is twitter suspending trump as he’s on his way out after giving him an hugely influential platform for four years an incredibly token gesture? of course. but is it also really funny? absolutely
tumblr will always be a better website than twitter because you can only retweet a tweet once, whereas on this website if i really like a post i can make my followers scroll past it twelve times in a row
somehow knowing that tumblr is being kept around mostly as a testing ground for advertisers and corporations doesn’t even make me feel that exploited, because every social media site is exploitive. but being basically lab rats to test shit on before it’s refined for use in polite society is by far the funniest possible way to be exploited.
#yeah maybe i’m a marketing lab rat but at least my dash is in fucking chronological order
this ad appeared right after i read this post.
so yeah, they’re testing something, but in true lab rat fashion we have no fucking clue what
Man sometimes I think tumblr is insane but then through the walls of my glass house I catch a glimpse of what goes down in Fandom Twitter and think to myself “I’m glad that this hellsite is my prison actually”
tumblr was down for fifty minutes and i gotta say it was for the best. made me appreciate this site when i was forced to twitter to check if it was down.
Having been on twitter for .02 seconds while tumblr was down I’ve realised that actually twitter isn’t on a six year cultural lag. Rather, there’s always going to be a subset of internet users whose default mode of interacting online is honestly just Like That™ no matter how much time passes; they’ve merely migrated en masse someplace other than here like mice following the pied piper off a cliff, making tumblr look chill in comparison