I’ve noticed something strange afoot on Jakob Lodwick’s tumblelog of late. Instead of continuing the conversation, he’s been taking it, and starting his own. What I mean by that is, instead of reblogging something he wishes to respond to, he takes a screenshot and makes a new post with his commentary.
Here’s one example, and here’s another. Fuck it, here’s another (potentially unsafe for work viewing, containing as it does sideboob of the most delicious order).
Ordinarily, I don’t care enough to take public objection to a person’s tumblelogging style, because everyone has their own way, and mostly, they’re welcome to it. But what Lodwick is doing is kind of an asshole thing to do.
For one: it breaks the reblog trail. As noted above, it doesn’t add to the conversation, it starts it anew with his name at the top of the chain. It also means no link for whoever it is he’s screenshotting — I think most people will agree that if there’s no link, the chances of figuring out the URL manually are severely depreciated. Which is really a roundabout way of saying no credit for the original author, aside from an image (that isn’t guaranteed to even always be there).
It’s pretty rude, as it goes.
So now I come to “why?” Sometimes he’ll deign to hand out a reblog for some lucky peon, and sometimes he won’t. There is no appreciable pattern to it.
So whatta you say, Lodwick? What the fuck are you doing?
I don’t expect a reblog, since I’m not internet famous, a musician, or a New Yorker, but maybe at least a screenshot with some commentary? I promise I won’t tell anyone you lowered yourself to responding to some nobody, I’m just curious.
(See here for the abridged version of this post, by another (anonymous) user that takes issue with this.)