spidereyhes:

i know this post has been made over and over and over and mine won’t be nearly as legible as others, but i wanted to say my bit so here we go.

REBLOG THE CONTENT THAT CREATORS PUT OUT INTO THE WORLD!!!!! IF YOU LIKE IT THEN REBLOG IT!!!!!

“but wait!!!!!” you say as you read my frustrated capitalized shouting. “i like it!!!! i’m letting the creator know that i like it!!! and sometimes i even message them and tell them i liked it!!!! isn’t that enough????”

sure, liking content is amazing!!!! it makes content creators feel all warm and fuzzy!!!! and messaging us to tell us you liked it???? wonderful!!!!!

but at the end of the day, we create content to be seen. and there’s that old thought that you should create content for yourself and because you enjoy it (which we do) but the reason we post it on sites like this is for other people to see it and enjoy it!!!!

when you like something but don’t reblog it, your love for it is stillborn. none of your followers will see that you’ve liked it, and the creator loses out in exposure.

for example, my most popular fic on here has 2391 notes. seems like a lot, right?? but out of those notes, 2115 of them are likes, and 258 are reblogs. that means only 9.2% of those notes attributed to that fic being spread for more people to enjoy.

and that fic is a best case scenario. for smaller content creators (and on my less popular fics), there will be 200 notes and 6 reblogs. or 90 notes and 2 reblogs.

you know those messages you send??? the ones that say “pls update!!!” “when will the next update come???” “I WANT MORE OF THIS PLEASE!!!!” the best way to get a content creator to create more of what you love is by reblogging their content!!! that shows them that you love it, that you want to see more of it, and you want your followers to see more of it too. and, speaking from experience, i guarantee that every content creator clicks on every reblog of their post in joy when they see it (and reads all the tags. every tag. every time.)

i know this was really long and none of you probably read all the way through but basically REBLOG THE CONTENT THAT YOU LOVE!!!!! SUPPORT CREATORS!!!!!!! like seriously guys we don’t get paid to do this lmao so exposure and reblogs are. amazing.