Automattic, the parent company of sites like WordPress and Tumblr, is in talks to sell content from its platforms to AI companies like MidJourney and OpenAI for training purposes, according to a new report from 404 Media Tuesday. And while the details of the deal are still sketchy, Automattic is trying to reassure users they … Read more
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Tumblr owner Automattic, is supposed to be on sabbatical. Instead, he’s arguing with Tumblr users over an individual content moderation decision, which has sparked communitywide outcry and accusations of transphobia. Over the last few days, the situation escalated to the point that Mullenweg has engaged with the user in question on … Read more
The lifespan of a movie these days can be very unpredictable. Take for instance Sydney Sweeney’s surprise hit Anyone But You (not Madame Web) and Pixar’s Elemental—two films which ended up getting legs after a few weeks of release. Here’s hoping that’s the case with Lisa Frankenstein, that it chops off some legs and runs. … Read more
Believe it or not, these are not even the weirdest ways folks have found to play Doom.Gif: YouTube – Sprite_TM / Ancient / SeanHodgins If anybody remembers the old “Can it run Crysis?” meme, the joke has long since fallen flat as more games have long exceeded the specs requirement on that 16-year-old game. On … Read more
Tumblr’s ill-fated Post+ subscription service is shutting down, the company announced late on Monday. The service, which allowed creators to paywall select content for subscribers only, will no longer be an option Tumblr users can enable as of December 1st and will fully shut down in early 2024, when existing Post+ content will be set … Read more
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Tumblr is doing away with Post Plus, the feature that lets creators charge users a subscription to access their content. Starting on December 1st, creators will no longer be able to enable Post Plus on their blogs. The discontinuation of Post Plus comes just weeks after a leaked memo revealed the platform’s plans to downsize … Read more
Some internet culture commentators have kept pace with Tumblr’s continually evolving ecosystem, but the mainstream narrative in recent years is that Tumblr is dead. Journalists will cite keeping a blog there in the early years—when it felt like a cooler, more indie option than WordPress or Blogger—and rarely mention any social-network elements in their decade-plus-old … Read more
According to a leaked memo, Tumblr’s longterm financial woes have reached a breaking point. Aside from a skeleton crew of essential workers in departments like trust and safety, the majority of Tumblr’s 139 workers will be reassigned to other products at parent company Automattic, which employs around 1,900 people. CEO Matt Mullenweg acknowledged the memo … Read more
Tumblr has grow to be enjoyable once more. The platform is steadily going again to its roots, wooing G-Zen customers, and even trolling Twitter X. SEE ALSO: Remembering Tumblr’s strangest, most formative communities The factor that made Tumblr particular, as Mashable has highlighted, was its emphasis on tradition, whether or not that meant memes or … Read more
Although Lasso cocreator and star Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard) says he doesn’t assume connection ought to “mechanically commute to throuple,” he’s thrilled individuals have develop into invested sufficient within the present to even have opinions about who ought to find yourself with who. “You simply should be blissful that folks give a shit,” Hunt says. Phil Dunster, … Read more