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I guess I didn’t realize there was this much self-critical, self-referential shit-talking on Tumblr.  But it’s to be expected since the membership is full of “adolescents” who are juuuuust past the age of social media self-awareness that they’re already mistaking superficial dismissal for wit and criticism (they’re…trying?).  Meanwhile, such cynicism takes advantage of the system that it so snidely dismisses — USING Tumblr to call people out about their Tumblring, is kind of… ironic.

Hmm.  What’s the storytelling technique or situation where the story or characters reference themselves?

tumblarity:

deleteyourself:

Wow, look at this absolutely bullshit quote. It’s the kind of stuff people post to get reblogs and hope their Tumblarity goes up.

[rolling the dice]

but I guess that’s what social rankings garner in a post-ffffoundGawker landscape? i mean, if the theoretical decidedly lags after the physical, then one can only imagine the analog in virtual…

so tell me, what’s the difference between tumblarity, alexa, and pagerank?  pageviews, link-throughs.. all the same?

Update:

just actually searched for ‘average age of tumblr user’ to see if i had any basis for my assumption of the ‘adolescents’.. and feel slightly validated:

This may have something to do with most Tumblr users having an emotional age similar to the chronological age of Tumblr’s CEO. (valleywag)

sigh. why do I find myself unsurprised by: 1) the connection of Julia Allison; 2) the subsequent coverage by Gawker/Valleywag; and meta-ultimately, 3) that i know who Julia Allison is?

It all makes sense now.