matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao
WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff | TechCrunch
from my sources adjacent to tumblr–from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector–im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i’m hearing there are about 25 people left.
This is important, people. Please don’t scroll past this one.
While I don’t think that Tumblr is about to shut down anytime soon, as a fandom old who lost my community and my people when the fandom diaspora happened from LiveJournal, I want to urge that you do something NOW:
- Get your backup account(s) elsewhere NOW
- Let your moots know your username(s) at those places NOW
- Follow your moots at their places NOW
I mean this with all my heart. Get this done now. Get set up and find your people now. Tumblr is the home of fandom now, just as LiveJournal was the home of fandom way back. And you could end up losing your fandom home just as easily and quickly as us old LJ people did way back then.
It’s a horrible feeling, and most old LJ users still mourn the loss of it to this day.
The rest of this gets a bit long, so it needs to go behind a cut, but please take a moment out of your scrolling to read it.
I am a lot of places – technically I still have a livejournal because I got a permanent account back in the day. I’m on dreamwidth and bluesky and mastodon and instagram and tiktok and last.fm and I have blog but basically I am herdivineshadow nearly everywhere and also I have my own website where I link to wherever it is I can be found https://herdivineshadow.com
