The reason Tumblr was such an L for Yahoo wasn’t because it’s user base was so insufferable, but because Tumblr became a less popular media platform. Algorithm became more popular, creating content that people would literally crave, specifically tailored to them. And it’s a boon for advertisement. Twitter? Facebook? Instagram? TikTok? They’re essentially tailored billboards; sites dedicated to advertisement. What made Tumblr an L was the ban on NSFW and the inability to sell ads, not just the cultural disconnect between Yahoo and the platform. It literally lost some 1/3 of its traffic following the NSFW ban.
Yahoo bought Tumblr as the site was competing with other media platforms and slowly becoming obsolete. Asking why people don’t flock here anymore is like asking why people don’t use MySpace any more. There was a shift to different forms of media.
What made Tumblr an L was not the existence of an insufferable user base, but the loss of its user base.
Twitter? Twitter will never be an L for Musk. First, there is no cultural disconnect between him and the platform. Musk is the epitome of Twitter culture. Capitalistic. Reductive. “Edgy.” Cringe. Thinking he’s the smartest person in the room; a true intellectual. Offensively pseudo-ironic. Literally Twitter.
You want Twitter to be Musk’s L? Deactivate.
Deactivate your Twitter.
What will lose him money is a loss of users. It’s already a site optimized for ads and outrage and tailored content. It’s already a site tailored to his type of personality.
You want him to lose money?
Deactivate.
Make his pockets bleed.
Here's a hot little sex tip from your local horny shark:
If you're making a lot of soup, be sure you're adding enough spices. You might think to yourself "this is too much" but! Because of all the water you're adding, the flavors will thin out. Be sure to taste periodically to make sure it's just right.
Hope that helps and makes your sex life even better~
*In Harley Quin voice*
MR J!? What do you think about Gandalf X Mr Slytherin? MR J!?
More alien thoughts:
So you know how fireflies glow in order to attract mates? What if there was an alien species that did that. They may be insectoid, they may not be, but in any case, they just flirtatiously light up at people they’re interested in. Or maybe they also just use it as a sign that they want to form friendly relations. So when they first meet other species they blink their lights at them to show them they’re friendly.
I was reading someone’s post about how a lot people dislike bugs but like fireflies because they glow. So maybe most humans warm up to them pretty quickly because the lights immediately make them seem more cute and appealing. Later, humans need to differentiate a friendly blink from a flirtatious one.
Meanwhile, a mimicking species also glows, however they use their glow to draw in prey (like a lantern fish does). Knowing that their sister species is peace loving and trusted by the other species, they use their similar luminescent abilities to their advantage. Space soon needs to learn to pick out little differences between the two species so they know what they’re getting into when they’re glowed at—do they think you’re cute or do they think you’re dinner?
Aaand because I love unlikely relationship dynamics, maybe in very rare occasions, the aggressive species actually does come to like a human/other species, but people have a hard time trusting them because of the general behavior of their planet.
I’m imagining a human with an aggressive glowing partner, and they’re introducing them to friends like, “Look, my partner is so cute! They glow at me! It was so cute how blinky they were when we first met!”
And then everyone is like “O.O That’s one of the homicidal ones…”
I wish DS9 had dared give us Garak in a Princess Leia bikini in this scene.
The thief that only borrows in a sea with out the shark, But who protects the shadow from the dark?
Oh to be two older queer men eating strawberries in our garden at the end of the world
my belovedest spore creatures, the R'rwyri!
They're small, nomadic omnivores that live on the lush natural satellite Kismet-G5 (the 5th moon of the 7th planet, a massive gas giant, orbiting the star Kismet!) They have a yearly migration path that takes them from their winter home in the central part of Kismet-G5's single supercontinent, where it's hot and dry, to the coasts in the summer.
They use their long, narrow proboscus to drink both juice/nectar from fruits/plants and blood from other creatures.
Regional dialects vary, but their language is largely high-pitched whistles and chirps, accompanied by buzzing or clicking from the spiracles along their neck. Most spacefaring r'rwyri that live in multispecies cohabitation carry a translation device where words are typed into an input and the device translates and reads the translated text aloud.