Why is the follower-to-active followers gap so large? Why does
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Why is the follower-to-active followers gap so large? Why does it take someone having as high as 50k followers just to get a few hundred notes on Tumblr? The numbers are always so skewed, why is that.
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lurking has always been a thing, not just on tumblr
there are more people browsing and reading this thread than posting for example
>>2488260
Tumblr is set up so the lazy can just like-spam everything on their dashboard. It was only recently did they re-introduce commenting again.
it also depends on fandoms if you're into that stuff. im at around 600 followers and if i target the popular trends of an active fandom i can get a couple hundred notes pretty regularly
>>2488246
>The numbers are always so skewed, why is that.
No anon, the numbers are exactly as they are supposed to be. It is your perception of how things ought to be that is skewed.
>>2488285
Yes yet it doesn't mean all 56k followers are gonna bother liking posts, they are just content enough to see new content on their dashboard
>>2488412
What this anon said
I once put a Google analytics on my tumblr and found a comic I shared via Reddit was getting 3000 views even though it only had 50 likes
tumblr is weird in this case, in instagram i have around 12k followers and get 1.5k likes constantly but in tumblr i have around 500 followers and in very random posts i get around 1k notes and then just 50 and 35 and then 500.
>>2488565
on tumblr I have 2k followers, on instagram 20. I post regularly on both but it's kinda pointless posting on instagram anymore. I think it's much easier finding people on tumblr because you can reblog stuff.
>>2488246
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_%28Internet_culture%29