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https://www.tumblr.com/consplayspace
So along with my @consplayspace Twitter, @consplayspace Instagram, and @consplayspace YouTube accounts, I just signed up for a @consplayspace Tumblr account too!
WHY??
It’s more of a knee-jerk reaction to a tweet thread I scrolled onto
“…there’s no sense supporting a platform who’s [sic] new purpose is empowering disinformation and hate.”
@JeffLieber
Now, prior to having this tweet appear on my feeds, I’ve been pretty “centrist” to what’s been happening on this platform I’ve been on since 2007 (@conradap). That’s 15 years (yes, I needed to use a calculator) of wondering, “How does one twitter?” to “OMG, did you see what Lin-Manuel just tweeted?! SO AMAZING! *heart and fire emojis*” Along with being on Twitter for that long and seeing so many other platforms and apps come and go (pouring one out for Friendster and MySpace), I’ve really just thought of these things as a way to get shit out of my head and put it somewhere where it won’t hurt ME. I was fine with laughing at myself over typing random shit cuz I didn’t worry about how many hearts or retweets my mind farts spring to my fingers to a phone. I still don’t worry as much about it, but then something happened kinda recently, I started to build actual relationships threw other people’s randomness! And more specifically the randomness that I jive with like theatre, playwriting, being Filipinx-American, and the warriors (GO DUBS!). Tweeps I’ve never met from across the country suddenly went from a person with an @ symbol to a conversation in my DMs to actually spending time IRL watching a show at the Lincoln Center!!! That was a power that Twitter had!
And then 2016 happened (but in all honesty, shit happened way before that), peeps have been tweeting about stuff that can hurt OTHERS. And for everything I love about Twitter, and still do, that quote from @JeffLieber got to me. And the flood of “I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be here…” tweets waterfalled onto my mobile and desktop screens. I haven’t necessarily typed those words out but I will strongly consider it given, like so many others have said/inferred, see how big the “cesspool of hate” gets.
So, for now, because of all of the GOOD things and people that Twitter has given me, I’ll still be chucking my randomness there. Until then, not sure. But at least I have a Tumblr account ready for me. Now to figure out its use without making me feel like an Angsty Emo Teenager who only listed to The Cure and The Smiths again!