the rule of tumblr is that all your most insightful commentary must be buried under a mandatory “This is What You stupid fucking people Don’t Fucking Get” just make it as hostile and offputting as possible. really aim to make people unsafe, cause we all know that’s when people are most likely to listen
On the other hand, I think sometimes those kinds of posts are explained by something like: “I wrote this post on my small obscure blog to vent to myself and my handfull of followers because I was pissed off, but now it’s suddenly getting thousands of likes and reblogs. If I’d known it would take off like that, I would probably have worded it differently.”
Sometimes, yeah. But I suspect that the confrontational wording is often still the reason it ends up getting so many likes and reblogs. There is something people just love about snarky posts, regardless of the intention behind them…