Between the whole Matt Meltdown (Mattdown?) thing and the AI debacle, I think I’m done giving this site any more data. I’ll check in now and again - mostly for anyone trying to contact me, but I won’t post art or fic, won’t make posts.
send me an ask or DM if you want my Discord - sorry, Guilmon Anon, I’m not answering this one publicly
I found this site looking for pony askblogs, and it’s been a hell of a decade. I’ve made friends, I’ve seen friends leave, and it’s time for me to join that trend.
Between the whole Matt Meltdown (Mattdown?) thing and the AI debacle, I think I’m done giving this site any more data. I’ll check in now and again - mostly for anyone trying to contact me, but I won’t post art or fic, won’t make posts.
send me an ask or DM if you want my Discord - sorry, Guilmon Anon, I’m not answering this one publicly
I found this site looking for pony askblogs, and it’s been a hell of a decade. I’ve made friends, I’ve seen friends leave, and it’s time for me to join that trend.
Between the whole Matt Meltdown (Mattdown?) thing and the AI debacle, I think I’m done giving this site any more data. I’ll check in now and again - mostly for anyone trying to contact me, but I won’t post art or fic, won’t make posts.
send me an ask or DM if you want my Discord - sorry, Guilmon Anon, I’m not answering this one publicly
I found this site looking for pony askblogs, and it’s been a hell of a decade. I’ve made friends, I’ve seen friends leave, and it’s time for me to join that trend.
Guilmon Anon. It's no problem maybe I'll see you on cohost. 👍😊
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(making one last exception for a loyal anon)
Glad to hear it! My cohost ask box is open and anon is on :)
Last Call
Between the whole Matt Meltdown (Mattdown?) thing and the AI debacle, I think I’m done giving this site any more data. I’ll check in now and again - mostly for anyone trying to contact me, but I won’t post art or fic, won’t make posts.
send me an ask or DM if you want my Discord - sorry, Guilmon Anon, I’m not answering this one publicly
I found this site looking for pony askblogs, and it’s been a hell of a decade. I’ve made friends, I’ve seen friends leave, and it’s time for me to join that trend.
I can’t believe automattic had managed to go from being the token good corporation, the champions of the open internet etc, to totally destroying its reputation and go full into the dark side, opting strongly for enshittification and mistreating of its users… In under two weeks.
Even Elon Musk needed more time destroy Twitter.
Good job, Matt, maybe senpai Elon will notice you this time.
This is an excellent vintage meme. The mixture really brings out the best of both components.
A 2007 I’d imagine. What makes this meme especially fascinating is the textwork. This was made during the short length of time between memes not yet having their defined outlined-Impact text. The Impact has obviously been included, but still uses the one-toned coloring that would be commonly seen with a variety of fonts.
I imagine this would usually be used behind the “spoiler image” feature, making the best of its abilities. Truly an intriguing meme.
Remembering when I went over to my female teacher’s house in 5th grade and saw that she lived with another female teacher & went home going “wow, so teachers really do all live together!” & then my family had to explain to me what lesbians are
This reminds me of when I was a kid and my very Scottish grandma did child minding for extra money. At one point she looked after these three siblings that were adopted from Guatemala. The kids had two moms. It was the 90s and I’m Canadian.
Now, you would think that even in the 90s most adults would see two women who live in the same house and have adopted children together and think “Harold, they’re lesbians”. My mom certainly did, internally, but my grandma never brought it up, leaving my mom to wonder whether my grandma was being uncharacteristically discreet or if there was something about the situation my mom was misreading.
One day my grandma needed a hand with something to do with the kids, so my mom came over to the house, whereupon she noticed that the two women who lived together slept in one bedroom, and said “ohhh, they’re lesbians.”
To which my grandmother indignantly rebutted, “they’re not lesbians, they’re Scottish.”
According to my grandmother, you see, it’s cold in Scotland, so women live and sleep together all the time and women who do this are not lesbians, because it’s cold (????). Therefore, upon noticing two women living together in Western Canada, adopting children together, and sleeping in the same bed together year-round, my grandma had mentally categorized these women as Scottish.
I just read this reddit comment about yesterday’s staff post and … 100%
People in the notes of the post don’t seem to understand how massive of a move this is. Sure, this is not the Tuileries palace storming, nor the execution of Louis XVI, but it very well could be Tumblr’s storming of the Bastille.
See, what happened yesterday was a bunch of trans staffers very politely saying “our boss is full of crap, what he is doing is absolutely not ok”, and also “the official line he had been posting narrative of everything being peachy with moderation is bullshit, we acknowledge the systemic problem, and we demand addressing it ASAP”.
Now, this has probably been possible just because of the exceptional circumstances: Louis XVI (Matt) is on vacation on his summer palace, and the person who he had left in charge of the court has refused to order the army to quell the internal strife… so they have stormed the Bastille to ask for the abolition of the ancient regime. Mind you, that doesn’t mean we are at a point where they are in the middle of a revolutionary coup to create the Paris Commune: that’s not in the cards right now. This is more about the people rioting to demand the king powers to have checks and balances. this is about demanding a constitutional monarchy instead of the current absolute king.
The people in the notes don’t seem to understand the exceptional situation that the post creates. We are at a point where Matt Mullenweg has been called out by his own employees. His company, in his absence, had allowed his employees to break with the unified PR narrative that usually is forced to follow whatever path the CEO points to.
Now Louis XVI is in a peculiar position. His Authority had not only been questioned by the Paris rabble (us), but now he also had a regiment of elite grenadiers (1er Régiment du Trans Guards) openly in revolt and siding with the people of Paris. They are not firing at the royal palace, but they are saying “you know what? The people in the streets are right. We are not firing at them, your majesty”. So Matt’s next move is crucial. As I see it, there are several possibilities:
- the king / Matt acknowledges he had been in the wrong (either honestly or just because he doesn’t feel powerful enough to win a civil war), accepts to get his powers limited, and allows some partial reform to address people’s demands. This is obviously the best option for my friends still working for Tumblr. That doesn’t mean tumblr would become a queer communist paradise, but at least we would see things improving.
- the king refuses to engage: he moves the court to another city (names a new Tumblr CEO reporting to him) and move the army to Paris to repress the rebellion (fires the people behind the post, double down in the current moderation policies). Things keep being the same, but without the people who asked for improvements.
- the king gets fed up of having to deal with ungrateful rabble and decides to just make an example out of Paris and orders the army to reprise the St. Bartholomew night, but on Paris population this time. This would be Matt firing everyone involved and closing Tumblr two months from now.
Right now, I wouldn’t know which of these three options is more probable. Matt has been very quiet since yesterday, and whatever he posts next would be a big signal of how he is going to react to this development of The Situation.
the fact that op decided the best way to explain this was to compare it to louis the xvi, and was probably right, is peak tumblr
Interesting to read it as being compared to the storming of the Bastille; the vibes I got were more “initial drafting of the Magna Carta”.
Either way, a smart monarch -er- boss would take note. They spoke for themselves but also for a large quantity of our beloved hellions and only a foolish person ignores serious talk of potential mutiny.
To be clear, I think that Staff post is a masterpiece: It leaves Matt only a way out of this: Apologize and support the staff who is telling him he has stepped out of the line. Among other things, his own posts before were based in “none of my queer employees are complaining to me about what I’m saying”.
So if he’s a rational actor, he will have to go for #1. Everything else would totally destroy his public reputation, put him at odds with his own board of directors (some of whom green-lighted that post), and probably cause massive issues within his own company.
Now the question is if he’s acting as a rational actor or not.
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