Let me get this straight because I’ve only seen memes and am piecing this together as i go, but i think i figured out what’s happening.
Tumblr is advertising the tumblr app, on the tumblr app, using a photo of a guy in a Pikachu cosplay, because that’s what they think it will take to successfully sell this app, to people whom already use it?
But now the ball shaving ad is gone? Or is that one still in the mix?
It’s real and your timing was uncanny
Ok. Why is tumblr advertising tumblr on tumblr though? What happens when you click the ad?
*sigh*
I suppose shit like this is why tumblr gave us the option to turn ads back on. Hold on. I’ll be back after i experiment.
I’m getting plenty of ads. Real actual ads. Mattress firm. Burger King. Walmart. Actual ads. No weird Pikachu man. What is even going on here? Is he just a very infrequent ad? Is he a tumblr ploy by @staff to get those of us whom pay to be ads free to turn on ads so we can see him? Is he am actual facts ad for ads free tumblr and already being ads free means you don’t get the ads free tumblr ad? I have more questions, not fewer!
I CLICKED THE LINK And
I’m
The weirdest part is, when you click on the ad from someone who reblogged it, it sends you to a blog with just the word ‘help’ on it
What?!? No. What??!
THERE’S LORE????
Okay, so I just spent five minutes scrolling furiously until I found the stupid Pikachu man ad so I could click on it. I was dreading the possibility that this was fake.
ALT
IT ISN’T
I had already clicked the ad. I decided to click the links.
The first link takes you to the trending page.
The second takes you to the underwater girlfriend page on best of reblogs.
The third is a trash panda on dank memes.
The fourth is the horse plinko tag.
I…can’t believe that this was here the whole time. How hard do you think is was for @staff to watch us complain and not say anything?
I pay tumblr 5$ a month and thus never ever have to see ads whether I’m on browser or app, unless i go in and turn them back on. So my means of learning about Pikachu man was from memes suddenly showing up on my dash one day. So I’ve sort of just been piecing this together as I go. I just think it’s so funny though that most of tumblr saw the ad and y'all are so well trained to never ever ever click on ads, that no one had apparently thought to click the ad to figure out what the heck Pikachu man was trying to sell. Which I’m so proud of y'all! But we sincerely almost let Pikachu man come and go without this bizarrely delightful discovery.
Possibly unpopular opinion? There’s a thin line between anti-elitism-in-academia and anti-intellectualism, and tumblr really walks it sometimes.
Anti-elitism:
Criticizing class barriers to getting into academia
Criticizing lack of resources to help students with physical or mental health issues
Calling out racism and sexism in academia
Calling out people who treat others badly for being less educated
Calling out people who believe academia is the only way to gain knowledge
Anti-intellectualism:
Being opposed to academia as an institution
Acting like everyone in academia is a rich and privileged white man
Acting like their opinions shouldn’t matter because of this
Assuming that any specialised language exists only to make things difficultfora layperson to understand and couldn’t possibly be necessary in order to explain a complicated topic
Assuming that if a specialist can’t explain what they’re doing to a non-specialist in five minutes then what they do is nonsense
Shaming people for taking pride in their academic and intellectual achievements
Am I crazy for thinking that tumblr sometimes veers towards the second?
Nope, you’re observant.
There’s a post about the specialised language thing that kills me everytime I see it. Every field has jargon, even non-academic ones. But for some reason people act like they’re somehow incapable of learning a few new words.
Besides published academic papers are written with the expectation that the reader has at least some prior knowledge on the subject. They go through peer review and editing before they get published and most journals request clear wording in their submissions. Their language choice is an attempt to explain their point in the most clear and concise way possible to people already working and researching that field, because those are the people that are going to be able to use it. It might be a pain in the ass to read as a beginner, but you either work your way up to it or consult with someone more knowledge on the topic.
Yes some people can be overzealous with their word choice, but you’re not always going to be the target audience for someone’s work and that’s not the authors fault.
The Spy Kids movies have the exact vibe of when you and your friends are running around in the backyard creating an elaborate story based entirely around whatever random nonsense happens to be lying around. This empty happy meal box is a computer. If I spin this bop-it the right way it will unlock the secret door. We have to get to the jets! (The jets are the swings). My little sister says her pigtails spin around and let her fly and we all agree with that. These swim goggles let me see through walls. There are a series of stepping stones leading to a big rock in the middle of the garden. The rock is the office of the Head Spy and the dirt is actually a bottomless pit, so you have to be careful when you jump across. The bad guys have disabled all our weapons but my necklace is actually a secret super cool weapon that works anyway! There’s logic and continuity but only as much as a bunch of five-to-twelve year olds can keep straight without bothering to keep notes or look up any science facts they don’t already happen to know. This is not a complaint.
In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I’m not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn’t worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.
Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn’t even work for the council. They were supposedly just some ‘good samaritan’ who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn’t bother putting the statue up again.
Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan’ had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It’s even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.
In UI/UX design, menus have different names depending on the aspect they have, I knew about the hamburger menu and so I figured the “meatballs menu” could exist too, and it does…
thats it, im not posting the rest of the day, this is the best fucking thing ive learned in the past 3 weeks
this is what we needed to learn in distance learning
ALT
