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This is my surprised face
To the great shock of exactly nobody who has been involved in online fandom for any period of time, Verizon is looking to sell of Tumblr. I mean, really, who could have seen this coming? Who? *insert eye-roll emoji here*
Perhaps slightly more surprising is the one potential buyer to express public interest: PornHub. This is... not the worst idea, actually, assuming that PornHub would act as responsible stewards for the whole site, not just the adult content. Put in robust tagging, blocking, and search options, and it could work out very well. I do wonder what having a porn distributer for an owner would mean for things like apps and work blacklists, however.
I do wonder, though, if Verizon would want to sell to PornHub. Surely such a sale would not fit with the company's image of itself. On the other hand, money is money, and I have a hard time imagining many other options. Oh, capitalism.
Perhaps slightly more surprising is the one potential buyer to express public interest: PornHub. This is... not the worst idea, actually, assuming that PornHub would act as responsible stewards for the whole site, not just the adult content. Put in robust tagging, blocking, and search options, and it could work out very well. I do wonder what having a porn distributer for an owner would mean for things like apps and work blacklists, however.
I do wonder, though, if Verizon would want to sell to PornHub. Surely such a sale would not fit with the company's image of itself. On the other hand, money is money, and I have a hard time imagining many other options. Oh, capitalism.
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If PornHub really buys out Tumblr, I will cackle like a hyaena and open a celebratory bottle of something that fizzes. All that fuss to "clean up" their "adult content" problem (heavy sarcasm quotes there - I have not forgotten their real problem was Nazis and illegal content) and the self-appointed moral stewards of Tumblr proclaiming loudly that they were on board with it!