What is Tumblr?

Tumblr is so easy to use that it’s hard to explain.

We made it really, really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it. Stories, photos, GIFs, TV shows, links, quips, dumb jokes, smart jokes, Spotify tracks, mp3s, videos, fashion, art, deep stuff. Tumblr is 451 million different blogs, filled with literally whatever.

Tumblr is blogs.

Turns out that when you make it easy to create interesting things, that’s exactly what people do. All those great, random blogs your friends send you, those are Tumblr blogs. We’ll help you find and follow blogs like that, and we’ll help other people find and follow yours.

You already know how this works.

Once you follow a blog, all of its posts show up in your dashboard, just like you’d expect. See something great? Reblog it to your own blog. Add commentary if you like. Make it your own. Other people will do the same to your posts. That’s how you meet people here.

Seriously, put anything you want here.

Seven post types to get you started. Your brain can do the rest. This thing is yours. Use it however you like.

Okay, it’s not actually hard to explain.

We lied. But now you understand this thing. So come on in. [login field is found below this text]

Mama goes out to drink something refined and look for a Mr. Papa (or just cheap drink and pizza, as usual), little demons.~

Don't burn the house, don't eat too many sweets and don't empty the liquor cabinet.

♥ Mama loves you all, my little demons. ♥

@staff, particularly the one reading this, I want you to know that I don’t blame you. The decisions of the last few weeks were made way over your head by some stuffy old guys in suits that have not put in an honest day’s work in decades. Those big wigs don’t care, and wouldn’t have even phoned in the NSFW ban had Apple not called them out on the serious problems Tumblr has. 

I bet you, the staff, have wanted to fix things for years. But you can’t find the time between being assigned to work on pointless busy work. Management gets to dictate workflow to satisfy their boss, who has to satisfy their boss too, and so on.

Tonight we protest the misguided decisions of the corporate hivemind. Blogging is about expressing who we are, and adults occasionally want to discuss topics that literally every adult has experienced. Because we are adults. We have done our best as users to create spaces to discuss these topics away from the children the NSFW ban is supposedly protecting with the tools we have been given, namely tags. The actions of a handful of malicious users has now made our efforts moot. 

Punishing everyone for trying to discuss adult topics is ham-fisted at best. Blocking entire blogs from showing up in searches, and preventing users from communicating when they have done nothing wrong except get caught in a hastily constructed image filter, is against the basic concept of what Tumblr is meant to be. If only this effort was being focused on the real problems, like hate speech and human trafficking.

Let your bosses know that they will not win this. Either they adapt and fix the problems, or their customers will go elsewhere to get a better service. Remind them that if the competition will cater to our needs better, then we will leave. That is just how economics works. If money can’t motivate them, nothing will.

cause tumblr has got to get their shit together

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