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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
professionalchaoticdumbass
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Let me show you something interesting.

When folks switch from Twitter to Tumblr as their primary social media platform, something they’ll often do in order to fill out their initial Tumblr dashboard is to follow a bunch of blogs whose names they recognise from having seen those blogs’ posts circulated as screenshots on Twitter. Consequently, any Tumblr blog that gets screenshotted on Twitter a lot – like this one – will typically see a jump in new followers any time Twitter does something that pisses people off. It’s usually not a big jump, but it’s definitely noticeable.

With that context, there’s this blog’s new followers graph for the past thirty days:

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Hm.

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professionalchaoticdumbass

i call it the Funnyman Effect. people will see a popular post, think “oh! their blog must be filled with stuff like this!”, and follow it without realizing the blog probably WON’T be filled with stuff like that

yeah same here w/ my activity

See more posts like this on Tumblr

#yeah same here w/ my activity