Tumblr was (like a certain other site I know of har-de-har-harrrr) a bastion of do-what-you-want when it first started. Then it rapidly went downhill, got pornocalypsed, and the smoldering mess that remains is the end result.
Thus is the life cycle of the terrible beast behind social media.
But none of that affects the amount of money they lose.
In fact the CEO of the parent company has been pretty transparent about cost cutting, and I’d bet 30m is probably the lowest yearly losses for Tumblr.
I know people want to make this a moral victory, like the losses are the result of bad community management for Reddit/Twitter/Tumblr but that’s just not true. They were dumpster fires business-wise before they shat on their community, and they were dumpster fires after.
No one has cracked the code on how to make a profitable social media company. The two choices are either community funded (like the Fediverse), or steal all the data like Meta, and arguably the second option isn’t really an option for anyone because Meta would eat your lunch all day everyday.
I mean, let’s be honest here.
Tumblr was (like a certain other site I know of har-de-har-harrrr) a bastion of do-what-you-want when it first started. Then it rapidly went downhill, got pornocalypsed, and the smoldering mess that remains is the end result.
Thus is the life cycle of the terrible beast behind social media.
But none of that affects the amount of money they lose.
In fact the CEO of the parent company has been pretty transparent about cost cutting, and I’d bet 30m is probably the lowest yearly losses for Tumblr.
I know people want to make this a moral victory, like the losses are the result of bad community management for Reddit/Twitter/Tumblr but that’s just not true. They were dumpster fires business-wise before they shat on their community, and they were dumpster fires after.
No one has cracked the code on how to make a profitable social media company. The two choices are either community funded (like the Fediverse), or steal all the data like Meta, and arguably the second option isn’t really an option for anyone because Meta would eat your lunch all day everyday.
Actually, not quite. Tumblr has been chugging along pretty steadily. It’s not dead, it’s just not making money. Reddit wasn’t either
Never underestimate the impact of porn on the internet
Almost like human sexuality is repressed everywhere the internet reaches.
Maybe, just maybe, if big capital steered by old conservative males leaves the internet will have less of a pressure to desexualize
Tumblr is still just as fun and funny as before, if not better, without all the underaged people.
But it is extremely slow in comparison.