Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
This is blatantly untrue
Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.
Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. That’s why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you don’t believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)
Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,
DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.
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My aesthetic: when you take off your glasses on a highway and all the lights go soft and smudged, a trail of amber behind you like a quiet afterthought
My aesthetic: keeping my own glasses on so I can see the road and not die
Im so sorry youve been trapped in the passenger seat all these years Yellow.
u can tell who the ancients of tumblr are bc they’re the ones not posting anything abt where to find them if this site collapses…we know this site isnt going anywhere….the apocalypse couldnt stop this garbage…..it has the cybernetic code of a cockroach
you can, however, tell who the ancients of the internet/fandom at large are, because we’ve seen multiple sites implode like this before, and we know it’s only a matter of time. If LJ and ff.net could be largely abandoned, when they were basically the ONLY PLACES TO BE in their heyday, then so can tumblr.
I want to clarify: Tumblr as a website is almost certainly going to shamble on long past the time fandom is present on it. That’s true. But like, that’s also true of myspace, livejournal, and ff.net. These sites all still exist, but fandom at large just isn’t there.
The site will undoubtedly go on, but fandom at large will, sooner or later (hopefully sooner), leave for greener less restrictive pastures. And since there isn’t a widely-accepted alternative at this point, it’s likely that everyone will scatter to multiple sites for a while before largely reconvening somewhere else.
THAT is why we’re posting things about where to find us. Because eventually, this site won’t be used by most of fandom, at least not actively. And at this point, it could be sooner rather than later, and we’ve lost dear dear friends in exoduses and site deaths before, and we want to make sure we do everything we can to help keep that from happening again.
Kassandraaaaa 