AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Why is "landscapes" one of their lure tags? Doesn't that mean somewhere there might be some like, grownass art student posting tasteful watercolors getting whammed by this?

Not that I don't agree that a lot of tumblr is a self-affirming box of tacky junk, it's just that a lot of sites are like that. It does remind me of this picture. On the other hand, I think a lot of cynical people go backwards with that assumption: if you have internet access and use it for anything, you're automatically none of the above.

Also viruses and worms are dumb and bad stay in school dont do drugs etc.

It's that tumblr is, right now, THE self-affirming box of tacky junk, and seems to be popular mostly for that reason. That's what makes it a perfect target for the GNAA. I do agree that using malicious software to spread your views for anything is wrong, but I do hope that this will influence more (if any) people to make meaningful posts instead of reblogging hilarious gif #7,862 ad nauseam.

You do know that 90% of people didn't see/read the post and just continued scrolling, right?

Yeah. On the one hand, it's pretty great to get your stuff reblogged, because not a lot of people look at your "likes," but reblogs mean that someone enjoyed whatever you made enough to share it directly with everyone else. On the other hand, I for example reblog things really sparingly. Something has to be really special or personal for me to reblog it, in big part because blogs that do nothing but reblog drive me kind of crazy. It's a bit like having a deviantart account that only favorites things, only more in your face I guess. Also I know that the handful of people who watch my tumblr are all pretty much people I know from elsewhere but I don't like cluttering up their feeds with random junk, you know? It's like... if you reblog everything you see, it really doesn't mean anything anymore. I'm always a little disappointed when I see that someone who reblogged a drawing of mine has already reblogged 35 other random posts between then and when I take a gander at their tumblr because it pretty much means they're just clicking whatever lands in front of them.

This may be one of the things that the GNAA is trying to get across; The content that's just image macros, funny gifs, or self-congratulating posts that communities reblog to make themselves feel good have no actual value outside of Tumblr.

I reblog shit I find funny because I would otherwise be going "hey look at this" and I know everyone who cares would already be following me anyway. This very, very rarely includes over-reactions to fandom things because people going "OMFG ADSLKJFHPGFPSN" is stupid.
I have no idea how anyone hits the 250 per day post limit at all, I never come close.

Not to say reblogging is all I do, but it does comprise a lot of my time there. I mostly use likes as a reference, or to save something for later.

Not everything in society has to be of specific value to everyone though, that's the beauty of having opinions. If people want to fuck around on tumblr, that's their problem. The GNAA isn't doing itself any favors by doing this besides generating publicity in the PETA fashion, and we see how well PETA is liked by and large.

Except that the GNAA doesn't care about being liked. They are a troll organization. The fact that people are inconvenienced and see the message is all that matters to the GNAA.

So, what exactly does this wormvirusthing do? If I have no tumblr am I safe? Can I go back to reading pony tumblrs?

no

you can't

Tumblr is gone forever. Go back to using facebook.

Tumblr is about me

Man, who even cares if people are reblogging silly/"meaningless" things on their Tumblrs. I use my main one to mess around with friends and share stupid doodles and reblog amusing things because it's entertaining and I like having a place where I can just cut loose. If it's not hurting anyone then I don't see why people can't just do what they want with their blogs. :B