When pet owners talk about their pets it’s guaranteed to fall under one of two categories:
Rover is the sweetest kindest force in my life, my closest ally, my best friend, the family member who molded me as a person who I would absolutely lay down my life for. Please let me show you photos of this perfection incarnate.
Socks is on double secret baby probation now and she’s gated in the living room because she wont stop sneaking out and trying to eat all the towels in the house, like the bastard idiot child she is.
I would like to clarify this is not a “which type of pet owner are you” post. There is no choosing. Pet owners are both of these, all the time, forever. It’s a matter of which one is the conversation topic of the day, and the outcome depends entirely upon how recently their pet tried to eat plastic
People are already patting themselves in the back and talking about how they are such pure cinnamon rolls that these new guidelines will never affect them and…did you forget last time tumblr tried to automatically flag stuff as adult content? When completely SFW posts that had words like “gay” in it or too much “skin tone” detected were just censored? Are you really willing to bet on staff’s competence?
It’s already bad enough you are completely disregarding adult sex workers and decent NSFW artists who use tumblr as a platform and depend of it to live, but you are also dense enough to think no SFW blogs or content will be negatively affected? Take a break from your softboy~* routines and try to grasp just how bad staff is about to fuck up.
Yeah lol like
If you think this isn’t going to wildly and disproportionately effect queer and trans people and totally sfw artists as well (who have already gotten screwed multiple times), like…. well okay, have fun then
my teacher leaving an ‘excellent work!!!’ on my essay:
me, holding a wall for support: bro i’m just…..bro i’m just really teary i’m ghjdgfsdhjfjsdhf i’m hgjggjkhfkdjgj wow thank you idk what to say….bro idk why i’m fjhdsfkjdfg crying right now
the situation with tumblr just kinda reinforces the notion that most big social networks are grifts that are just constantly hemorrhaging money and the founders are just trying to trick venture capital investors into thinking they can make money off of ads just long enough for them to sell the site for a fat check and retire while the site slowly dies
this is, tragically, why vine died. you can’t put ads in front of a six second video. tumblr’s lasted much longer, and i don’t expect it to implode overnight, but it’s clearly very difficult to monetize tumblr. remember how staff said they were going to implement an ad program we could make money off of in, oh… 2016? that sure went nowhere
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