{"id":32016,"date":"2018-12-04T16:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-suicide-of-tumblr\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T06:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:52:46","slug":"on-the-suicide-of-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-suicide-of-tumblr\/","title":{"rendered":"on the suicide of Tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"

bowiesongs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve wondered for a few years now what the endgame would be for this odd site: the black sheep of the social media venues. Tumblr is, and always has been, completely un-\u201dmonetizable\u201d\u2014i have no idea how it makes any money whatsoever .<\/p>\n

But at its best, it\u2019s the last throwback to the internet that I knew and loved in the 1990s. A weird, scitter-scatter, gonzo Wild West sort of place. Ironically its Yahoo acquisition was what truly reduced it to a backwater, a terminally uncool site that was always said to be \u201cdying\u201d by media outlets with a habit of firing most of their staff employees before Christmas. This meant that, quietly, it became a place where marginalized people could thrive.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve come to appreciate its complete uselessness. Apart from El Sandifer, Matt Maxwell, Sylvia K and a few others, I have utterly no idea who\u2019s on here, who follows me, if anyone even reads the stuff I put up here on very rare occasion. It\u2019s the dead channel. Over the years, it\u2019s been the place when in the absolute depths of despair I\u2019ll put up,say, a video of the Beatles\u00a0\u201cHelp!\u201d\u2019 and hope that someone sees it who needs to. Like a lighthouse sending out a signal to some ship out there in the dark..<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve come to like the weird rando anonymous questions I get. I like the feeling of this being a shopping mall with maybe 4 stores left- standing\u2013a vaping shop, a sad video arcade, a fabric store, and a place you can buy games and phone accessories (for an out-of-date phone).<\/p>\n

You get the feeling some bean-counter finally got around to \u201cthe Tumblr problem\u201d and now has big plans to finally Monetize this dump in some ridiculous, seriously doomed way. This censorship initiative is the first wave\u2014what will likely soon come is a more aggressive enforcement on visual\/audio copyright, which will wipe out like..70% of all posts? Good luck ,baby.<\/p>\n

A last thing. Many years ago, for a while I followed the founder of this site and his then-girlfriend\u2019s tumblrs in a \u201csee how the ruling class live\u201d observation project. And they broke up, and his ex-girlfriend stayed on the guy\u2019s own site to document her vastly improved life, showing herself to be a truly compassionate and cool person. She got married recently, to a sweet-seeming dude\u2014she put up the pictures on Tumblr. All power to her, and to all of you, wherever we go from here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

don\u2019t want to lose the hashtag #capitalismkillslove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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