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- Nov 17, 2014
On a similar note, I was unaware that being "mutuals" of anyone was some deep social pact based on trust and understanding. Has this always been tumblr etiquette? I always assumed that following a tumblr was noncommittal, like when you follow a Pinterest, it just shows that you know that person or enjoy their posts. If they follow you back, well, isn't that nice. Friendships can of course, form from there, but I didn't think it was a requirement. I could very well just be ignorant of tumblr, though, as I've never been able to get into it.
I don't believe in the whole "mutuals" thing. Like you said, friendships can happen, as I've made a few genuine friends through Tumblr (it is a rather big toxic pit of chaos but there are good people floating among the drama bullshit constantly flung around) but I don't expect anybody who follows me to interact with me at all or stick around if I do something they don't like. Half of the people who follow me are people I follow, and we just quietly like and reblog from each other and that's it.
The idea that your followers must interact with you and must bend to your whim is a load of crock. Only attention whoring buggards set up those sort of rules, which anybody can easily disregard whether or not they follow the exceptional individual in question.
It's not a commitment and it doesn't signify some sudden deep friendship just because you clicked a button to see what somebody posts about on a website. Anybody who thinks that is a nutter. Of course Tumblr is full of nutters so you will see that a lot and it's absolutely stupid imo