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Posts tagged "state of the tumblr":
15 December 2009. 2:19
GETTIN 2 KNOW UR TUMBLRS
Episode 2: yahoo answers
this blog is ‘ok’. the potential for the real yahoo answers is incredible. according to the logical proof “for every gallant there is a goofus”, it stands to reason that at least half of the ‘yahoo questions’ are going to be totally ridiculous, and imminently subject to the bloodthirsty sea of goofus sharks itching to provide the perfect quip, pun, or otherwise maligned ‘yahoo answer’. this perfect dumb-ask/dumb-tell dialectic should result in plenty of laughs, but for some reason this blog is remarkably unfunny. Perhaps it’s because of the reader-submission format which, along with poor editing, falls prey to the same principles which make yahoo answers itself such an unpredictable vessel for either real knowledge or entertaining absurdity.
1:37
GETTIN 2 KNOW UR TUMBLRS
Episode 1: x planes
wow this is an easy one. besides being a pretty weak pun, and probably a reference i don’t get, ‘x planes’ lets u know right off the bat what to expect. but the simplistic ‘planes’ is only scratching the surface, because this guy has scoured the net and probably a lot of other places, and presents a truly comprehensive study of the sleekest, most exotic, often horrific, always entertaining bits of the ‘aviation world’—in photo and video form. i love this stuff, but even those uninterested by the manifestation of technology, serialization, and design in human flight should at least get a kick out the nose art, comics, and ‘sunday fantasy’ sections. there’s also something to be said for his attention to detail and documentary style, such a lost art these days. all in all, one of my absolute favs.
0:52
STAY TUNED FOR MY FIFTYTWO-PART SERIES - GETTIN 2 KNOW UR TUMBLRS
16 November 2009. 3:35
HEY i finally found this online and big. (the tailor’s apprentice)
Sorry i only post ‘fucking photos’ these days, but there’s just not a lot to say right now that wasn’t already put better visually by some dinosaur. That, and my autonomist tendencies rule out anything resembling serious personal narrative. Not that I’ve ever given that.
Just look at her okay?
14 November 2009. 2:23
stickin’ up for the underdogs
never <3 any post that holds more than a few <3’s already—blaze your own trail, don’t be another brick in the wall, push for tumblr equality! we can make a diff
20 August 2009. 0:57
wow
it shows the tags you used on the dashboard now. i guess i didn’t waste my time tagging everything the last 6 months after all
edit: 9 months. what the hell
18 May 2009. 14:33
discovered retrolife, lost the will to tumbl :(
7 May 2009. 22:30
Tumblarity isn’t about you.
It’s never about you. Well, actually it kind of is. Measuring users is the number one priority of every major website out there. All the big companies have entire departments with multiple tiers of management just for the sake of recording and interpreting internal metrics. These are all stored in columns and rows of SQL databases scattered across muliple redundant servers in multiple network centers. Who’s the most liked person on Tumblr? Marco knows. What’s the most reblogged post? Marco knows. They all know, they’ve always known.
Now you know too. Good for you. You don’t get a cookie, rather you get a score. Be happy. If you think that score is low, post more! In fact, that’s the whole friggin’ point. Tumblr released a feature to let you know your tumblr score specifically so that you will post more, which in turn benefits them. Have you noticed that your Tumblrarity score decaying? That’s how they want it, so the active 20%
funemployedtop dogs can never rest on their laurels and to continue pumping out the loads of free content that the rest of the 80%peonsreaders can enjoy.So the line has been drawn. If you’re bitching about this tumblarity feature then it’s likely you’re just part of the passive 80%, it’s okay, no one blames you for having a low tumblarity score. In fact, having such low scores might be indicative of your high real life score. But likewise, if you have insane amount of high tumblarity score, bitching about this tumblarity feature is just tacky because, again, this was never about you. This isn’t a elementary school lunch table, this isn’t a high school prom, no one is picking winners. The scores are private and it changes over time—almost minute by minute—that it’s not about popularity, it’s all just a ploy to get Tumblr to get you to visit this site more and for a way to report to their shareholders month to month the almighty sign: growth. For the day Tumblr, Inc., took that $750,000 something like this was already being planned. It’s almost required. Grownups with real money aren’t impressed with the number of notes on the 4chan memes that keeps getting published. But accurate tracking of how active a 1 million strong userbase is? That’s worth ten times an investment.
If after a day you look at this and still hate your life, I made greasemonkey scripts to hide the line. But you have to google it yourself.
this. now i go drink wine.
this was pretty well said; no addendum.
Reblogged from bohemian slapfight.
13 March 2009. 2:07
what does getting unfollowed mean??
”we are not friends anymore’?
‘we are not online friends anymore’?
‘i h8 u’?
‘want u to die’?
‘want u to die slowly’?
‘i am trying to break ur heart’?
‘love u, but too much’?
‘u post “dumb shit”?
‘u like pokemon way too much’?
‘u are “closing the american mind”?
‘i’m scared’a u’?
‘too little too late’?
‘get right outta my clothes and get into my bedroom’?
???
20 February 2009. 18:13
FIRST OF ALL
I’d like to DERIDE with extreme LASSITUDE the Tumblr-creators self-perceived omniscience in believing I NEED to know about “wine library tv’s gary vay·ner·chump”s new Tumblr account, and the graphical actions taken to ensure such knowledge would accost me as such.I know at earlier times this blog was supportive of the Tumblr Programme and its architects, but recent events have shed light on their OPPRESSIVE, ENFRAMING mode of existence, and its dangerous effects on us innocent tumblbros.
To “gary”: Dont really give an ‘eff’ about ur “pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business.”
To Tumblrmakers: flaunt your calculated idol-memes elsewhere.
11 February 2009. 1:08
yo
apparently all my posting about left-wing Marxist militants and their worldview was a bit unfair. Due to the Tumblr Equal-Time Rule, I am now required by law to generate a like-quantity of highly-applicable fascist, holocaust revisionist, and evangelical-christian content for you all to absorb.
I know it kinda sucks cause right-wingers are such heartless meanies, but I didn’t tumbl all this way just to get shut down on a technicality!
I will begin by introducing you to the single most influential purveyor of reactionary politics in the 20th century: Adolf Kitler.
Sieg heil mein feline fuhrer!
