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[bogleech]

THAT'S what happened?! All those comedy websites years ago all shifted to doing videos and lost all their money at once because just Facebook tricked them with inflated video views?!

[guessed-starred-deactivated2025]

what????? what is this about

[ivie-online]

- so between 2014-2016 facebook launches a massive ‘pivot to video’ campaign to draw media orgs to their video-based features. zuckerberg’s doing rounds, saying that in the near future, newsfeeds will mostly be video, and that video is the future of media. to back this up, they release tons of wild viewership metrics for ads on facebook, enticing advertisers to prioritize video, and as a result, the media that relies upon advertisers for funding began to do the same.

- this had an industry-wide impact, and media orgs, from established news, to humor websites, to smaller creators, fire writers and those primarily focused on print, and direct resources to their video creation efforts.

- around 2016, it’s revealed that facebook completely fabricated their original numbers, likely inflating them between 150-900%. additionally, their viewership metric considered 3 seconds of a person watching to be a ‘view’ (whereas youtube had a 30 second requirement for the same metric).

-Having totally restructured in order to pivot to facebook video, many media orgs were unable to recapture hard won (and and sometimes decades old) audiences. College Humor, Funny or Die, MTV News, Vice, Mic, and Vox were among those that were seriously impacted.

- after a 2018 class action lawsuit, facebook (who maintain that the whole ordeal was caused by a simple error in calculation) was made to pay 40 million in damages, which 1, is a paltry sum when we consider the 22 billion they made in profit that same year, and 2, does nothing to bring back the jobs, audiences, and media orgs they destroyed. to make matters worse, many still posit that it was never the public, but rather advertisers that preferred video over text, meaning that facebook intentionally deceived everyone involved specifically to secure more advertising dollars. so yeah, fb is evil and… probably should be stopped

[sporesdruid]

[thisblog-yourlife]

omg

[ironpour]

[diycraftsnmore]

[retrogamingblog]

what it feels like to play pokemon ruby and sapphire on max volume

[kimveee]

The amount of work that went into this is amazing

[256x224-deactivated20240130]

What’s new pussycat?

OwO OwO OwO

[husknoises]

It’s Not Unuwusual

[teathattast]

[teathattast]

beautiful

[adulthoodisokay]

there he goes

[katswenski]

Don’t mix alcohol and energy drinks, kids, it’s not good for you. Neither is drinking four solo cups worth of energy shots.  My website – My Instagram (NEW!) – See me on LINE Webtoon!

[devlynblaise]

@pepperandpals

[squidbroom]

caesar: M-mr bwutus is that you Hewwo! Pwease hewp me i seem to be in a   wittle bit of twubble mr bwutus hewwo H-hewwo

caesar: Pwease mistew bwutus pwease i downt wanna die

caesar: H-hewwo mr bwutus awe you still thewe

caesar: M-mr bwutus pwease im getting stabbed Hhewwoi- m scarwed

caesar: Ill do anything fow you mr bwutus pwease hewp

brutus: Anything?

caesar: Anything for you mr bwutus :3

brutus:

[tamwah]

i wish my url was like “spoon” or “bastard” 

[spoonbastard]

guess what fuckers im living the life now

[bastardspoon]

hey what the fuck

[spoonbastard]

[the-mad-duchess]

Don’t just accept the new Terms of Service

Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)

OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:

Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.

My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:

Now you’ll see this page:

Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:

Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.

When we click on that one, what we will get is this:

A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.

(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)

[expatgirl]

I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.

[thelittleblackfox]

You’ll also want to check your settings after, as the first time I unchecked it didn’t save

[eatingcroutons]

Here’s how to find these settings if you clicked ‘OK’:

On a desktop, go to https://www.tumblr.com/settings/privacy. If you are accessing Tumblr from a European IP address, you will see the following:

Note that the ‘Cookie Consent’ toggle will only appear if you are on a European IP address. I had to switch off my VPN to make it appear.

Un-checking the Cookie Consent toggle will take you back to the pop-up described in this post. Un-check all the toggles**, click ‘Done’, but DO NOT CLICK ‘OK’ AFTERWARDS.

Clicking OK will RESET ALL THE TOGGLES YOU JUST UNCHECKED. Instead go back to ‘Manage options’ again:

…where you can confirm that everything is still unchecked. From the ‘Manage options’ page, click ‘Accept’ to accept the new agreement with your preferences (hopefully???) saved.

** A handy tip from @saurosuchus-ostraviensii: “If you’re going to uncheck all the 322 companies, you can just click on the first toggle and then go tab, tab, spacebar a lot of times if you don’t want to click your hand into oblivion.”

[juza-hyodo]

[ocfos]

but where’s the compensation

[juza-hyodo]

[twilightown]

CAUSE EVERY TIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELING

EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY

CAN’T U FEEL MY HEART BEAT FAST, I WANT THIS TO LAST

NEED YOU BY MY SIDE

[the-husbando]

This is the closest gif that can really capture the utter chaotic energy that is released when people hear this song

[allegations-moved]

[zagreus]

i sincerely hope that whoever is responsible for this gets struck by lightning

[callmeaflowerboi-deactivated201]

@murdoc this is what your shitposts remind me of.

[luckypeach]

The Official Instant Ramen Power Rankings, because if you can do it to pro football, you can do it to instant ramen.

[puffsaddy]

it’s a nigga at your girl job laughing at all her jokes you said was corny.

[puffsaddy]

ya girl like him..she think he would make a good friend..they exchange numbers you just clueless.

[puffsaddy]

he don’t like the same people she don’t like at work.. he texting her gifs and jordan crying memes..she love texting him he text back so fast unlike you.

[puffsaddy]

she go out with her coworkers after work to get a drink like always.. but this time she invite him.. he just so funny.. everybody like him you at home losing in 2k.

[puffsaddy]

you text her “wya it’s getting late”.. she look at your text like 🙄 because she don’t want the fun to stop…she think nobody see her..HE see’s her tho..he always see’s her.

[puffsaddy]

she get home and y'all get into a big argument.. she go to work the next day still upset..he notices and asks her what’s wrong..she say nothing she tryna walk away… he grabs her hand and looks her in the eyes…“what’s wrong?” ya girl just break down in his arms and crying all in the break room.

[puffsaddy]

a week go by yall still being distant..yall watching daredevil..well she not paying attention she on Instagram..he text her “you watching Love & Hip Hop? lol”.. he seem so perfect.

[puffsaddy]

she keep smiling in her phone..you ask her whats so funny? you snatch her phone and see his name.. she got him saved as “Rick 😂🙃💼” your stomach just start hurting.

[puffsaddy]

she tell you he’s just a friend from work..she putting it all on you saying you been real insecure lately.. you yelling and holding back tears..ya nose start running..Rick just texted her a link to the new Beyonce song.

[puffsaddy]

you text the group chat..“we need to get up this weekend..#savagelife” whole week yall not talking..you go out that friday night and don’t tell her.. you waiting for her to blow up your phone just so you can ignore her call..but she don’t call.. you start drinking everything.

[puffsaddy]

ya homies all hype and having a good time dancing n shit.. you sitting down tho by the window looking at the stars..all you can think about is Rick 😂🙃💼 blowing your queen back out.. you start thinking you overreacted..she wouldn’t do that..ya phone vibrate..“i dont think this is working out..”

[puffsaddy]

you call her and she not answering.. she drunk text back “im at Dave & Busters wth my co-wokrrs yhd”…. she been asking for y'all to go to Dave & Busters for a minute now.. you think it was her idea..but nah…it was Ricks.. ya limbs just collapse…meanwhile Rick just got ya queen a big polar bear with all the tickets he won.

[puffsaddy]

you gotta find out who Rick is.. you looking at ya girl likes on instagram..searching for rick..you lookin..lookin…you find him finally..click on his profile and see this bullshit

you just start throwin up everwhere.

[puffsaddy]

she come home tipsy..you ask her why she tryna throw everything away for this nigga.. she sighs.. then responds..“i just haven’t been happy..and this has nothing to do with Ricky he’s just my friend from work” ……Ricky? ..you throw up again.

[puffsaddy]

you tell her this is all stupid.. ask her if things can just go back to how they were.. you making promises to get yall back to how it was that first summer..she start crying you start crying..yall start kissing and touching.. you put ya hand up her skirt to take her panties off but they not there..ya stomach start milly rocking.

[puffsaddy]

you mad now..Rick fucking ya life up..she tell you she never where panties with this skirt but you ain’t tryna hear that shit.. you ask “where Ricky live” ya voice breaking cuz you hurt..she say “im not gonna tell you, you need to calm down” but…how she know where he live? a tear start falling but you catch it.

[puffsaddy]

you real mad now.. she tell you she only know because he couldn’t drive home and her friend dropped him off.. you ask her where he live again.. she ask you “why..what you gonna do?” you start putting ya du-rag on and picking up ya keys off the dresser.. she say “baby Rick is 6'5” you start taking ya du-rag off and you place ya keys back on the dresser how they was.

[puffsaddy]

you not being a bitch tho..you tell her you just gonna whoop his ass tomorrow.. you realize you been drinking crying and throwing up all night so you dehydrated and malnourished and you think it’d prolly be smarter if you ate something and got a good nights sleep before you battle a starting small forward for your queen. you not being a bitch tho on mama you not.

[puffsaddy]

you tell her stop texting Rick..you tryna get some sleep but you hurt..next day you surprise her when she leaving work.. you in the parking lot doing pushups no shirt on and game planning while waiting for Rick to come out..“he prolly not even 6'5 forreal forreal” you tryna build ya confidence up..mid jumping jack you see him come out looking like a superhero..you start putting ya shirt back on realizing ya gameplan was trash because you forgot ya back been hurting lately so you really honestly don’t have that power behind ya jab like you thought you did..but you leave the cape out on your durag for confidence and intimidation purposes still.

[puffsaddy]

he walking by..you add a little bass in ya voice to make ya voice sound deeper..“ ya name rick?” he respond..“YEA” his voice deep but his naturally just like that..“stop talking to my girl bro before we have problems” he step to you and says “WHAT” ya knee buckles..you concerned about ya knee now because it never did that before.

[puffsaddy]

you repeat yaself..you ain’t notice but a crowd starts forming..“Rick everything ok?” somebody ask..ya girl appears..she says “baby what are you doing here get in the car” you looking real crazy now..Rick say “listen to ya girl” you wish he hadn’t said that because now you gonna look like a bitch if you get in the car..you try to do the turn around punch they do in the movies but this ain’t the movies..you hit him but it aint enough..everything is all bad for you..all bad..you just sick thinking about all the corny jokes you shoulda just laughed at.

[seasidefanasties]

Hector: ernesto why is there a bottle of rat poison in your suitcase 

Ernesto: