JUST this. There are also other things like food blogs, random fun blogs, etc.) I was (and still am) into Doctor Who and Sherlock, Supernatural, Avengers, Homestuck, some Anime, and a bunch of the classics like LOTR (Lord of the Rings) and Harry Potter. There are probably more, I just can't think of any at this moment. I loved being part of this community because we had something in common; almost 99.9% of people who were into this had something to deal with.

     When I mean that, I mean like being a loner or an outsider, depression, anxiety, insecurities, etc. We all had something that made us who we were. Lots of people hated big social gatherings or were thought of as weird or abnormal growing up, making that person shy and vulnerable. We all had this bond that made us become close to each other, without even knowing who that person was or where they lived or what they looked like. That was the good thing about it; we have been/ were judged on our personalities and in that group on Tumblr, we wouldn't judge/be judged by one another if someone was too fat, too skinny, to annoying, to quiet, etc. 

     These fandoms were kind of like the things that saved us, I guess. It definitely saved me. For me, personally, I have depression and anxiety and multiple insecurities and to know that I wasn't alone in this battle at age 13/14 was the most comforting thing in the world. I could relate to so many other people my age and no one would judge me. It was a miracle and something that saved my life. I released lots of my feelings to these shows because a lot of them are about outsiders and people we, as the viewers, can look up to. It was great and fun at first. Then, things changed.

THE 12 YEAR OLDS

     Lots of blogs were run by 16/17 year olds. When a blog was found out to be run by someone 13 years of age or less, there were for some reason AUTOMATICALLY banned from the Tumblr society. I would see posts that trashed 12 year old bloggers for being their age. They could be “hipsters” or just regular fandom blogs and they would get beaten up by other blogs because they were too immature for Tumblr. Here are some examples:

     We were all 12 year olds once in our lives. And I bet when we were 12 we made some dumb decisions but that is not the same for ALL 12 year olds. Here is an example:

     This is one of MANY things I saw right on Tumblr. This person happened to be a fangirl. (I looked up here url) I thought Tumblr was a place where people WERENT supposed to judge you. This, my friends, is a form a BULLYING; cyber-bullying to be correct.

THE POLITICS

     Everyone has their own opinions on things like whether you like chocolate or vanilla ice cream or if you would rather eat frogs or eat snails. Yet at the end of it, it doesn’t really matter who likes who because that’s just what the other person thinks. When it was getting close to the election, I would see multiple posts on Tumblr about what people thought of the candidates There would be some arguments as to which candidate was better and such but as election day got closer, a lot more fights were appearing. More posts talking about how all democrats are communists or how all republicans were rich snubs and it got nasty. It got to a point where I said an opinion, got 20 hate anons (anonymous messages) and lost 13 followers.

     The stereotypes of things like this or other stereotypes of anything just piss me off. Shouldn’t we respect people for what they think and no criticize them? No opinions are wrong. Just because your opinion does not match someone else’s doesn’t give neither you, nor the other person the right to tell you or you tell them otherwise.

     Tumblr is a great website and I love it. The people there on it are great but, while being on their, a lot are being total jackasses and hypocritical bore. It just upsets me that people who, at the beginning who would be so welcoming, could do things like this and be like the bullies in school; stereotype people and judge people not on their personality.
          I quit Tumblr because the people who were bullied became the bullies and I couldn’t be more disappointed.

If you have any questions and want to debate about this with me in a mature way then great – email is wholockian@ymail.com