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[mangedog]

48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

reverse the recent image viewer update

scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting

let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely

increase efforts against spam / porn bots

make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam

let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time

commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!

(suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

[mangedog]

tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let's make this an indefinite blackout - it's the best way to get results.

(so the blackout would be from June 30th onwards)

[l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4]

@theshitpostcalligrapher @jame7t @demilypyro @unclefather @i-am-a-fish @one-time-i-dreamt @fartgallery @ginger-ale-official @hungwy @kaijuno @zagreus @manywinged @pukicho @todaysbird @thehugwizard

You guys are some of the biggest most influential blogs I know, it'd probably be a great help to this protest if some of tumblrs biggest users participated in the blackout and spread the word. Sorry for being annoying and tagging yall.

[blackmagichedonist]

It's Tumblr rejecting the blaze campaigns that earned this post my reblog. I'm sorry, but I cannot support silencing protests on your platform just because they are against *your* platform. Such a very twitter thing of them to do!

[spoonietimelordy]

The concept of plagiarism going from "taking someone else's work and passing it as your own" to now being "anything that you take inspiration from to make your own thing" is killing creativity, I'll fight people on that. Online plagiarism software flag anything similarly formulated as plagiarism, like come on, there isn't 100 ways to give the date of birth and death of someone for example, this is fucking up teenagers mind.

That's how you get kids calling out artists for stealing poses or color palette.

[unsolids-your-snake]

Everyone just needs to accept that creativity ≠ being the most specialest little babey that comes up with Brand New Ideas that nobody else has ever touched on

I passionately hate this belief that if someone has worked with an idea then that idea is now used up and can never provide anything more to the world.

Like good for you but I will write on the themes of transformation and choice till I die and never say 1/1000 of everything there is to be said about it despite using all kinds of tropes, ideas, plot devices, and etc that have been reused umpteen times.

Creativity in constructing a story requires that you understand how stories work. There's no value in something that was not created with interest in the story being told, but only for the sake of uniqueness.

[sheepskin]

new tie-up charms, standees, and sticker sheets on my shop!

[the-evil-pizza]

[todaysbird]

[blackmagichedonist]

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[blackmagichedonist]

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[blackmagichedonist]

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[laughoutloud-club]

So poor people don’t deserve to have money?!

[meandmybigmouth]

THEY’LL JUST WASTE IT ON SURVIVAL! 

[mrmessgoesnuts]

Also, if you’ve taken more than a high school economics course taught by someone who has never stepped foot in a college economics class,

Giving $500 to poor people multiplies it REALLY FAST. That $500 immediately goes into the economy and ripples more purchases until it hits a rich pocket.

Giving $500 to a billionaire takes $500 out of the economy permenantly. You could have set it on fire and made no difference.

[cronagorgonzola]

That is such an important part of the conversation that rich people seem to purposefully misunderstand whenever it’s brought up

Money exists to be spent, not hoarded. Yes, people should have saving, but no one should be sitting on a pile of money too big to spend in a single lifetime. “The economy” as a concept only works if people are spending money, and the people hoarding the money are so quick to blame the people who barely have any when the economy starts to fail

Having a big string of numbers in an offshore account doesnt make you an economic genius, it makes you a parasite that is ruining the economy for everyone else

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

Calling rich people parasites is an insult to parasites tbh

[mckitterick]

money spent by poor and working class people has a much greater effect on the economy, because it gets used over and over, multiplying its value, rather than being buried in a dragon’s mountain hoard

[everythingfox]

Hey Hector

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[mochigobrrrrrrr-deactivated2026]

"This isn't how we really make friends, Sori!" Sorianna continues to sqwak and chip in protest, not wanting to leave the poor Miqo'te's hair.

[micdotcom]

Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.” 

[darringtonshorthalt]

x

[science-jumps]

King

[ohgodshesloose]

Worth noting that he protested loudly against the WWE doing a show in Saudi Arabia after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, and the company retaliated by making sure he hasn’t been on TV or PPV since. Not fired, of course, so they can keep selling merchandise with his face on it (and keep him from joining the competition), just out of the public eye so he and his protests gets forgotten by the fans.

Picture that: an ubiquitous celeb and household name like John Cena basically got black bagged and vanished for speaking up for human rights. That’s the power of capitalism, kids

[artndetails]

stained glass window. (via)

[blackmagichedonist]

Oh dear gods! I want windows like this!

[blackmagichedonist]

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[arcteris]

don't sneak up on dragoons

[blackmagichedonist]

"Are you ready to begin~?"

Lovely backdrop once more courtesy of #SneefStudios

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[candiikismet]

He ain’t have to do that

[mylkichoco-deactivated20211105]

He did it anyway