@anonymous @PurpCat @ins0mniak Well, if you keep going, there's this bit about the mechanics of Tumblr actually turning the place into that kind of environment and then the part that is germane to your remark is a continuation of that part. It's a long read but it's a good read. So you had said,

> humans have this incessant need to drag everyone else into their personal bullshit. For whatever reason.

And then the guy starts to talk about this happening on Tumblr:

> “friends if you are reblogging things that are not about ferguson right now please queue them instead. please pay attention to things that are more important. it’s not the time to talk about fandoms or jokes it’s time to talk about injustices.”

And this is a big reason that Twitter went from "shitty" to "completely intolerable": Twitter decided it was Important and then they started pushing out people that didn't want to engage in whatever the news outlets or advertisers or activist mobs wanted them to engage in. And you've got dipshits like Zeynep Tufekci saying "Once you start sorting an array, you have an ontological problem" while demanding that some ethical board start controlling the process of software engineering because what if injustice.