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“Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge, ‘Simon [Khalaf]  explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.’ … Khalaf did not respond to a request for comment, but a source close to him wanted it noted that Black Lives Matter was only one ‘community’ that Khalaf referenced: he also discussed Game of Thrones and Manchester United fans.“

“Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize.

Tumblr currently has 10 million daily users, the former engineer says, and Verizon expressed a hope last summer that this number would ‘at least’ double by the middle of 2019. (’I don’t remember the exact timeline … mostly because it was so ridiculous no one really paid too much attention to it.’) This is why the engineer quit, or as they put it, ‘jumped ship.’”