AskKatLadyJane

---- I am THE Crazy Cat Lady Jane. Ask me, or Fifi  what you will, I don't guarantee a sane response ---------Skype: niata13 --------Steam: Niata15 

[vaporize-employers]

constantly fascinated by the way tumblrs plans for this website have nothing to do with the people who use it

[vaporize-employers]

tumblr users: complain

staff: 

[starshipcaptainjojo]

Hello! Hello! You’re correct! I’m your resident digital marketing pro here to spit some theory on why this is actually not the most grossly incompetent site you’ve ever seen, it’s just that Yahoo (and we) don’t know it!

Exhibit A: Yahoo paid $1.1 Billion for Tumblr in 2013

Tumblr was already the way tumblr is in varying degrees of appalling before 2013. So. Yahoo bought it even after it was plateauing. The truth of the matter is that Yahoo bought tumblr to be another social media site, a mixture of Deviantart and Livejournal. They did this because they didn’t understand tumblr’s true value, which doesn’t have to do with traffic ads at all!

Exhibit B: Automattic paid less than (but conceivably close to) $20 Million for Tumblr in 2019

Automattic owns Wordpress and has a bunch of other smaller-name properties under its umbrella. It’s a company that is ‘trying to make the web a better place’ and honestly we should have let Pornhub buy Tumblr BUT I DIGRESS. Automattic bought Tumblr for multiple millions of dollars in 2019 because they knew what Yahoo did not: That tumblr’s value isn’t ads but in fact Big Data. 

Big Data, n., definition: extremely large data sets that may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially relating to human behavior and interactions.

Tumblr is a trend hub, a place where twitter jokes show up months in advance, where pop culture phenomenon are born and where meme trends appear before anywhere else. It’s self contained and pretty appalling but it’s one of the only sites where ‘discoverable’ content is still a common thing. We’re all using our favorite characters hashtags, communicating via messenger and generally being stupid without the filter of ads and brand accounts. This is a Kodoku of cultural trends and content, a melting pot where the best rises and can easily be observed.

Had you ever seen a gif set before tumblr? Exactly.

Tumblr’s information is what they want, not to sell us anything. They are doing the bare minimum to keep people here, filtering out the spam (porn accounts which aren’t giving them usable data, bots, etc.) and creating a data factory they can apply to their other sites and hopefully get a ringer out of one of them! Wordpress is all about user ease and hosting, but there are a bunch of other sites no one cares about on their homepage, and if Automattic is being smart they’re datamining all that Tumblr does (including UI complaints and Xkit which provides free coding for them BTW) to form roadmaps for their other properties. And probably also selling what they learn (which doesn’t qualify as ‘our data being sold’ btw because it contains no identifying information) to other major corporations and technology companies.

So yes, Tumblr is a hellsite where no one listens to you, but it’s not because they don’t hear. It’s because what you’re asking for won’t feed the beast behind the curtain.

Enjoy your blogs, enjoy your content. Enjoy the unregulated (except for porn because these people are prudes) internet in the last bastion of insanity on the light half of the world wide web. 

Stay where you are, poor beast, this is no world for you. Stay in your forest and keep your trees green, and your friends protected. And good luck to you…for you are the last!

[marithlizard]

Interesting! I don’t know if it’s correct, but it’s a very plausible explanation for why Tumblr hasn’t been dismantled despite its complete lack of profitability.   It even explains the bizarre, inconsistently displayed advertising on the site: the point is  not to get us to buy anything, but to measure our reactions on the scale from amused tolerance to apathy to frothing, yelling-at-@staff outrage.  

[mollyspurg]

I saw that ad on facebook for customizable crazy straws and i didn’t even think i just smashed the purchase button and 2 weeks and $15 later this arrived at my house 

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

OP where’s the link

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

Where’s the fucking link

[dullgecko]

This thing started a civil war on cybertron 

[radetzkymarch]

[gymleadercheren]

so there’s this item on neopets called chia flour and what it does is basically, you’re in the battledome against someone else’s pet and you lob it at em and it turns them into a yellow chia. the thing is, the effect doesn’t end when the battle does. like… your pet literally becomes a yellow chia forever. so you could be in there with a really expensive plushie draik or something, a restricted hard-to-get species with a ridiculously expensive color, and suddenly its a chia.

its terrifying, and there have been stories of like, dedicated griefers with millions of neopoints to spend going out of their way to ruin people’s pets. the item has been retired for a while now, so theyre actually in limited supply so people arent really concerned about having chia flour lobbed at their pets anymore…

but it turns out using this illegal neopets site you can just blow 40 bucks on some and really really really really really mess up someone’s day

[omegajako]

The term “illegal neopets site” fills me with primal fear

[earlploddington-deactivated2019]

underground mormon neopet black market

[thechekhov]

Okay I-- WHAT?

This one’s new.

“This post was flagged because somewhere in your reblog there might be adult content“

Somewhere in my–

SOMEWHERE? In MY REBLOG?

@staff You flagged a WHOLE DAMN POST BECAUSE SOMEWHERE in my REBLOG - which was reblogged by, and is being reblogged by, literally anyone and anyone - there - wait for it - MIGHT be adult content?!??!

What does that–

Are you seriously–

Do you seriously not see the flaw here? 

Are you saying, that one person - one VERY determined person - could go around and reblog ANY POST they like, and add f*male n*pples to it, and you would automatically flag that WHOLE post?

THE REBLOG DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY ADULT CONTENT. IT’S A COMIC. ABOUT A CARTOON. IT’S A–

 I’m done.

[lindblut]

so yeah just you all know. This bullshit right here? Not tolerable. Not at all. Suddenly content creators aren’t just responsible for the content they post, no, suddenly we are held accountable for content OTHER PEOPLE ATTACH TO IT, TOO! Which is literally impossible for any of us to control because we have no tools to do anything about it (and even if we had, I don’t want to feel responsible over what people do to my posts when reblogging. Ain’t nobody got time to take care of that bullshit, sorry. That’s YOUR job @staff, not mine.) I 100% will not submit any more art to tumblr. Frankly I am done with this garbage website. I’m gonna fill my instagram page soon, too.

[xbloss]

In light of recent events, I present you with this @staff:

[pancake-karmas]

my contibution to this mess

[yumenouveau]

Someone fire tumbridge please

[l0vegl0wsinthedark]

TUMBRIDGE

[waggtoon]

When I’m worried I make Muppet memes (based on a scene from the Ethel Merman episode from season one of The Muppet Show ).

[waggtoon]

Bringing this back.

[kylee-the-sadist]

*🎵Ayayaya🎵 intensifies*

[lauralot89]

Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]

Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

this really does sound like an episode of black mirror

[architeuthism]

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

[retroactivebakeries]

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

[crazy-pages]

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.

This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.

[crazy-pages]

Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.

[lihafel]

I'm so sorry this blog just recently opened up to NSFW content only to be nuked two weeks from now, is there anywhere else I can follow your work?

Bummer, but it is what it is. If Tumblr proceeds to go through with it, then depending how the process goes more specifically, I’ll either just close/abandon the blog, or cleanse it to be a carbon copy of content that shows up on my deviantART. If anything else, it’ll be nice to not have another platform to focus on so much, aha~

With that said, there are a couple of other places to find me:

For you lewd folk, my FurAffinity has been around for awhile, but it’s a lot more extreme than the nsfw I posted here, so please be mindful. (´･ω･`)

For a more family-friendly alternative, my deviantART is where you want to go! It’s safer as a whole, but also a little quieter, because people drown me in lewd commissions.

And there’s my Twitter. It sometimes becomes a place where I vent emotions - both negative and positive - but shower thoughts and personal video game highlights sprinkle around, too. If there’s enough of a call for it, I’ll probably end up using my Twitter as a general replacement for Tumblr, cutting down on the chatter, and focusing more on posting art. But we’ll see how that goes.

I suppose it’s only fair that I mention my Patreon as well. A lot of sketching still happens there, and I’m slowly getting more nsfw with what gets posted there.

[lihafel]

Another friendly reminder as everything falls down around us.

Don’t let it set in.

[jerico3193]

[frizz01percy]

this should be the most reblogged post on tumblr before it dies

[xan-thos-blog]

We need to reblog this so much that the post breaks

[mortis01]

Reblog pls

[lolafsvoice]

Friendly reminder that this hell site is owned by Yahoo, a company who are now actively advocating for the death of Net Neutrality.

Friendly fucking reminder that the site is actively forcing users to unfollow the net neutrality tag after 20 or so minutes of following it.

Friendly reminder that this site is now actively trying to limit our ability to share information and spread awareness.

[lihafel]

Hey, Shantae is coming out for the Switch. So I don’t need the Vita one.

Do you want the Vita one? I’ll give you guys a week to figure it out. (Let’s say May 18, 2017, 20:20 EST-ish. Don’t worry babe, I got your shipping covered.)

Likes and reblogs count I guess?

[crazykatladyjane]

Considering douching this place and going back to OG status, problem being, who the fuck is even still following this damn thing

[crazykatladyjane]

This whole revival thing is going swell

[zeekubeast]

wanting to draw things but not having the energy to put effort into drawings