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I got demons. Who doesn’t. Ghosts, frattering about.

@thelittlestastronaut / thelittlestastronaut.tumblr.com

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i’m trans and an anarcho-communist and i’m literally only here to reblog shitposts. thanks.

also since it seems to be increasingly relevant with all the teens on here, i am 33 years old.

#also i am autistic.
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If you perform action Harmlessly Bother Cat you can receive Sounds

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If you perform action Ignore Cat you can also receive Sounds, with a percentage chance that they will be Noises instead

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Why did they phrase this in the funniest way possible. Al Pacino’s horrible emotional support moustache to help him cope with his character’s bisexuality.

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sorry to be like this and I'm very much not loving it, but tumblr loses around 30M a year. divided by the cost of yearly subscriptions, it means half a million ish people on premium undoes that loss. I saw stats claiming more than 300M users. That sounds super not right since even the sacred texts don't often cross 1M notes. I know there are around 12M posts a day. Yeah, yeah, we post multiple times a day, but there's a quantity of lurkers out there, and I'm trying to goldilocks a number to do math without having real data to pull from, leave me be.

If there are 12M users, it needs around 4% of users. If there really are 300M (still don't believe this) it would be .16%

You know what portion of Spotify is paid accounts? 40% ish (can't find data from the last year)

But, because we are the worst, and so probably will end up with a sundowning social platform... If someone knows of another platform that has this kind of reblog with added comments that doesn't put your comment first, lmk, cause every alternative someone has suggested aint been it for me. Bluesky and pillowfort aint it. TT is video based. Reddit is.... almost? except that there's a reason we got refugees.

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op ive seen a few posts you've blazed about this and, i want to make this clear, im not reblogging this to yell at you. but i think your understanding of the tumblr money "problem" is really incomplete. i have relevant information bc i am a drama hound and have been following this story for a while:

tumblr is owned by Automattic, whose primary product is the open source software wordpress. the events are literally too long and probably confusing to quickly summarize (but the link is an article summarizing a several months long meltdown), but due to the unhinged actions of the automattic ceo his company is being sued and, though i have no legal background, he seems primed to lose hard or settle big time.

it turns out Automattic takes money from investors like blackrock and the wordpress subreddit speculated that unhappy, aggressive investors may be the reason why automattic suddenly started trying to blackmail pressure WPengine into paying them 8% of their income. the problem is not that tumblr is unprofitable; i suspect it always has been. its that the CEO is staring down the barrel of catastrophic self-inflicted disaster far beyond what tumblr is capable of shouldering.

i would also like for tumblr not to go, but unless it gets sold to a company willing to shoulder a big loss as a public service, things arent looking good.

#you are also going to have a hard time convincing people to pay for a website that keeps banning their trans friends#< prev#which is important#tumblr
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