Anyways heres a piece of Shakespearean theatre that you should acknowledge and enjoy.
Production: A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Bridge Theatre
honestly if you want to blame the existence of hannigram on anyone blame mads mikkelsen and hugh dancy they really didn’t have to play hannibal and will as tortured by love as they did but they really said “no I have to look at him like he’s breaking my heart and giving me wings and making me whole all at once wdym”
hes so annoyingggggg
hi not to be a debbie downer but the petewentz livejournal acct isn’t pete 😭 just someone roleplaying as pete
Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022
For those who don’t know or remember, Tumblr used to have a policy around porn that was literally “Go nuts, show nuts. Whatever.” That was memorable and hilarious, and for many people, Tumblr both hosted and helped with the discovery of a unique type of adult content.
In 2018, when Tumblr was owned by Verizon, they swung in the other direction and instituted an adult content ban that took out not only porn but also a ton of art and artists – including a ban on what must have been fun for a lawyer to write, female presenting nipples. This policy is currently still in place, though the Tumblr and Automattic teams are working to make it more open and common-sense, and the community labels launch is a first step toward that.
That said, no modern internet service in 2022 can have the rules that Tumblr did in 2007. I am personally extremely libertarian in terms of what consenting adults should be able to share, and I agree with “go nuts, show nuts” in principle, but the casually porn-friendly era of the early internet is currently impossible. Here’s why:
- Credit card companies are anti-porn. You’ve probably heard how Pornhub can’t accept credit cards anymore. Or seen the new rules from Mastercard. Whatever crypto-utopia might come in the coming decades, today if you are blocked from banks, credit card processing, and financial services, you’re blocked from the modern economy. The vast majority of Automattic’s revenue comes from people buying our services and auto-renewing on credit cards, including the ads-free browsing upgrade that Tumblr recently launched. If we lost the ability to process credit cards, it wouldn’t just threaten Tumblr, but also the 2,000+ people in 97 countries that work at Automattic across all our products.
- App stores, particularly Apple’s, are anti-porn. Tumblr started in 2007, the same year the iPhone was released. Originally, the iPhone didn’t have an App Store, and the speed of connectivity and quality of the screen meant that people didn’t use their smartphone very much and mostly interacted with Tumblr on the web, using desktop and laptop computers (really). Today 40% of our signups and 85% of our page views come from people on mobile apps, not on the web. Apple has its own rules for what’s allowed in their App Store, and the interpretation of those rules can vary depending on who is reviewing your app on any given day. Previous decisions on what’s allowed can be reversed any time you submit an app update, which we do several times a month. If Apple permanently banned Tumblr from the App Store, we’d probably have to shut the service down. If you want apps to allow more adult content, please lobby Apple. No one in the App Store has any effective power, even multi-hundred-billion companies like Facebook/Meta can be devastated when Apple changes its policies. Aside: Why do Twitter and Reddit get away with tons of super hardcore content? Ask Apple, because I don’t know. My guess is that Twitter and Reddit are too big for Apple to block so they decided to make an example out of Tumblr, which has “only” 102 million monthly visitors. Maybe Twitter gets blocked by Apple sometimes too but can’t talk about it because they’re a public company and it would scare investors.
- There are lots of new rules around verifying consent and age in adult content. The rise of smartphones also means that everyone has a camera that can capture pictures and video at any time. Non-consensual sharing has grown exponentially and has been a huge problem on dedicated porn sites like Pornhub – and governments have rightly been expanding laws and regulations to make sure everyone being shown in online adult content is of legal age and has consented to the material being shared. Tumblr has no way to go back and identify the featured persons or the legality of every piece of adult content that was shared on the platform and taken down in 2018, nor does it have the resources or expertise to do that for new uploads.
- Porn requires different service providers up and down the stack. In addition to a company primarily serving adult content not having access to normal financial services and being blocked by app stores, they also need specialized service providers – for example, for their bandwidth and network connections. Most traditional investors won’t fund primarily adult businesses, and may not even be allowed to by their LP agreements. (When Starbucks started selling alcohol at select stores, some investors were forced to sell their stock.)
If you wanted to start an adult social network in 2022, you’d need to be web-only on iOS and side load on Android, take payment in crypto, have a way to convert crypto to fiat for business operations without being blocked, do a ton of work in age and identity verification and compliance so you don’t go to jail, protect all of that identity information so you don’t dox your users, and make a ton of money. I estimate you’d need at least $7 million a year for every 1 million daily active users to support server storage and bandwidth (the GIFs and videos shared on Tumblr use a ton of both) in addition to hosting, moderation, compliance, and developer costs.
I do hope that a dedicated service or company is started that will replace what people used to get from porn on Tumblr. It may already exist and I don’t know about it. They’ll have an uphill battle under current regimes, and if you think that’s a bad thing please try to change the regimes. Don’t attack companies following legal and business realities as they exist.
Most of you don't follow photomatt, who is I guess the 2020s "tumblr daddy", but I think this is a decent explanation.
Not to shill for a company that doesn't care if I live or die (even if it's ran by alright people), but remember that - tumblr doesn't sell your private data - tumblr doesn't harvest your microphone audio, your unsent message drafts, a list of your apps on your phone, your GPS, your clipboard, the times you turn on screen on your phone, and other things - like literally every other app does (especially tiktok) to some degree - "if you don't pay, you're the product" is still valid, you generate the content that attracts people, but he's vaguely correct in that you cost the company ~$7 a year (probably even w/o NSFW content being allowed) even without employee salaries and stuff. - remember that facebook, instagram and similar *make* in the ballpark of $20 from you per year; more if you are active and click ads. - tumblr, however, not being a multi-billion media conglomerate, is in no place to bargain, and even if it was, it will still gladly rat out all your details to government privacy-invasion and violence-enforcement agencies. Friendly corporations aren't your friends.
tl;dr this isn't the 90s. you can't photograph people on the street anymore.
Actually we do fight for our users, quite a bit, and have a 15+ person full-time legal team. We publish a transparency report for Tumblr (and the rest of Automattic) here:
Us Tumblr users would be amazing parents.
Think about it.
Children with unique and powerful names like Moriarty, the Greed-ler, Jerma985, Loki, Vriska, Anon Hate, John Green, and Destiel marching into the next generation like ants.
We’d teach our kids to be strong. They’d never get bullied. Because if they got bullied, they’d just tell the bullies to go kill themselves.
We’d teach our kids to be kind. They would treat each other with the kindness of commenting on one’s fanfiction on Ao3.
We’d teach our kids to be resourceful and smart. Us Tumblr users are known for surviving show hiatuses. But we make through. We make through with gay fanart, analysis of every damn episode, and dedication. We survived the Sherlock finale in 2017. I think our kids could survive nuclear warfare.
We’d show our kids art. Not that Cocomelon bullshit, not throwing them in front of an iPad, not letting their soul be consumed by Blippi episodes. We’d show them art. Art such as:
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Divergent
- Homestuck
- Once-ler
- Quirkybrittany
And more. So much more.
We’d build the best families.
reminder for the twitter, reddit and tiktok migrants: please do not censor words here. if you censor them, people’s blacklists and mute functions wont work, especially for important content warnings (this goes for twitter as well altho that function is breaking over there). spell out the whole word in the post and the tags. do not use euphemism words like unalive. the algorithm here does not work that way (there is an algorithm. not everyone uses it, everyone uses the following tab).
the only time you should censor words is when you do NOT want them to show up in the tag, like if you’re saying something unkind about a ship you should not tag it or mention directly the ship name so it does not clog the tag, or if you’re mentioning a person or community who should not get attention or clout, or whose attention you do not want to attract, then censor it (the way one might on twitter to avoid term searching)
calling every instance of showing certain emotions "emotional labor" needs to stop. I just saw a post that was like "reminder that you do not ever need to be a good or kind person" like. Yes you DO???
mikey way covered pete wentz on bass for saturday last night what fucking year is it again
oh good, you're finally awake. coronavirus? donald trump president? what the fuck are you talking about. get up loser we're playing warped tour this week
I'm getting so pissed with people who are saying Gwen isnt trans. Like they're trying to explain why her dad has a trans patch on his jacket and why she has a trans flag in her room, by saying she supports trans people... wtf???? Literally what ally has a TRANS FLAG, IN THEIR ROOM, BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE??? That's some shit closeted me would tell my parents when they saw me drawing rainbows. People that are saying this shit are literally just transphobic and dont want her to be trans. Gwen is trans and fuck everyone that argues against that.
which one of these is the so called "american flag"
In Gwen’s universe trans people took over America and made the trans flag the national flag.
I painted Gracie for Mother’s Day.
I made a small painting because the house is tight on room 😌
I think I’ve done more art of her than of anyone else’s pet
are people allowed to say kys here
We're allowed to say faggot don't worry about it
twitter is like. DNI with me unless you are a perfect clone of me. and tumblr is like. hi. you share exactly one interest with me. would you like to subliminally influence each other's thought patterns through funny text posts until we develop a hive mind? yeah? cool.
Every time someone says "ingredients" I say "ingredience" in response and then I realize I just sound like I repeated them because it sounds the fucking same out loud
me when i say inch resting
Anonymous asked:
Hey, I found a beanie boo that I liked the design of but I can't stand those giant uguu eyes. Do you think it would be possible to replace them with smaller safety eyes akin to the old beanie babies? If yes, do you have any advice?
I was gonna answer this in a normal way, but then I got curious about trying it for myself and thought I might as well demonstrate!
So, I went and picked up a guy from the supermarket. The selection there was pretty barren today but I found a decent test subject:
Eye replacement procedure below!
What if you loved me so much it literally undoomed me haha jk unless
What if I had so much faith in you it literally reshaped the narrative into a happy ending HAHA JK UNLESS
128x128 transparent ibuprofen png for when u and the discord server want to take ibuprofen together
@archibaldtuttle
You cannot possibly guess where this is going
I ain't even ashamed how many times I watched this.
Lmao this is the content I am here for.