#usb-toaster

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usb-toaster replied to your post “A few months ago shitrichcollegekidssay was making fun of Neutral Milk...”

i love you but you watch yourself around neutral milk hotel they are IMPORTANT

I know absolutely nothing about neutral milk hotel and pass no judgement 

I just had been under the impression that was not the name of a real band

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Tumblr is working fine except will not allow me to communicate with Jordi at all???

well fuck

so if you see this on my blog or in your tag, sorry for the public...ness... of it I just wanted to say if you want me to come visit let me know and I'll be there, no questions asked.

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usb-toaster replied to your post: I think tumblr autoplaying videos is e...

apparently yahoo wants tumblr to be like a youtube competitor or something idk that’s a rumor i heard

Yeah I heard that too and I believe it but here's why that a fucking shitty idea

If you want people to spend time on a website, rather than using it as a tool, cool, but YouTube is already established as the video tool on the internet and is the social platform for video. So long as the option is there, users would rather upload to YouTube and link via Tumblr, because the Tumblr video player has a reputation as being a sack of shit and yes, genuinely does not run as fast as YouTube.

There is no niche Tumblr is looking for in the video market. Vimeo is for professionals demoing their work. Blip is for long form internet videos. Vine is for super short jokes. YouTube is for... well, everything else. If the assumption is that Tumblr's main userbase is looking for something other than a) short jokes, b) longer discussion, c) vlogs, I don't know what that is.

Autoplaying videos is just a fucking stupid idea. It works on Vine because a) it pauses and mutes when you scroll down and b) Vine involves focusing on one video and then moving onto the next, not swapping from video to text to image etc, c) you don't have to unmute it, so it being automated has a point. All autoplaying videos does is distract users and use up my fucking bandwidth apparently. It also artificially inflates the number of plays a video gets (On YouTube a play is usually a view, on Tumblr now it's a loop after having been loaded)

YouTube allows users to pick their content and respond to it directly. Tumblr basically subjects you to what's popular and makes you contribute to the views by having loaded it.

If they want to build a video site, they have to build it on content creators. There is no video content creator on the internet who is going to switch to Tumblr from YouTube, Blip, or Vimeo, no matter how many people share their content on Tumblr.

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usb-toaster replied to your post: protip: Do you not give a fuck about w...

can we do this when i come home

um, yeah. of course. come get fat with me.

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usb-toaster replied to your post: Read More →

does this boy happen to be white cishet

how did u guess

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usb-toaster replied to your photo: “I really like post-its.”:

yeah well i really like your FACE

I REALLY LIKE YOUR FACE TOO

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usb-toaster replied to your post: I’m not a big fan of the book as a who...

DO YOU SEE NOW WHY I LOVE THIS BOOK

Hey you I never denied that Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction is topical and on point (it wasn't just the internet segment in Oryx and Crake, there were multiple scenes in A Handmaid's Tale that made me physically ill they were so effective)

I just think her narrative in that book sucked because Jimmy is the least interesting character ever created