The only thing funnier than the FOB We Didn’t Start the Fire cover is libs handwringing over the “Shinzo Abe blown away” line as “tasteless” since a) it’s literally just an update of the lyric “JFK blown away” and b) Shinzo Abe getting murked by a Fallout 4 contraption shotgun was one of the funniest and coolest things to happen in the last ten years and he 100% deserved it
it doesn’t matter how much you tell tumblr that all their silly and bad features don’t work and you hate them because they’re not for you. they’re jingling keys to dangle in front of venture capitalists, the most gullible motherfuckers on earth, so they will keep pouring money into the giant money pit that is this website. this is also why all social media websites add features pretty much
you’re not meant to use tumblr live so it doesn’t matter that nobody is and everyone hates it. i mean obviously they’d like it if we used tumblr live but ultimately if you understand the incentive structures of social media companies you will recognize that the actual target audience of tumblr live is investors who will hear ‘we’ve added a video livestreaming feature to our site’ and think 'oh wow! thats like what tiktok is! and tiktok is growing! better throw another million dollars into this big pit full of fire!’
…does tiktok make money?
no lol i edited the post just now to remove the implication that it does. tiktok loses money but it’s growing which is, in the mind of the venture capitalist, an indicator that one day it will make money
90% of the digital economy has, for the last decade, been based on the completely ungrounded presumption that it is possible to directly transform daily active users into revenue at a profitable ratio
im starting to go completely actually crazy watching the exact same decline play out over and over again on every single social media websites with absolutely no sense of self-preservation. its like watching people walk into a buzzsaw after watching the guy in front of him get mutilated by the buzzsaw
