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[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

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Uh... okay.

Yeah. That's exactly what pop punk is.
And do you know what Official True and Honest Old School Punk is designed to appeal to?
The exact same fucking people for the exact same fucking reason.
I adore punk rock, but it's intrinsically centered in ideas of rebellion and yes, a certain amount of youthful angst. That's what makes it fun.

 

[Smarmy]

fun.

You use this word like tumblrinas know what it means.
Everything is black and white, sometimes very literally, and there's never any fun unless it subscribes to very specific ideals. Even then, it's a toss-up.

 

[Letmeoffofspringswildride]

So my new bff from a few pages ago had a bit of a blog update for none other than e-begging.

upon being told that it's breaking rules of it's furfag website

and so the gift continues to give.

I've been watching Exodus for a while myself. They're a good source of drama. They made a shitty glitched edit of a character on the furry site, then started claiming that everyone with a glitched edit was copying them. http://furvillaconfessions.tumblr.com/tagged/Charmeleon the whore

 

[AnOminous]

Yeah. That's exactly what pop punk is.
And do you know what Official True and Honest Old School Punk is designed to appeal to?
The exact same fucking people for the exact same fucking reason.
I adore punk rock, but it's intrinsically centered in ideas of rebellion and yes, a certain amount of youthful angst. That's what makes it fun.

And to a certain extent not having a fucking clue how to play an instrument or any of the conventions of songwriting. But people who kept doing it eventually learned those. At the point you're writing normal ababcbb shit with a middle eight and all that you're writing pop songs. And now it's pop punk.

No big deal.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

And to a certain extent not having a fucking clue how to play an instrument or any of the conventions of songwriting. But people who kept doing it eventually learned those. At the point you're writing normal ababcbb shit with a middle eight and all that you're writing pop songs. And now it's pop punk.

No big deal.

I'll admit a fondness for the older stuff. If your music adheres to rigid conventions of musical structure, anarchic messages of societal upheaval and disenfranchisement are going to seem a bit disingenuous. That having been said, punk sounds good and lots of people enjoy it. It's only natural that people with a more traditional musical education are going to pick it up, thus leading to the pop punk we see today.
Complaining that pop punk plays to angsty teens is like complaining that country rock panders to blue collar Americans.
It's like... duh?

 

[Xerxes IX]

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No I'm not?

You know, cause those are the kinds of girls guys aren't fond of, so obviously they're gay since guys don't like them. What progressive thinking we have here.

 

[Rung]

This dumbass trying to sell fucking usernames? Usernames you can make for FREE?
And TWO PEOPLE spent actual fucking MONEY on this?

Tumblr users are worse at managing money than Chris Chan.

Tumblrkiddies have to have their vanity URLs. It pretty much started when homestuck was all the rage and people started grabbing up a bunch of 'canon' urls, ship names...etc. It happened as well in other fandoms like Pokemon and people began hording and reselling URL names as soon as a new pokemon or generation was announced. Fights broke out on 'who had the url first' because they dumped it and someone sniped it back up, URL trading...a ton of shit. Lots of e-begging and people begging for URLs since nobody wanted to put numbers in their URLs.

I still think Neurotypicalrainman is my favorite horded URL.

I've been watching Exodus for a while myself. They're a good source of drama. They made a shitty glitched edit of a character on the furry site, then started claiming that everyone with a glitched edit was copying them. http://furvillaconfessions.tumblr.com/tagged/Charmeleon the whore

Ahhhh, typical furfaggotry. This happens every week with furries thinking their red fox with black markings is SUPER SPECIAL and that NOBODY ELSE CAN USE IT and throw shitfits. My favorites are when they try to 'copyright' an animal species or hybrid as if they created it when theirs a bunch of people who did it before.

 

[Hummingbird]

Say, if you want a big collection of thumblr cringe, I suggest this Instagram page that has a collection of them. Granted some of them are decent, but a chunk of it is worth a look.

 

[Spiral]

Spoiler: Big image

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Spoiler: Big image

No love for cis people?

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Wake me up inside (can't wake up.)

 

[Falcon Lord]

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Wake me up inside (can't wake up.)

I'm not sure what to make of this. Is it pro-GG or anti-GG? Pro-life DNC or anti-war DNC?

 

[AnOminous]

I'm not sure what to make of this. Is it pro-GG or anti-GG? Pro-life DNC or anti-war DNC?

Where the fuck did these morons get the idea GamerGate has anything whatsoever to do with this shit? What is wrong with these lunatics?

 

[Hypodermic Johnny]

So recently, Tumblr started putting ads on people's actual blogs - which has generally been regarded as a bad idea and made a lot of people angry (with apologies to Douglas Adams).

Frankly though, this is proof that Tumblr's ad staff currently doesn't fucking understand marketing at all or their userbase. If you're going to instigate a radical change like ads on actual personal blogs you: A) Ensure it actually works right before you do; otherwise you end up with shit like the broken audio ads on the dash that were loud and annoying and looped nonstop (and in this case the on-blog ads still didn't work as they broke a huge number of custom themes). And B) You at least make an announcement that you're making such a change, so people are prepared and can expect/come to accept said change (even if grudgingly), rather than just forcing it on people.

Even so, the amount of entitlement these little shits have that they think they deserve to profit off the ads that the site is trying to use to keep afloat (a site they get to use FOR FREE I MIGHT ADD), like their special snowflake ranting bullshit and fanshit is of value to anyone other than themselves, is just astounding.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

So recently, Tumblr started putting ads on people's actual blogs - which has generally been regarded as a bad idea and made a lot of people angry (with apologies to Douglas Adams).

Frankly though, this is proof that Tumblr's ad staff currently doesn't fucking understand marketing at all or their userbase. If you're going to instigate a radical change like ads on actual personal blogs you: A) Ensure it actually works right before you do; otherwise you end up with shit like the broken audio ads on the dash that were loud and annoying and looped nonstop (and in this case the on-blog ads still didn't work as they broke a huge number of custom themes). And B) You at least make an announcement that you're making such a change, so people are prepared and can expect/come to accept said change (even if grudgingly), rather than just forcing it on people.

Even so, the amount of entitlement these little shits have that they think they deserve to profit off the ads that the site is trying to use to keep afloat (a site they get to use FOR FREE I MIGHT ADD), like their special snowflake ranting bullshit and fanshit is of value to anyone other than themselves, is just astounding.

Tumblr has been a fucking money pit for years. They've been struggling to make it profitable for a long time with very little success.
Honestly, at this point, I feel like they're just tossing out shit and seeing if it works. Keeping their users pleased with everything isn't worth the effort anymore, and they're losing money fast, so they're just focusing on something, anything, that might turn a buck.
I feel for the staff on this. The userbase, quite frankly, isn't worth keeping happy because they don't contribute anything financially. They've decided to be a business (albeit too late) and as such user satisfaction is only a concern if you're making money off your users. Thus far, they're not.

 

[Hypodermic Johnny]

Tumblr has been a fucking money pit for years. They've been struggling to make it profitable for a long time with very little success.
Honestly, at this point, I feel like they're just tossing out shit and seeing if it works. Keeping their users pleased with everything isn't worth the effort anymore, and they're losing money fast, so they're just focusing on something, anything, that might turn a buck.
I feel for the staff on this. The userbase, quite frankly, isn't worth keeping happy. They've decided to be a business (albeit too late) and as such user satisfaction is only a concern if you're making money off your users. Thus far, they're not.

Frankly the whole thing needs to be bulldozed and everyone needs to start over. The site needs an actually competent staff (they actually had a relatively decent group a couple years ago before the Yahoo buyout; the kind who actually made features the site liked; I honestly don't know what happened) who knows how to do decent marketing/coding, and the userbase needs to be purged. Lose the porn spambots, ban these privileged shitheads, clean it all up and polish it shiny and new, then slap up an ad somewhere with "under new management" on a sister site or whatever to draw in new users.

...it's probably not going to happen, but hey, people can dream.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

Frankly the whole thing needs to be bulldozed and everyone needs to start over. The site needs an actually competent staff (they actually had a relatively decent group a couple years ago before the Yahoo buyout; the kind who actually made features the site liked; I honestly don't know what happened) who knows how to do decent marketing/coding, and the userbase needs to be purged. Lose the porn spambots, ban these privileged shitheads, clean it all up and polish it shiny and new, then slap up an ad somewhere with "under new management" on a sister site or whatever to draw in new users.

...it's probably not going to happen, but hey, people can dream.

The entire model is not profitable. You see twitter having the same problem.
Large sites like this often need some kind of paid membership deal to turn a buck, and make no mistake, if you want to stay afloat, you need to put money over "the userbase".

 

[Smarmy]

You mean to tell me that tumblr isn't the next great PDF?
Bullshit.

 

[AnOminous]

Tumblr has been a fucking money pit for years. They've been struggling to make it profitable for a long time with very little success.
Honestly, at this point, I feel like they're just tossing out shit and seeing if it works. Keeping their users pleased with everything isn't worth the effort anymore, and they're losing money fast, so they're just focusing on something, anything, that might turn a buck.
I feel for the staff on this. The userbase, quite frankly, isn't worth keeping happy because they don't contribute anything financially. They've decided to be a business (albeit too late) and as such user satisfaction is only a concern if you're making money off your users. Thus far, they're not.

For a social site, the users are the main assets of the site.

On tumblr, those are what are known as a "toxic asset." That's both because they're just generally shitty people but, more relevant to tumblr's financial outlook, they're not just financially worthless, they actually drive away potentially profitable users by being the shitty people they are.

 

[Wallace]

Where the fuck did these morons get the idea GamerGate has anything whatsoever to do with this shit? What is wrong with these lunatics?

They're both massive conspiracies to harass women.