#and ask why we arent more incensed generally about the ubiquity of fatphobia in culture. and i will point out the unavoidable flashing ads

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not to shill for tumblr or be a mobile user on main but i do just wanna point out i think the response to the dashboard clown thing is a little disproportionate, all things considered

like if you just dont like the show thats fine but the way some of these posts are worded very weirdly and acting like its somehow way worse than.....literally any of the other ads? like yea tumblr is a company and not your friend, netflix is unethical and sucks. but like. are we pretending tumblr hasnt had ads for like. horrible fad diets and the fucking trump coin and god knows what else but like this really isnt worse than like. the fact that ppl with strobing triggers are constantly endangered by the ads on this site.

and maybe its super bad on desktop or something but so far this ad campaign has actually been one of the less obtrusive ones vs their other ads, imo. I dont think ive really seen them in between the posts on my dashboard? (hard to tell bc I try to automatically ignore those anyway) but like it feels like most of this ad campaign has been. a little fictional character at the top of the dashboard. and like. a separate dashboard "tab".....that i dont have to look at, and i dont. and its fine. i barely even noticed it. i probably wouldnt have thought twice about it if everyone hadnt started complaining about it. if tumblr wants to do more ads that are just dashboard tabs that I dont actually have to look at and arent interrupting my main dash i think im fine with that actually. like. obviously no advertisements are better than ads but like i dont have a particular problem with the structure or honestly even the content of this ad. its for a show that i might be intrigued to watch honestly. but its also not being targeted to me personally based on data harvesting its just blanket targeting to everyone.

again, id prefer no ads, but if we're going have them: i would actually prefer it be for things i might be interested in, but without the data harvesting to do it. if i HAVE to see ads, this is a way that i dont mind as much.

#toy txt post #sorry if you have a clown phobia ig. i hope one of the many posts with instructions on how to make the clown go away have been helpful for #you. i would like to point out that people can have phobias and triggers of Literally Anything so its not like there is anything that can be #advertised that is Fine For Everyone. i will admit clowns are a fairly common phobia but again i will point out the diet ads #and ask why we arent more incensed generally about the ubiquity of fatphobia in culture. and i will point out the unavoidable flashing ads #that have been a danger to ppl w strobing triggers. be that for migraines or epilepsy etc. both bad. #and i will point out. i dont THINK the clown has been strobing and i dont think the one piece ad campaign on tumblr dot com has been #particularly strobey? and i would just like to also say. its not even a scary clown. its not even like a horror ad. hes literally just like #a clown. its like walking past a spirit halloween. and tbh tis the season. sorry #idk. again. i think its fine to dislike the ads i think its fine to dislike clowns and one piece! but like #do you have to pretend its like The Virtuous Position of Righteous Outrage over an Ethical Transgression??? its literally fine #as far as my Problems With Tumblr Staff Go. Putting A Little Clown On The Dashboard As An Ad for a show is like #i dont. really give a shit. its fine. its cringe ig but what isnt. its fine to be cringe. its actually more cringe imo bc its an ad than the #the content itself being `cringey` bc u can cringe all day long at weeb nerd interests and for what? how dare genuine interest in media #i will say mixed bag of like. using ppls art within the ad campaign. not sure what the right thing to do there is tho #bc i think its honestly kind of a bad combo of tumblr trying to earnestly promote artists on the site #by reblogging and linking their work. but it is also. exploiting their art for advertisements without apparently asking or compensating them #WHICH. is still somehow a step above like hot topic and shit. bc tumblr is. i think? doing the bare minimum of linking to the artist? and #not presenting it as smth they made. perhaps in the future they could maintain the cool thing of trying to earnestly promote the work of #independent artists without it being as exploitative by like. asking permission to the artist to use their art and MAYBE even pay them #altho ig that can be tricky for things like this where its kind of fanart. but i do think they could work it out. like theyre clearly #already talking w netflix and shit so they could work a licensing deal w the artists or smth. but then that is also tricky rn specifically #bc of the strike. tumblr is a company that does not intend to join the unions. and generally i would probably prefer companies commission #independent artists in this way i think that would be cool. but in this situation specifically it would suck for the artist bc if they #approve it and get compensated for it instead of it just being fanart. now theyre Promoting A Struck Company Officially i think? #im not gonna pretend to know the details of what is and isnt allowed for influencers but if someone happens to like. be an artist who wants #to also get into sag aftra that might become a problem. idk! if nothing else. it definitely seems more complicated to navigate than tumblr #itself doing an ad campaign for netflix. which again. netflix sucks shit. but its not like Tumblr Ads(tm) are known for being only ethical #companies. i just saw like 5 ads for audible on my dash. you know. a company that i believe has had some shady shit w how it treats authors #and is owned by amazon.so like. idk. Advertising A Netflix Show is not high on my list of issues i have w staff or how theyre running things