Tumblr/Quotes
For me, '...dot Tumblr dot com' has been gradually replacing '...would be a good name for a band'.
Person 1: if an opinion falls in the forest and there’s no one around to hear it does tumblr still get offended by it
Person 2: i had a cousin fall and die in the forest you insensitive fuck
Childish Gambino: Send me naked pics, Imma tumbl that.
Look, as long as you're gay, bisexual, transexual, pansexual, over-react to every issue that ever turns up, and think you are the most individual person on a website so full of total individuality it all looks the same, you'll fit right in.
— Commenter namejawa
Q: How do I navigate tumblr?
A: You must employ a Navigator. A bloated inbred freak of nature who has a special mental capacity to read the curents of Tumblr. Going alone is equal to suicide.
So, in short, here is what happened to [Live Journal]: 1) LJ was sold to SixApart; 2) SixApart tried to monetize it; 3) SixApart got pressure from a) the Russian government, b) the Christian anti-porn police, and c) advertisers to bring its "adult content problem" under control; 4) LJ deleted a whole bunch of blogs, backed up and said "mea culpa", and then... deleted a whole bunch of blogs; and 5) SixApart sold LJ to the Russians.
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Following this pattern, here is what I suspect is going to happen to Tumblr: 1) Tumblr was sold to Yahoo (now owned by Verizon); 2) Yahoo/Verizon tried to monetize it; 3) Yahoo/Verizon got pressure from a) various governments, including Indonesia and China, b) the anti-porn/anti-sex-work/anti-shipping moral purity police, and c) [ETA for advertisers link] advertisers/the Apple Store to bring its "adult content problem" under control; 4) starting earlier this year, Tumblr deleted a whole bunch of blogs, backed up and said "mea culpa", and then... changed its TOS and started deleting content [← we're here right now]; and 5) Verizon will sell Tumblr to ? ? ?
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My point, here, is just that we have been here before. Exactly here. We have done this before, exactly this. Tumblr may take a while to bleed out, and they may try to triage it, but the writing is, in fact, on the wall: Tumblr will throw us off whatever cliffs they need to to try and eke out a profit for the morons in Verizon's boardroom; and in the end, our data's going to get deleted, or it's going to get sold, because that is just how these things go.
So we need to figure out where we go next.—"greywash", "State of the Migration: On fannish archival catastrophes, and what happens next" on Dreamwidth
"So is it just me, or does every new owner of Tumblr getting announced feel like we’re getting a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?"
—"Matrix Dragon", on the Drunkard's Walk Forums, 8/16/2019