fun fact!! it turns out that now when u make a new blog, tumblr forces you to follow 3-4 people before you can change your icon or modify your blog in any way!! this, of course, means that, yes, some of the “potential bots” many of us have been automatically blocking could have possibly been genuine new users who were only just seconds in to having an account!!! tumblr is literally screwing new users over!!!!
But also the bot accounts will always follow a guideline for their names adjective then no space then noun, so they’ll be something like Audaciouslemon and if you follow them back they’ll send you dating app links