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a little bit of nonsense with my tea

@deathbycoldopen / deathbycoldopen.tumblr.com

Zel. Artist, writer, and fandom old. Catch me binge-watching too many shows, reblogging fanart, and occasionally making things. They/She

You've heard of Earth is space australia now get ready for: Earth is the space Amazon Rainforest. Aliens land on Earth and they are losing their goddamn minds because every square inch of the ground is absolutely PACKED with life like there are hundreds of species just in this one site, there are winged animals flying through the sky and multiple colonies of sophisticated social insects just in the shadow of their ship, this ONE ROCK is covered in MULTIPLE SPECIES OF ORGANISMS that are themselves MULTIPLE ORGANISMS LIVING SYMBIOTICALLY, the tall, woody autotrophs look so different from each other because they're...holy shit that's like 5, 6, 7???? different species on this one site???

they start talking to a human and the human is like "haha yeah that's a crow!" and the alien researcher is like "you called it a 'bird' earlier, is that a different name?" and the human is like "oh a crow is just one species of bird, there's like, 10 others out there"

"On this planet?"

"No, in the back yard right now."

it doesn't matter how much you tell tumblr that all their silly and bad features don't work and you hate them because they're not for you. they're jingling keys to dangle in front of venture capitalists, the most gullible motherfuckers on earth, so they will keep pouring money into the giant money pit that is this website. this is also why all social media websites add features pretty much

you're not meant to use tumblr live so it doesn't matter that nobody is and everyone hates it. i mean obviously they'd like it if we used tumblr live but ultimately if you understand the incentive structures of social media companies you will recognize that the actual target audience of tumblr live is investors who will hear 'we've added a video livestreaming feature to our site' and think 'oh wow! thats like what tiktok is! and tiktok is growing! better throw another million dollars into this big pit full of fire!'

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...does tiktok make money?

no lol i edited the post just now to remove the implication that it does. tiktok loses money but it's growing which is, in the mind of the venture capitalist, an indicator that one day it will make money

90% of the digital economy has, for the last decade, been based on the completely ungrounded presumption that it is possible to directly transform daily active users into revenue at a profitable ratio

The biggest attempt at converting users into revenue is online advertising, about which basically every single financial analyst who looked at it has said "it's completely worthless, companies pay for it because their executives have not yet realised this, and the entire industry will collapse like a house of cards once they do."

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I am so excited to leave twitter permanently as soon as possible

and i made a powerpoint for twitter migrants so they can use this hellsite correctly lmao

im very proud of it :)

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okay i finished dinner heres the whole thing!