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Due to some unfortunate events we were unable to record episode 6 of Popcorn Ranch for Fridays release. However, seeing as how some of the PR members will actually be in the same city for once, we hope to record our first ever VIDEO podcast from FanimeCon 2013 in San Jose, California. And for more PR goodness, keep your eyes out for episode 1 of “Pros and Cons”, as well as the debut episode of “Now Playing”. Are you excited? Cause I am!

hushicho: autumnyte: universe-juice: chocobo-strider: the-disney-words: SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR! - Let’s try and get 100k notes True shit A review by one of the folks sums it up perfectly: “What worries me about Yahoo! buying Tumblr is how it would choose to incorporate the website into its email and homepage features.  One of the reasons why Tumblr is so unique is because it’s a niche market.  By adding more users who don’t fit into this niche, it would make it more difficult for communities to develop within Tumblr, and Tumblr would have to change to accommodate these new users.  Tumblr as a website is not the kind that you can sign up for in a day and be on your way.  It is a website crafted so that you can immediately post but must spend several weeks, sometimes even months, to build a community.  With new users who would not be willing to spend time growing a community, Tumblr would have to be changed, which would alienate its current users.  Those users have spent time and effort to make Tumblr what it is today, and they are the ones who spend time on the website daily.  A user who is checking onto Tumblr because it’s attached to their homepage is not going to be as strong of a user nor as dedicated.  By changing the website to suit this new user, you would lose the strong users while building an undedicated usership.   To any website that would think of buying Tumblr, they must understand that it is a website that cannot be changed to make it more user friendly to a casual blogger.  I think that many Tumblr users would be less worried about a buy-out if they were promised that their communities and ways of using Tumblr would not be changed.  No one is going to mind Yahoo! buying the website and gaining a few extra million dollars per year from the minimal advertising; what we will be upset with is if a company like Yahoo! then changes the website to increase casual users and decrease dedicated users.  Yahoo! would gain nothing by losing this “cool” group of bloggers in an age group they so desperately want to reach, so they must cater to these individuals by leaving the website exactly as is.” - houseoftombombadil As much as is does sound like a load of bullshit for someone to buy Tumblr, it’s a possibility.  I Personally think it should stay independent and I hope David Karp keeps a hold of it like his own child. Or we make enough noise to where such major changes (if bought) will not happen. I would hate to see Tumblr turned into an advertising dump. We’re not a ‘hip fad group’ to be marketed to. I hate the fact that’s all we look like to businesses in the end. reblogging again for this ^ Ugh. Really nervous about this acquisition, especially given that it seems imminent. I recognize that tumblr needs to monetize, and I don’t even object to being subjected to ads to help pay the bills, but I think this route risks changing it beyond recognition—especially with regard to restricting NSFW and (potentially) fandom content. Let’s all promise to meet at LJ or Dreamwidth or something if everything goes pear-shaped down the road. :/  I’m showing my age by saying this, but I also saw Yahoo buy a number of sites back in the day, amongst them the e-groups site, which they turned into ‘yahoo groups’. The quality plummeted instantly, and the mature content was of course treated much worse than it had been with e-groups. Where they had previously stored images and other files with the messages they were attached to, making for easy and comprehensible reading, when Yahoo got a hold of them, they obliterated these attachments in archive, only allowing them to be sent initially, but never stored. The e-groups community effectively vapourised and yahoo groups exists today…as a relative ghost town. I would be appalled if tumblr were ‘acquired’ and treated the same way. Hey, yeah, that gif you posted a few months back? Gone. Your updates about your comic? History. The sexy sketch you did? Pfft. tumblr may be lacking sometimes in direction and support, it’s true…but I’d rather have the grievances we have now — relatively minor — than the major problem of an entirely new administration. I can only see the tumblr community being detrimentally affected by a company like Yahoo buying it. I wish today’s society would stop thinking that ‘acquiring’ things is the way to go. We don’t want a handful of companies controlling everything; in fact, it’s paramount we don’t have that. Censorship and especially discriminatory attitudes towards certain types of content are only furthered by having all these communities bought up and placed in the hands of a tiny few. tumblr must remain its own. If and when any sale is done, it should not be to an industry giant like Yahoo or Google, but to someone who can remain independent from them, not caving to their nonsense. Because while it may seem like it’s going to be a super-great thing for the company who buys it, it won’t: treat tumblr like any other asinine social networking site and the users will desert it faster than cockroaches when the lights turn on. Or like those puffballs in Totoro. There are probably a number of gifs of it on tumblr. But those probably won’t be around too much longer if Yahoo buys it up. Just saying.
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hushicho:

autumnyte:

universe-juice:

chocobo-strider:

the-disney-words:

SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR!

- Let’s try and get 100k notes

True shit

A review by one of the folks sums it up perfectly:

“What worries me about Yahoo! buying Tumblr is how it would choose to incorporate the website into its email and homepage features.  One of the reasons why Tumblr is so unique is because it’s a niche market.  By adding more users who don’t fit into this niche, it would make it more difficult for communities to develop within Tumblr, and Tumblr would have to change to accommodate these new users.  Tumblr as a website is not the kind that you can sign up for in a day and be on your way.  It is a website crafted so that you can immediately post but must spend several weeks, sometimes even months, to build a community.  With new users who would not be willing to spend time growing a community, Tumblr would have to be changed, which would alienate its current users.  Those users have spent time and effort to make Tumblr what it is today, and they are the ones who spend time on the website daily.  A user who is checking onto Tumblr because it’s attached to their homepage is not going to be as strong of a user nor as dedicated.  By changing the website to suit this new user, you would lose the strong users while building an undedicated usership.  

To any website that would think of buying Tumblr, they must understand that it is a website that cannot be changed to make it more user friendly to a casual blogger.  I think that many Tumblr users would be less worried about a buy-out if they were promised that their communities and ways of using Tumblr would not be changed.  No one is going to mind Yahoo! buying the website and gaining a few extra million dollars per year from the minimal advertising; what we will be upset with is if a company like Yahoo! then changes the website to increase casual users and decrease dedicated users.  Yahoo! would gain nothing by losing this “cool” group of bloggers in an age group they so desperately want to reach, so they must cater to these individuals by leaving the website exactly as is.” - houseoftombombadil

As much as is does sound like a load of bullshit for someone to buy Tumblr, it’s a possibility.  I Personally think it should stay independent and I hope David Karp keeps a hold of it like his own child. Or we make enough noise to where such major changes (if bought) will not happen. I would hate to see Tumblr turned into an advertising dump.
We’re not a ‘hip fad group’ to be marketed to. I hate the fact that’s all we look like to businesses in the end.

reblogging again for this ^

Ugh. Really nervous about this acquisition, especially given that it seems imminent. I recognize that tumblr needs to monetize, and I don’t even object to being subjected to ads to help pay the bills, but I think this route risks changing it beyond recognition—especially with regard to restricting NSFW and (potentially) fandom content. 

Let’s all promise to meet at LJ or Dreamwidth or something if everything goes pear-shaped down the road. :/
 

I’m showing my age by saying this, but I also saw Yahoo buy a number of sites back in the day, amongst them the e-groups site, which they turned into ‘yahoo groups’. The quality plummeted instantly, and the mature content was of course treated much worse than it had been with e-groups. Where they had previously stored images and other files with the messages they were attached to, making for easy and comprehensible reading, when Yahoo got a hold of them, they obliterated these attachments in archive, only allowing them to be sent initially, but never stored. The e-groups community effectively vapourised and yahoo groups exists today…as a relative ghost town.

I would be appalled if tumblr were ‘acquired’ and treated the same way. Hey, yeah, that gif you posted a few months back? Gone. Your updates about your comic? History. The sexy sketch you did? Pfft. tumblr may be lacking sometimes in direction and support, it’s true…but I’d rather have the grievances we have now — relatively minor — than the major problem of an entirely new administration.

I can only see the tumblr community being detrimentally affected by a company like Yahoo buying it. I wish today’s society would stop thinking that ‘acquiring’ things is the way to go. We don’t want a handful of companies controlling everything; in fact, it’s paramount we don’t have that. Censorship and especially discriminatory attitudes towards certain types of content are only furthered by having all these communities bought up and placed in the hands of a tiny few.

tumblr must remain its own. If and when any sale is done, it should not be to an industry giant like Yahoo or Google, but to someone who can remain independent from them, not caving to their nonsense. Because while it may seem like it’s going to be a super-great thing for the company who buys it, it won’t: treat tumblr like any other asinine social networking site and the users will desert it faster than cockroaches when the lights turn on.

Or like those puffballs in Totoro. There are probably a number of gifs of it on tumblr. But those probably won’t be around too much longer if Yahoo buys it up. Just saying.

(Source: my--teen--quote)

mostlytumbler: im sorry, you must not know who i am. im amy. the kitchen elitest. and i dont have time for talk of cooking that isnt canon. i kitchen hard. i kitchen with passion. and i kitchen correctly. this is  a passion. this is a talent. and this is somthing i do not have shit-heads suggest for me to “hey dude do this” casually with no reasoning behind it.
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mostlytumbler:

im sorry, you must not know who i am.

im amy. the kitchen elitest. and i dont have time for talk of cooking that isnt canon.

i kitchen hard. i kitchen with passion. and i kitchen correctly.

this is  a passion. this is a talent. and this is somthing i do not have shit-heads suggest for me to “hey dude do this” casually with no reasoning behind it.

najikasun: prince-dirk-of-derse: princeofdoki: candycane-horns: butts-with-bro-shades: bunny-leech: bolindownariver: So i was like “wow great PPG cosplays” Then I saw it awir987gfdg8us4ot8erg798ds7zf0ea48osiudfvz I don’t get it. Is it because the gap in the railing thing or…? im GONNA PEE is that… JEINJUDIJDEUNJEJKMSKSMSKKSN oHMYGOD SCREAMING
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najikasun:

prince-dirk-of-derse:

princeofdoki:

candycane-horns:

butts-with-bro-shades:

bunny-leech:

bolindownariver:

So i was like “wow great PPG cosplays”

Then I saw it

awir987gfdg8us4ot8erg798ds7zf0ea48osiudfvz

I don’t get it.

Is it because the gap in the railing thing or…?

im GONNA PEE

is that… JEINJUDIJDEUNJEJKMSKSMSKKSN

oHMYGOD

SCREAMING

(Source: bigbossu)

If you could take a look at this I would really appreciate it

Cutting down to the chase, I don’t know if I will make rent this month. This month took a chunk out of me, and I need to make up the difference somehow. 

I’m offering an infinite amount of $3 sketch commissions until I close them manually. No slots.

If you are interested, please email me at mangosoro@hotmail.com with examples of your character or a brief description of what you would like. Examples include:

tableinthecorner: 131-di: heartsnbruises: migelus-quo: strider-sempai-noticed-you-and: amybouzagloofficial: fuckyeahretailrobin: I don’t know if you guys saw the episode of Kitchen Nightmares, or if you’ve seen anything from their facebook meltdowns. But Amy’s Baking Company in Scottsdale, Arizona openly admitted to stealing their servers tips! So if you could please publish this, it’s a link to a petition to get them investigated by the US Department of Labor, and hopefully the resulting legal action will ensure that everyone who worked there gets compensation for the lost tips. Not only do they steal tips from the servers, they are verbally abusive to their staff and customers. This was all shown on the Kitchen Nightmares episode, as well as many reviews from people who’ve eaten there. I’m sorry that this isn’t exactly a Robin, but I’m hoping that if you guys publish it, it’ll get the remaining signatures it needs (which is about 800 more at the time of submitting). Ramsay talked to a former waitress there, and the waitress said she’d seen 50 people come and go in her year and a half there. The husband admitted that it was more. So please, Robins, let’s help the Robins who suffered at the hands of Amy’s Baking Company hopefully get back the tips that are rightfully theirs! https://www.change.org/petitions/the-us-department-of-labor-and-the-wage-and-hour-division-whd-investigate-amy-s-baking-company-bakery-boutique-bistro-in-scottsdale-az [I also don’t know what to tag this as, but considering the verbal abuse I’m using the trigger and violence tags.] YOU LITTLE PUNKS REALLY NEED TO FUCK OFF FOR ONCE. NEVER HAVE I OR MY HUSBAND STOLEN TIPS FROM OUR SERVERS. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.  YOU KNOW WHY DON’T YOU HAVE A CUPCAKE? YOU’RE TOO BUSY WASTING YOUR LIFE AWAY ON TUMBLR NOT HAVING A REAL JOB. BIG WOW KIDDO. I’LL BE SURE TO ALERT THE POLICE AND FBI COMPUTER CRIME UNIT OF THIS BLOG AND HAVE IT REMOVED. HAVE A FUCKING GOOD DAY. Is this really a thing that is happening Is she really thinking #FuckYeahRetailRobin will catch on? Well, it will but not how they want it to OH GOOD LORD THAT BLOG IS LEGIT. amy, or whoever you are who’s writing in all capslock rage, you’re doing a fine job of burying your own self with each and every angry, derisive, rabid riposte you slam out into the internetsphere. congratulations, you beautiful lunatic, you’re giving us all front-row tickets to your meltdown opera. hahahaha holy shit what a buttwipe this is upseting
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tableinthecorner:

131-di:

heartsnbruises:

migelus-quo:

strider-sempai-noticed-you-and:

amybouzagloofficial:

fuckyeahretailrobin:

I don’t know if you guys saw the episode of Kitchen Nightmares, or if you’ve seen anything from their facebook meltdowns. But Amy’s Baking Company in Scottsdale, Arizona openly admitted to stealing their servers tips! So if you could please publish this, it’s a link to a petition to get them investigated by the US Department of Labor, and hopefully the resulting legal action will ensure that everyone who worked there gets compensation for the lost tips.

Not only do they steal tips from the servers, they are verbally abusive to their staff and customers. This was all shown on the Kitchen Nightmares episode, as well as many reviews from people who’ve eaten there. I’m sorry that this isn’t exactly a Robin, but I’m hoping that if you guys publish it, it’ll get the remaining signatures it needs (which is about 800 more at the time of submitting).

Ramsay talked to a former waitress there, and the waitress said she’d seen 50 people come and go in her year and a half there. The husband admitted that it was more. So please, Robins, let’s help the Robins who suffered at the hands of Amy’s Baking Company hopefully get back the tips that are rightfully theirs!

https://www.change.org/petitions/the-us-department-of-labor-and-the-wage-and-hour-division-whd-investigate-amy-s-baking-company-bakery-boutique-bistro-in-scottsdale-az

[I also don’t know what to tag this as, but considering the verbal abuse I’m using the trigger and violence tags.]

YOU LITTLE PUNKS REALLY NEED TO FUCK OFF FOR ONCE. NEVER HAVE I OR MY HUSBAND STOLEN TIPS FROM OUR SERVERS. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.  YOU KNOW WHY DON’T YOU HAVE A CUPCAKE? YOU’RE TOO BUSY WASTING YOUR LIFE AWAY ON TUMBLR NOT HAVING A REAL JOB. BIG WOW KIDDO. I’LL BE SURE TO ALERT THE POLICE AND FBI COMPUTER CRIME UNIT OF THIS BLOG AND HAVE IT REMOVED. HAVE A FUCKING GOOD DAY.

Is this really a thing that is happening

Is she really thinking #FuckYeahRetailRobin will catch on? Well, it will but not how they want it to

OH GOOD LORD THAT BLOG IS LEGIT.

amy, or whoever you are who’s writing in all capslock rage, you’re doing a fine job of burying your own self with each and every angry, derisive, rabid riposte you slam out into the internetsphere. congratulations, you beautiful lunatic, you’re giving us all front-row tickets to your meltdown opera.

hahahaha holy shit what a buttwipe

this is upseting

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