I have to assume I’m getting the “BUY BEFORE YOU DIE” ad because I’m one of the Tumblr olds.
Seriously, staff, if this is what the new ad people they hired to help integrate sponsored ads better into Tumblr’s culture is coming up with, I feel like nobody is getting what they want.
Hell, I can’t believe there’s been two different changes this week that make me not want to read my dashboard. If there’s a tipping point for “I don’t want to be here,” I feel like they’re edging very, very close. (Or, I’m just being really melodramatic about a sketchy life-insurance ad.)
On the plus side:
BUY BEFORE YOU DIE is kitschy enough to be actually funny, at least the first few times. And it’s not a horrific image of a swaying corpse, like that ad for The Conjuring. Because jesus, tumblr, w the actual f.
On the minus side:
There do seem to be a lot of those kitschy framed ads.
Anyway, we’re product, not customers. Tumblr is selling us, and the tub of margarine in the supermarket doesn’t get a vote about who puts it in the cart. Keep your eyes peeled for the next cool platform to come along, and be ready to migrate when enough of the cool kids have made the leap. Or we can become our parents, hanging out on tumblrbook while the next generation makes fun of us with our tags and our gifs.
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