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Alex

@willgrahamscock / willgrahamscock.tumblr.com

31 | she/he | hungarian
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hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

  • the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
  • taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
  • at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
  • 'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
  • it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
  • it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
  • you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
  • young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
  • there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
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I love yellowjackets because it shows straight people what gay people experience watching most media. Just when you thought there were enough gay couples another one pops up next episode.

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It’s easy to forget we are contained on tumblr because our posts can get thousands of notes in a few hours, so when I see people talk about things that are happening outside of this hellsite it’s always “well that’s Twitter, that’s TikTok” but people have millions of followers on there and their content can garner an insane amount of eyes on a single post, numbers that exceed notes on a post here that took 10 years of reblogging to achieve a fraction of the views that other platforms can pull overnight. We curate our own experiences here with a few rogue posts that escape containment, but we are losing that everywhere else. More and more rage bait content is pushed by algorithms because that is what gets reactions and engagement, which is giving incentive for people to make them because it’s a sure way to get attention and money. We are seeing the shift everywhere in how people interact online, careless and lacking in empathy. Nothing is serious, everything is treated as a joke. You’re just too soft, yet somehow we have a whole generation of people censoring the word sex, and murder, and sexual assault.

I saw this young boy make a whole channel on “how to” videos, until he made a video about “how to rape a woman” and of course it’s with a grape emoji and no one ever once said the word rape. Lots of women in the comments saying it isn’t funny, and thousands of boys commenting “it’s a joke, it’s not that deep” then say rape. You’re joking about rape. The point is that this content cannot really be filtered out, and we have millions of people with a scrolling addiction, children who are growing up on the internet getting influenced by what they see, just as some of us who grew up on tumblr, which not to say it’s always been a great place because it was definitely not. But it’s still wildly different on here, we still have more autonomy. Just look at how we refuse change and how resistant we are to becoming profitable.

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It’s easy to forget we are contained on tumblr because our posts can get thousands of notes in a few hours, so when I see people talk about things that are happening outside of this hellsite it’s always “well that’s Twitter, that’s TikTok” but people have millions of followers on there and their content can garner an insane amount of eyes on a single post, numbers that exceed notes on a post here that took 10 years of reblogging to achieve a fraction of the views that other platforms can pull overnight. We curate our own experiences here with a few rogue posts that escape containment, but we are losing that everywhere else. More and more rage bait content is pushed by algorithms because that is what gets reactions and engagement, which is giving incentive for people to make them because it’s a sure way to get attention and money. We are seeing the shift everywhere in how people interact online, careless and lacking in empathy. Nothing is serious, everything is treated as a joke. You’re just too soft, yet somehow we have a whole generation of people censoring the word sex, and murder, and sexual assault.

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