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WSJ: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress Owner
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There's still porn on there. I wonder if they are going to try to take the blogs that survived the purge.
There's people that use Tumblr for porn, and there's liars.
All the good ones I used to use are gone so I dont care for the sight anymore.
Should just delete the site if that's his position because he's straight up never going to improve on the site. It's hot garbage with the countless reposts from instagram and reddit.
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I had a public tumblr for years with a decent amount of followers and all I did was post video game content but it was the porn that actually helped me come to terms with some serious body issues I had/have and helped me find people who lead me to learn that maybe I wasn't as disgusting to look at as I thought I was.
I'm not saying I'm cured but I know for a fact that it helped me and I'm sure it helps a lot of other people as well. And I'm also sure people just used it for purely sexual reasons. but now there's no reason to go to Tumblr, at least for me. I don't need video game gifs without the hot guys to look at - I can just get that here. (That sounds mean but I just mean there's (hopefully) no random porn coming up on my screen while on ERA lol)
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It's completely laughable how Tumblr is treated. You complete destroy the fan base with an outrageous decision and wonder why it doesn't have success, sell it off to another company who, instead of going back to what made it popular in the first place, continues to fuck over the fan base. Astonishing, truely astonishing.
If only they started putting relevant ads on the site to entice users to click versus all the ads I see on there aimed at the 40+ crowd.
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Also, that wasn't going to be the final total, Verizon was going to pay Yahoo more to acquire them but lowered the price due to the Yahoo data breaches:
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My thought that this was an acquihire; if that price is true, that's the only reasonable explanation.
all the ads i ever see on it are those stupid mobile soap drama games with the woman cheating on a guy or some stupid garbage like that
Tumblr is a cool spot still tbh, and it's also one of the only internet communities that isn't riddled with literal Nazis.
And/or didn't run off the (by far) largest part of their user base? Honestly, Tumblr with no porn had no point, and it died the minute they removed that content. They could have found some way to monetize the site, but it's a lot harder when the bulk of your users disappear all at once.
Right?
I don't know the story behind Yahoo's acquisition, but it seems like Yahoo! was almost too big of a company to run Tumblr and gave the platform a bit too much autonomy.
It seems like there would be a hundred and one ways to monetize a long-form content website without effecting its users or its content. Like was Yahoo or Verizon even serving its own ads if people chose to monetize (the YouTube model)?
Even at 20 mill I don't see the point. Unless they going to turn it into an ad farm
Oh I feel ya I used to run a trans porn blog and I know for a fact that was what started my transition. It's nothing more then me posting porn, and the people I had talked too which showed me how much I was in the closet.
The site legitimately has /r/Tumblr going for it and some small memes.
That was a post-Verizon move, wasn't it? And, honestly, that was probably done in an effort to make it look more attractive to prospective buyers.
Yahoo before Verizon barely did anything with the platform.
That's awesome!
Back when I discovered Tumblr... 2012? 2011? My neck of the woods was different and the "only gay men who were attractive" were skinny/hairless/buff dudes and, you know, age had started its assault on my metabolism and that wasn't me anymore. Now, people can be attracted to that body type and good for them! but it helped me feel like I could hate myself just a little bit less because OTHER GUYS WANTED TO DO ME and quite honestly that's empowering as fuck.
Sorry for the TMI, ERA but Tumblr fucked up and continues to fuck up.
No reversal of porn ban, Tumblr is still dead. What's the point of Tumblr if they want to maintain this dumb ban that nobody likes. I'm sick of these puritan tech companies.
Democratizing publishing, except if you want to publish titties!
Democratizing publishing, except if you want to publish titties!
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What are even my tumblr alternatives though? The entire aesthetic was emo and porn gifs.
There isn't one that's really taken off unfortunately. All the fandoms and fanart creators migrated to Twitter which still allows NSFW. Problem is Twitter is not really designed to be an art platform.
And it sucks for that. Twitter allows creators to gain massive followings, which is great, but unless you are highly prolific and highly productive it can be hard. It also sucks as a platform or gallery space for artists to showcase their work. As a fan, it's less than ideal. Twitter wasn't designed for art the way Tumblr was, which in my experience, was a much better platform. Too bad toxic communities and shitty management ruined it.
Yahoo was struggling to remain relevant as the others around them surged past. Marissa Meyer is ridiculed for what she did but she was making any attempts to acquihire brands and talent to help reshape yahoo. Much like Instagram and twitter, tumblr was a platform that had a strong user base for ads but not a clear way to how. Problem was they never figured it out and Verizon didn't event want the baggage.
That porn ban was partially because of the sex traffic bill that was bundled Into sopa
Tumblr users sort of have Newgrounds, but that's about it.
It's not the tech bros it's the advertisers.
Buy a dumpster fire burning so bad that Verizon's willing to eat a billion dollar loss just to get rid of it... and then claim it's good the way it is nothing to change. Uhhh, enjoy your trash heap?
Or Japan.
