Tumblr's moderators falsely flagged a trans woman's completely clothed and non-sexual pre- and post-transition photos as 'explicit content' and refused to rescind the ban, so she posted that she hopes the CEO "dies a painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes multiple times and the hammers go everywhere". The CEO of Tumblr is currently having a very public and extended meltdown about this, and is claiming that the Wile E. Coyote ass scenario of CEO Car Hammer Explosion was a "credible death threat" which required the intervention of the FBI and has banned the woman in question. He has spent the last few hours being Definitely Not Mad Online in all of the comments and replies. Truly incredible next levels of Silicon Valley Bro brain
@RodneyPetersonTalent@burgerdrome this takes some knowhow but if you remove the modal with the "classified" pop-up via your browser's Inspector tool then you can keep scrolling uninterrupted.
Well after two seconds the asshole says it’s classified information (sure it is) and wants me to create an account. Fuck him and fuck Elon Musk who did the same thing with Twitter. Seems like they’re both complete scumbags.
Real time Streisand effect. Where is all this happening? Google directs to Twitter which I will never use again since it requires an actual account to read their shitty ad infested bot algorithim largely moronic content.
I just read something from a former employee that apparently he's meant to be on sabbatical right now as well which means a bunch of poor saps are going to wake up tomorrow morning to the world's biggest dumpster fire in their inboxes as they trudge out to clean up the CEO's mess
I haven't seen a public meltdown from a Silicon Valley Bro like this in honestly such a long time. He must have fired his PR handlers or is just letting their frantic calls go to voicemail
Just catching up this morning that he spent a bunch of time DMing trans women who left comments on his various meltdown posts to continue arguments with them. Silicon Valley CEOs simply cannot stand to be thought of as incompetent or bad in any way, it destroys them as people
@burgerdrome wait are you saying i can directly message the ceo of tumblr hatemail and he responds on his blog??? fuck why did nobody tell me thats sick
I actualliy hosted my blogs through WordPress.org (their service for hosting blogs from your own domain rather than through WPdotcom). So, easy for me to confuse things.