I’m sorry, but are you serious? Tumblr is not the perfect platform for writers; blogs are. Tumblr is the perfect platform for 16 year olds posting pictures of their feet and reblogging, yes, Miley Cyrus pictures to their heart’s content. You also forget that tags are self-selected. That’s not to say there aren’t good writers or other producers of great content on Tumblr. Indeed I follow several. You might, too, if you actually seeked them out.There’s such a distinct lack of text content on Tumblr that breaks even 100 words in a post, it’s pretty sad. I’m sure there are some fantastic writers out there, some fantastic thinkers too but where is their representation?
As I write this there are 1.2 million Tumblelogs, with “writer” being the ninth most popular tag and “writing” being the 18th most popular tag. That means there are a significant amount of writers on here, correct?
Nope.
The most popular Tumblelog classified under “writer” has three pictures of Miley Cyrus on its first page and a total of one hundred and forty three words. To anyone who writes significant amounts on Tumblr, like myself, frankly that is pretty insulting.
In a world where newspapers are folding due to distinct lack of funding, subscribers and new favor of online-only content, Tumblr is the perfect platform for writers: You write, you build a following, an audience, and anytime you publish you automatically have a group that auto-subscribes to your content with the possibility of reaching further once they choose to reblog and comment.
Tumblr, support your writers. Help add a text element to this picture-heavy platform that we have here.What, you mean this? Perhaps you could concern yourself with actually generating decent content instead of griping about not being represented. Notes
