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Post by Crimson on Jul 14, 2014 10:23:26 GMT -5
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 14, 2014 10:23:35 GMT -5
This is somehow the most unsurprising thing in this thread.
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Bad Moon
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Post by Bad Moon on Jul 14, 2014 10:27:38 GMT -5
Who exactly organized this? Just some random users who got together with no idea what they were doing?
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 14, 2014 10:32:25 GMT -5
Just some random users who got together with no idea what they were doing? I thought that's exactly what Tumbler was
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 10:34:08 GMT -5
Just some random users who got together with no idea what they were doing? I thought that's exactly what Tumbler was there are SOME good Tumblr users. pretty much everyone I follow on Tumblr is mocking this to high heaven.
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Jul 14, 2014 10:37:14 GMT -5
Honestly, this thread is the most I know about Tumblr.... just never really interested me.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 14, 2014 10:37:32 GMT -5
I thought that's exactly what Tumbler was there are SOME good Tumblr users. pretty much everyone I follow on Tumblr is mocking this to high heaven. Good to hear. My only real experience with Tumblr is friends sending me disturbing pictures and over the top fanfic from Tumblr as jokes. I guess I honestly assumed that's all the site was. So I ask a question... what exactly is Tumblr supposed to be?
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Post by Wolfaga on Jul 14, 2014 10:45:46 GMT -5
there are SOME good Tumblr users. pretty much everyone I follow on Tumblr is mocking this to high heaven. Good to hear. My only real experience with Tumblr is friends sending me disturbing pictures and over the top fanfic from Tumblr as jokes. I guess I honestly assumed that's all the site was. So I ask a question... what exactly is Tumblr supposed to be? (Language, I think)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 11:00:53 GMT -5
Not that Tumblr video again...
Thing is, Tumblr is a massive deal mostly occupied by youngbloods, just because of the sheer numbers you're bound to run into scammers along with the myriad of shits who take up these giant dark corners. As much as people talk shit about Social Justice Warriors, Social Justice Anti-Paladins and all that while acting like that's most of what makes up Tumblr...
Tumblr is friggin' massive. It's not like 4chan in that respect.
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lodirulz
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Post by lodirulz on Jul 14, 2014 11:08:13 GMT -5
As a Tumblr user since last october, the meme has been slaying me, honestly. I'll admit that the website has transformed me into someone who will defend it like a mother bear protecting her cubs, but even I can't defend this. It's honestly one of the saddest pictures of a convention that I've ever seen. On a side note, I'm totally up for FAN Con.... if we have two people jumping around in the bounce house in the background dressed up as Triple H and Eugene.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jul 14, 2014 11:10:23 GMT -5
Who exactly organized this? Just some random users who got together with no idea what they were doing? Pretty much, yeah. And then they enlisted other random users with even fewer idea what they were doing and then the predictable happened. Frankly at this point I am shocked a convention did technically take place at all.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 14, 2014 11:12:00 GMT -5
Who exactly organized this? Just some random users who got together with no idea what they were doing? Pretty much, yeah. And then they enlisted other random users with even fewer idea what they were doing and then the predictable happened. Frankly at this point I am shocked a convention did technically take place at all. Yeah, I'm surprised this got off the ground at all. Yeaaaaaaaah Either there was some serious rope burn (as I imagine that no one at the BDSM panel was a professional qualified to actually do this sort of thing for public demonstration) or Dashcon gave out STI's as swag. Imagine if some of the affected were minors, who were apparently let in and not checked for ID? Arrests and lawsuits are on the way. Yeah... this could be a major deal if minors got in that one...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 11:15:14 GMT -5
Who exactly organized this? Just some random users who got together with no idea what they were doing? Pretty much, yeah. And then they enlisted other random users with even fewer idea what they were doing and then the predictable happened. Frankly at this point I am shocked a convention did technically take place at all. The thing that amazed me is had they actually got their shit together and...not been the scam with the ball pit filled with crabs and Lonely Virgil: The Gaming Console, it would've been a decent little con. Hell, I would've asked a few people I knew up there about since the Welcome To Night Vale cast was going to be there until the money got funny.
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Post by HisRoyalGreeness on Jul 14, 2014 11:39:24 GMT -5
My question is, why would something like Tumblr warrant any kind of convention in the first place?
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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 14, 2014 11:49:21 GMT -5
I've been telling myself I need to get on tumblr to help market myself for acting gigs. But suddenly I'm thinking there has to be another way.
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Post by Cyno on Jul 14, 2014 12:04:31 GMT -5
Tumblr is a social media site like Twitter, Facebook, etc. But it also uses a blogging framework like Livejournal, Wordpress, and Blogger. I suppose the marriage of the two concepts has attracted a lot of obsessive fandom people, especially a lot of former LJ users or teenagers that would've been LJ users if not for Tumblr.
Really, a Tumblr con doesn't make too much sense on the surface because it's not like there's Facebook or Twitter cons. And there's not really a sense of community so much as a lot of disparate communities that sometimes overlap with common interests but that's about it. Which reading about the organization process is pretty much what happened with these "committees." Add in a lot of immaturity, pubescent hormones, and a general lack of sense of responsibility or professionalism and you have the makings of a grand disaster.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 14, 2014 12:17:09 GMT -5
At least there weren't rattlesnakes in the ballpit?
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Post by Cyno on Jul 14, 2014 12:30:04 GMT -5
But there was pee.
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Post by jagilki on Jul 14, 2014 12:38:33 GMT -5
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 14, 2014 12:50:22 GMT -5
Maybe it was snake pee.
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