- Joined
- Dec 8, 2014
It's because people who know them outside the Internet can tell when they're bullshitting, and bullshitting is a big part of Tumblr. It's easy to lie about being a mixed-race lithromantic gray-pansexual demiboy system who has 5 different personality disorders and lives beneath the poverty line to random internet strangers. But it's a lot harder to convince people who know for a fact that you are a straight upper middle class suburban white girl with zero mental health problems (or at least nothing as extreme as they claim to have). They might take you to task for it, or worse, post a call out on Tumblr and open the floodgates of harassment from other liars who haven't been caught yet.
I think Tumblrites do feel some shame, but it's buried under the boldness that internet anonymity brings out in people and their desire to fit in on Tumblr. It's easy to fib when no one but you knows the truth, and on Tumblr being a galaxygender cat who is also fifty different fictional characters and who loses all coherence if someone doesn't properly tag pictures of blueberry muffins is normal. Take away that anonymity and groupthink, and they're forced to realize how stupidly they've been behaving.
