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Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by j_4 »

leesalminen wrote: post #69
imgabe wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it cringy? It's an easy way to host a blog. I'd rather any company focus on their main business rather than futz around with blog hosting.

Medium would be a better place to host a corporate blog. When I think Tumblr, I think porn not corporate blogging. Although to be honest, that image is fairly recent for me. I only heard about the depths of Tumblr porn after it died.

I would argue the exact opposite. Tumblr is pretty agnostic when it comes to the way your content is presented, you can even hide all social features without a problem. I roll my eyes when I see a serious company using Medium as its blog platform, with its absolutely obnoxious "haha lets make it official ;)" popups.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by jonlucc »

overcast wrote: post #7
irrational wrote: post #5

Why don't they just have their engineers create their own Tumblr clone? Tumblhub or Tumhub or Pornblr. It would probably be cheaper than buying Tumblr.

For obvious reasons, Tumblr and its critical mass already exists. How often do clones succeed?

That's true, but I wonder how much of the porn-seeking user base remains? Surely they left in the 40%(?) traffic exodus.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by Mirioron »

stcredzero wrote: post #66
Mirioron wrote: post #47

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Is it worth it to compete with YouTube though? We've heard about how YouTube didn't make Google money in the past. Now we even had news about how the way they handled YouTube caused the evaluation of the company to drop by $70 billion. So the question is whether it would be worth it to even try.

Is it worth it to compete with YouTube though? The issue with YouTube in recent years, is that it's been treating its content creators and viewers as "product" and the advertisers as the users. YouTube has been pandering to executives in media and their particular thought bubbles while throwing users and content creators under the bus. (Or doing things specifically to increase centralized control for the sake of pand…

The problem is that there are activists who campaign to get advertisers to leave platforms that host certain types of content. Eg sleeping giants. This means that YouTube has to either start removing content those activists don't like or they have to start courting those advertisers themselves.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by Mirioron »

vinkelhake wrote: post #99
stcredzero wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it worth it to compete with YouTube though? The issue with YouTube in recent years, is that it's been treating its content creators and viewers as "product" and the advertisers as the users. YouTube has been pandering to executives in media and their particular thought bubbles while throwing users and content creators under the bus. (Or doing things specifically to increase centralized control for the sake of pand…

YouTube is still very permissive about what content can be uploaded. What type of content can be monetized has changed. Advertisers don't want their brand associated with content they find questionable. They pulled their advertising or at least threatened to. This lead to the "Adpocalypse". A lot of creators argue that content is unfairly or incorrectly demonetized. That's an area where a competitor could improve. Th…

Is it really the advertisers or is it activists pushing the advertisers? The adpocalypse started with activists.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by ungzd »

Definition of "porn" is too much different for Pornhub and Tumblr. For former, it's kafkaesque-lovecraftian movies with Hollywood-level effects depicting impossible forms of multi-person sexual intercourse, for latter it's usually just photos of women with uncovered breasts.

I can't remember seeing "real porn" on Tumblr.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by jjulius »

zaksoup wrote: post #96
kartan wrote: post #92

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https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. My guess is that the professional community, people that earn money manipulating/contributing paid-content to Reddit, is quite big. Or, at least, their impact is really big. Most people are just readers and Reddit professionals have time, motivation and knowledge to game the system. I have fun reading Reddit. And I read it very…

> [...] and was killed fast. I'm /r/OutOfTheLoop... what happened that Hail Corporate was killed?

It appears to be open, the most recent post was 27 minutes ago. I'm not sure what OP is referencing.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by drb91 »

jlarocco wrote: post #73
Lowkeyloki wrote: post #37

I was discussing companies who use Tumblr for official communication, like System76 and NPM, on another story earlier this week, and how it's cringy and not a good look IMHO. (My comment was flagged for some reason despite having 5 points and 8 replies. How does this site work?) I hope PornHub does buy Tumblr! Can you imagine how quickly all the corporate blogs would scramble off of the platform to avoid association…

I don't think most people associate Tumblr with porn. If you weren't searching for it, you weren't likely to find it. I used Tumblr, and didn't know it was used for porn until the complaining when Verizon banned it.

In my circles, it’s been a running joke since about 2014 that the porn was the only quality content left.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by drb91 »

JohnFen wrote: post #68
xkcd-sucks wrote: post #44

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It could maybe expand into other "not safe for work" media like explicit music, gun videos, and stuff that generally isn't allowed on Youtube? PH already has paying premium users, so maybe would be just something to keep them on PH-related websites through the end of their refractory period, hopefully directing them back to PH when they start getting horny again

I would pay for a non-porn video site that was like YouTube used to be before Google started cracking down on content advertisers didn't like.

If you mean “ad free” I’m totally with you.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by jseliger »

imgabe wrote: post #53
Lowkeyloki wrote: post #37

I was discussing companies who use Tumblr for official communication, like System76 and NPM, on another story earlier this week, and how it's cringy and not a good look IMHO. (My comment was flagged for some reason despite having 5 points and 8 replies. How does this site work?) I hope PornHub does buy Tumblr! Can you imagine how quickly all the corporate blogs would scramble off of the platform to avoid association…

Why is it cringy? It's an easy way to host a blog. I'd rather any company focus on their main business rather than futz around with blog hosting.

My impression (perhaps outdated) is that making the blog part of your primary domain (e.g. www.company.com/blog) is a better strategy for improving search engine traffic.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by drb91 »

modwilliam wrote: post #41
HNLurker2 wrote: post #36

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1. YouTube is being an * with content creators (See MonkeyJones ban and other creator permantly removed) 2. YouTube rewind was a mess 3. Competitors are better for consumers (and many competitors aren't in position to defeat YouTube)

These are things that are bad about YouTube, but not why Pornhub is #2 ... Facebook/Instagram/Twitter definitely have a better shot.

> Facebook/Instagram/Twitter definitely have a better shot.

They would just clone youtube—they have the exact same relationship with advertisers. I don’t see that gaining any traction.

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