One time my mom and I were out shopping and she shows me this ugly fucking shawl or something off a sales rack and all I could think to say was “oh… oh honey, no” and she laughed told me I talk like an old retired drag queen and that might be pretty par for a queer guy but you must know at the time I was a catty 13 year old girl
I think a 50+ y/o drag queen and an angry teen girl could accomplish so much together though
don’t like what you’re seeing? use. your. filters.
“Don’t use vulgar words in your tags where I can see them-” Use your filters, but also consider what bothers you so much about words like Fuck in a tag on Tumblr that you have to say that. On Tumblr. We say fuck here, sir.
“Don’t use vulgar words in your tags where I can see them-”
Don’t have eyes where I want to write “fuck”.
Yeah, sometimes you need to block a person because they don’t get that your blog is not a good fit for them. 
Block liberally and block often. It’s good for your health.
To be clear, I don’t have any news about any impending doom. But I’ve heard a bit more about what’s going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.
I don’t think even the current staff know what’s going to happen, but honestly, I don’t see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.
And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @javi@goblin.band from any fediverse platform 🤷
for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.
ok, yes, I am, but let me clear things a bit, because some people may read too much in what I’m saying just because I used to be staff.
No one has told me “tumblr is going to close n X days” or anything like that. For what I know, current staff doesn’t even have any idea of what’s next (or at least they didn’t last week).
But. Anyone who has followed me here for a while may tell you that I’ve been chanting “the end is neeeear! Repeeent!” for at least three years. But in every single post, every single time, I always tried to be super clear about how I didn’t think tumblr was in immediate danger, that I thought Tumblr wasn’t sustainable in the long run, but that there always were several steps that need to be taken before tumblr was at real risk of closing.
Well. Now all those steps all have been taken. Last week’s automattic layoffs have left tumblr absolutely guttered. Not only the number of people working on this site is ridiculously low, but also… who. Every single engineer who was specialized on tumblr (people who have been here from the Yahoo/Verizon times or folks who joined more recently but Tumblr is the only division of automattic they have worked at) has been laid off. Every. Single. Person.
The engineers still on staff are awesome, they are very good. They are also the ones that have previous experience in other automattic products, so they could be re-assigned tomorrow and hit the floor running in any other division.
Also the number. You couldn’t field an entire football (real foot-ball, not hand-egg) team with the engineers left on staff. It’s hard to explain how absurdly low that number is if you don’t work in the industry, but imagine a university where there used to be 90-100 professors than suddenly got downsized to 1/10th of that.
This is not sustainable, tumblr can’t be run with so little people in the long term. It’s not “they can’t improve the site”, it’s “things are going to fail and there won’t be anyone there to fix them”. Hell, if want to keep a micro-team of people keeping this site running, you don’t layoff someone like Cyle, who literally knows more about how this thing work than anyone alive or death.
So what’s going to happen in the future is either: close tumblr ( either entirely or force-integrating it on WordPress.com) or sell tumblr. The later may look good, but I doubt any of the realistic options for potential buyers would let the site in a good state.
So no, I don’t think there’s a sustainable future for a site with barely any staff to keep it running. There may not even be a sustainable mid-term.
i do think we need to start treating spraying harmless “weeds” in your lawn as utterly absurd princess and the pea level of obsession with needing the world to revolve around your every whim, like.
Okay a flower grew out of the ground outside and you can’t cope with it. Do you need to sleep on thirty feather beds as well
in my meeting with one of the people who is over grounds on my college campus i was told that when the college stopped spraying weeds, they would actually get calls from people. complaining about the dandelions
and I was sitting here like okay this is why I shouldn’t be in a public facing job because i would be the rudest motherfucker imaginable about that.
what, are you some kind of spoiled child monarch who drinks out of a golden sippy cup? Do you have a retinue of servants at home to dispose of anything and everything that you might arbitrarily dislike? have you considered leading a life where you might encounter something that could be described as a real problem? do you call the weatherman to complain when it rains?
I honestly can’t even imagine what must happen inside the kind of person that would do that. “Hello I have an urgent problem, you see, I visited your campus recently and there was a flower.” “yes?” “I didn’t like the flower.” “Uh huh…”
What a sad way to live, honestly, that the sight of a little flower could ruin your day so much you have to call someone to complain.
I’d just like to point out the growth in this post has mostly coincided with elon’s public spiral downward and I’d like to think we’re all a small part of that
bro can’t think because he’s just got a rager of a migraine 24/7
yes I would like to give elon musk my menstrual pain. I think he deserves it
Reblog to also give Elon Musk your menstrual pain.
No copypasta has ever ruined my life as comprehensively as Hell Fuck Castle. I write tabletop RPGs, and now every time I read a lore blurb about an ancient ruined kingdom where everything was cool until the last ruler fucked it up, my brain whispers “King Big Sad Guy, who did the Flame Thing”.
