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roundtriptojupiter:

roundtriptojupiter:

everyone suddenly getting hyped about r/place is. Hm. like, if i told you i wrote gullible on the ceiling, would you look up?

like, literally a month ago everyone was like ‘reddit sucks!! blackouts!! boycott reddit!! everyone’s moving to tumblr!!’ and now reddit brings back r/place specifically to attract people back to the platform and… everyone is just falling for it? ignore that shit! just ignore it! i don’t care if there’s cute mcyt drawings on it or you want to help make your country’s flags or whatever! reddit lets you draw with pixels again and suddenly we’re all just cool with it??? can we all just think for two seconds about this

I’m not crazy right r/place coming back is definitely bc reddit owners want their usage numbers to go back up after the strike right. like I’m not following any reddit news but this feels obvious

relaxxattack:

for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?

for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?

if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason