I’m not chewing out the fandom or any stray jackass who counterfeits a reblog. Random people out there are always gonna troll us and go to great lengths 4 the lulz. There’s nothing you can do about that. I really don’t care about the people who do it. It’s stupid, but whatever.

I’m much more irritated by the system that allows it.

Seriously, if I designed this site and didn’t take this issue into consideration after all this time, I would feel like such a fucking moron. There are certain standards for internet community software, many of which were established 15 fucking years ago. Like on a forum, if you edit a post, it says “this post was edited by…”

And yeah, you can say “well people should take responsibility and check their sources before believing stuff.” Ok, yes, you and I will do our due diligence on stuff, but the rest of humanity will not. Not understanding this is just not understanding people. You have to take this into account when designing your social media software that revolves almost exclusively around the act of reblogging other people’s shit.

So yeah, if I leave tumblr, it’s because of tumblr, not people.