baby rabbits have no idea what they doin. they just be boinging around. they’re like “mother I have springs in my feets- oh no” [accidentally propels to the moon]
Ohh THAT’S how rabbits ended up on the moon
Rabbit mother dialing phone: Yes hello miss Chang'e? You have one of mine again.
when i was a kid i had a holland lop rabbit that had babies and, being a miniature rabbit breed, they had compact bodies and rather round heads which is fine on adult rabbits but the babies are a bit top heavy. they are also, like all rabbits, overwhelmed with the Need For Speed that repeatedly triggers the automatic springs in their feet but they um,,, are not very good at stopping? because of the Very Large Heads. so the little bebs would just randomly take off hopping and then face plant when they tried to stop.
adorable and tragic, like a kitten with the zoomies that slams directly into a wall. so while they may spring to the moon, they will inevitably pancake back down
for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?
for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?
if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason
They are doing surveys that are really hard to find because their survey blog has reblogs disabled for some reason.
*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-
i can’t believe it took elon musk not even a full YEAR to completely tear apart and destroy a website that people had used as a viable source for worldwide news, a website people had used for queer media, queer rights, a website people used as a source of income… a website that has YEARS of history to it, which has been completely thrown down the drain in favor of ai, memberships, censorship. corporate greed.
