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universe-juice: chocobo-strider: the-disney-words: 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 ^
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chocobo-strider:

the-disney-words:

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 ^

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bard-core: 600 FOLLOWERS I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I GOT TO THIS CAPSTONE BUT WE CLIMBED THIS MOUNTAIN TOGETHER AND NOW I’M GONNA GIVE IT BACK TO YOU! I’ll pick a total of three winners! You can get any art piece in any medium you want. I’ll draw whatever you like, but I will likely tell you if it’s not my strong point in art. Winner #1 gets a fully-coloured, hi-res piece of anything their heart desires! No huge groups though pleaseWinner #2 gets a lineart, flat-colour piece!Winner #3 gets a detailed sketch! Likes and reblogs count! Reblog as much as you want I guess, annoy your followers! Just as long as it’s not like 5 times per day I guess You don’t have to follow me but you only qualify for a sketch if you don’t. Following me AFTER I post this will not count, sorry :,( Don’t reblog on a sideblog or a giveaway blog If you do win I do require a detailed picture or description please and thanks!! I’ll be holding this June 10th where I will use a random generator to pick the winners. Good luck, and thank you all!
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bard-core: 600 FOLLOWERS I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I GOT TO THIS CAPSTONE BUT WE CLIMBED THIS MOUNTAIN TOGETHER AND NOW I’M GONNA GIVE IT BACK TO YOU! I’ll pick a total of three winners! You can get any art piece in any medium you want. I’ll draw whatever you like, but I will likely tell you if it’s not my strong point in art. Winner #1 gets a fully-coloured, hi-res piece of anything their heart desires! No huge groups though pleaseWinner #2 gets a lineart, flat-colour piece!Winner #3 gets a detailed sketch! Likes and reblogs count! Reblog as much as you want I guess, annoy your followers! Just as long as it’s not like 5 times per day I guess You don’t have to follow me but you only qualify for a sketch if you don’t. Following me AFTER I post this will not count, sorry :,( Don’t reblog on a sideblog or a giveaway blog If you do win I do require a detailed picture or description please and thanks!! I’ll be holding this June 10th where I will use a random generator to pick the winners. Good luck, and thank you all!
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bard-core: 600 FOLLOWERS I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I GOT TO THIS CAPSTONE BUT WE CLIMBED THIS MOUNTAIN TOGETHER AND NOW I’M GONNA GIVE IT BACK TO YOU! I’ll pick a total of three winners! You can get any art piece in any medium you want. I’ll draw whatever you like, but I will likely tell you if it’s not my strong point in art. Winner #1 gets a fully-coloured, hi-res piece of anything their heart desires! No huge groups though pleaseWinner #2 gets a lineart, flat-colour piece!Winner #3 gets a detailed sketch! Likes and reblogs count! Reblog as much as you want I guess, annoy your followers! Just as long as it’s not like 5 times per day I guess You don’t have to follow me but you only qualify for a sketch if you don’t. Following me AFTER I post this will not count, sorry :,( Don’t reblog on a sideblog or a giveaway blog If you do win I do require a detailed picture or description please and thanks!! I’ll be holding this June 10th where I will use a random generator to pick the winners. Good luck, and thank you all!
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bard-core:

600 FOLLOWERS I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I GOT TO THIS CAPSTONE BUT WE CLIMBED THIS MOUNTAIN TOGETHER AND NOW I’M GONNA GIVE IT BACK TO YOU!

I’ll pick a total of three winners! You can get any art piece in any medium you want. I’ll draw whatever you like, but I will likely tell you if it’s not my strong point in art.

Winner #1 gets a fully-coloured, hi-res piece of anything their heart desires! No huge groups though please
Winner #2 gets a lineart, flat-colour piece!
Winner #3 gets a detailed sketch!

  1. Likes and reblogs count! Reblog as much as you want I guess, annoy your followers! Just as long as it’s not like 5 times per day I guess
  2. You don’t have to follow me but you only qualify for a sketch if you don’t. Following me AFTER I post this will not count, sorry :,(
  3. Don’t reblog on a sideblog or a giveaway blog
  4. If you do win I do require a detailed picture or description please and thanks!!
  5. I’ll be holding this June 10th where I will use a random generator to pick the winners.

Good luck, and thank you all!

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