Sure, other platforms may call them “followers” too, but only Tumblr can capture the feel of a faceless crowd of huddled masses trailing after you about a city block’s distance away, picking up pages of your diary or scrawlings that you drop on the ground as you walk along. Some of these people have been there for years. Some only joined the crowd last week. Collectively, the crowd is ancient and ageless. Who are they? What do they want from you? Nobody knows. Walk a little faster.
This is so incredibly over-the-top Gothic I am just cracking up XD
The best part is that each of those people following you have their own followers and they are tossing copies of your posts behind them for those people and really everyone on the site is just walking in a series of concentric circles picking through each other’s detritus.