yeah well when you buy tumblr and ignore the userbase to push dumb changes what do you think would happen
Well like most CEO's he gets paid no matter what so he doesn't have to think. That's the problem.
Imagine getting millions of dollars to ruin a company. The concept is insane to me.
Either they eat the shit and like it or they get nothing! - CEOs
Really, Matt? Nothing else, like how you went scorched-earth on WPEngine and caught a lot of people in the crossfire and destroyed a lot of goodwill in the process? Nothing comes to mind?
Who'd've thunk that not only doing everything your userbase does not want but also actively bullying a large portion of that userbase into leaving wouldn't create revenue? No, being quirky on main and self-deprecating every once in a while won't change that.
Edit: this sounds like "bullying people into leaving" and "what the userbase does not want" are two different things. That's not what I meant. I'm overthinking this. I strongly deny any accusation of ever having pissed on a poor.
Nahhh your comment didn’t come across like you think, it totally makes sense. They really fucked the web site completely.
Tumblr Is fucken great, you just can't monetise it.
Suck shit
Tumblr is shit which is why you can't monetize it
the biggest failure was removal of porn from tumbler, they all fled to twitter, and pornhub.
Automattic bought Tumblr after the porn ban.
The ban happened because Verizon was trying to sell it.
Hammer car explosion motherfucker
Since I am out of loop - my bias is still: why wouldn't (furry) porn be profitable? :D
Porn on tumblr was an early victim of credit card companies not wanting to be associated with that filthy filth, like what happened recently with videogames. Iirc, they pressured app stores to take the tumblr app down.
I can't verify the truth of it, but I heard that the catalyst to the porn ban was a meeting where they were pitching Tumblr advertisements to some company, and wanted to demonstrate how tags and engagement works, so they pulled up the #McDonalds tag live to demonstrate and they got a screen full of Ronald McDonald porn.
I'm loving it
That sounds absolutely plausible and is thus now incorporated as Truth into my memory of the goings-on.
I don't care if this is debunked in the next millisecond, this is my head canon from now till the end of time.
Ahh that makes kinda sense!
Tho I'm not interested much in porn - I am very pissed about credit card companies deciding for the users of what they can purchase or not. I believe crypto will help a lot with these overreaches in the future.
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