' animated gif and posted on tumblr : Yahoo gets it. Its CEO as well'
Why is this such a big thing, what is so hard to grasp about tumblr.
What's (allegedly) hard to grasp is that Tumblr is Tumblr, not a generic money-engine that eats X dollars worth of fuel and puts out $Y worth of value. Mayer is acknowledging that part of Tumblr's recipe for spitting out that $Y is the culture that the users and the team have made, and that approaching it as if that didn't matter will not work.
Whether that's how Tumblr's integration into Yahoo! will actually be treated remains to be seen.
Yeah I love the gif!
On Tumblr till quite late the only blogs(photo/video blogs) I followed were NSFW.
Recently I stumbled upon a few non-NSFWs that I like.
Re:Yahoo aquires Tumblr
by JohnQUnknown on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:18PM
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What's this non-NSFW madness you talk about? Most of the beauty of Tumblr for many of us has been the lax of TOS enforcement from the people at Tumblr, this has rendered countless of blogs ranging from vanilla porn to the most gore-ish and deviated pictures I have seen in my life.
I think I'll just sit back and watch how this develops, I am an avid Tumblr user and I would really hate it if they started to take away my much beloved NSFW blogs.
* animated gif and posted on tumblr : Yahoo gets it. Its CEO as well.
* "We will operate Tumblr independently" : I think this is exactly what everyone hoped, and what all big acquisition should be like (Facebook did that with Instagram and it's great!). That means NSFW will stay NSFW.
* "David Karp will remain CEO." The most qualified people to grow Tumblr are the people already in place. This is great, everyone's relieved.
I really think Yahoo's back in the game now. I would never have used yahoo before. Now hundred thousands of people are. And they are from the new generation.