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The State of Tumblr 2016
Dec. 29th, 2016 09:06 amAccording to The Best of Tumblr Generator, these are my statistics for 2016:
From what I can tell, this tool only counts original posts in its total for "posts," but in its count for "notes" it tallies all of the notes for all posts, including reblogs. For the "top post" of each month, however, it only takes original image posts into consideration. Like the AO3 statistics tool, it counts the continuing activity on the posts made in a given year within its section for that year, so the "2016" section only counts notes received on the posts made in 2016. I'm not entirely sure if this assessment of how the tool works is correct, but I still got a ton of notes, which is nice. In addition, a few of my posts from previous years still continue to receive a sizeable number of notes, with some of my yearly totals having more than doubled over the past year.
I also have more than twice as many followers as I did last year:
I think I learned three things about Tumblr this year.
First, the number of notes any given post will get is completely random.
Second, it can sometimes take a few months for a post to start getting notes.
Third, although activity on the vast majority of posts will stop dead within 24 hours, activity on certain posts can come and go in waves.
Lol j/k I have no idea how Tumblr works.
I experienced a great deal of Tumblr-related emotional pain this year. Some of this distress came from the repeated harassment targeted at me from April to November, and some of it derived from my inability to build strong relationships. I had expected my friendliness and support to create bonds of affinity and perhaps engender reciprocity, but that never happened, unfortunately. It's important for me to be part of a fandom community, but my understanding of my role within that community needs to be more realistic as I move forward.
From what I can tell, this tool only counts original posts in its total for "posts," but in its count for "notes" it tallies all of the notes for all posts, including reblogs. For the "top post" of each month, however, it only takes original image posts into consideration. Like the AO3 statistics tool, it counts the continuing activity on the posts made in a given year within its section for that year, so the "2016" section only counts notes received on the posts made in 2016. I'm not entirely sure if this assessment of how the tool works is correct, but I still got a ton of notes, which is nice. In addition, a few of my posts from previous years still continue to receive a sizeable number of notes, with some of my yearly totals having more than doubled over the past year.
I also have more than twice as many followers as I did last year:
I think I learned three things about Tumblr this year.
First, the number of notes any given post will get is completely random.
Second, it can sometimes take a few months for a post to start getting notes.
Third, although activity on the vast majority of posts will stop dead within 24 hours, activity on certain posts can come and go in waves.
Lol j/k I have no idea how Tumblr works.
I experienced a great deal of Tumblr-related emotional pain this year. Some of this distress came from the repeated harassment targeted at me from April to November, and some of it derived from my inability to build strong relationships. I had expected my friendliness and support to create bonds of affinity and perhaps engender reciprocity, but that never happened, unfortunately. It's important for me to be part of a fandom community, but my understanding of my role within that community needs to be more realistic as I move forward.
