A Measure of the Time I've Wasted
Dec. 19th, 2015 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingUsing The Best of Tumblr Generator, I got my hands on some statistics for 2015. The tool is somewhat flawed, but I still apparently received somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,900 notes across 212 posts.
This is down from previous years, in which I received more notes for fewer posts. I think this trend has less to do with me (or with Tumblr itself) but instead reflects the staying power of certain posts that continue to get tons of notes.
The blog's growth in followers has remained constant, with about fifteen new people subscribing per month. I currently have 456 followers, although I interact with less than two dozen of them.
With no basis of comparison, I'm not sure what these numbers mean. Am I relatively successful, or just another blip on the internet? Quantitatively, this is more attention than I ever got on Livejournal, but it's difficult to measure the quality of the interactions. To be honest, I feel like I have to work harder to participate in fandom.
I don't fully understand how Tumblr is supposed to work, or how it will develop in the future; but I feel that, if even someone like me can get several thousand notes over the course of a year by doing basically nothing, then at least the platform is not dying.
This is down from previous years, in which I received more notes for fewer posts. I think this trend has less to do with me (or with Tumblr itself) but instead reflects the staying power of certain posts that continue to get tons of notes.
The blog's growth in followers has remained constant, with about fifteen new people subscribing per month. I currently have 456 followers, although I interact with less than two dozen of them.
With no basis of comparison, I'm not sure what these numbers mean. Am I relatively successful, or just another blip on the internet? Quantitatively, this is more attention than I ever got on Livejournal, but it's difficult to measure the quality of the interactions. To be honest, I feel like I have to work harder to participate in fandom.
I don't fully understand how Tumblr is supposed to work, or how it will develop in the future; but I feel that, if even someone like me can get several thousand notes over the course of a year by doing basically nothing, then at least the platform is not dying.
