why won't wamdus drop spears @ainsophaugh - Tumblr Blog

i feel like i'm never on here and that's because i'm never on here. i would like to be on here more.

pollopom

a rat in a cage

#sandalphon #gbf

fafameow

ch5 stuff (wdym its been a week)

#deltarune #deltarune chapter 5

messsssmer

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

fireknightqueelign

thy mother

messsssmer

Art thou for fucking real

professional-lamprey

"all masculinity is toxic" that sucks for you, get more creative and weird with it immediately

pillowspace

Stop posting AI-generated animal videos without disclaimer to Tumblr or I'm crashing the ship into a cliffside

pillowspace

i'm going back to sleep

century-potpourri

pillowspace

Komaeda, thank god it's you, I had a horrible nightmare that there was a guy

evilfuckignskeleton

pillowspace

Hold on Komaeda, I'm sensing a presence

eremita-viola

see @tumblr this is why you don't change the reblog system, you wouldn't get gems like these anymore!

pillowspace

Desperately clutches at tumblr

cryptotheism

AMD GOD GAVE THE BEAST-KINGS GIFTS THAT THEY MIGHT SHARE WITH THEIR PEOPLE:

To the Wolf, god gave ripping teeth, and the Law of the Pack.

To the Bear, god gave crushing jaws, and terrible strength

To the Falcon, god gave slicing talons, and great sight

And to the Shrimp, god gave the concussive plasma cannon.

aevris

this is one of my favourite posts; finally got around to finishing this

janederscore

now can we perhaps get a major publication to pick up the story of how tumblr's staff is massively hostile to trans women and actively lets harassment directly in violation of its tos proliferate constantly . maybe then our good friend matthew would do something productive about that too

leolaroot

average tumblr staff post does read like.

We Heard You. We Understand We Fucked Up. Please Please Please Forgive Us. Ohh Crawling Like A Worm. Sliding Across The Linoleum. We're Sorry. We're Sorry. We're Sorry.

Alrernate Ending:

We Heard You. We Disagree. You Will Get Over This. Please Please Please Stop Complaining. Crawl For Me Like A Worm. Show Us Your Tits. Lick My Heel. Lick My Heel. Lick My Heel.

leolaroot

1st one is for when theyve inconvenienced fan fiction authors Second is for when minorities are being harassed and harmed

junglejim4322

Remember when I was going crazy 5 minutes ago [chuckle of fond remembrance] amazing how time changes people

ratbastarddotfuck

tumblr userbase is going to become unconscionably insufferable in response to this taste of power I suspect. don't let it go to your heads.

ratbastarddotfuck

Lots of talk about "bullying wins" and little talk about power and the flow of capital, which is what matters to the corporate bigheads who approve these things. imo a few things were at play here to make them rescind this.

- It was buggy. Tags not showing up for an OP past even an empty reblog did not appear to be intended (or at least, it was not mentioned in the announcement), and is a MAJOR problem. Specifically, it undoes the major update from around 5 years ago which was heavily praised by the userbase (one of few tumblr updates to actually be widely well recieved) which allowed a poster to see tags in their activity feed. If this was the only problem, they could have launched a bug fix. Same goes for not being able to turn off reblogs.

- Userbase unity? Well, maybe. Specifically - the userbase had a swift, harsh, and overbearing response to this update. Most of the complaints were the same: this will exacerbate harassment, this will disrupt the flow of communication, this will make it impossible for someone to maintain their posts. Big names in the tumblr ecosystem came down hard, fast, and with significant concern: if this stays in place, I will have to leave - this place will not do what I need it to do. Much of the userbase said the same, sharing alternate blog hosting sites and doing the thing we always do when this ship looks like sinking. Additionally, their replies and feedback forms were obviously being flooded. This put real pressure on their workers in the office, which puts financial pressure on the company. I think the most disrupting tactic though, was going offsite. I checked out their instagram and twitter comments; they were flooded. This is something we Don't Usually Do when we're just whining about the newest change. Usually we stay here to complain but we make do with the change. This, I think, is the thing that signified people weren't just whining but were actually for real pissed. And then of course...

- Five hours before the roll-back announcement, an article drops. That kind of bad press is the nail in the coffin for a dying company like tumblr. I imagine several concerned meetings somewhere in those five hours.

What do we learn? The answer is not "bullying works" and "swearing at customer service reps is fun". The answer is to remember that online, we are both the product and the thing that creates the value (similar to but obviously distinct from the actual workers of a corporation; if we vanished overnight they'd have nothing). Brush up on your collective bargaining & try to understand why this happened in this way. And don't try to replicate this for every random update that comes next by endlessly harassing them. Take stock of the little power you have and work out where to put it to use. This is still just tumblr.