It’s not quite the end of Tumblr, but when management is supposedly sending memos with the Lord Tennyson quote about having “loved and lost,” it doesn’t look like there’s much of a future.

Internet statesman and Waxy.org proprietor Andy Baio posted what is “apparently an internal Automattic memo making the rounds on Tumblr” to Threads. The memo, written to employees at WordPress.com parent company Automattic, which bought Tumblr from Verizon’s media arm in 2019, is titled or subtitled “You win or you learn.” The posted memo states that a majority of the 139 employees working on product and marketing at Tumblr (in a team apparently named “Bumblr”) will “switch to other divisions.” Those working in “Happiness” (Automattic’s customer support and service division) and “T&S” (trust and safety) would remain.

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    1 year ago

    Tumblr died because they banned porn, which is usually because of religion.

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      1 year ago

      In this case it was because the app store wouldn’t allow them to be on it with such access to porn

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        1 year ago

        Apple did not remove them for porn, it removed them for CSAM content. It was their decision to nuke all porn instead of just the illegal stuff.