You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Welp. :\
I guess I should start writing the "La Vie Boeheme" parody to sing us out...
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Yahoo! has a reputation for wrecking things (Del.icio.us) or just letting them sit there (Flickr). But the siren call of $1 billion may have been too much for Karp and co. to resist.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The talk about Tumblr could eclipse some additional news Yahoo plans to make tomorrow: It has scheduled a press conference to unveil updates to its Flickr photo-sharing service, Bloomberg reports.
Oh fuck no
They're distracting us with Tumblr so that we turn a blind eye to them ruining Flickr
No doubt they're gonna give it a shitty overhaul to try and hop on the Instragram bandwagon
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Jerry’s housekeys disappear upon each use, and he must solve elaborate, room-sized block puzzles to earn more. Elaine gives Jerry a Jew’s harp on which he can play songs that have a mystical quality. He recoils, and tells her that she could have called it a jaw harp, Ozark harp, trump, khomus, drymba, or kubyz instead, if she were just a little more sensitive. Newman intentionally kills a small tree in front of the apartment building, then laughs at Jerry’s inability to do anything about it. Kramer becomes highly skittish whenever Jerry comes near unless he plays a particular song on the Jew’s harp, in which case he’s happy to take Jerry wherever he pleases. George keeps trying to get Jerry’s attention by shouting, “Hey! Listen!” in the most annoying voice possible.
Good thing we're the last bastion of intellectual conversation then.
Oh how the heavens weep upon thy ignorant bystanders.
Lord have mercy upon the dumb, the dull, and the sloths.
can you not?
No one here is saying or implying that everyone on tumblr is stupid and that everyone here is a supergenius.
But, it's fucking annoying when people repeatedly fall for this "fake tweet" trick that has been done a billion times before, especially when it's something that would not make even the slightest bit of sense for the tweet-er to say.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Plus, some of them are overreacting like holy balls.
YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT I WILL PERSONNALLY STAB OUT ALL OF YOUR FUCKING EYES AND EAT YOU SOULS IF YOU EVEN TOUCH THE FANDOMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TUMBLR IS MY HOME THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!
THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO BREAKING INTO OUR HOUSES AND STEALING BURNING AND BREAKING EVERYTHING THAT IS NEAR AND DEAR TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU FUCKING BASTARDS W SHOULD HAVE YOU ALL EXECUTED!!!!!!!!!!!
I WILL NOT HESITATE TO KILL YOU ASSHOLES
How exactly is this a reasonable response to... well, anything really?
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Tumblr's already taken the marissa-mayer and marissamayers urls and turned them into lazy hateblogs. There's probably more. I know for sure that there's a third one.
The actual tag is good-humored enough, with Tumblr appointing her as its stepmother (also, it looks like the Yahoo buy is definite; at least, that's what the dailymail says). There's hate speech but not particularly misogynist hate speech.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I admit: I rarely use Pinterest, but I have mine assembled mostly to show type/graphic design stuff.
Also now I'm wondering if there were people kvetching about Google when they bought YouTube, or the Newhouse family when Advance/Condé Nast bought Reddit.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
News! Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.
Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.
So what’s new? Simply, Tumblr gets better faster. The work ahead of us remains the same – and we still have a long way to go! – but with more resources to draw from.
Yahoo is the original Internet company, and Marissa and her team share our dream to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas. I couldn’t be more excited to have her help. We also share a vision for Tumblr’s business that doesn’t compromise the community and product we love. Plus both our logos end with punctuation!
As always, everything that Tumblr is, we owe to this unbelievable community. We won’t let you down.
Fuck yeah, David
I find myself just kinda groaning at this by default, even though it doesn't seem like much will change for the time being.
though i do kinda have to admire an executive who signs off a big business announcement with "fuck yeah"
Honestly, I'm really just hoping the Yahoo overlords don't mess with a good thing here. I knew the purchase was going to happen as soon as the price became a factor (no sane person would turn down a billion dollars) so now it's mostly just a matter of "Will Tumblr be worth using under the new ownership?"
Because I feel like it'd be a shame for one of my favorite sites to go under due to a lack of proper management.
Still. I'm going to stay cautiously optimistic. That billion should be good for the site for sure, and Marissa Mayer was a Google alum so she gives me a bit more comfort owning Tumblr than Terry Semel would. And Yahoo may or may not be evil, but one thing is definite: They'd have to be reeeeeeally crappy for me to consider leaving Tumblr over, because I love this website, and nearly every day for the past four years it's made me laugh, cry, smile, and snort, and I don't think there's any other website in the world that's shaped me into the person I am today quite like it. Not TVT. Not Instagram. Not Twitter. Not Facebook.
Tumblr.
Hey, Marissa. I doubt you'll end up reading this because this post is probably drowning in the hate mail, but I don't mind too much. Either way, I'll say it.
I trust you. And even though I know I'm just one measly, unpopular little blog with low Tumblarity and high word counts, I'm positive that if the guys who created the world's (second) best website are willing to let your company take some of the load off, well, there's got to be some reason for it.
Just take care of it for me. Tumblr's special, and I don't ever want that to change.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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bigshredder:
Yahoo is buying Tumbler and this would destroy it?
They're distracting us with Tumblr so that we turn a blind eye to them ruining Flickr
No doubt they're gonna give it a shitty overhaul to try and hop on the Instragram bandwagon
to reiterate my opinion
Oh how the heavens weep upon thy ignorant bystanders.
Lord have mercy upon the dumb, the dull, and the sloths.
can you not?
No one here is saying or implying that everyone on tumblr is stupid and that everyone here is a supergenius.
But, it's fucking annoying when people repeatedly fall for this "fake tweet" trick that has been done a billion times before, especially when it's something that would not make even the slightest bit of sense for the tweet-er to say.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
The actual tag is good-humored enough, with Tumblr appointing her as its stepmother (also, it looks like the Yahoo buy is definite; at least, that's what the dailymail says). There's hate speech but not particularly misogynist hate speech.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Que.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Talk about bad metaphor. It's like if the concept of political cartoons had a tumblr.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
could you please not
i'm in a bad enough mood as it is.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
though i do kinda have to admire an executive who signs off a big business announcement with "fuck yeah"
Honestly, I'm really just hoping the Yahoo overlords don't mess with a good thing here. I knew the purchase was going to happen as soon as the price became a factor (no sane person would turn down a billion dollars) so now it's mostly just a matter of "Will Tumblr be worth using under the new ownership?"
Because I feel like it'd be a shame for one of my favorite sites to go under due to a lack of proper management.
Still. I'm going to stay cautiously optimistic. That billion should be good for the site for sure, and Marissa Mayer was a Google alum so she gives me a bit more comfort owning Tumblr than Terry Semel would. And Yahoo may or may not be evil, but one thing is definite: They'd have to be reeeeeeally crappy for me to consider leaving Tumblr over, because I love this website, and nearly every day for the past four years it's made me laugh, cry, smile, and snort, and I don't think there's any other website in the world that's shaped me into the person I am today quite like it. Not TVT. Not Instagram. Not Twitter. Not Facebook.
Tumblr.
Hey, Marissa. I doubt you'll end up reading this because this post is probably drowning in the hate mail, but I don't mind too much. Either way, I'll say it.
I trust you. And even though I know I'm just one measly, unpopular little blog with low Tumblarity and high word counts, I'm positive that if the guys who created the world's (second) best website are willing to let your company take some of the load off, well, there's got to be some reason for it.
Just take care of it for me. Tumblr's special, and I don't ever want that to change.
Signed,
Tre
trespeak
lyleterry