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The Tumblr de-porning was the single most SMH business moment I may have heard of since Yahoo’s previous worst business move ever of not buying Google. I mean -

The Tumblr de-porning was the single most SMH business moment I may have heard of since Yahoo’s previous worst business move ever of not buying Google. I mean - my God… Yahoo may very well be the single dumbest major tech company in history. Just…blunder after blunder after shitty decision. Watching its history is almost the definition of seeing a slow motion train wreck. It’s almost impressive. With regards to Tumblr - I can’t imagine what potential business decision could’ve been worth what they had to know was suicide. Why make the acquisition and then kill your user base? It’s not like they didn’t know. That’s probably one of the single biggest wastes of $1b I’ve seen. Why buy it to knowingly, fully intentionally, throw it down the toilet? So baffling.

robotnikman 4y ago
The only reason I can think of is some executive was so morally opposed to it that they value getting rid of the NSFW stuff on Tumblr over money. Twitter had no qualms taking in the manly Tumblr users who went over there instead.
- rtkwe 4y ago
  From what I recall at the time it was because Yahoo wanted to go down the standard ad serving model to monetize tumblr and the presence of porn was getting in the way of that. They didn't realize or didn't believe that one of the big reasons a lot of people were on tumblr to begin with was for smut.