If you ever think your fanfic idea is too ridiculous to write, just remember that someone once rewrote a 15th century English war of succession using Yu-Gi-Oh characters in the place of real historical people and that this is an actual official video game for the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise.
If you tap on Yuuya and Odd-Eyes, they'll play some adorable animations!
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Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?
They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.
Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?
So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.
And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn't compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn't sell.
And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at... putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.
If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn't have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that's what they did.
I don't know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.
#yeah radio shack could have made it if they'd stuck to what they were good at#hobby electronics have only become more accessible these days#the existence of digikey adafruit sparkfun etc tells me they could have made it even if not so much in person outside of major cities#there's also micro center which could be argued is what radio shack could have been if they'd played the pivot right#but maybe not#of course there are many different things that play into this#maybe the timing never would have worked out#of course this is about tumblr#but i do remember going to radio shack as a kid - even in its decline i still got parts to make my Halloween costume#(went as a Sim and made a plumbob that I could switch colors on. i still have it)
For the record, accidentally tapping on Tumblr live when it randomly appears every week does not count as using Tumblr live for the sake of this poll. This is only referring to purposeful use of the feature.
I'd appreciate it if people could share this for a larger sample size!
Wtf is tumblr live
Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy
Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.
The Diagnosis
In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience.
Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content.
To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.
Our Guiding Principles
To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.
- Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
- Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
- Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
- Retain and grow our creator base.
- Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
- Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.
Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.
Everything here except for the one about bugfixing and stability sounds absolutely terrible. But I'm not surprised, I expected this decline when you announced that For You would be the default for new users. It's the same pattern every other terrible social media site has followed.
#tumblr stuff#i don't expect them to immediately get rid of chronological order of course#but as more and more users get used to non-chronological as the default and only way they use the site#i expect it to become more and more difficult to use chronological at all#it'll be phased out slowly but it will be phased out#if they can get away with it#well i suppose there's always dreamwidth but i never can get into the habit of using it
No acknowledgement that Pegasus is currently dead, which is interesting because Pegasus himself alluded to it during this event - I don't have a screenshot unfortunately but in the episode unlock Pegasus says something about not being able to join Sugoroku on his journey (vague but given Pegasus has been shown to have awareness of being dead before, I'm certain that's what he's referencing).
So the question here is, is it not public knowledge that Pegasus died? Or do the other simulacrums automatically suppress this knowledge in order to avoid confronting the fact that none of them are real?
Official Dates, Prompts & Rules
The 5 Days of YGO Femslash event will run from the 11th to the 15th of September.
Prompts are as follows:
- Monday Day 1. Beach | Snow
- Tuesday Day 2. Sharing a Bed | Sharing Food
- Wednesday Day 3. Routine | Unexpected
- Thursday Day 4. Sparkle & Shine | Murky & Unclear
- Friday Day 5. Before the Beginning | After the End
Tag all prompt fills #5daysofygofemslash2023 or @ me directly!
Tag #5daysofygofemslash or @ me directly in your pieces I look forward to seeing them.
Event Rules can be found here
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Anzu's sketch !
I rarely draw her in this outfit.
It’s true! The dead do speak when asked!
(Aka sorry bros been busy w/ uni and tryin to live a healthier life lmao, yami’s currently staring in disappointment. Also guess who got gifted w/ and ipad of all things as a late bday gift :D )
Did you know that AO3 allows fics with homicide in them? There’s a whole tag for Major Character Death and even more tags so you can find exactly what kind of character death you want to read.
Don’t they know that murder is illegal? You just know there are a bunch of homicidal maniacs out there who love to read those stories. They write them, too, in between killing people.
Anyone can read the stories on AO3! Kids can read them! They’re getting exposed to stabbing, poisoning, even guns! And they’re writing the heroes doing the killing, too! That’s basically telling kids it’s okay to go out and murder their families. It’s promoting violence and encouraging homicide and if we don’t do something about it soon, you’ll be murdered next!
The devil came to my house and tried to burn it down, which is why this post exists in the first place.
I saw Goody OP writing darkfic with the devil.
Aw I was kinda hoping for some interactions with the DSOD characters too but nope. I knew GX interactions would be too much to hope for due to the manga-anime disconnect (though I am going to check what happens when you challenge them as Grandpa once I unlock him, maybe there will be something like when the cameo characters challenge the Arc V characters), but I guess it's simpler to stick to one world.