“holy fucking shit holy fucking shit how did they get away with making the bluey dad so hot”
the bluey dad:
Excuse me… no… that doesn’t capture it…
If you’re going to argue against this example of husband and fatherhood perfection, then you’d best make sure you’re making an argument from intellectual honesty… ‘cause… just fuggin’ look at that.
People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from
Cheryl Dunye’s directorial debut, The Watermelon Woman, was out of print between 2000 and 2018. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was only available to watch on a pirate channel on YouTube until last year. There is still no way to watch the X-Files spinoff, The Lone Gunmen except to own a dvd box set that has been out of print since 2005. Or to pirate it. It’s on YouTube.
Piracy is incredibly important to keep media that’s weird, or out there or just embarrassing to someone in power, alive. We need piracy and we need to stop being snitches when someone pirates stuff.
I already submitted this to Support under “Feedback,” but I’m sharing it here too as I don’t expect it to get a response, and I feel like putting in out in public may be more effective than sending it off into the void.
The recent post on the Staff blog about changing tumblr to an algorithmic feed features a large amount of misinformation that I feel staff needs to address, openly and honestly, with information on where this data was sourced at the very least.
Claim 1: Algorithms help small creators.
This is false, as algorithms are designed to push content that gets engagement in order to get it more engagement, thereby assuring that the popular remain popular and the small remain small except in instances of extreme luck.
This can already be seen on the tumblr radar, which is a combination of staff picks (usually the same half-dozen fandoms or niche special interests like Lego photography) which already have a ton of engagement, or posts that are getting enough engagement to hit the radar organically. Tumblr has an algorithm that runs like every other socmed algorithm on the planet, and it will decimate the reach of small creators just like every other platform before it.
Claim 2: Only a small portion of users utilize the chronological feed.
You can find a poll by user @darkwood-sleddoghere that at the time of writing this, sits at over 40 THOUSAND responses showing that over 96 percent of them use the chronological feed. Claiming otherwise isn’t just a misstatement, it’s a lie. You are lying to your core userbase and expecting them to accept it as fact. It’s not just unethical, it’s insulting to people who have been supporting your platform for over a decade.
Claim 3: Tumblr is not easy to use.
This is also 100% false and you ABSOLUTELY know it. Tumblr is EXTREMELY easy to use, the issue is that the documentation, the explanations of features, and often even the stability of the service is subpar. All of this would be very easy for staff to fix, if they would invest in the creation of walkthroughs and clear explanations of how various site features work, as well as finally fixing the search function. Your inability to explain how your service works should not result in completely ignoring the needs and wants of your core long-term userbase. The fact that you’re more willing to invest in the very systems that have made every other form of social media so horrifically toxic than in trying to make it easier for people to use the service AS IT WORKS NOW and fixing the parts that don’t work as well speaks volumes toward what tumblr staff actually cares about.
You will not get a paycheck if your platform becomes defunct, and the thing that makes it special right now is that it is the ONLY large-scale socmed platform on THE ENTIRE INTERNET with a true chronological feed and no aggressive algorithmic content serving. The recent post from staff indicates that you are going to kill that, and are insisting that it’s what we want. It is not. I’d hazard to guess that most of the dev team knows it isn’t what we want, but I assume the money people don’t care. The user base isn’t relevant, just how much money they can bring in.
The CEO stated he wanted this to remain as sort of the last bastion of the Old Internet, and yet here we are, watching you declare you intend to burn it to the ground.
You can do so much better than this.
The CEO is 100% behind the changes. In fact I suspect half of the post from yesterday comes straight from him “correcting” an earlier version of those core values.
“we need to make it easier to discover new blogs and creators”
ok then. fix the search. you know, the search function that has been notoriously broken for YEARS. that ppl have complained abt FOR YEARS
make it easier to follow tags, allow ppl to filter out other tags when searching thru them, or to search multiple tags at once, and make these functions EASY TO USE and widely known
give a clear guide on HOW tagging works! what will exclude a tag, etc
having thoughts about a media that my friends aren’t into and thus would need the context of to understand my- AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAH NOT THE HAWK WOUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
lmfao our medicine cat is like. Definitely carrying kits. Like we can all tell
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Imagine posting this publicly
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Common Thunderclan L
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Me when I’m so addicted to internet validation I get my medicine cat exiled
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Op didn’t get their medicine cat exiled she made her choice oh my StarClan please think for like 10 seconds do you really think the leader found out by checking op’s Tumblr? Really? Everyone could tell and it was a matter of time
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It was none of op’s business they shouldn’t have posted about it? Because it’s none of their business? When did privacy go out the window with you cats -_-
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If you’re a medicine cat you are a public figure and cats are allowed to comment on you lol
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Whatever you say, Frostsky of WindClan
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Why are you doxxing cats over other clan’s business? 🤨 I’m sure your leader would love to hear about this.
there’s a delicate balance between “seeing something on my dash so often i end up caring about it unexpectedly” and “seeing something on my dash so often that it gets added to the blocked list with extreme prejudice”
Some of my favorite mutuals are responsible for both my most recent fandoms and also 95% of my killfile entries.
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