how fucking funny would it be if the new tumblr monetization strategy of “employ the bare minimum amount of staff to keep the lights on and never update anything” actually ends up being the secret sauce that makes this site finally turn a profit after three different CEOs over a decade and a half drove themselves insane trying
I’ve been thinking the same, how much you wanna bet their whole budget has been going into dipshit techbro “idea guy” types who fundamentally don’t understand the entire appeal of the site, all of the updates for the past forever sure seem like that’s the case
Straight up. A lot of the stories from the Yahoo days paint pictures of a small dedicated team of former Tumblr users maintaining the site, while a bloated staff runs interference from a management that wants Tumblr to be “The New PDF”