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babyanimalgifs:

Me thinking about a joke I told last week

what the fuck, that’s way funnier than the screengrabs

I have talked to four journalists today and have agreed to write a press piece that I need to start on, but obviously it’s important that I finally sit down and post on Tumblr, too.

This is a weird feeling: I literally think that I am the world’s foremost effort on the potential impact of Tumblr banning adult content.

Here’s why: I’ve done a bunch of research about the genesis of AO3/OTW, and most recently, a large-scale study of fandom’s migration across platforms over time. I can tell you for a fact that both fanfiction.net’s and LiveJournal’s bans on adult content resulted in fans leaving those sites–and in LiveJournal’s case, essentially the death of that platform for fandom.

The image above, if you haven’t seen it before, shows fandom platform use over time, and the red line that dips drastically is LiveJournal, after “Strikethrough 2007.”

Here’s another finding from that study: That policy was the #1 reason that fans left LiveJournal. For every other platform, fans mostly left because something better came along, but nope, for LiveJournal, it was specifically because of their crackdown on “obscene” content, and what that signaled to fandom about how they were unwelcome there.

I’m going to be posting more about this in the coming days, so watch this space, but here’s my tweetstorm from today, here’s a CNN article I’m quoted in, and here’s another Tumblr post with an optimistic view. As I wrote recently in a TWC piece about how I see the future of fandom, “fandom is not helpless to external forces—to platforms, industries, or even policies.” I believe that.

If history repeats itself, then Tumblr might fall as LiveJournal did – but something better might come to take its place.

robotic-snakes:

robotic-snakes:

right now we have fortnite dancing

next, we should do sims dancing

catch me at the club like

rpgnpc:

you ever see a character design that SO STRONGLY caters to your tastes you just go

your-dark-strange-son:

such-justice-wow:

such-justice-wow:

Conspiracy theory: staff started the @staff thing so no one would know you’re meant to @support and they wouldn’t have to do work

No one is reblogging this which obviously means I’m onto something

Reblogging this literallly crashed tumblr you’re onto something.

gayvian:

manslaughter:

burger king is offering a 1 cent whopper through their mobile app if you unlock the coupon while at a mcdonald’s

why does the burger king app have quests

jujuoh:

zombie-twink:

Results so far

ok so our titty choices are now: cubism, jpeg, manga, and Picasso’s Blue Period

aregularboy:

heads up before you spend $$ on pillowfort, especially note the paypal thing. the io domain concern does not seem carefully enforced but is in the TOS so 🤷

the-hx: