I’ve been using tumblr on and off since 2009. In the early days, we had a vibrant community here. Writers, musicians, artists, people who shared their daily lives with us - we all formed a cohesive group and became friends both on and off the platform. We met up occasionally, we held talents shows on the site, we cheered births and mourned deaths together. We were like a family, we were always there for each other. It was an incredible community and I’m so thankful to have been a part of it.
Like all good things, that community came to a slow, lingering end. Sure, most of us remained friends with each other, but tumblr as we knew it was changing. Many people left. They went to twitter or they left social media entirely. Some of us stayed, on and off, here and there, sometimes posting daily, sometimes going weeks without opening up the site. I hated to see us lose what we had, but, we did.
I came back, stubbornly, trying to recapture the feel of reading about your lives every day, listening to the music you post, enjoying the art. But let’s face it, it hasn’t been the same. And now tumblr is instituting this new rule, which I think i short sighted and wrong headed. I don’t look at porn on tumblr. I don’t post nudes. But I can’t get behind what they’re doing. All this is going to do is make people leave. In droves. I think a lot of people were just waiting for that last straw and this is it. It’s been hanging on by a thread and that thread is now unraveling.
I’ll never forget what we had here. It was awesome and the friendships I made and the time I spent here added value to my life.
We were great together, guys. We had some fun times. Never forget them.
tumblr is dead. long live tumblr.
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