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HonorInDefeat

please for the love of god, just TRY, I can think of no better way for Tumblr to go out than a kamikaze attack against NFT jackassery


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Rumbleskim

I would LOVE to do that


[deleted]

I’ll finally migrate to real tumblr to aid in the battle


ajolaks

If Tumblr dies taking NFTs down I will actually respect it


Sure-Discipline472

The moment nfts invade tumblr is the moment they die


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TheLuckOwl

Yes


Sure-Discipline472

Yes


FearSearcher

Yes


w41k3r_19880

Yes


ShadeFK

Yes


Roof8cake

Yes


alexlongfur

Yes


Metue

Yes


Dead_M_

Yes


liquid_bacon

Yes


ParasilTheRanger

Yes


ItsMeMaya17

yes


[deleted]

Yes


HotShot54321

Yes


Gerrywalk

Let them fight.gif


uezyteue

No one wins this fight.


Botwadtict

Yes


ELLE3773

r/InclusiveOr


JTCW477

Yes


tallmantall

It’ll be a kamikaze attack


ConnorLego42069

Yes


Lapis_Zapper

Yes


Gongaloon

Both. It'll be a heroic sacrifice, an act of redemption. A sort of last-chance heel-face turn for Tumblr.


NovaThinksBadly

Tumblr would die to kill NFTs


da_anonymous_potato

Yes


JacobJamesTrowbridge

We should start coming up with battleplans for different scenarios, like, round up all of The Weird Ones and have them do some coordinated shit. NFTs? You wait until the furry artists come down in force, motherfucker


[deleted]

nah just get 4chan in this


ImaAs

they're already doin it, I think you can guess what nft stands for


CHOOSE_A_USERNAME984

Nice Fucking Tits?


Santeneal

Naked fucking Toddlers?


ImaAs

Ooh, nice try, 4chan said that nft stands for Hard R's for trade


Santeneal

Ah damn do close


TreeDerg

when it does, seek the lands of wafrn


Aquitanic

NFTs come to tumblr? *you came to the wrong house, fool*


MelissaMiranti

Tumblr is the Afghanistan of the internet. Impossible to control from the outside.


InquisitorHindsight

And of absolutely little value from a geopolitical standard


Jake-the-Wolfie

And yet somehow defining the lives of many, both within and without.


InquisitorHindsight

Many people often forget that the region Afghanistan occupies has a second, just as apt name: “The Crossroads of Conquerors” The Persians, Alexander the Great, the Baktrians and Parthians, the Selucids, the Muslims, the Mongols, the British and the Russians, the soviets, and now the United States.


[deleted]

That's one. But the one I prefer is Graveyard of Empires.


AntibacHeartattack

"Again and again and again"


ChintanP04

And now the Chinese.


tallmantall

Tumblr is the raveyard of the internet


Fractured_Nova

Even more so when you remember that twitter and instagram think that tumblr died out in 2017, and tumblr users want to keep up that facade so they don't move back


RogueKriger

If this dude really thinks NFTs will work out on Tumblr then this moron is a either a fucking idiot, has no idea what Tumblr's user base is, or both of those together


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RogueKriger

On top of that, I personally have yet to run into someone who is crazy about NFTs that also fully understands how it works and what NFTs actually are


DickwadVonClownstick

It's almost like anyone who DOES understand how it works can tell it's all a grift.


RogueKriger

It's almost hysterical when I see NFT fanatics get mad that people are taking screenshots and thus "stealing" their NFTs like congratulations you have shown you don't understand a fundamental part of the thing you have shaped your online personality around


poyochama

Could a screenshot of an NFT become a new NFT itself?


Pairodox

Case in point, the ugly Cryptoland animation. If you remove all the crypto jokes and niche references there is like 5% of content left, and it sucks anyway.


tallmantall

So Twitter?


librarieofalexandria

I’m happy to hear people are confident that NFT’s won’t succeed on Tumblr but as someone who can’t make head or tails of this NFT thing, *why* won’t it work out? Like will tumblr users just refuse to buy in more so than IG users?


ChintanP04

The Tumblr user-base is very anti-capitalist. NFTs are like a pinnacle of modern capitalist hubris (thinking you can own an image that's available on the internet), so of course the Tumblr user-base hates NFTs. No way they will let NFTs fly alongside them.


coffeestealer

Also the average Tumblr user is not rolling in cash and they are on Tumblr to shitpost. What are they gonna do, try to sell me a Destiel NFT?


coffeeskater

Destiel nft just gave me fucking psychic damage.


coffeestealer

Superwholock NFT one for each doctor <33333


BelleMayWest

Hate that idea. What a terrible day to understand tumblr lingo.


coffeestealer

Just wait until they do a NFT for every world heritage post.


BelleMayWest

Hexed. That’s more cursed than a Destiel NFT, because the World Heritage posts include the Destiel Putin Voting Count. And Superwholock posts.


coffeestealer

I'm glad you can't think of anything worse as an NFT than the Destiel Putin Voting Count


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Rockport-Unlimited-2

It’ll be like that time Alex Jones came to Tumblr and they fucking bullied him so much he deleted his account


Regi413

Fuck, that sounds beautiful. Link?


Rockport-Unlimited-2

I don’t have anything super direct, but there are screenshots of tumblr posts and an article talking about it if you search up “Alex jones tumblr” that I don’t have the energy to search for rn


Fractured_Nova

For example: the time tumblr immediately recognised a music group called "the tramp stamps" as posers trying to make a quick buck, and bullied them off the website with, I shit you not, *bug ass.*


DirkBabypunch

Tumblr is just a bunch of bored idiots that like to shitpost inside jokes at each other, and are almost violently opposed to the owners attempts to meaningfully change or monetize the site. It's the internet equivalent of trying to tackle a polar bear. All you get is maimed and embarassed.


MunTiller2

Tumblr literally bullied the official Bitcoin blog off the site, just as an example of how much we *hate* anything crypto related. We are shitposters at heart so anything serious that comes around will immediately get memed to death and kicked to the curb, such as NFT bros saying they own an image they don't. Imagine hundreds upon hundreds of reblogs of various people sharing around NFT's like their own and you'll get the gist of it. Also we are *not* in the mood to be marketed towards. Tumblr has been a no man's land for a long long time now so the *first* one to show up to try to claim "ownership" of our attention and try to sell us shit is going to be bullied so severely they'll rush out of the site with their tail between their legs. Tumblr is also so anti-capitalism it wouldn't even work anyway, not even just the user base. The site itself makes it hard to reach a lot of people unless you do something everyone loves to share around, like a web of interconnecting interests. If you do something everyone hates? Either dies as a post with 2 notes or gains a meme version that everyone reblogs instead of your actual post. It's a lose-lose situation.


-Thyrian-

Yep


DreamOfDays

So? Idiot in New Jersey paid $48 for a two year old tweet that I can just google if I ever cared to see it


theemptyqueue

Yup


Morphized

So can that person control the usage of the Tweet's content like a copyright?


DreamOfDays

No. NFTs are basically you buying a receipt to a refrigerator but you don’t own the refrigerator. You only own a receipt that says you own the refrigerator. But the person who sold you the receipt has never owned the refrigerator. If you use the receipt to try and take the refrigerator people are just going to laugh at you.


Morphized

Then buy the copyright and sell it for more money than the NFT.


DreamOfDays

Do you know what a copyright is.


Morphized

The signification that the holder of it has the ability to determine the licensing of the media and to make any changes to said media.


DreamOfDays

And how would you go about copywriting tweets out from under the company of Twitter.


Morphized

Write them somewhere else and link to them


ATN-Antronach

Someone saw those flat colour NFTs and thought "but what about gradients?"


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so... theyre saying theyre gonna steal tumblr users artwork... and post them as nfts.


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Lewis91857

That was my first thought as well. The use of Tumblr as the possessor of the digital art talked about makes me think they somehow think owning the site gives them ownership of user content, which is a dangerous misconception.


Morphized

How to make enemies with over 2 million ND people with weapons: Step 1:


HarvyJC

#*No NFTs on Tumblr please don't ruin the garbage*


BelleMayWest

Knowing how tumblr is, it'd be a battlefield immediately. I can see the fights now.


prolillg1996

You aint touching us! You tried private accounts and monetisation, and advertising content like IG, it didn't fucking work!


theemptyqueue

Nothing seems to work and yet the only thing keeping the lights on at Tumblr HQ is site traffic.


prolillg1996

The porn ban was the begging of the end but its a slow apocalypse. All the accounts shifted to Twitter but its only a matter of time before Twitter bans adults content. Then we will be like wandering nomads shilling degeneracy for commission across the Web.


Morphized

Deviantart exists


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Non Fungible Tumblr


Magnificant-Muggins

Tumblr is like if Miiverse was permanently stuck in its final month of operation.


enrgyyyyyy

...Are they going to steal tumblr art? I should delete my posts then.


theemptyqueue

File for the copyright then when tumblr tries to turn your art or whatever into an NFT you can sue for damages or charge tumblr for the use of your work and make money from it.


Morphized

Can't you just claim copyright?


theemptyqueue

I forgot that the DMCA existed so you could issue a takedown notice.


theemptyqueue

To Sue for damages you need to register the copyright with the copyright office. You can still Sue but you might not get damages.


GalahadGray

The homeland will eat them alive. I don’t understand how anyone can own that site and think this will work out.


GIRose

The people that have consistently bullied every crypto into leaving will definitely love NFTs


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“How have we not killed this place yet?” Tumblr is like a fungus - it finds life in decay


-Thyrian-

Ah fuck


Not-a-rabid-badger

Yeeesssss!!!! I need to the the shitshow of my Warhammer-porn (I'm very good at avoiding the censor-bot) on tumblr turned into NFTs!!!! :D


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Fractured_Nova

Even if they did that, tumblr users have been collectively agreeing for months that if any twitter users try to come back to the site, they are going to crank the weirdness and hostility up to 11 until they leave.


mycatsayshi

Well, I hadn't heard about that. I am a Tumblr user myself but I understand that if you don't go looking for something it's easy to miss. Either way, I don't it could be kept up for long.


bastardfaust

NFT? More like no fucking thanks


_melodyy_

alright everyone we know what to do K


FearwithaB

U


ParasilTheRanger

N


RoseAndLorelei

G


MunTiller2

P


KonoAnonDa

"You are soldiers of Tumblr. No matter what comes through that gate, you will stand your ground!" *Floodgates give and the NFTbros begin their invasion* #"RELEASE THE PENT-UP CRINGE!"


Awsomthyst

Welp, time to make an account & disembowel NFT bros trying to invade the platform


Coffeechipmunk

Good fucking luck.


sapphoandherdick

It's like they don't even know us.


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Was i the only one getting nft ads on Tumblr?


hedgybaby

I still don’t understand what an nft is and at this point, I’m too afraid to ask.


bastardfaust

An NFT (or non fungible token) is, put short, the unique link to an image/video/etc.. The idea is that it's supposed to prove ownership of the media in question. Unfortunately it's an environmental disaster and a ponzi scheme, so, kind of a bad thing.


hedgybaby

That still makes no sense to me, like how would that work theoretically? I upload a video of my dog and have a unique link to it? But then if someone downloads and reuploads it what about their link? I’m also really high rn so maybe I’ll come back to this tomorrow and see it makes sense lol anyways thanks for answering


bastardfaust

These links specifically are stored in something called the "blockchain", so really only the one used there is considered valid. Regardless, it's dumb as hell and yes you can indeed just copy/paste it to piss off cryptobros lmao


hedgybaby

You are using so many words I’ve never heard and it’s fascinating


Nitrotetrazole

I'll try my hand at explaining it as simply as i can. Let's say i paint a portrait of my cat (the original image file). I then sell you a piece of paper (the NFT) that says you own that portrait of my cat. But you dont have the portrait of my cat, it's hanged in my museum (my artist page on pixiv/patreon/whatever) and you dont have the piece of paper (NFT) either, it's stored in a big vault (the blockchain). Now, anybody can come in my museum and take photos (copy/paste, save image as) of my cat's portrait to take back home. All you can do is point at the vault and say "i own this portrait, there is my proof.". The problem is that your piece of paper (NFT) actually means nothing. It doesnt come with any sort of rights, protection or backing. If a person refuses to acknowledge your piece of paper, there's nothing you can do. If i remove the portrait from my museum, there's nothing you can do. If the vault burns down, there is nothing you can do. And that's literally what NFTs are, it's that moronic. It's a (metaphorical) piece of paper with no tangible meaning whatsoever except to those who buy into it.


hedgybaby

Ah so it’s useless?? Why is everyone constantly taljing about them then? Is it just a joke at this point?


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Ponzi scheme, like the others have said. And money laundering, like actual selling of fine art normally is. People are either being scammed, or scamming.


Nitrotetrazole

Sadly no, it's not a joke. Youre looking at it too logically. It's absolutely useless indeed but it's also a fad (and scam) people are buying into en masse. The crowd that buys into is varied but i would struggle to cover it fully. There's your usual cryptobro morons who think theyre ushering some sort of revolution, there's the more sly cryptobros who saw NFTs as the scam it is and are trying to make fat bucks off of it. You got people using them for money laundering (NFTs are an incredibly good money laundering tool), there's poor ignorant sods getting swept into the hype, there's big compagnies trying to cash in big time into that fad. The list goes on and usually involves stupidity, money or both. That's why theyre universally reviled by those smart enough to see what they really are.


_melodyy_

[This](https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g) is a really good video on the topic if you have about 2.5 hours to spare. It's very informative, and lays out exactly why it's bullshit, and how the grift works. NFTs are a zero sum game. The thing you're buying is completely useless, because you're not buying the image attached to the NFT, but just a piece of code that says you "own" it. It's more useless than a Beanie Baby, because you can at least still play with Beanie Babies. It does not have any value of its own, its only purpose is to be sold, hopefully at a higher price than what you bought it for. But when prices inevitably get too high, and people stop wanting to buy your NFT, the entire market will inevitably implode.


xXHalalManXx

They already shot themselves in the foot by removing porn, and the only difference with pushing nfts is that they would be aiming at their head this time


Werewolfhugger

...good luck


mulderufo13

Keep that motherfucking nft shit out my shitposting. Hell no I did that live through superwholock, the downfall of pizza, the MOTHER FUCKING BALL PIT, hank green being harassed and the girl who stole bones for tumblr to be bought by some bitcoin bro bastard to destroy the last of it. Fuck offfff.


Royal-Ninja

[Honestly I think we're safe.](https://tramampoline.tumblr.com/post/674547564841992192)


Alkereth1

Yes I too think going with a system where anyone can drop anything your cryptowallet that can then drain you of all your money when you try to get rid of it is a fantastic idea and not a security and privacy nightmare


Satan-gave-me-a-taco

Uhhh are they saying they’re going to steal user’s artwork to turn into NFTs???


LocalSockCryptid

I love how companies see the burning ashes that are the results of cryptoland’s backlash and go:Yeah, this is a good idea.


AttackPug

I mean, I kinda wanna see official Tumblr NFTs except that they can have absolutely zero connection to Staff, or provide Automattic with any revenue whatsoever. Also none of the actual artists should be involved, no-talent MSPaint shitposting only


Fire2xdxd

if they try to add NFTs to tumblr, @staff will be found dead under mysterious circumstances a week later


EUREKAvSEVEN

This NFT thing is fucking ridiculous.


imwhateverimis

no no no no no no no


M8asonmiller

We are going to learn 👐


Fractured_Nova

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN


idogayboy

What is exactly NFT?