1. This GIF via TheFrogman perfectly describes how I currently feel about the Yahoo! takeover. I hope Yahoo! understands that Tumblr is not just a bunch of high school kids. Most of the people I follow are not. We are creators, innovators, and activists. We embrace hardcore Internet freedom to express ourselves and post whatever the heck we want. There is porn on Tumblr! Lots of it! I do not endorse it at all, but it’s there for those who search. Tumblr is for a massive variety of people that CANNOT be generalized FANDOMS. Of EVERYTHING. Independent artists, authors, musicians, and programmers Social justice warriors, conspiracy theorists, feminists, LGBT activists, and otherwise highly-opinionated individuals Personal communities of like-minded individuals who don’t feel they belong anywhere else (ETC!) There are “hipster blogs” here to escape from the “cool”, “mainstream” social world which Yahoo! is exactly trying to become. We don’t like your kind around here. Yahoo! is what my mom uses to check her e-mail. It’s full of mainstream celebrity news that old people think we care about. Yahoo Answers doesn’t even allow the use of cuss words. (ಠ_ಠ) What mighty death-storm of horror is going to take place when these two audiences combine? It’s like a marriage of Facebook and 4chan. Can Yahoo! satisfy two opposite hemisphere’s of the Internet??? We will see… maybe with the help of our beloved Tumblr staff. Yahoo!’s try-hard cheesy media, 2000’s-esque avatars, and ironically-used “Answers” system have been the laughing stock of the Internet for years. They have a long history of screwing up independent networks. My only ounce of respect stems from the fact that they are indeed “the original Internet company” founded in 1995. And although Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer chose the most annoying, overused meme with with the most overrated Tumblr theme, she may still have quite a bit to offer to Tumblr: In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love. This new “search” may be what Tumblr needs to expose lesser-known blogs and content-creators who find themselves hidden in the depths on the Internet. With extra funding, Tumblr can also improve its ability to handle larger GIFs and a better message system. Integration with Flickr would be interesting too. Only time will tell what the heck is going to happen. It’s the most interesting web union I’ve ever seen. But I believe in our Tumblr daddy. :) David Karp is an absolute genius in the online tech world; he of all people would certainly know what he’s doing. With him as forever Tumblr CEO and the fantastic Tumblr staff intact, I think we still have a little bit of hope.

    This GIF via TheFrogman perfectly describes how I currently feel about the Yahoo! takeover.

    I hope Yahoo! understands that Tumblr is not just a bunch of high school kids. Most of the people I follow are not. We are creators, innovators, and activists. We embrace hardcore Internet freedom to express ourselves and post whatever the heck we want. There is porn on Tumblr! Lots of it! I do not endorse it at all, but it’s there for those who search.

    Tumblr is for a massive variety of people that CANNOT be generalized

    1. FANDOMS. Of EVERYTHING.
    2. Independent artists, authors, musicians, and programmers
    3. Social justice warriors, conspiracy theorists, feminists, LGBT activists, and otherwise highly-opinionated individuals
    4. Personal communities of like-minded individuals who don’t feel they belong anywhere else
    5. (ETC!)

    There are “hipster blogs” here to escape from the “cool”, “mainstream” social world which Yahoo! is exactly trying to become. We don’t like your kind around here.

    Yahoo! is what my mom uses to check her e-mail. It’s full of mainstream celebrity news that old people think we care about. Yahoo Answers doesn’t even allow the use of cuss words. (ಠ_ಠ) What mighty death-storm of horror is going to take place when these two audiences combine? It’s like a marriage of Facebook and 4chan. Can Yahoo! satisfy two opposite hemisphere’s of the Internet???

    We will see… maybe with the help of our beloved Tumblr staff.

    Yahoo!’s try-hard cheesy media, 2000’s-esque avatars, and ironically-used “Answers” system have been the laughing stock of the Internet for years. They have a long history of screwing up independent networks. My only ounce of respect stems from the fact that they are indeed “the original Internet company” founded in 1995. And although Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer chose the most annoying, overused meme with with the most overrated Tumblr theme, she may still have quite a bit to offer to Tumblr:

    In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love.

    This new “search” may be what Tumblr needs to expose lesser-known blogs and content-creators who find themselves hidden in the depths on the Internet. With extra funding, Tumblr can also improve its ability to handle larger GIFs and a better message system. Integration with Flickr would be interesting too. Only time will tell what the heck is going to happen.

    It’s the most interesting web union I’ve ever seen. But I believe in our Tumblr daddy. :) David Karp is an absolute genius in the online tech world; he of all people would certainly know what he’s doing. With him as forever Tumblr CEO and the fantastic Tumblr staff intact, I think we still have a little bit of hope.

  2. My elementary school teachers always taught me that if any document has misspelled words and bad grammar in the business world, they refuse to read it. Because that kind of nonsense is “unacceptable.”

    I just found 2 misspelled words and a few instances of bizarrely incoherent sentences in one page of my online classes.

    Like, why am I even doing this? I feel like I can’t even trust that this stuff is educational anymore. LOL high school, yay.

  3. I can’t believe I just spent the past few hours replacing the f-words in a dubstep song with quotes/noises of Skeletor from He-Man and Masters of the Universe.

    Actually I can believe that.

    What is my life

  4. People, I’m actually kind of excited for Tumblr being down tomorrow.

    I could get so much accomplished.

    ◐ω◑

  5. Don’t worry, guys, cutting off government spending on PBS is not going to keel it. 

    Sesame Workshop receives very little funding from PBS anyways. 

  6. What Romney said:

    We are all “children under the same God”—as our Declaration of Independence and American Pledge traditionally states—meaning that all human beings are equal and deserve equal rights.

    What the Internet heard:

    “GOD”

                      

    “The audacity that he would mention God! We don’t all believe in God! How dare he shove his beliefs down our throats like that, oh my goodness”

    These comments amuse me because they typically come from the same people who go ape, raving, mad when pro-choice advocates and homosexuals aren’t 100% socially accepted.

    DOUBLE STANDARDS, YOU GUIZE.

    • Romney: [Acknowledges individual freedoms and dreams because careers, economics, education, and other reasons covered in the debate]
    • Internet: Oh YEAH, well maybe my dreams are for NO MOAR HOMOPHOBES, screw h8TERS, ya, checkmate conservatives.
  8. I wrote a sonnet about Buzz Lightyear

    which, pff, I do none of this poetry stuff, but I was actually quite tolerant of how this turned out, and the teacher only read to the class the poems about autumn and nature and crap; so here, Tumblr, have this!

    image

    No sign of intelligent life on the planet
    And a petty cowboy endangering the galaxy
    Insisting our hero stay shipwrecked and stranded
    With myths of toys, laser blasphemy.
    No time to loose, must save the vicinity
    For Star Command with not a flaw
    He saves his arm and dignity,
    The chosen one by master Claw.
    Speeding home by rocket-van
    Our hero sees that all the while
    No friend has proven more worthy than
    The cowboy himself who helped “fall with style”
    Inseparable as an ionic bond
    To infinity and beyond 

  9. New Mypace?! Sign me up! Myspace has announced an entirely new website “from scratch,” and allow me to be the first one there with my stashed-away trippy glitter background-tiles. Because Twitter and Tumblr are being swiftly overtaken by the vast population of 12-year-olds, Internet n00bs, and otherwise mainstreamers, this is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. Huzzah! New refuge for an innovative Internet existence! On a less society-bitter note… I’m really happy for Myspace, and I applaud this valiant effort to keep the infamous, forgotten network alive. I think it will be the next big Internet phenomenon within 7 years or so, and all the hipsters will eventually have to evacuate again. But for now, w00t 4 rEtUrN oF da SCENE KIDS <33 x

    New Mypace?! Sign me up!

    Myspace has announced an entirely new website “from scratch,” and allow me to be the first one there with my stashed-away trippy glitter background-tiles. Because Twitter and Tumblr are being swiftly overtaken by the vast population of 12-year-olds, Internet n00bs, and otherwise mainstreamers, this is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. Huzzah! New refuge for an innovative Internet existence!

    On a less society-bitter note… I’m really happy for Myspace, and I applaud this valiant effort to keep the infamous, forgotten network alive. I think it will be the next big Internet phenomenon within 7 years or so, and all the hipsters will eventually have to evacuate again.

    But for now, w00t 4 rEtUrN oF da SCENE KIDS <33 x

  10. Possibly Over-thinking And Doing Nothing

    <!— This is probably saying nothing different than all my past text-posts of indecisive rambling and overanalyzing the physics of life, so please feel no obligation to read. —>

    I’ve been thinking a lot about “web programming.” For a while there I was torn between art-related fields (web design) and code-abounding fields (programming). As I’ve been following various Tumblr workers for their geeky humor and smartness, the term “web programming” kept appearing before my curious eyes; I eventually realized zOMG WEB PROGRAMMING is like web design and programming COMBINDED omgsh.

    SO after consulting with the Internet, I’m pretty certain Computer Science would be the proper field to plan on studying in college next year. As possible as it is to get a web development/programming job with  just self-education and experience, I think it’s important to learn the complete “science” of computers in their entirety as well. And I want to learn all that stuff. I’m just concerned about my ol’ brain… It’s a very difficult field, so I hear. I’ve already been consumed with schoolwork most my life, and I haven’t worked with digital graphics nearly as much as I’ve wanted to. What if 4 years of intense math studies renders me a complete robot?! So I greatly hope and pray that I end up in a program that would allow me to use all sides of my brain, the arts and the codes, because I’m still very interested in design, and I don’t want to be a socially-retarded techno hermit!!

    Oh gawd, but now I am in one of the most intense, life-determining eras of life! It’s time for college-and-scholarship-applying! And I haven’t done anything yet! Aw crap~!