The 21 Year Old Tumblr CEO Who Had Fangirls
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Honestly, how quintessentially tumblr that even its creator was babygirled by the users
Tumblr itself is in fact a Tumblr Sexyman
the original babygirl
the proto-babygirl movement project
the original blorbo/meowmeow/babygirl/etc
David Karp being the only one who’s ever actually made any money off of tumbles’s existence is extremely funny when he himself wasn’t that into the idea of making it profitable
Ah yes the great site Tumbles 🤣
The poetry of it though
And, honestly, I think maybe that's why! He made the site useable, he made the site something people wanted to use! The site wasn't designed to just make money and optimized to drive outrage engagement like Twitter or Tiktok. Tumblr was just...kind of a website made for people to use! And the site was popular because of all of those facts!
Why do all these social media sites start with “t”?
@@infiniteplanes5775 tacebook is my fave
"he looks like a sim he is so pretty" is such a sentence
This was such a weirdly wholesome journey. I was waiting for the shoe drop of like... promoting child slavery but it was just... a seemingly nice dude. wow
sixpenceee has traumatized us
with the donations and groups hes put himself behind id go as far as saying hes a seemingly great dude
he mugged me on my visit to nyc in 2009 on the corner of east 34th and lexington in front of a pizza joint. he is anything but nice
@@KissMyCorpse should’ve brought the pizza to him to appease Karp Daddy with the essence of New York
@@KissMyCorpse he punched me in the face at a mcdonalds in 2015 do NOT trust daddy.
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I remember this time. I used to call him "Daddy" too because I was a strangely innocent 15 year old and did not realize there was a sexual connotation. I thought he was "Daddy" because, as the site's creator, he was like the userbase's father.
Me too...
that is so cute.
@@ggundercover3681 Thanks. Now that I'm older I feel like it is kind of cute, though I am embarrassed I called a man I did not know "Daddy". 😭
He is not daddy, he's dad. He's mowing the dashboard and sitting in his recliner with a beer after a long day of reblogging
@@bighoodie4315 this comment is too iconic to be hidden on the replies of a 5 month+ old convo--
I’ve been on Tumblr since I was an art student in 2009 and in early 2011, during it’s initial rise in hipster ubiquity, Tumblr opened an office in my city and hosted a public meet up event where you were supposed to wear a name tag with your Tumblr handle and, I guess, just mingle? The office was in an an out-of-the-way industrial part of the city, and seemingly had no party food available other than tater tots. Troughs of tater tots. Anyhow, David Karp was there, which just struck me as so odd- I guess I figured he would have something, anything, better to do with his evening? Anywho, he ended up talking to me and we had a deeply inane conversation about how he liked my hair. It was a weird night and in hindsight, being an art student at a Tumblr meetup, in a warehouse district, talking to David Karp about absolutely nothing important was the most quintessentially 2011 hipster experience I’ve ever had. To this day, I wonder why they only sprung for tater tots. I suppose, in their defense, they were very good tater tots.
I hope you enjoyed my completely pointless David Karp story. It has been uselessly collecting dust in my brain for over eleven years and now it is yours I guess.
You know that seems oddly fitting for Tumblr. I imagine spending time with Zuckerberg on the other hand feels like not being entirely sure he's not a serial killer.
how many people were there? seems like not many since you said it was out of the city
Man the mental image that 'throughs of tater tots' gives...
@@GoBenC It was pretty busy, actually? I’m not exactly sure how big the place was, capacity-wise but it seemed pretty comfortably full. My theory was there were a lot of people there who were like “Sure, why not, let’s see what the heck this is.” I ran into my own brother there, for instance, and he’s never used Tumblr in his life.
@@willowarkan2263 Absolutely- if I hadn’t known who he was I would have easily assumed he was just an other guy who went to my school. Whereas, I kind of shudder at the thought of Zuckerberg eye contact.
Wow, it’s actually refreshing to hear that the Internet simped for a decent guy
I love that someone apparently made an "anti-sjw" fake quote and attributed to a man whose basically "proud ceo king of tumblr sjws"
who's*
@@Balequalm whose is a word, google it
@@salem-01 It is a word indeed but it is also clearly misused here; it makes no sense to use "whose" in this context.
A millionaire (former) tech CEO with a moral compass that created something actually positive, actually helps people, and might actually be a good person…
What is this man?! This isn’t supposed to exist
I’m half convinced he is a made up creator made by the userbase
Yeah there's a reason he's only a millionaire
Millionaires, and even multimillionaires make sense: some things are that popular, enduring, and profitable. Billionaires are where you correctly suspect the person is only after money.
@@iantaakalla8180 that’s true
@@coolsenjoyer only?? you know what 100 dollars would do to most peoples life?
the irony of the guy who made tumblr hating social media, kind of love it. I'm not a big fan of social media but I use tumblr for memes, reddit for info on games, and I go on a writing forum for advice and what people think about certain genre tropes or ideas.
You're on TH-cam right now, that counts too
The irony of someone “not being a big fan of social media” while posting on a social media and listing 2 other platforms they use.
@@slothschewgum I mean, not being a big fan of something and occasionally using it aren’t mutually exclusive, still. I see your point, though.
@@sophiathefurbst Especially considering they're just being pedantic, and when people say they hate social media they tend to only mean the more toxic side of it or platforms. Which people like that are a reason why they hate social media because you can't even make a statement without someone making you feel stupid
@@parrotstories not to mention how important it is to society today; it’s just not plausible for some people, yknow?
I never expected any of your tumblr history videos to successfully convince me that the fangirls were actually 100% right... but yeah, this dude seems genuinely very cool.
Yes, but if I hear the phrase tumblr daddy again I will vomit
@@finallyforfeited
*T u m b l r d a d d y*
_-secretly also vomits-_
well they were accidently right but yeah
@@li_ka2
*T-t-tumblr daddy…*
_Retches_
Wow... I also never thought I would have good reason to like Karp but here we are. To be honest hearing about what he's done to support Planned Parenthood shocked me. Planned Parenthood saved my life by letting me access HRT under their informed consent model and has been irreplacable in my community. I think the fact the he recognizes how important organizations like PP are and actually supports them not just in words shows that he really cares about improving the world. Also the fact that he clearly saw the modern social media landscape for what it was and where it was going and didn't want anything to do with it. Mad respect. I hope he's doing alright now wherever he is.
I was 100% expecting to hear that there was some kind of dark side to this guy and was pleasantly surprised to hear otherwise. Of course the only tech CEO who's just like a normal kinda decent guy is the one who made the least profitable social media site on the planet
It makes sense. The world is literally optimized for meanness, unnecessary competition, monoculture, and ruthless money-chasers. Anything else will not be allowed to thrive, and in a sense it is the best of mistakes that Tumblr exists after controversy, is popular enough, and is a somewhat moral website/company. That mistake was being started in 2011, therefore sneaking itself underneath the other enduring social media websites that got popular and pretending it was one of those websites. It worked; it has the resiliency of a typical social media website whose creators are guaranteed profitability-chasers, but it is still really for the people.
no one who wants money and power would have created tumblr
Im proud to admit I only know this because of heritage posts, and not because I have more reasons to be ashamed of tween me
david karp being a good person with significant contributions to social justice causes was not the twist i was ready for
I'm so used to Tech Entrepreneurs having villain archs and this guy just... doesn't have that. He's just a nice dude.
I think he's an underrated CEO and businessman. Ofc, not every entrepreneurs are bad. I feel bad for him because Tumblr isn't as big as it was and when it was popular it did have a bad reputation just how we see Twitter now. I mean if I created something that wasn't intentionally bad and losing its popularity, I would be sad.
you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villian
I totally get where they're coming from with the complaints about the direction of Tumblr but I do think things have gotten a LITTLE better in '22 like they had a couple really stupid ideas that the user base rejected pretty hard but since then they've had a couple home runs(the crabs? So many crabs, ad free plus the blaze feature has been a blast ) idk yea they've definitely done some dumb bad shit but it does feel like maybe someone finally got permission to do good things
Yeah I think they're finally starting to understand what kind of money making endeavors will go over well with the userbase
The fucking crabs. I wish there were always crabs I love the crabs
I think that subscription model they put out was really a turning point. They realized "Oh shit, not only does everybody hate this, but they're also telling us what they *do* want. Maybe we *should* sell them an ad free model and let them tip users instead of this!"
THE CRABS
@@gearandalthefirst7027 you can buy the dashboard crabs now for like 2 bucks which I think was a genius move from them
That eloquent dance around calling the CEO of tumblr “Tumblr Hot™️” without using any synonym for the word “hot,” was truly a master course in the English language.
Mother Strange visits once more
I left tumblr around the NSFW ban as well, mostly because my blogs got hit with censorship that was unfounded simply based on the tags I used. I appealed my temp ban but nothing ever came of it and I gave up. Makes me sad that I lost a lot of following for my stories & poetry based on a bad bot ban :/
I've thought about returning a few times these past few years but I feel that since the platform has declined so much and the main userbase that I was familiar with has mainly left, I don't know where to start. Kinda sad that the vision David Karp had for the platform came true and then so rapidly went downhill.
tumblr is so painful to use that I use secondary sites that collate posts off it for me whenever I'm looking for fanart etc. It's so bad that I use another site to see its content. Cannot recommend going back
I actually think the site has been at its most chill since the aftermath of the ban has settled. There's still a few writer and study blogs I follow, and it's been pretty much fine. The filter is so weird that after a year or so I saw (mostly written) nsfw posts making a comeback, and just... staying there.
i only made an account in 2019 after the nsfw ban, so i don't have anything to compare current tumblr to, but i can tell u that it's the only social media that i can use without immediately doing huge damage to my mental health (besides youtube i guess? though this site's ads and algorithms make it borderline unusable). i don't think tumblr rn is much like it was before the ban, let alone anything like it was in its hayday, but it does what it does well and is a million times less evil tech overlordy than any other site its size. the smaller user base might honestly add towards the more positive and connected vibe it has.
tbh i see the porn ban as a good thing, it makes it safer for minors that use tumblr and it made all the crazy people leave for twitter, making tumblr a calmer place
@@Jane155-x6d I agree. The porn ban most likely correlated their healthier culture shift. There's this saying that Twitter is hashing bullshit discourse that Tumblr went through in the mid-2010's; I always thought it was more indicative of Tumblr's maturity than anything else.
As someone coming into this with no idea who David Carp was, you somehow convinced me to love him. I am now a David Carp stan, I am part of his Fandom.
Unless you're making fish memes it's Karp with a K btw
@@VivekPatel-ze6jy wdym?? i thought he was a fish...
It’s so nice for people to have a hero who’s actually decent
As a true outsider looking in, Teya's Tumblr vids are absolutely fascinating.
Same. I was scared off tumblr by porn as a kid approximately forty seconds after making an account so this is all uncharted territory
@@emilybarclay8831 I was too scared to make a tumblr because I’d heard there was lots of porn on there and I was raised pretty innocent
@@WishGender i wasn’t raised innocent im just asexual lol
Who is Teya? I thought his real name was Strange Æons?
@@emilybarclay8831 That's a whole mood
tumblr really is like the tech equivalent of the collaborative art space, although it got hit with the notice for selling alcohol without permits (sex work ban).
i feel ashamed to admit that if i was on tumblr in 2011 i would probably be one of the karp girlies. i have a horrible feeling that i would be reblogging these posts
Be proud of it
OK but someone really started turning tumblr around in 2022, the new features are incredible!! Blaze?? Crabs?? The way they advertise their own merch?? Tipping? Ad free version?? All moves so good I still can't believe they're real!
Tumblr daddy! Cool to hear that there’s more to the man than just the meme. He’s done some actual good things and seems like a chill dude.
“Buy their merch so they can afford to show us titties again” had me snickering. The shoelaces are such a perfect item.
Wait do they actually sell shoelaces
They do actually sell shoelaces. Stolen from the president, I hear
@@finallyforfeited Yes, sourced straight from the President.
@@wolfkitty42, I prefer my shoelaces ethically sourced
We believe that someday, David Karp will return and start a new microblogging platform where the needs of tumblrinas are met first and foremost.
He has been quietly making megabillions and buys facebook and turns it into Tumblr #2 without telling anyone what is happening.
💅🏾
@@pattheplanter its name is tumblr but spelled correctly
The messiah
We talk about about "tumblr sexymen" but we need to talk more about "tumblr dads",
John Green and the Hamilton Man come to mind...
Lin Manuel Miranda?? They make fun of him pretty mercilessly on tumblr lmao also they weren’t exactly super nice to John green either, I think the closest thing to a “tumblr dad” would be Neil Gaimen?
@@vincentbardai1096 they make fun of them now but in their heyday they were considered very "father figure" ish. Like everything they said was "insightful" and everything they made was "the best pice of work to ever exist!!"
And then when they didn't meet the incredibly high expectations people set for them people started to resent them, it's a cycle.
Neil Gaiman is a good example of this, just one who hasn't fallen out of favour yet (which is impressive considering how long he's been one).
That's not to say that there weren't people who just didn't like them from the start, but I find that the most hate on tumblr/fandom spaces comes from people going "I can't believe I liked this stupid THING, I was so STUPID. And all these other people like the same THING? Then they must be STUPID like ME!!"
I know because I was their to see Lin's transition from "OMG DADDY❤️❤️❤️, he made THE B E S T musical E V E R!!!" to "oh, he's alive? Huh. Learn something new every day"
I say all this not to make fun of these people, after all I am these people...
@@lets-all-love-lain hmm yeah I guess you’re right, I think I must’ve just blocked out the initial love for LMM that happened on tumblr when the musical just came out (I def wasn’t around right at the beginning of John green being on tumblr so I can’t speak to that), the level of “cringing at LMM” almost makes it feel like they never liked him over there lol. Fingers crossed Neil Gaiman doesn’t turn out like that I guess
@@vincentbardai1096 true, fingers crossed 🤞
I know a ton of people who can’t stand neil gaimen because instead of reblogging posts he screenshots them and reposts them
as a person who plays the sims (3 and 4) i would never compliant someone by saying they look like a sim.
I never took the time to look into him so this was really eye-opening actually. I think it's interesting that both him and Tom from MySpace don't use social media much but created some really awesome spaces themselves. Their stories are interesting when you compare them to Mark and even Jack from Twitter. I wonder how they all feel about the decisions they've made.
I have loved watching her content for a couple months now and I just noticed that when she talks her head just like kinda shakes like… she is a bobble head and I love it
well now I can't unsee it! Thanks😀
I will never un see this.
Thank you now i will notice it every time 😑
what do you expect her do do. sit there moving nothing but her lips?
my congratulations on the new son!! he has your eyes
This explains why I'd see Tumblr described as being held together with gum and string back when i first joined lmao. I loved the chaotic ways you could mess with the site that were pretty much always unexpected
I love trying to explain to people that you could just edit other people's posts and it was in fact a normal and expected part of the culture and so many iconic older Tumblr posts were edited at least slightly because if someone didn't like a certain sentence or one of the replies they could just erase it
Strange's set has gone through so many evolutions, but they're all so cool
He looks like a Destiel love child I cannot lie
oh my god actually tho
the british pain i felt when strange referred to pounds (£) as euros (€)
Thank you, daddy Karp. Legit good person, wish more ceos were like him. Definitely deserving of his hotness
I'm so glad that David turned up to be a pretty decent dude who hate social media, like the contrast with say Zuckerberg is abismal, he went the complete opposite side.
I left Tumblr after the porn ban but i never deactivated my account because I liked to go back once a year to see what's going on over there. Recently I came back once I realized there was a lot of content and discussion about the fandoms I'm currently on, and tbh it has been the best decision I've made so far. I'm having as much fun as I did back in the SuperWhoLock era.
I went into a spiral researching him, I was so surprised finding out things about him, he just liked the website he created for himself and liked sharing it with the comunity
He looks like the onceler.
How b a a a a ad can tumblr be
He looks almost exactly like the guy who cheated on my best friend thru all 4 years of high school with a bunch of different guys I had crushes on that all came out eventually, including him. That's so wild
omg wait (don’t answer if this is personal i’m just testing a theory i have as another now adult gay who knew they were gay in high school) did you know the guys you had crushes on weren’t straight or did you find out later?
@@sylmaerie it was a mix. A couple I liked before, like when they had girlfriends, but I had a vibe that they were gay/bi and just not interested. Turns out I was too right lmao. Others I didn't meet until after they or their secrets came out
@@nailinthefashion “or their secrets” that’s so insidious i love it 😭 i was much the same in high school and i hear so many stories from other people where they “knew” before the other person knew and couldn’t explain how/why
@@sylmaerie it's like you're literally in theater and have wrists limper than me, the one who loves makeup. get a grip lmao
High school was so bullshit for me
Best tumblr update was when they finally added a proper messaging system!
I just love that they gave us the ability to give people dashboard crabs after the major uptake in use because of the dash crabs during April fools day.
This and the Snape wives video…Incredible. You’re popping off Teya
I can't believe the CEO of tumblr was actually a good person. I had it in my head that executives who were good people just didn't exist.
it all makes so much sense now. the reason why tumblr never makes any money is because its designed to not make money. that rules
I'm glad you mentioned Marco Arment! As someone who knows about Marco primarily through his post-Tumblr ventures, all the people in the memes referring to David Karp as if he were the sole creator of Tumblr kinda bugged me.
I highly respect how this guy just dipped from public eye to pursue things he wanted, without making a number out of it. I hope he's out there living a good life.
I was waiting for this video to take a turn and for him to end up being a horrible person. It’s genuinely so refreshing to hear about a guy who is just genuinely a nice dude.
Gotta love how you didn't know whether posts from a darker timeline or posts from a brighter timeline started the rumor of him coming back. The fact that it could be either...
I hope one day we can move past the idea that boys have some monopoly on mindless thirst.
She really went from "lol fangirls can be so quirky and crazy 🤪" to "always reblog Daddy" in like 17 min, huh?
Such a shame that, seconds after this video going live, Strange was picked up and carried away by a large bird 😔👆 Rest in Peace king
Should have reinforced the lock on the dream barn. 😔
it so weird, I was on tumblr back then I just thought people liked him because he was cute, I had no idea he was actually a decent person!
To be fair, he's also cute which helps a lot
Why do we keep falling into the cycle of falling in love with Oncelors? Are we not more than meaty puppets?
Alas, we are but meat puppets operated by ghosts
@@yourTownsEnd unforch.... 🤷🏾♂️😭
Meat puppet like green capitalism boy yessss
I’ve never used tumblr, it’s always confused me. But I’ve never wanted to understand and be included in something more than I do right now.
i really recommend giving it a try! i don’t think anything will hold a candle to peak 2011-2014 tumblr times but it’s still a fun community. “clout” or status isn’t really a thing people don’t care really if you have followers we all just share our silly little posts to our silly little blogs and talk about mushrooms n stuff.
it’s always a good day when teya posts 😌
What you don't know is that his real name is Strange.
I thought it was Tiya
"His"" ? Strange goes by he/him pronouns? I thought strange was cis..?
@@lightenough The famous birthdays sites wouldn't lie to us. ;-)
To ease Themoid, she's a cis lesbian using she/her. It's a whole meme from this site, the vid "The FamousBirthdays Cinematic Universe" shows the origin :)
I joined Tumblr in 2017 and only learned about Karp a few weeks ago. I was... unsurprised and shaking my head lol. But this dude seems like he genuinely kinda rules? His whole vibe explains Tumblr so, so much.
i wish Tumblr was more popular, i like how peaceful it is and as an artist i love the platform, but its hard to get any traction on my work there. i would much prefer to only post my art on tumblr, i hate having to use 3 different social medias just to make a living!
The contrast of this guy to any other social media ceo is fucking jarring. Its like comparing a care bear to the antichrist.
which ones the anti christ
Real talk you are slowly convincing me to migrate my art account to Tumblr. Instagram is slowly killing my soul but I want to get my art out there somehow, especially now that I'm starting an original comic, and you're making ol Tumblr seem like the best option.
I haven't finished the video but I'm just in awe of how fast your hair has been growing
He looks like Ian from smosh and Ashton Kutcher’s character from that 70’s show did the fusion dance
I never got into Tumblr but always find the history entertaining and/or horrifying
Just the thumbnail has already given me violent flashbacks and intense cringe. How could i forget that bit of lore. And why did you remind me?
I want a shirt that's just, I made tumblr on the front, bitches love tumblr on the back
i've been on tumblr since like 2012 and i love it so much. i met one of my best friends bc we were mutuals in high school. it's always been this little safe space for me and i honestly love it.
that being said the funniest thing to me rn is that my twitter is full of screenshots of tumblr posts and my tumblr dash is full of screenshots of funny tweets. it's really interesting to me.
Cultural exchange
Okay i was so positively suprised by this video, because 21 year old CEO with fangirls at first sounds pred*tory. Good thing he turned out actually kinda wholesome.
I mean, it is said that what people find attractive is kinda related to their parents, so it does not surprise me that the creator of Tumblr was similar to a tumblr sexyman
and the fact i was there for the thirsting over him makes me want to put myself in a nursery home
He seems like the type yeah
I still have a tumblr but these always make me miss the golden years of it.
I wasn’t on tumblr during the height of it (Mormon parents) but it’s the only social media platform I use now
please do a video on tumblarity and the sharks vs cats situation from circa 2009, whenever I bring this up to people they have no idea what I am talking about lol
i actually looked back in my archive from that time and have some p cringe posts i can provide lol
I HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT KARPPOSTING IN YEARS GOD
I remember people calling him "Daddy Karp" so vividly. It pops into my brain from time to time.
I truly had no idea just how daddy he really is... like the planned parenthood stuff??? *Extremely daddy* behavior!!
That was far more wholesome than I expected. Thank you daddy
You probably unintentionally did this but this was actually pretty inspirational, like being a CEO has so many connotations towards it but he's kinda cool and hashtag relatable lol
So Tumblr wasn't my site of choice as I was moving away from the internet for a while at the time. What was my site beforelife got busy was GaiaOnline. I freaking love listening to videos chronologing how this silly anime and gideo game fan site stretched itself beyond it's means and rot from the inside as it's internal economy became a literal text book (as in ACTUAL TEXTS BOOKS mention it) example of runaway inflation.
7:22 til Teya doesn't know what a pound sign is
WHEN DID U GET THE HIGH NOSTRILS THEY LOOK SO CUTE
I’m surprised at how chill this story ended up being. I was expecting to hear a story of abuse and secrecy, but he seems pretty chill. I agree that I’m thankful for the merch store. It gives us a way to support the site without it becoming like Insta or Tiktok. Makes me hopeful that it’ll stick around a little longer.
Your mullet is the reason why I wake up in the morning tysm for it babes x
You gotta hand it to him, bitches do love tumblr
I always find it funny when a creator I just love to watch starts with "I've made sooo many of [TOPIC] videos" and every time I say, Okay. And watch the rest of the video.
Everytime I wanna say, Silly human, I show up for you. But they never hear me. So it goes.
The NSFW ban killed it officially for me :( I got on there for the smut half the time and I’m not afraid to admit it. Especially romance-book themed smut with like a spicy book scene/quote and a pic or gif. I would be putting up or trying to find so much ACoTaR stuff these days ;~;
The reason Karp can't buy tumblr back is because he's been turned into Thursday.
Someone calling a CEO daddy made me wanna puke, christ
The first thing on my subscriptions page. I feel blessed!!
what's the origin of that 'butch' artwork? so cool
It'll be interesting to see how the introduction of the tumblr shop and the new feature tumblr blaze which lets users pay to promote their own posts (and there have been some good shit posts people have chosen to blaze). It seems like whoever is making decisions currently are starting to figure out how to financially appeal to the tumblr userbase, but it's probably too little too late.
Probably but it's never too late to hope. The only hope that Tumblr has of regaining its mainstream relevancy is if it did what Instagram did and gentrified its identity. Bringing NSFW content would be too late imho since OnlyFans already exists.
@@manutd7194 onlyfans already had relevancy when tumblr's born ban hit, it just appealed to a different kind of market than the one that existed on tumblr. With facebooks impending crackdowns that market is now left free floating with no real home, and tumblr is the perfect place for it to set up shop again
@@manutd7194 i think tumblr NSFW content occupies a different space than OF or other NSFW platforms. Tumblr NSFW bloggers always had a lot of personality in their content and i think the ability to incorporate and reblog content from other users in their sphere allowed them to curate a really specific voice and identity in a way i feel like OF can’t really replicate since it’s just a single creator pushing out their content for pay.
@@lexingtxn I probably should have explained myself better, but NSFW creators already would be getting paid and with a lot more reach than Tumblr does and ever would so why would creators go back to a platform where monetization isn't a viable option. Art maybe, but I have a feeling that without major changes to the platform Tumblr Blaze is as good as it's going to be.
@@manutd7194 i agree for creators OF is probably a better payout but i think tumble is such a great place to create community in niche spaces that don’t have a lot of traction on other traditional social media sites.
i think there’s definitely a possibility that if tumblr allows nsfw content on the platform again that OF and Cam creators will return to interact with their community and share some content but link to their primarily NSFW platform to continuare making revenue
i personally love these videos about tumblr. i was a teen when tumblr was PEAK popularity and then died a few years later. there are so many things that come from that website that outsiders will never understand. if different social media platforms were countries, then tumblr is a whole other planet. it’s strange to talk to people no more than two years younger than me and they have no idea what it is.
This era of tumblr is really funny to me in hindsight, bc I could tell I wasn't interested in a relationship with boys but I hadn't fully realized I was a lesbian yet. The whole "rule of tumblr: always reblog david karp" thing didn't make me feel obligated, but I wanted to make friends with other girls my age. Whenever anyone asked me about how I felt about male celebrities like Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Tom Hiddleston, etc, I felt afraid of hurting their feelings or making them not want to talk to me, so I'd lie and say that I thought they were attractive. It's just kinda uncanny to look back and remember that I was a middle schooler nervous of losing friends if I was honest about not liking the popular actors on tumblr, and now in my 20's I'm openly a lesbian and don't try to hide things about myself from my friends.
I clicked on this expecting some huge scandal or controversy about Tumblr’s CEO but he was actually based as hell and a pretty chill guy???
I wasn't really paying attention at the end and thought you said "stay thirsty my friends" which would admittedly be on brand
i feel like the people that were into him were also into andrew hussie, at least the ones on my dash back in the day
"5 Euros" That is the pound sign 😭😭😭😭
Tbh I don't think I ever heard of the creator before this video. I feel kinda bad for not knowing how him but hey better late than never. Over all just sounds like a chilled guy that enjoys what he likes doing.