Hello everybody! Yes, that's right; I have opened up a few new social media pages!
This is mainly regarding my new Mastodon and Tumblr accounts, which I will be posting to more (thanks to a certain Musk and his... not-so-good decision making). I was meant to only have one, but I accidentally made two, because I wasn't aware that accounts don't fully migrate across servers. Oops.
Anyways, let's get to it, before I go on more tangents.
Social Media Links
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/revilleaj
Initially, I was a bit hesitant on making a new Tumblr account (my old one was a throwaway for a private blog and I never used it again), but I heard that Tumblr is back to being good (not to mention some people I like do not want to use Mastodon, since they think Tumblr is enough), so I have decided to open up an account there.
mastodon.social (Mastodon): https://mastodon.social/@RevilleAJ
An alternative account just in case Tumblr goes down south. I'll rarely use it in the meantime.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RevilleAJ
If I ever do make an animation that I'm satisfied with, I may upload it here.
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/revilleaj
I don't really stream or even watch streams live, so this is very inactive, but it's here for keepsake.
DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/revilleajarchive
Heads up: this account is super inactive, unsurprisingly. I do not like most of the contents or community on DeviantArt (you know why), nor do I agree with their parent company's views. I originally made the account after deleting my old one, and it would've served purpose as an archive for older drawings I made. I never felt like uploading to it though, but the account still exists and maybe some day I might use it.
Newgrounds: https://revilleaj.newgrounds.com/
Pretty much the same thing as DeviantArt; I have never actually uploaded to this website at all. As with YouTube, maybe I will post animations to here if I ever get some done, but don't expect me to read comments, because I know the Newgrounds community has always been quite ruthless and snobby. It's saying something about my inactivity when the last time I modified my Newgrounds account was 3 years ago! It still had outdated links to now-deleted social media accounts, and my age from then, at the time I was typing this up.
You may be wondering "what about your Instragram account?!". Well, in case you hadn't figured, I deleted it a while ago (I think two years ago now?) because it was super inactive and seemingly everyone I followed had either left or got hacked. Meta has some of the worst security out there. My very first account still exists, but it was and still is banned for no reason. I can't even appeal it without having to send a picture of my face and a piece of paper with a code in the same image, which feels way too intrusive on privacy.
Meta and Instagram suck. I can't even view Instagram posts anymore because I don't have an account, and yet so many artists only seem to post there now because of how bad Twitter has gotten. Please, I beg of all of you, stop using Instagram and migrate to something like Mastodon or Tumblr instead. It was bad enough it took until 2022 or so for Instagram to have the option to upload from PC (previously I had to upload images from my phone, and it would always awkwardly crop them without giving me enough options).
I also do not plan on joining any more X (Twitter, if you already forgot) alternatives (such as Bluesky and Misskey, the latter of which is Japanese only to begin with) since I feel like Mastodon and Tumblr are enough.