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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.
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“blue nude”, 2015 by Norman Engel
Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.
in homestuck made this world, a podcast where two media academics do a legit critical reading of homestuck, one of the hosts will occasionally interrupt by saying ‘hey, hold on a second. i just realized something. none of this is real. andrew hussie made this all up’ and not only is it very funny but it is also a fantastic little voice to have in your head when people try to drag your criticisms of a text down into the diegetic level. like. no that reason you just gave me isnt why that happened. that happened because a guy made it all up and then wrote it down actually. anyway,
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My Starbucks store manager won SM of the quarter out of over 100 stores 🥲 this is her first year as SM and she worked her way up from a barista an totally deserves it.
Btw you can be intensely critical of the Democratic party and recognize that it is full of aged out of touch moderates who are refusing to meet the urgency of the moment,
and also recognize that voting for Democrats is extremely important because it allows things like the confirmation of Justices and prevents the literal fascist party from gaining more power and that harm reduction is an important end in itself
These things can coexist
Politics is a long game. Being disappointed and angry today does not obviate your responsibility to participate
People are acting so weird and possessive of Markiplier for the whole OnlyFans situation. He's an adult. He's an adult who's been a celebrity for years. He knows people thirst on him. That's why he had this idea in the first place. He's not some naive kid you must protect. He's not some innocent soul that the evil sluts of Tumblr and Twitter will corrupt. He knows the Internet, he knows his fans and he knows his job.
He's an adult and he can make his own choices.
Sometimes it's impossible to go back to the main story.
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~
All social media discourse basically boils down to, "Your moral argument is based on a gross oversimplification, but if I point this out, people will accuse me if defending the bad thing"
But really I am at a point where I’m fed up. “Oh no, one who still complains.” Most people who don’t make creations write this.
Tumblr has changed. Everything has changed on this site. It has become like Instagram. No one reblogs anymore, no one takes the time to thank or comment on a creation. Everything is normal, everything is due for some. It doesn’t matter if we didn’t have the obligation to do so, it’s important. Without the creators this site will disappear and becomes empty. And whatever the creators: (Gifmaker / Fanart / Fanfiction…).
If you don’t create immediately it is too late for you because your post will be drowned in the ocean of others (always the same). If you want to do it later because you have a life, your post will no longer be interesting because people move on so quickly on contents. If your post is not in a tag (always bug from tumblr), nobody will see it. Either you are lucky or no. And for me these trends in the application destroyed everything. We did not have that and people shared as much as they liked a creation.
Already that no one reblog now, you (not reblogging) are killing the creators. Because you have to share to keep alive things. And support your fandom. Don’t say that your fandom is dead if you do nothing to keep it and make it live. Putting a “like” is useless because the work will not be seen with others. And the content will remain in the shade and your <favorite page> is closed to others. If you can put a like that means that you liked the post, so REBLOG it, please.
Also, Tumblr does not help the creators, they drown them just as much with their ridiculous algorithm. And popular tags that some abuse to have thousands of notes (90% likes). Also, indirectly I understand the creators who try to use these tags in trends to show their true creations.
And as it had to be worse, staff put a community label option on the sexual theme which will only attack the real creators instead of porn blogs that you can find in each tags of this site. It is always necessary to put obstacles to the creators who bring everything to this site. And the worst part is those who have nothing other to do than to make unnecessary report to get a creation invisible even more.
And it doesn’t matter if you have a lot of subscribers, it doesn’t change anything. Strictly nothing. The only thing that works is to reblog but again this is no longer the case on this site. So I understand that the newcomers abandoned so quickly. Because we don’t all have popular blogs that will share us every time. And I understand so much the creators who decided to stop. I understand more and more that they are discouraged. Like me. And maybe I will end up this path.
Duuuude
1400 year old ginkgo tree.
地點：陝西省西安市古觀音禪寺
Photography: Han Fei
What am I doing here?
When you dress as sherlock and feel weird the whole day
