We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission.
See our ethics statement. Wild Twitter exposes and threads? In the most widely publicized incident , a Tumblr user was accused of stealing bones from cemeteries in Louisiana in Darling offered to send the bones to users if they would cover shipping.
Both Hank and John Green — YouTube personalities and authors of young-adult fiction — were pretty active on Tumblr in the early s, but because of the fickle nature of social media, and the certain hive-mind tendencies of particular subsections of Tumblr, a lot of users eventually turned on them around Yes, the potential for mayhem and misinformation was high!
So someone took a post by John Green and edited it to be very sexually explicit. It was around this time that Tumblr got rid of editing reblogs though extensions by third-parties can implement it — useful for its innocent purposes! I never asked tumblr to change any of its features, including that one.
I don't know how that rumor started, but it isn't true. I've never talked to anyone at tumblr about how to make their web site better. If I did, I'd ask them to make video work, not to change reblogging.
Starting in the spring of , the Woody Collective targeted blogs that feature white supremacist, pedophile, homophobic or TERF content. The blogs were flagged or harassed until the users deactivated their accounts, leaving them open to be claimed.
Users snatched up the accounts, changing their avatars to Woody from Toy Story and the blog titles to Howdy, Pardner. Thus another member would be added to the Woody Collective, a hivemind of once-toxic blogs. It was an act in defiance aimed at a company that refused to accept responsibility — and liability — for its platform. But inevitably, as the phenomenon grew, rogue elements became involved. The Collective was watered-down by users who simply wanted to participate, with no real activist intent.
They took any deactivated username and gathered at woodys-roundup. Other users turned blogs into Woodys in an attempt to slander the original owner, weaponizing the meaning of the original Collective. In response, many of the original Woodys were given a SpongeBob avatar and the title Orgasm. Everyone had some sort of URL pertaining to at least one — ideally all — of these shows for instance, tardisb-impala — not an actual url, but just an example.
More super-fandoms followed in the image of Superwholock. Then there was a diligence process to try to find out as much information as you can about the business. You talk about possible outcomes. You just kind of figure out what works best for both sides. We always approach deals from kind of a win-win. We both interacted with the Tumblr folks, and it is kind of Verizon running the process. They have some extremely experienced corporate development and lawyers and everything. Some of the agreements that came over were like whoa!
The team at Automattic is very tiny but powerful, and we worked really, really hard to make this happen. There was an exclusive period and then the deadline, and we got everything signed up on Sunday. We are all signed. One of the things that really surprised me is I thought — as probably many do — that Tumblr had kind of died under its variety of corporate parents. And then actually being able to see some of the numbers, including some the numbers post-when they changed the adult content policy.
The people who love Tumblr use it every day. They have more daily active users than WordPress. In terms of what we want to do, one thing that also impressed me was just the team, the people who are still there and working on Tumblr are really passionate about their community, about what this offer could do.
Tumblr pioneered a lot of what later would show up on Twitter, Instagram, WordPress, all sorts of other places. So I would love for Tumblr to become a social alternative.
I think you want to call it Facebook. Is that your goal? To go right at Facebook and Twitter with Tumblr? No, not at all. We have a long track record with these things, including building a lot of trust in an open-source community, which, by the way, is usually also very skeptical of any company at all. But really I would love for people to judge us by our actions over the next 18 months.
Call it two months to close. Nilay Patel: Obviously, Verizon decided that adult content was going away. Just have a web version. So their app is a big part of how people interact with it. They really look for it. And if they find something, you can be taken down.
App stores can be kind of fickle. Not capricious, but it sometimes feels a little arbitrary. There was definitely spam. I was more active Tumblr user eight or nine years ago, and when I logged back to check it out, my feed was full of nude pictures that were linking to a spam site. Spam, essentially. There is lots and lots of shades of gray in between, and I do definitely want to learn more.
You could do that stuff on the web. You could evolve the content policy and make it maybe less restrictive there. Because both have tons of adult content. I believe Reddit has a setting you do on the web, but then if you turn that off, you can get more adult stuff in the app?
I will say that, overall, a really thriving home for adult content is probably best for a company or a website which is totally dedicated to it. I know a bunch of sites popped up after the policy change in December, so I mean that might be a better future versus someplace where there might be a gray line or an evolving policy.
WordPress is a huge platform for all kinds of creators. It has obviously different monetization models as you said. Entire massive media publications are hosted on WordPress and individuals use WordPress. Do you expect that kind of scale for Tumblr, or do you expect it to be more of a social network?
The primary user experience is going to be that social network. No one really objected or talked about it too much, but effectively, they turned off the part that allowed you to put external content into the Facebook News Feed and everything. That was actually a big change in how the open web worked because previously all of the social networks had had some sort of way to get things in and out.
I would love to bring features like that back because I would love for Tumblr to be a better part of the open web. It really sounds like you want to be a competitor to the big social networks in terms of user attention, openness, politeness, strength of community. I want to create a place on the web, which is fun and supportive and substantial. At one point, blogging had a real magic to it. A frisson. But it also was totally distributed and people had their own designs, and all those sorts of things.
I think we can bring some of that back and reimagine it in the mobile world which is where Tumblr is also super strong. Julia Alexander: Tumblr also has a bunch of major issues.
But, he was feeling soft for these past few days, so, he decided to push away those nasty thoughts for now. His bandaged, lanky fingers made their way towards you, gently tracing the nape of your neck, playing with the soft flesh to his hearts content.
His eyes were brimming with adoration, it was difficult not to blush. Quickly catching on, he cupped your chin firmly, forcing you to stare back him, he had no plans of letting you go any time soon. His tone was quiet, you would have thought that it was a figment of your imagination had your not been focusing on his pale lips the entire time. His deep brown eyes were too intense for you to get lost in, so you found some comfort in his lips.
Leaning in, said lips just barely brushed against your own, very shy away from a proper kiss. A loud yelp escaped your lips as you felt soft sheets hitting your back, his hands were on your wrists, he was straddling you. Placing his nose and forehead against your own, an unbearable silence hung in the air for a few moments, before Dazai broke it once more. Do we have a deal? Submit to me! Commissions: OPEN! Go to paypal.
0コメント