Tumblr is Tumbling

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Tumblr lost the social media wars. They are basically a zombie at this point eating money and has a toxic community of users.

I would shut it down or try to sanitize it (doubt it can be done). I'd use the tech with some modifications as Twitter-Instagram Competitor.

Another interesting article. http://mashable.com/2016/06/15/how-yahoo-derailed-tumblr/#GL...

> and has a toxic community of users.

Yep. This is not new. Even as far back as 2011, when they were experiencing 'explosive growth' a lot of the traffic was attributed to porn that tumblr users were hosting on various tumblogs. David Karp even responded to these allegations in a comment thread and claimed that Porn was "less than 3% of their content". [1]

Source: [2011] What Is Responsible For Tumblr’s Recent Explosive Growth? => http://oobly.com/?p=95/

Even right now, if you Google (this is NSFW) "tumblr <_PORN_CATEGORY_OR_TAG_HERE>" you'll see 100s of tumblogs hosting porn in the said category / tag.

"...Tumblr is the home of some of the most creative online personas..."

Funny. I thought it was a porn site.

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