I’ve definitely seen it in other places, but tumblr is a strange site. I’m not sure exactly why but users there tend to be a bit more emboldened about things like this and there’s lots of injokes, cultures and memes that happen only there.
Not everything is good on tumblr of course, them emboldening can lead to a lot of people talking about things they don’t understand and attacking anyone that doesn’t agree with them. That does happen everywhere, however, tumblr is seen as one of the ‘nicer’ commercial social media sites and so they feel like that makes them more justified in their opinions, would be my guess.
yeah for sure, I appreciate you giving me a new perspective on the words. the internet exists for people to learn things, after all. ofc the n word has to some extent been reclaimed so I suppose it’s possible, although like you say, it does seem to be more on tumblr than all other sites combined :) personally if i were to take a guess as to why tumblr i’d say it’s an older site that really only has the core user base left after they banned porn. personally i’m still averse to those words but yk the only constant is change so we’ll see where we are in 5 years haha maybe it’ll catch on(although tbh i do not expect it to) sorry if this is hard to read i am not good at words
Sure, thanks for taking the time 🙂
I’ve definitely seen it in other places, but tumblr is a strange site. I’m not sure exactly why but users there tend to be a bit more emboldened about things like this and there’s lots of injokes, cultures and memes that happen only there.
Not everything is good on tumblr of course, them emboldening can lead to a lot of people talking about things they don’t understand and attacking anyone that doesn’t agree with them. That does happen everywhere, however, tumblr is seen as one of the ‘nicer’ commercial social media sites and so they feel like that makes them more justified in their opinions, would be my guess.
yeah for sure, I appreciate you giving me a new perspective on the words. the internet exists for people to learn things, after all. ofc the n word has to some extent been reclaimed so I suppose it’s possible, although like you say, it does seem to be more on tumblr than all other sites combined :) personally if i were to take a guess as to why tumblr i’d say it’s an older site that really only has the core user base left after they banned porn. personally i’m still averse to those words but yk the only constant is change so we’ll see where we are in 5 years haha maybe it’ll catch on(although tbh i do not expect it to) sorry if this is hard to read i am not good at words