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Filming people without their consent is a massive issue of not only privacy but ableism that's been going on for many years.

It started out with filming more visibly disabled people, like high support needs autistic people having meltdowns in public and (especially fat) disabled people literally just using mobility aids, but once that was deemed less acceptable it moved to other things. Filming people acting "weird" in public. Eating weird foods. Falling asleep in weird places. Wearing weird things. Stimming. You get the idea. It's no longer safe to be visibly weird in public and that's an issue for a lot of disabled people. I recently had to lay down on the floor of a department store because I had an ME crash while out shopping. Not only did I have to worry about the normal things like people coming up to ask me if I'm ok, I also had to worry about some video of me at my lowest point, when I'm suffering immensely, being shared around as "haha look at this weird bitch on the floor". It's upsetting. It's scary.

And then there's fakeclaiming. A fun trend where people will film us in public to "prove" there's some kind of huge epidemic of people faking disability. Spoiler alert: there is not. Most of the time the people they film are real disabled people who don't fit into the expected mold for disability, usually service dog teams or people who use mobility aids who don't "look sick". And you would think this trend would be some kind of abled nonsense, but it's not. It's often other disabled people doing the fakeclaiming. Yes, there are some times when it's obvious a service dog isn't trained properly, but other than that, it's damn near impossible to tell if someone is faking a disability, and you're much more likely to target a disabled person than a faker. I'd love to say this trend was new, but it's been going on since the days of "the people of walmart" where many of the people posted were fat mobility aid users, always with the assumption that they used it because they were too fat or lazy to move on their own. In fact, the image of a fat person in a mobility cart has become almost synonymous with "lazy". It's one of the things that drove me to get my own expensive power wheelchair, to avoid the judgmental stares in the grocery store when I was just trying to exist, to avoid the fear of public shame. Even now when I stand up from my chair to walk to the bathroom stall or reach something on a high shelf, I watch the corners of my vision for that telltale phone in the air. I feel like I'm never safe from the judgemental eye of the internet, even when I'm logged off, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels that way.

Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram, these places are all great for disabled people, especially those of us without access to the outside world. But it's also become a source of great anxiety for anyone who's uncontrollably "weird", mostly disabled people. Leave us alone, I'm begging you, we just want to go to the fucking grocery store in peace and safety.

Tl;dr

Stop filming people for "acting weird" or "faking a disability" in public. It's ableist, it's invasive, it's creepy, and it's humiliating. People don't exist in public for your amusement and especially not disabled people. You don't know who is disabled and who isn't no matter how many disabled people you've known or how sure you are that the person is faking.

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honestly i hate posts like this, they’re so condescending and also just. incorrect?

tumblrs algorithm doesn’t work like instagrams, true, but like… the amount of reblogs a post gets doesn’t really factor into whether it gets promoted onto other peoples dashes or not? unless you’re talking about reblogs as like, a direct way of spreading to more people, which only really helps if you have a TON of followers to see said post and potentially reblog it. whether or not a post takes off on this site can be extremely random, as people who’ve made unexpected viral text posts probably know.

the truth is, tumblr is just a pretty bad place to promote art. You can’t really game the algorithm with popular tags like on tiktok or instagram, because tags on this site are used for categorisation rather than trends. You can hope to be randomly featured on someone’s for you page or suggested posts, but most people don’t look at that or actively block them. if it’s fandom art you might gain a small amount of interest with fandom tags, but original art is way harder to get popular on here. instagram is still better in that regard.

like i said, the best way of getting a lot of notes on here is to be reblogged by a popular blogger with a lot of followers, and the chances of that happening (unless you’re already popular yourself) is slim unless you beg. Blaze seems like a waste of money since it’s random who your post will actually be shown to.

Anyway my point is: stop guilt tripping tumblr users for liking posts and not reblogging them. people can use this site in any way they want, and you have to accept that sometimes people don’t want to reblog something. this is fine. a reblog gives you 0 dollars. a like also gives you 0 dollars. commissions posts fizzle and die on this site, as does fundraising for those in dire situations. if you really are desparate to make money from your art, you have to realise that trying to do so on tumblr is a terrible way to go about it. make an instagram page, a facebook page, try to get some freelance work outside of the internet. it’s hard to make money from art.

it’s hard to hear for a lot of people it seems, but random users not reblogging your posts isn’t why you’re broke. and it’s not because they don’t know how this site works or how to use the reblog button. posts like this are so condescending and unnecessary.

and i say all of this as an artist who posts on tumblr and struggles to get reblogs so it’s not because i hate artists and want them to die. it’s just how this site works