It's like Verizon buying Tumblr and suddenly realizing they bought a porno site.

giancarlostoro 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tumblr died around 2013 ~ a lot of the key people I joined for were long gone. Last I logged in (yesterday actually) a lot more people I follow deactivated their accounts. Tumblr was a great platform that was not managed correctly, even the new owners aren't really scratching the original itch of Tumblr.

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jsheard 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was Yahoo who bought them, but yeah.

	▲	PaulHoule 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think Yahoo was a patsy for more bad acquisitions than anyone. It seemed so bad I wonder if the point was that if you were a well connected teen and had a dad who worked in private equity you could get your dad to pull some favors to get Yahoo to buy your startup to frame yourself as a successful founder in an act of "achievement laundering"
	▲	giancarlostoro 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Verizon bought them out eventually.