Tiktok Refugee - Blog Posts

Tumblr my husband is scared of you (He is a tiktok and Twitter refugee) he is afraid you will scoop him up and call him mean names and kick him out and also kill him dead with a gun. Please show him you are well meaning people and if you kill him dead it would be purely accidental

Okay so I'm not American and I don't live there but I still decided to download xiaohongshu (rednote). The only social media I actually use and post on is Tumblr but I wanted to have little nosey lol.

First of all it was really quite funny and heartwarming to see the interactions between the Americans and Chinese rednote users, there where so many Chinese internet slang cheat sheets and memes being exchanged and taught, like the American tiktok refugees where so ready to learn a whole new language so they could participate in meme culture and I love it, lmao not to mention how there's a Chinese saying where it basically means cute aggression, but for when they see a cute cat and when you translate it to English it reads as I want to lick your cat and that was definitely a bit of a funny misunderstanding lmao.

But overall I kinda love how petty the Americans from tiktok where, they literally said we are going to go straight to the supposed source. ngl not the finest moment when asked for help on English homework the answers given where wrong lmao, it's apparently being agreed upon that when asking for English homework help on rednote, it's best to ask a British user instead of an American one lol.

But it is nice to see people exchanging culture and joy even with a language barrier and the Chinese users where and are so welcoming.

Never mind???

Well now I’m embarrassed. TikTok is back up now, and I am very confused.

I will not be thanking Trump, he’s bigoted, a pedo, and stupid.

The End of an Era

I was half-way done with this when I realized that it was gone.

I was going to post it there, but I might as well post it here since I can’t do that anymore.

I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t pretty bummed. Like, I was on this shit when it was called Music.ly. Ignoring the hours wasted on doom scrolling, TikTok was a major part of my journey as an animator and artist. You can see the progress in this video, from my first video with a clown named Kuru to my latest video of Pomni and Kinger. I’m really grateful I had the time to save all the videos because I don’t have access to most of the animation files anymore.

It’s kinda crazy, but I started out my TikTok with the idea it’d be a rp account for the scp foundation. Its name used to be Dr. Paper and I’d post animated versions of my character. That fell through really quickly however because I wanted to do my own thing.

I might post here more, I might not. Who knows really? The future is uncertain—such is the American way.

gonna be posting on tumblr more frequently because i refuse to use insta or tiktok anymore lol

heres some art of my oc phenyl ester!

TikTok ban

they did. THEY ACTUALLY BANNED TIKTOK! WTF?! NOW I CANT EVEN GO TO TIKTOK TO COMPLAIN! I- AAAAAAAHHHHHHH..welp, time for red note.

For any relocated TikTok users

you can say sex and kill its fine

If you don't have a profile picture people will assume you're a bot

theres barely an algorithm, if you want to see cool shit reblog things instead of just liking them

follower count doesnt matter

tumblr fame gets you one thing and it is Yelled At

no one knows what the fuck the nsfw policy is

block anyone that annoys you even a little bit

And most importantly:

post cringe

Ni Hao-the heck did this happen?

I.. totally forgot I was supposed to be doing things here. Thanks to the great TikTok Refugee thing and its immediate backpedal (LOL), I thought I could find some of the artists I love from there as well.. and try to put my stuff here. I don't find much of a 'home' in deviantart either but you can find me there, here, and on youtube. I'm going to try being more out there. I'd love advice to get my art seen and find more peeps <3

TUMBLR 101: a helpful guide for tiktok refugees

are YOU a former tiktok user trying to learn how to use tumblr to fill the void the american tiktok ban is leaving in your soul? here are some things you should know, from someone who’s going on their eighth year on this hellsite:

1. you can say anything on here. gone are the days of having to use words like “unalive” and “seggs.” murder! kill! sex! fuck! speak your mind!

2. there is a community for you on here. regardless of what you’re into or however small the fandom is, you have a place here. at least one other person will have heard of your weird obscure interest. strike up a conversation!

3. followers don’t matter. tumblr is one of the last remaining social media sites in which your number of followers means absolute jack shit. this can be disorienting at first, but once you lean into the fact that everyone on this website is equal, it’s very freeing. clout means nothing here.

4. similarly, you can post at any time. while tiktok has an algorithm that favors certain times, tumblr has no such algorithm. post whatever you want, whenever you want. every post has virtually the same chance at getting notes, regardless of when it is posted.

5. tags can have spaces between the words! this one is very exciting. tags can be a whole sentence. you can also use the tags to comment on someone’s post without actually adding onto the physical post itself (which is sometimes frowned upon and called “derailing” if you use this feature to bring up a completely different point other than the one that’s being made on the original post).

TL;DR: speak your mind, find your place, followers don’t matter, post anytime, have fun with tags!! tumblr is a wonderful site used to share things you’re excited about. be patient with yourself as you’re learning and have fun!