It's for Tumblr (you). It's from Tumblr (us). It's Post+.
Imagine this. You continue to share your work with your community of followers. But there are followers and f o l l o w e r s, right? You’ve known some of them for years. They’ve been with you through several seasons/rebrands/iterations of your blog (and your ~self~). Hell, they even know your real name!
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Now, your unique GIF-illustration-poem-shitposts are earning you actual $$$. You start working that coffee shop job a little less. You design more bonsai tree stickers. Your fans love it. You love it. Imagine it.
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Y'all, I'm losing my mind. @staff actually used copywrited material as in their official tutorial on how to set up their paid nonsense blog:
@staff you do know this will get you sued, right?? You do realize this is illegal... right???
Plus they absolutely made it real that you cannot block people who are paying you. They seemed to have changed the wording a bit from the other post I saw flying around, but yeah, it's true.
Let the harrasment begin, I guess.
@staff, you will do absolutely nothing against all of the nazi's, terfs, and p0rnbots that we keep reporting to you on the daily, but you want us to believe that in this case you would have our backs... when there is money involved. Yeah, I don't think so either.
So either everyone rioting over tumblr+ isn’t trending because there aren’t enough posts about it (which I find unlikely considering how many I’ve seen?? Though idk maybe it’s just my circle somehow) or tumblr is purposely hiding it from trending
EDIT IN CASE THIS GETS TOO BIG CAUSE PPL ARE ALREADY REBLOGGING IT: i respect tumblr staff, i like cyle and ive interacted with a couple other staff members before (back on Guy Fieri’s birthday), theyre chill. apparently a number of the beta testers have been getting harassment, and that is NOT what i am trying to do here. tumblr staff are people, don’t forget that just cause they’re doing something dumb
Today I get to learn all over again how few people know this so here is a PSA for your digital literacy:
When you pay for any service via a mobile app, especially if you start a new subscription, Apple/Google takes 30%. Sometimes this cost is passed on to you and sometimes it gets eaten by the business you're paying. This is also why Apple/Google and now Microsoft on PC all want to keep you in the walled garden that is their own app store.
Whenever possible you should sign up for things on desktop, simply because fuck these greedy monopolistic assholes.
@staff really said “hmmm we didn’t lose enough users in 2018, how can we really push them over the edge??” Tumblrplus or whatever the fuck it is is so absolutely asinine!