...and it hurts like heaven

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SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR!

- Let’s try and get 100k notes

True shit

A review by one of the folks sums it up perfectly:

“What worries me about Yahoo! buying Tumblr is how it would choose to incorporate the website into its email and homepage features.  One of the reasons why Tumblr is so unique is because it’s a niche market.  By adding more users who don’t fit into this niche, it would make it more difficult for communities to develop within Tumblr, and Tumblr would have to change to accommodate these new users.  Tumblr as a website is not the kind that you can sign up for in a day and be on your way.  It is a website crafted so that you can immediately post but must spend several weeks, sometimes even months, to build a community.  With new users who would not be willing to spend time growing a community, Tumblr would have to be changed, which would alienate its current users.  Those users have spent time and effort to make Tumblr what it is today, and they are the ones who spend time on the website daily.  A user who is checking onto Tumblr because it’s attached to their homepage is not going to be as strong of a user nor as dedicated.  By changing the website to suit this new user, you would lose the strong users while building an undedicated usership.  

To any website that would think of buying Tumblr, they must understand that it is a website that cannot be changed to make it more user friendly to a casual blogger.  I think that many Tumblr users would be less worried about a buy-out if they were promised that their communities and ways of using Tumblr would not be changed.  No one is going to mind Yahoo! buying the website and gaining a few extra million dollars per year from the minimal advertising; what we will be upset with is if a company like Yahoo! then changes the website to increase casual users and decrease dedicated users.  Yahoo! would gain nothing by losing this “cool” group of bloggers in an age group they so desperately want to reach, so they must cater to these individuals by leaving the website exactly as is.” - houseoftombombadil

As much as is does sound like a load of bullshit for someone to buy Tumblr, it’s a possibility.  I Personally think it should stay independent and I hope David Karp keeps a hold of it like his own child. Or we make enough noise to where such major changes (if bought) will not happen. I would hate to see Tumblr turned into an advertising dump.

We’re not a ‘hip fad group’ to be marketed to. I hate the fact that’s all we look like to businesses in the end.

reblogging again for this 

You guys, 100k notes won’t do anything. 100k signatures might or 100k letters to the creator of tumblr or yahoo. But 100k notes on a tumblr post is just going to make us all feel better while doing nothing to help the actual cause.

I hope everyone reblogging it signs the petition. Because there is one here.

These points are valid. However:

a) the point of an internet startup, the final goal for a lot of entrepreneurs, is selling to to a bigger company, and getting their payoff. Tumblr hasn’t been able to monetize on the site much, so its time that the creators got their money’s worth, after all the success of the site.

b) As most know, Yahoo is now under new management. And they are making amazing changes. Yahoo isn’t the same company it was five years ago(or even one year ago), and their past mistakes mean very little about what will happen now. I have faith that they won’t close down the site, as everyone seems to be implying.

c) Just because more people will be coming to the site, that doesn’t mean that our communities will be going away. It’s like how normal people and nerds both have Tumblrs, but we just don’t really interact, and we can coexist within our own little bubbles. New people doesn’t mean anything for our communities, except the possibility of converting more people to our insanity, and isn’t that a good thing?

WE GONNA BE FINE.

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#I JUST REALLY LOVE THIS BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE HOW PROUD ARTHUR IS THAT MERLIN DIDN’T TELL HIM HE HAD MAGIC BECAUSE HE DIDN’T WANT HIM TO HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION ON WHAT TO DO #AND HE JUST LOOKS AT MERLIN SO HAPPY BECAUSE HE REALISES NOW THAT IT’S STILL THE MERLIN HE USED TO KNOW #AND HE KNOWS NOW WHY HE KEPT IT A SECRET FROM HIM  #HIS EYEBROWS EVEN HEIGHTEN WITH DISBELIEF BECAUSE HE REALISES NOW HOW MANY TIMES MERLIN HAS TRIED TO KEEP HIM SAFE #AND UGH #MERLIN

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This is flat out vulgar! There are minors present! 

There are minors present

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