King of Doma

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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
theceaselesshunger
eggshellsareneat

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

A Tumblr reblog graph. It shows "Original Post" and "My Addition" in the bottom right, and a long, winding path of reblogs leading to a popular post on the far leftALT

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

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cdrlogic

Reblog the reblogging post.

Like to ignore its wisdom.

nitpickrider
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Always some dumb asshole trying to scrap with captain america.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Steve here like “I’ve fought people with literal superpowers and won you nazi Mr Clean looking jackass, just fall down and save yourself an ass kicking”

kingofdoma

"Dude, I THROW my shield on a regular basis. DO YOU THINK I DO NOTHING UNTIL IT COMES BACK TO ME?"

nitpickrider

A lot of times he uses the fact that people are more apt to watch the shield to punch them in the face

kingofdoma

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into the spider verse miles morales don't watch the mouth watch the hands
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multicolouredmonster

it's true, and I'm glad an industry veteran with a large platform is saying it


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kingofdoma

i thought the reason people were sad was because they would have to genocide half of faerun to get her to allow a romance

moniquill
faeforge

Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.

faeforge

Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.

This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.