amanda likes the internet (Posts tagged tumblr)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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continuants: “staff: “Tumblr is ruled by fandoms, but which fandoms rule the hardest? This week and every week hereafter, we’ll be figuring it out by tallying all the searches, tags, reblogs, and likes that go rumbling through our corridors. The...
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Tumblr is ruled by fandoms, but which fandoms rule the hardest?

This week and every week hereafter, we’ll be figuring it out by tallying all the searches, tags, reblogs, and likes that go rumbling through our corridors. The result? Fandometrics. A pleasingly scientific ranking of the fandoms on Tumblr. 

Here’s a little preview of the #2 fandoms for each category of fandom we’re studying. Why #2? So you can enjoy the suspense of clicking through to find out #1.

#2 TV Show: The Legend of Korra

#2 Movie: Big Hero 6

#2 Musical Act: One Direction

#2 Celebrity: Chris Evans

#2 Video Game: Dragon Age

#2 Web Celeb: AmazingPhil

Find out the #1’s (and #3’s through #20’s) over at Fandometrics.

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Last week, the entire editorial staff at Tumblr (my shiniest unicorns, my untamed rabbits, my very good amazing talented brilliant wonderful friends) were laid off bringing a very unceremonious end to the proudest moment of my career, @fandom fka The Fandometrics.

I just got an email repeating last week’s Week in Review (and i guess will continue to receive it forever because there’s no one to turn it off?) and i wanted to pour one out for the thing that brought me the most joy in my career and continued life after I moved on from Tumblr. I’ve been in deep mourning for everything this layoff has meant for Tumblr in general but today the reality of it really hit me. The radar (maybe one of the last human-curated things on the internet?) will just repeat the same 5 posts forever. There will be no more big weeks on Tumblr. Just silence on that blog I fought so hard for for so many years. The blog that my team went on to nourish and grow and do amazing things with in the past four years. That’s it. No goodbyes.

So here’s the first staff post about it. Tumblr, thank you for letting me do weird library science with my little spreadsheets and terminal scripts and all the ships that ever passed through anyone’s dash. Thank you to every person who ever touched the TagCat and made magic happen on that blog.

Fandometrics you will always be famous.

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update - it looks like at least Week in Review will be continuing (shoutout to the one unicorn left standing) <3

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taking this out of the reblogs of my last post @deez-no-relation because I think it’s important and its own thought.

There isn’t any place similar to Tumblr on the internet. Here and now is the last shreds of an internet that was, an internet that could exist without monetization. An internet that lasted through so many ~pivots to video~, an internet that is text and gif and photo first. An internet that is driven by serendipity and the impetus of the user to do the searching, the digging, the work that is just handed to you by algorithms on other sites for the purpose of better advertising to you.

The best part about Tumblr is the reason why it can’t monetize and I have been hitting up against this wall for literal years. There’s magic here because it’s one of the places that hasn’t been overrun by ads. Every social site’s business model relies on those midrolls, prerolls, in between story slides, because the money is what keeps them running.

Someone joked about making Tumblr a UNESCO World Heritage site and honestly? That’s where my brain goes, too. Tumblr is a library. Tumblr is a museum. Tumblr is a third place. Tumblr is where people can go to be inspired and go feral over shit they love and indulge in passion and process their shit. How do you monetize that safely?

@taylorswift honestly this is your moment to bankroll Tumblr and save the internet (just kidding….) (unless…..)

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staff: “Tumblr is ruled by fandoms, but which fandoms rule the hardest? This week and every week hereafter, we’ll be figuring it out by tallying all the searches, tags, reblogs, and likes that go rumbling through our corridors. The result?...
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Tumblr is ruled by fandoms, but which fandoms rule the hardest?

This week and every week hereafter, we’ll be figuring it out by tallying all the searches, tags, reblogs, and likes that go rumbling through our corridors. The result? Fandometrics. A pleasingly scientific ranking of the fandoms on Tumblr. 

Here’s a little preview of the #2 fandoms for each category of fandom we’re studying. Why #2? So you can enjoy the suspense of clicking through to find out #1.

#2 TV Show: The Legend of Korra

#2 Movie: Big Hero 6

#2 Musical Act: One Direction

#2 Celebrity: Chris Evans

#2 Video Game: Dragon Age

#2 Web Celeb: AmazingPhil

Find out the #1’s (and #3’s through #20’s) over at Fandometrics.

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Last week, the entire editorial staff at Tumblr (my shiniest unicorns, my untamed rabbits, my very good amazing talented brilliant wonderful friends) were laid off bringing a very unceremonious end to the proudest moment of my career, @fandom fka The Fandometrics.

I just got an email repeating last week’s Week in Review (and i guess will continue to receive it forever because there’s no one to turn it off?) and i wanted to pour one out for the thing that brought me the most joy in my career and continued life after I moved on from Tumblr. I’ve been in deep mourning for everything this layoff has meant for Tumblr in general but today the reality of it really hit me. The radar (maybe one of the last human-curated things on the internet?) will just repeat the same 5 posts forever. There will be no more big weeks on Tumblr. Just silence on that blog I fought so hard for for so many years. The blog that my team went on to nourish and grow and do amazing things with in the past four years. That’s it. No goodbyes.

So here’s the first staff post about it. Tumblr, thank you for letting me do weird library science with my little spreadsheets and terminal scripts and all the ships that ever passed through anyone’s dash. Thank you to every person who ever touched the TagCat and made magic happen on that blog.

Fandometrics you will always be famous.

fandometrics tumblr fandom tumblr staff i really wish i wasn't in full wedding prep mode so i could write a proper eulogy not with a bang but a whimper etc etc
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are you a gen z (28 and younger) person who uses tumblr regularly?

i don't care how much you post or how many people follow you, send me a message! i've got a journalist from business insider who wants to talk to you about why you love tumblr!!

(also i want to know i'm nosy)

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update: thank you EVERYONE who replied and sent messages. she was able to get in touch with some of you and i will reblog this again when the article comes out!!

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the article came out yesterday!

Gen Z is flocking to the one social media platform millennials didn't ruin
Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Zoomers have found a new place to network: Tumblr.
Business Insider
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feels kinda weird posting this today after all that’s happening but i fucking love this website and hate that all the things i love about it are the reasons why it’s like this.

daddy karp…….taylor swift…… save us………

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Do you remember Y2K?

yes (wasn't that a trip??)

no

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shofarsogood

Here's a reminder that Y2K was real. It wasn't a conspiracy theory. Computers were going to crash when we hit the new millennium.

The reason you don't remember it (and the world didn't crash) was millions of coders working around the clock to fix it. It was a huge project across multiple countries.

In the countries that did not spend resources on their codes, they did lose their stock markets temporarily. (I know Germany was one. I think Singapore was another.)

This wasn't a made up problem. It was a problem that we solved with a lot of work. Please don't dismiss it as nothing or a fever dream.

heroineimages

I was a senior in high school during Y2K and had a pretty limited perspective on what was going on. But since most of the adults around me thought it was a hoax, I believed the same. (In fact, I think there was even an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that claimed it was a hoax.) It wasn't until many years later that I really learned just how much work and effort went into preventing the damage it could have caused.

jeanjauthor

My father was in the CCU. That's the Critical Care Unit, not just ICU for Intensive Care Unit. We literally didn't know that month if he would survive until Christmas (he did), never mind New Year's Eve.

My mother had to go to Boeing to make SURE all the computers in her department worked on the stroke of midnight, January 1st, 2000. (She worked in the Time Systems Standards Analysis department, aka literally gauging how long a task should take versus how long it does take, so that the planners can adjust when various thing happen to the airplanes at various stages of construction.) As a part of her work, she helped design the computer systems...and then helped recode them to avoid the Y2K problem.

She went to work before midnight, and stayed there for 6 hours (admittedly earning triple-time pay), missing out on sleep and being with her family and especially her critially ill beloved husband. She had to stay that long, because she had to make sure the computers synchronized properly with a small company Boeing was affiliated with in Hawai'i (iirc, mind you this was 24 years ago, so my memory may be off).

My sister and I weren't allowed to visit past certain hours, so that the night shift nurses could get their work done, since there were fewer on duty at that hour. So my sister and I had a relatively pathetic NYE celebration. I think we watched Almost New Year's...? (Who cares about NYC constantly dropping the ball eat NYE? WE BLOW UP THE SPACE NEEDLE!! 8D )

Anyway, Y2K was very real for my household. Billions--not millions, but billions--of dollars were riding on the coding efforts of all the IT, etc, workers at Boeing that night.

And they got it right.

When Good happens...well, Good is quiet and peaceful. Evil is NOISY and SCARY, so When Bad Things Happen, you NOTICE it.

But when everything goes right, When Everything Is Good...you don't notice.

But we still remember.

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But when everything

goes right, When Everything Is

Good…you don’t notice.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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ok but this haiku gave me chills

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Anonymous asked:

Ah, yes, criticize the devs who've been working on the site for probably longer than you've been here of a system that's in place that has been misused since the beginning and them trying to figure out the solution

The "ecosystem" that was created was something that never should have existed in the first place, but go off, I guess

if this is in response to the post about tag commentary, like…..you realize that i worked with the devs, who used the tag taxonomy and categorization system i built, to build the backbone of how tag data is clustered on tumblr right? i was at tumblr from 2013-2021 and it’s well documented

sure the ecosystem may have never been built for it, but what is a product if not one that adapts and changes to incorporate for how users use it?

if you’re a dev who doesn’t even try to understand the website culture who are you even building for? the imaginary people who will start to use your app because it looks like another one where they already are (and all their friends are)?

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moriarty

life on tumblr has always been just living in the moment for me, but sometimes i stop and realize that some of us have been part of each other’s lives for many years. seeing each other grow and change and being there for the ups and downs is comforting. knowing there’s a place where i can find all of you.. it’s nice. i’m very glad i met you, and hope to keep meeting all the other you’s to come

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