#jeff d’onofrio

[ashleyheyneblog]

So i just want to brag on Jeff Muse(he doesn’t have IG) for a second, 4-6 weeks ago i mentioned that comic con would be in cincinnatti and that the cast of my favorite show was going to be there. So i looked up the info to see if my favorites were going to be there and sure enough they were. Jeff said “hmmm and someone does have a birthday coming up”. I can’t even put into words what today meant to me, just that it was an incredible experience and absolutely became a core memory. Thank you for the second best gift ever (obviously Barrett is #1). If you’ve read this far and look at the pictures you’re going to see the happiest singular person you’ve ever seen (also so happy i shed some tears and started shaking before i met them, so i look crazy) 🤣🤣🤣🤣

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS I FREAKING MET STEPHEN AMELL, VINCENT D’ONOFRIO, NEAL MCDONOUGH AND DAVID RAMSEY.

i was told @stephenamell would probably ask to hold Barrett because Stephen loves babies, so here’s photos of Stephen holding Barrett and the rest of my comic con dump.

Stephen also signed two things for me because i told him i couldn’t decide what i wanted him to sign 😍🥰

[dolphlns]

By Kyle Chayka

"Tumblr is something like an Atlantis of social networks. Once prominent, innovative, and shining, on equal footing with any other social-media company, it sank under the waves as it underwent several ownership transfers in the twenty-tens. But it might be rising once more. Tumblr’s very status as a relic of the Internet—easily forgotten, unobtrusively designed, more or less unchanged from a decade ago—is making it appealing to prodigal users as well as new ones. Tumblr’s C.E.O., Jeff D’Onofrio, told me recently that forty-eight per cent of its active users and sixty-one per cent of its new ones are Generation Z. That’s the same demographic that Facebook and Instagram are concerned about losing. According to the leaked Facebook Papers, the company now known as Meta estimates that teen-age Facebook users are likely to drop by almost half in the next two years."

Tumblr was founded by David Karp and launched in New York City, in February of 2007. (Facebook began in 2004 and Twitter in 2006.) It was built to be a simple, social blogging platform, but its multimedia approach set it apart. Users could design their own home pages; post text, images, gifs, or videos; and follow a feed of others doing the same. Long before Instagram launched, in 2010, Tumblr was a home for curated imagery. “It was right at a time when everyone was getting cell phones; “you could take a picture from your phone and post it on the Tumblr app,” Sharon Butler, a painter who used Tumblr for her art blog, Two Coats of Paint, said. “You could have more text than on Twitter, but it was a cooler community than Facebook.”

The platform became known as a petri dish of Internet quirkiness, cultivating subcultures such as “bronies” (male fans of the cartoon “My Little Pony”) and “otherkin” (people who identify as non-human). In 2013, when Tumblr had seventy-three million accounts, Yahoo acquired it for more than a billion dollars. But, in 2016, the company did a writedown of seven hundred and twelve million dollars on the acquisition after Tumblr failed to grow advertising revenue. When Verizon acquired Yahoo, in 2017, it bundled Yahoo and Tumblr under the parent company Oath. Another blow came when Tumblr issued a blanket ban on adult content—something it had become known for—in December of 2018 and promptly lost thirty per cent of its traffic. The next year, Automattic, the commercial arm of the content-management system WordPress, acquired the site for a reported three million dollars. It was easy to assume that Tumblr was dead.

D’Onofrio, who joined the company as C.F.O. in 2013, became C.E.O. in 2018, when Karp, the founder, departed. Tech companies often focus on anticipating the next disruption to their business model. They copy the competition and attempt to evolve as quickly as possible; hence, for instance, Instagram’s addition of Snapchat-like Stories and TikTok-like Reels. D’Onofrio’s tenure, by contrast, has been characterized by an unusual pursuit of preservation. “We’re not telling people how to behave, not telling them what to do or how to comport themselves here,” he said. (The pornography ban remains an exception.) Other social networks have increasingly siloed users into a small number of optimized content types: short texts, brief videos, pre-made memes. Tumblr is more open-ended, listing various possible post formats with icons at the top of its feed: text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, video. It’s one of the few social networks where users can still publish entries that resemble blog posts.

The Tumblr users I spoke to, both new and returning, cited a few unfashionable aspects that keep them using the platform. Tumblr’s main feed doesn’t shuffle posts algorithmically based on what it determines might appeal to a user. It’s “a good, old chronological river,” Maryellen Stewart, a social-media consultant who has kept a running diary on Tumblr since 2014, said. (Despite the anodyne nature of her posts, Stewart sometimes gets caught in the overaggressive content filter.) Posts appearing in the feed are undated, and many accounts are pseudonymous, creating a respite from the frenetic exposure of other social media. Users spoke of the platform feeling disconnected from the “real world”—no President would ever try to shape world events with a Tumblr post. “It’s harder to be a brand” there, Karina Tipismana, a twenty-year-old student who uses the service primarily for its text-based jokes and ��Succession” gifs, said. “It’s the periphery of the internet; nothing important is happening there.” There aren’t influencers on Tumblr the way there are on Instagram and TikTok, and the experience for all users might be more pleasant as a result. Chris Black, the co-host of the podcast “How Long Gone,” has kept a Tumblr account since 2010 and updates it daily. Titled Words for Young Men, it is a preppy-punk mood board of starlets smoking cigarettes, fashion-shoot outtakes, and design objects, interspersed with Black’s own photos from daily life—a life-style magazine for one. Compared to the public-facing mode that is dominant on Instagram, Black’s Tumblr “is almost more personal, in a way, even though it’s not always images that I took,” he said.

D’Onofrio, the C.E.O., hopes to capitalize on users’ sense of intimacy with the platform. Rather than relying primarily on automated, programmatic advertising sales, he is pursuing individual campaigns with streaming giants such as Disney, Netflix, and Amazon, which see opportunity in the site’s thriving enclaves of various fandoms. According to Tumblr, revenue is up fifty-five per cent since July of 2021. Yet the company currently sees only around eleven million posts a day; Twitter, by comparison, is said to host five hundred million daily tweets. The goal is to maintain “the positivity that we’ve worked so hard to build here,” D’Onofrio said, adding, “It can’t be growth at all costs.”

I recently excavated my old Tumblr account, which I created in 2010 and stopped using years ago. Only three of the accounts I followed were still active, and I relished the silence. Where else on the Internet do you see only a handful of posts a day? The site’s default dark, blue-gray background recalls a bedroom at night, lit only by a screen’s glow. The best part was looking through my own archive and realizing that the Internet ephemera I gravitate toward has remained almost embarrassingly consistent over the past decade: abstract paintings, architecture photos, vintage video games, Wong Kar Wai stills. In the hyper-pressurized environment of social media circa 2022, it’s rare to encounter a past digital self, unless it is being dug up to defame you. What makes Tumblr obsolete, for the moment, are the same things that lend it an enduring appeal. The fact that it maintains a following should remind us that we use social-media services by choice; no platform or feature is an inevitability. As Karina Tipismana, the student, told me, “People say stuff like, ‘I wish we could still use Tumblr.’ It’s there, it’s there!”

[ulkaralakbarova]

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene’s heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Danny Greene: Ray Stevenson John Nardi: Vincent D’Onofrio Joe Manditski: Val Kilmer Shondor Birns: Christopher Walken Joan Madigan: Linda Cardellini Mikey Mendarolo: Tony Darrow Ray Ferritto: Robert Davi Grace O’Keefe: Fionnula Flanagan Jerry Merke: Bob Gunton Art Sneperger: Jason Butler Harner Keith Ritson: Vinnie Jones Jack Licavoli: Tony Lo Bianco Ellie O’Hara: Laura Ramsey Mike Frato: Steve Schirripa Tony Salerno: Paul Sorvino Leo “Lips” Moceri: Mike Starr William “Billy” McComber: Marcus Thomas Frank Brancato: Vinny Vella Valet: Brian Balzerini Young Danny Greene: Cody Christian Young Billy McComber: Dante Wildern Tony Lupero: Sean O’Reily Vic Centauro: Vincent Rogo Angelini Tommy Sinito: Grant Krause Joe Buka: Jeff Chase Stan Gilroy: Jim Porterfield Undercover Cop: Jeff Wolfe Film Crew: Director: Jonathan Hensleigh Executive Producer: Tara Reid Casting: Mary Vernieu Production Design: Patrizia von Brandenstein Director of Photography: Karl Walter Lindenlaub Editor: Douglas Crise Executive Producer: Arthur M. Sarkissian Visual Effects Supervisor: Chris Ervin Producer: Al Corley Producer: Eugene Musso Unit Production Manager: Bart Rosenblatt Producer: Tommy Reid Casting: Juan Carlos Cantu Screenplay: Jeremy Walters Book: Rick Porrello Executive Producer: Jonathan Dana Costume Design: Melissa Bruning Original Music Composer: Patrick Cassidy Music Supervisor: John Bissell Production Supervisor: Michael D. Jones Art Direction: Gary Baugh Script Supervisor: Dug Rotstein Still Photographer: Kim C. Simms Set Decoration: Joan MacFarlane Production Sound Mixer: Beau Williams Second Assistant Director: Phil Robinson Stunt Double: Cassandra McCormick Movie Reviews: Kenneth Axel Carlsson: This is the story of the irishman, Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson), a corrupt union man, who ended up as sort of a Robin Hood figure of Cleveland. This is the story of how he rose in the ranks, making countless of enemies along the way. This is also the story of how they tried to kill him, but failed. I’ve never heard of Danny Greene, but the movie paints a nice realistic picture of the 1970s. This is not a pleasant world, but one where everyone is trying to get their piece of the cake. Danny himself is a hard one to figure out, is he good, is he bad? The one moment he helps out a friend in need, the next… he is killing people. I kinda like the fact that he is a person with both sides to him, allowing us to make up our own mind about him. Life is never as simple as most movies would like us to think it is. The movie itself is a little messy, and I had expected a bit more from the cast, but of course, this is a movie based on actual events and characters, and of course that means that they can’t change too much. In minor roles we find Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken, both excellent actors that tend to make quirky and interesting characters, but not so much here. Last words… a solid movie that gives us some insight into a man who really lived and breathed. It has some heart, for sure, but ain’t all that interesting when it comes down to it. I probably won’t ever see it a second time, but I definitely survived seeing it once.

[theultimatefan]

Vincent D’Onofrio, Alan Tudyk, Brent Spiner Among Additions to FAN EXPO Cleveland, April 12-14

Eight standout celebrities from genres as varied as sci-fi, action and children’s programming have been added to the guest roster at FAN EXPO Cleveland, April 12-14 at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Among the newly announced stars are Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”), Alan Tudyk (Star Wars, “Firefly”), Brent Spiner (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Independence Day), the “Ahsoka” duo of Eman Esfandi and Diana Lee Inosanto, Ethan Suplee (“My Name is Earl,” American History X), Jeff Ward (“One Piece,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and Butch Hartman (creator, “The Fairly OddParents,” “HobbyKids Adventures”).

The eight join a strong previously announced slate that includes The Lord of the Rings “four hobbits” Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan, Danny Trejo (Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn) and Charlie Cox (“Daredevil,” “Boardwalk Empire”), legendary director Sam Raimi, “Charmed” star Rose McGowan, “Harry Potter” standout Matthew Lewis and Jason Lee (“My Name is Earl,” The Incredibles).

In addition to starring as “Wilson Fisk” opposite Cox in the Netflix series “Daredevil,” Vincent D’Onofrio has a resume of more than 100 roles, most popularly as the lead detective “Bobby Goren” in the long-running NBC drama “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” His notable film credits include Full Metal Jacket, Dying Young, Men in Black, Mystic Pizza, Jurassic World and The Break Up.

Tudyk gained fans’ attention when he starred as wise-cracking "Hoban 'Wash' Washburne" in "Firefly" and Serenity, and later grabbed the “Star Wars” fandom with his portrayal of “K-2SO” in Rogue One. He also appeared in Wreck it Ralph and 42 and has lent his voice to characters in hits like “American Dad,” “Harley Quinn,” “Transformers: Earthspeak” and “Star vs. the Forces of Evil.”

For 15 years (seven on TV and four feature films), “TNG” fans were treated to the talented Spiner in the role of "Lt. Commander Data," an android with superhuman abilities. Spiner may not have all of those same powers, but FAN EXPO attendees will have the opportunity to meet this personable, quick-witted star of stage and screen. In addition to his regular role in the current Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Picard,” some of his other popular credits include Independence Day (and, 20 years later, the sequel, Resurgence), "Warehouse 13," "Fresh Hell" and "Threshold."

Esfandi co-starred opposite Rosario Dawson, David Tennant and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in this year’s Disney+ miniseries “Ahsoka,” part of the Star Wars universe. He has also been seen in King Richard with Will Smith and The Inspection with Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union.

Inosanto appears alongside Esfandi as “Morgan Elsbeth” in “Ahsoka”. She originated that role in an episode of “Mandalorian” in 2020 after appearing in dozens of movies and shows as a stunt person and a variety of other entertainment jobs.

Suplee has had nearly 100 film and TV roles, from comedies like the Kevin Smith productions Mallrats, Dogma and Clerks III, “My Name is Earl,” and “Boy Meets World” to dramas such as Remember the Titans and The Butterfly Effect.

Ward played “Deke Shaw” as a regular on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” from 2017-2020, and most recently appeared in the first season of the Netflix adventure/comedy “One Piece.” Fans will also recognize him from his work in “Brand New Cherry Flavor” and the TV movie Manson’s Lost Girls, where he gave an appropriately creepy performance as the cult leader.

Hartman created some of the most memorable children’s series, including “Fairly Odd Parents,” “Danny Phantom,” “TUFF Puppy,” “Bunsen is a Beast” and “The Noog Network.” A public speaker, YouTuber motivator and teacher at Butch Hartman’s Art Academy, Hartman is passionate about inspiring young animators to believe in themselves and pursue their dreams.

Single-Day Tickets, Three-Day Passes, and Ultimate Fan Packages for FAN EXPO Cleveland are available now. Advance pricing is available until March 28. More guest news will be released in the following weeks, including line-up reveals for additional headline celebrities, comic creator guests, voice actors and cosplayers.

Cleveland is the sixth event on the 2024 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

[vqamda20009]

Week 3: Social media and Tumblr as digital communities

Despite being established after more popular social media platforms like Facebook, Tumblr has solidified its position as a platform due to several distinctive features.

Tumblr has evolved into a prominent platform for subcultures centred around body positivity, gender nonconformity, queerness, and art. Many of these subcultures extensively utilise the network's permissive content policy, which permits sexually explicit photos, prose, and animated GIFs (Byron, 2019). The decision to implement stringent regulations regarding nudity and sexual representation was both swift and extreme, resulting in the abrupt removal of networks and visual archives that had been created over a period of ten years.

On Tumblr, the introduction of new AI-powered content identification, without enough training of the flagging algorithms, led to the misclassification of fully clothed selfies, images of whales, dolphins, and Garfield as "sexually explicit." Consequently, these items were deleted from public view (Jackson, 2018). Several people expressed frustration with the flawed implementation of the porn ban in general. Many individuals responded to the phrasing of the updated moderation guidelines, which explicitly prohibit the display of "female-presenting nipples," with a combination of disappointment, rage, and confusion (Greene, 2018). The decision to prohibit pornography on Tumblr received widespread humorous comments and criticism, extending beyond the platform itself. Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio's assertion that the intention behind this action was only to create a "new, more positive Tumblr" also faced scrutiny (Liao, 2018).

References:

Byron P (2019) “How could you write your name below that?” The queer life and death of Tumblr. Porn Studies 6(3): 336–349.

Greene T (2018) Tumblr’s “female—presenting nipples” language isn’t semantic—it’s oppression. TNW. https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2018/12/14/tumblrs-female-presenting-nipples-language-isnt-semantics-its-oppression/

Liao S (2018) Tumblr’s adult content ban means the death of unique blogs that explore sexual- ity. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18124260/tumblr-porn-ban-sexuality-blogs-unique

Jackson G (2018) Tumblr algorithm thinks garfield is explicit content. Kotaku. https://kotaku.com/tumblrs-new-algorithm-thinks-garfield-is-explicit-conte-1830854912

[byneddiedingo]

Chris Pratt in Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015)

Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Judy Greer, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Tee, Katie McGrath. Screenplay: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly. Cinematography:  John Schwartzman. Production design: Ed Verreaux. Film editing: Kevin Stitt. Music: Michael Giacchino.

It doesn't take long for déjà vu (not to say ennui) to set in when you're watching Jurassic World. If the title alone doesn't incite it, the use of John Williams's theme for Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) certainly will. (The movie's main score is by Michael Giacchino.) So what are we dealing with here: a sequel, a reboot, or a remake? And does it really matter? There is a deep cynicism underlying this movie, made manifest even in the dialogue: Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), the theme park's operations manager, says, "We've been pre-booking tickets for months. The park needs a new attraction every few years in order to reinvigorate the public's interest. Kind of like the space program. Corporate felt genetic modification would up the wow factor." Not once does Jurassic World question the plausibility of opening a new dinosaur theme park 20 years after the disasters depicted in the original film and its 1997 and 2001 sequels. (Although 32 years passed between the original and this sequel/reboot/remake, the new film seems to assume that the first one took place in 2003.) All that matters is the wow factor. The trouble is that the 1993 film has a bit more than just wow: It had genuine awe, not only at the film technology but also in the imaginative evocation of what it would really be like to encounter living dinosaurs. It had plausible characters, embodied by Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough. In their place, Jurassic World has a hunky motorcycle-riding velociraptor-whisperer (Chris Pratt), a slightly ditzy spouter of corporate-speak in heels (Howard), and a hissable villain who wants to militarize genetically engineered saurians (Vincent D'Onofrio). Fortunately, all three actors are more than capable of making the most of their stock characters. And fortunately, everyone concerned with making the film knows how to hype up the action. Which is necessary, because whenever the film slows for something resembling rational thought or human behavior -- as when the two young brothers, Zach (Nick Robinson) and Gray (Ty Simpkins), are left alone to reflect on whether their parents are getting divorced -- the film stagnates. At those moments, we can only reflect on how much better the original film was at making you believe in its humans. Why, for example, does this one have two boys as its juvenile protagonists when the original had a boy and a girl? And why has Laura Dern's capable paleobotanist been replaced by Howard's MBA type? Not to mention that the women in the film, Claire and her assistant, Zara (Katie McGrath), who is entrusted with looking after the boys, and the boys' mother, Karen (Judy Greer), are depicted as women whose focus on their careers puts others in danger. There is fun to be had in the movie, but only if you're willing to overlook what its subtext tells us about how things changed, and not for the better, in 30 years.

[honor-among-thieves]

The 2018 Tumblr “”porn ban”” ruined this account, because I used to only really rb art and fanart and I had stopped making text posts after a while because I finally had my depression under control. Then all the artists were driven off this site and I had to resort to shitposting to even continue using it, so thanks, Jeff D’Onofrio.

[dandelyle]

Honestly anyone who loves or cares about Tumblr should read this interview. Here's some of my favorite quotes from it:

I wanted to see if we could create a mainstream social media that wasn’t reliant on surveillance capitalism or advertising as its primary business model.

Tumblr always had this frisson, this magic. Instead of an angry mob, it’s more like comedy improv. There’s a “Yes, and…” to it.

There were definitely people who would have paid more for Tumblr, but to the credit of Verizon and CEO Hans Vestberg, they really cared about it going to a place where the community would be well-stewarded. I very much think about that. I’m the third CEO of Tumblr; it was David Karp, then Jeff D’Onofrio, then myself. I’m stewarding it for the next generation. I’m not going to be CEO of Tumblr forever, and I’m going to find someone to take it over at some point. But I hope that it’s around 20, 30, 40 years from now. As we can see, kids still need it — Tumblr’s user base is still primarily under 25. It’s this weird thing that fills a role on the internet that nothing else does.

By the way, for all the stuff the tech companies do, the telecom companies are way worse. With Comcast, you can effectively target a set of three or four houses and serve cable ads to just them, and then track that. Credit card companies and banks all share your financial data, and they’ll then correlate that with whether you spent money in the store. The amount of tracking is insane. The amount of geo data that gets shared is where we need governance to actually step in, because capitalism is not self-regulating well there.

Well, well, well, this is exciting. Our CEO Matt was interviewed by Nilay Patel for The Verge’s excellent Decoder podcast! Check it out for a fascinating discussion on what it’s like to acquire and run a social network and what the future holds.

[cavesalamander]

Is he… you know, listening to music from the other room?

[onychaos]

Tumblr Purge aftermath

Tumblr…Tumblr…Tumblr. What the fuck? Before I lose my mind, I want to go over what has went down on Tumblr and the such. This is a rant

Update: You can view blog that been banned / shadow banned / flagged by viewing them in your dashboard only

So. Not long ago, Tumblr was removed from the Apple App store for having child / kitty porn on their platform, reblogged by blogs that are run by porn bots. Along with other blogs that promote racist, sexism, misandry, misogyny and neo nazis.. But I’m getting ahead of myself here.

After Tumblr was taken off the app store. Tumblr addressed the changes with a long ass post with the title “A better, more positive Tumblr” which to sum up. Tumblr is removing all / any adult content or any content that may be “inappropriate”

We can thank the CEO of Tumblr, Jeff D’Onofrio.  And after this post, Tumblr went dark. There was nothing. No updates, no news, just silent.. And what’s funny here is that a few days after that post, Tumblr was placed back the Apple app store but Tumblr was still going through with this plan to kill off a user base.

Alright. I wanna say something, ok? Ok. So.

1)  I know there are people who fall under the “I don’t like this, so this shouldn’t exist” mindset. And fine, you can have an opinion, but to feel something shouldn’t exist because YOU don’t like it, is an awful way of thinking.  It’s censorship  of freedom of speech.

It would be me saying I don’t like X and it shouldn’t exist because I don’t like something others like.

Then after the post, posts started to get flagged down. Left and right. No one was safe, not even the tumblr staff but that was just a sign of things to come and on Dec 16th at midnight. Most or some logged off of Tumblr as a way to send a message after Dec 17th came around..

but no one could have prepared for what has happened next. “inappropriate” blogs or NSFW blogs were hit the hardest. Some blogs were deleted by Tumblr on the first purge and post where flagged.

Dec 18th comes around and we see the damage done by Tumblr. And tumblr writes this post saying it was “hard to do” No, It was not. You already planned on this.  But the gist of it is that. They won’t delete adult content (Cause they don’t fucking know how) but rather hide the posts that are “inappropriate” or nsfw with the new system in place.

But let me tell you what this means, alright?

1)  Any blogs that are flagged as “inappropriate” or NSFW are pretty much shadowbanned. You won’t come up in Tumblr search, your page / blog will be blocked by this image

And no. You can’t turn off safe mode. Pretty much means your blog is dead. Only the blog user of said blog can view it. Everyone else, old fans or new fans will be unable to see your content. This is unfair.

Yes, Tumblr could do what they want. But here is the thing. Tumblr users HAVE been reporting issues, and problematic blogs for years. What does Tumblr do? Post memes on Twitter, Post useless updates on Tumblr, instead of addressing the real issues.

this hellsite Tumblr was a place for everyone to be themselves or share anything in the open. it could be fan fic, art, videos, reviews. Anything really. You could say, Tumblr was a safe space to be.. But not anymore.

I would like to bring up this again. “A better, more positive Tumblr”

Tumblr CEO wanted to make Tumblr “Better” by removing / hiding adult content.. And guess what? You did. You killed off a user base of artists, users who made art, pin ups,  fan fics. Yes. Some did come to Tumblr to view porn. But a lot of others came to Tumblr to support their favorite artist on the platform.

These artist made a fanbase, and even a living off of Tumblr. But, oh cause we got removed from the app store, let’s fuck over adult content and turn Tumblr into the next Facebook but worst.

And what’s funny is. You have these moms and users who are in the camp of “Good. Adult content should never be on Tumblr” I’m sorry but please fuck off.  And guess what, once their blog gets hit or a blog they care about gets hit. They won’t be happy.

Off track here… Since purged adult Content did things get better?

No. Porn bots have been hit but you can still view their page. If anything, Porn bots have got worst after the purge. So, adult content is bad but porn bots, problematic blogs, and neo nazi blogs are still free and around on tumblr.

Thank Tumblr, you FUCKED UP.

Here all the porn bots following me on Tumblr (I’m done with it)

But I will say this. I will no longer be using Tumblr, as I don’t want to wake up one day and find my stuff block or shadow banned. I already don’t come up in tumblr search and blogs and artists I support have been hit and left.

I said this before but Tumblr has become a new Facebook but much worst. Because I had plans on using my Tumblr as a hud to showcase things that may be nsfw but now I can’t but I will say this. Thank you to everyone who followed me on Tumblr.

Thanks for joining me and farewell Tumblr users. :3

Other posts related to the aftermath of the tumblr purge

Post one. “A worse, more negative Tumblr”

Post two. “WELCOME BACK! For those who logged off, this is what you missed.”

[pietroalberto]

Tumblr global failure after porn ban, see here for more info

[indispensable-necessities]

FUCK YOU, tumblr.

Just in case I forgot to mention it …

[anouroses]

ah yes... sensitive content, right? @staff

(from my side blog / art blog) 

[betrayaltmblr]

TUMBLR Betrays its Users

To the Leadership,  Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

Dear Mr. D’Onofrio,

This is being written because on December 3, 2018, you announced that Tumblr, the site, would not only no longer accommodate those Tumblrs with adult content, but would also delete that content.   And starting on December 3rd, you started marking images as adult content. Sir, with all the respect in the world, you addressed the Tumblr community and tried to sell this as a positive.  But you made this decision without any input from artists, users and members of Tumblr, let alone any of the people who are operating these sites.  That is not only unfair, but it ALSO makes your very statement very disingenuous.  If you cared about all the communities on Tumblr, you would have found a workaround, and you did not.  Instead of a solution, you took the fastest way to wipe the slate.  If you really saw the site communities under the Tumblr umbrella as part of your corporate community, you would have shown ALL of those communities a bit of respect, and you didn’t. 

If you really wanted to keep the Tumblr community involved, you would have asked for that involvement, and you haven’t.

Instead, you and your staff make communication between the members of Tumblr and the Organization that is Tumblr impossible to reach, and you, in turn, prefer to sit in your executive suite, making decisions without regard to the community you claim to serve.   In fact, the only way to communicate WITH Tumblr is to “like” your corporate posts, which sir, is lie that you are telling yourself.

In other words, when Tumblr wants people to support “Net Neutrality” and call for support for an open internet, is hypocritical because Tumblr won’t support the exchange of ideas freely.  With this announcement, you have turned your back on Net Neutrality.  When you say you want to create “a better Tumblr” you have already squelched “free expression”, which has NOTHING to do with making anything better, and is all about taking the shortest route possible to make your life easier.  Frankly, I this tells me that Tumblr isn’t about anything that it tells the outside world what it is.  

What’s is next? Are you going to censor what we write on Tumblr?  You may find this to be inflating the situation beyond your abilities, along with a “don’t be serious, but that is exactly what you are doing. 

What this also tells me that Tumblr is embracing one of the worst customer service models in the communication industry which is Verizon’s.  At least with Comcast, you can get a human being.   The communities that you are erasing will find another place to perch.  What you are losing is the energy they create.  And you can’t say you are building anything positive, because you aren’t.  Anytime people lose their communities, in real life or electronically, people hurt, people grieve and people mourn.  And that is electronic blood on your corporate hands. Sir, you have to live with this, but I firmly believe that there is not an ounce feeling in your heart for the people you have wronged.

Cookie

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Jeff D’Onofrio is a terrorist!

[averycanadianfilm]

... forty-eight per cent of its active users and sixty-one per cent of its new ones are Generation Z. That’s the same demographic that Facebook and Instagram are concerned about losing. According to the leaked Facebook Papers, the company now known as Meta estimates that teen-age Facebook users are likely to drop by almost half in the next two years.

Jeff D’Onofrio