But you're not Thomas

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The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Subscribe to Pewdiepie might all look like one big meme at first but it’s a war between the future of YouTube for individual creators and the massive corporations who are taking over the website.

It’s not about Felix’s content anymore, or whether or not you like his work, it’s much bigger situation now.

If T Series wins, YouTube will make changes to their system that will override smaller individual creators and lean towards big companies and brands.

Don’t you already feel the effects of it? It’s gonna get worse if T Series wins.

Whether or not you like him or not, pewds represents the individuals like Markiplier and Jacksepticeye who started in their bedrooms with a video camera recording themselves for fun vs corporations with money and power and thousands of workers backing them up.

If YouTube changes their policies to suit corporations who can make videos faster, daily, and in high quality, then you can say goodbye to your favorite YouTuber stars because they’re gonna end up leaving the site because they can’t compete with corporate giants.

Do you want a YouTube ruled by corporations?

So subscribe to Pewdiepie, not because you like him or his work, but for the fact that doing so will prevent the other bad people from taking over.

Vote for the lesser evil.

Look at him slaying London

Thomas Brodie Sangster in Arklow, Ireland!