i feel compelled to defend tumblr because the only difference between tumblr and twitter is that journalists and other people with social cachet (at least social cachet that exists outside of tumblr) (and i use that term for lack of a better one) use twitter

while i completely understand and more often than not agree with negative descriptions of tumblr i think that often the way people dismiss it is gendered/racialised/etc in the sense that people view it as the SJW den of iniquity, where modern thinking around gender/transness was birthed. and obviously there are bad takes coming out of tumblr but i feel like we dont have this perception of sites like, idk, reddit (which i feel people sort of perceive as sort of obnoxious home for reply guys but nothing worse than that) or like even in the last few years 4chan??? obviously this is all based on my standpoint as a person who uses some sites and follows some people.

idk what my point really is. i suppose i just want people to not dismiss tumblr out of hand, because in some ways, doing so backs up years of misogynist freakery around tumblr as this hellpit where the tendrils of cultural marxism creep into internet society