Watching reddit refugees and native tumblrinas intermingle is like that scene from the Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, where all the lions realize that the only thing that separates them is mud and they shouldn’t fight because they’re family.
Except the mud is crippling social anxiety and the family is a rotting capitalist system that ruined both our respective sites, but in different ways.
there are many reasons we should be able to at least permanently turn off tumblr live
one of them is that every time it comes back on for my partner, who is technologically less advanced than my grandmother—a dead woman—he’ll somberly go “the fake cam girls are back for me” and i have to stop whatever it is i’m doing to switch it back off while reassuring him like a startled whippet
