I have literally hundreds of Hetalia AUs that I would love to share and discuss with people but like… the Hetalia fandom has gotten really weird about interacting with people outside of a set number of blogs it feels like?
I feel like new Hetalia ask blogs these days go nowhere without promos from bigger blogs. Like you either start out with god tier art or have to be promo’d by someone with god tier art to get a decent following and have a chance at some good interaction with fans. But like… it’s not just ask blogs either. It’s the same for any type of Hetalia content blog.
I know I made a post about the Devalier stuff that went down a few weeks ago, and this is sort of like an add on to that. It’s not just Devalier. It’s any type of new content creators. It’s Hetalia headcanon or moodboard blogs dying out because nobody sends requests. It’s fic blogs dying out because aside from a few likes nobody interacts with their stuff. It’s art blogs giving up because they never hear any feedback or appreciation on their stuff. Even just casual Hetalia blogs that sometimes post Hetalia and sometimes post other stuff find it hard to stay in the fandom because their followers from more active fandoms interact with them more than the Hetalia ones do.
People on here wonder why so many Hetalia blogs turn to Voltron or K-Pop or literally anything else… this is why. Because users here have gotten so used to getting their Hetalia fix from a set amount of people that they don’t care about finding new ways to interact with the fandom. If those few set people happen to promo a blog here and there? Cool! They’ll check them out, but otherwise they don’t bother.
I’m begging you people to check out the recent posts on the Hetalia tags every once and a while. Support newer content creators, interact with smaller content creators, don’t just follow the same handful of blogs for months without any change.
Interact with people! I’m always up for asks or even just casual discussion, and I know a lot of other smaller blogs would absolutely love the interaction as well. So go! Check out those recent tags! Send some asks! Toss out a few reblogs! That’s what tumblr is all about!