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ursawood

mr tumblr staff my nipples are male presenting it’s fine

a-trex

poinsciuri

i dont really… WANT… to leave tumblr. ive been here since 2011

poinsciuri

no other platform has the right format for me to just randomly barf actual thoughts, joaks, and genuine creative content all in the same breath. i dont know how to compartmentalize

rabnerd28

every other platform you gotta be a real person. Here you are you’re icon and username and whatever your hyperfixation is at the current moment

movedtobitchphobic

on tumblr you can make a post that just says “minecraft” and get 50k notes, where on twitter you have to steal tweets and instagram you have to be hot. tumblr is more like a bunch of kids let loose in walmart where there are no rules and the only god is a bald swedish man

prokopetz

I think the real problem here is that big media corporations seem to believe that social media userbases are fungible, and persist in acting on this belief no matter how many times it’s demonstrated to be wrong.

There’s a specific pattern of events that plays out over and over (and over) again, and it looks something like this:

1. Social media platform becomes popular

2. Social media platform is purchased by big media corporation in order to gain access to it large user base

3. Big media corporation realises that social media platform’s demographics are not the demographics they want to sell things to.

4. Big media corporation institutes measures to drive away “undesirable” users, apparently in the honest belief that the outgoing users will automatically be replaced by an equal number of new, more demographically desirable users

5. This does not, in fact, occur

6. Social media platform crashes and burns

You’d think that, by the sheer law of averages, at least one person who’s capable of learning from experience would become involved in this whole process at some point.

chromolume

reblog before december 17th

hustlerose

i really don’t want to be an active twitter user. that sounds like hell. twitter is just heterosexual tumblr and it has less features

advice-animal

Dec. 17

advice-animal

Now we just need to check their rules on F E M A L E - P R E S E N T I N G N I P P L E S

goth-bunny

Will staff block Karamatsu nipples? Let’s find out!

@staff

1995lahaine

me on december 18th: wow this movie FUCKS

my assigned tumblr staff incel:

postmodernmulticoloredcloak

*walks into a museum* *picks up ancient Greek urn with a person with a dick out drawn on it* *smashes it on the floor* a better, more positive museum

me: hi

Tumblr: flagged

kirabook

Dear people planning to move to pillowfort:

As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.

Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.

Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.

If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.

If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.

We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.

Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.