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As much as I love Furuba, I honestly don’t like the new art style of the characters…if it was a different anime, I wouldn’t mind as much, but the 2001 adaptation was more faithful to the manga,
Sad that it didn’t go the FMA 2003 to FMA: BH route, where the art style stayed roughly the same, not saying it won’t be good… it’s just too drastically different in my eyes
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.
It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.
Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.
It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.
Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.
Nah, probably not at the moment, maybe eventually when this entire site falls to its own lack of direction in management.
But if you want, I can be reached at different places like youtube Instagram, twitch, pixiv, Pinterest and the like, I’ll edit this post later once I get them all together.
Heck, even recommend some to me so I can make an account there
It’s going to really be sad because there’s no other place like this that gave such versatile freedom and not really ask for personal info (correct me if I’m wrong)… I know the site isn’t closing, but with its new policy on the 17th, it sure will be a virtual graveyard that only houses the most vilest of people
Thanks to anyone that reads this, you’ve been awesome! even if I never met you, never stop being yourself
Nah, probably not at the moment, maybe eventually when this entire site falls to its own lack of direction in management.
But if you want, I can be reached at different places like youtube Instagram, twitch, pixiv, Pinterest and the like, I’ll edit this post later once I get them all together.
Heck, even recommend some to me so I can make an account there
It’s going to really be sad because there’s no other place like this that gave such versatile freedom and not really ask for personal info (correct me if I’m wrong)… I know the site isn’t closing, but with its new policy on the 17th, it sure will be a virtual graveyard that only houses the most vilest of people
Thanks to anyone that reads this, you’ve been awesome! even if I never met you, never stop being yourself
