Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.
The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.
Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.
Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.
Equally unsurprising: Tumblrās management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.
Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to ādoubleā the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, thatās not gonna work out well for them.
good luck with your plan to sell ads targeting a user base that doesnāt exist any more, @staff.
Then theyāre def gonna let Tumblr die on the vine when it doesnāt pan out. Itāll take a few years but mark my words, this is going to work out about as well as when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and everybody left. Also, fuck Verizon forever.
Plz lemme know if you reblog this and it disappears. I have Suspicions.
I mean, there are already mutuals of mine reporting that they canāt see this post, only a āpost was deleted"notice on my blog, and Iām the OP. So, whatever your suspicions are, I suppose mark them as confirmed.
iāve seen it disappear about 5 times off my dash.Ā
The best article on the whole drama so far. Confirms what i thought. The ban was planned long ago.
