I’ve been on Tumblr since beta, and while I don’t actively blog here, anymore, I still enjoyed shitposting, reblogging, and the occasional female form. That said, anybody that loved Tumblr knew the time would come to move on, the ridiculously bad ads in the apps were just glimpse of the impending apocalypse. I mean, it’s amazing Verizon’s investors let this snake’s nest of mecha-hentai and socialism memes carry on as long as they did. *presses “f”*
What’s happening here is like internet-gentrification. Daft media conglomerates buy quirky, often NSFW web properties, paving over them with advertising and vanilla morality, displacing the original and unique communities that once resided there. Companies love the appearance of being in-tune with hip creators, curators, and influencers (shudder), while simultaneously working to remove any dirty fingerprint they’ve left behind.
Afterall, it’s hard to serve up an interstitial display ad for quick loans, and $3K foam mattresses sandwiched between GIFs of Bowsette pegging Mario and those videos from your Rick & Morty themed Burlesque revue (wow, I hope neither of those exist). Just cruise your dash to see how many artists are livid their posts are being flagged erroneously. It’s a shitshow, to say the least.
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Bye, now.
