It’s funny how specific places and social settings will sometimes develop inside jokes about “the way people act here”…. but they’re just descriptions of common human behaviors, which may even be less common than average in that setting.

Example: Tumblr and “bad reading comprehension.”

I mean. Yes. If you write something and a lot of people respond to it, some of them will show they did not read carefully and/or did not comprehend what they read.

But… when it comes to the percentage of responses like that? WHERE are you getting a BETTER rate of good reading comprehension than Tumblr?

Really, please tell me. I’ve searched far and wide, and I’ve had better luck getting Tumblr readers to pay actual attention to what I wrote than tenured literature professors at a college