The FCC will be looking into this acquisition.

First of all, this deal is going through with all cash? What the fuck, is Yahoo! trying to buy cocaine from Tumblr? Who the hell pays over a billion dollars cash for something like this? That’s one flag on the play.

This deal was approved way too quickly by Yahoo! executives because they’re desperate for relevancy, and are failing at it miserably. That’s another flag on the play.

Why has Karp been so silent about this? Why have the Tumblr staff not been blowing up our dashboard with endless posts about this? What’s going on that they’re so silent about a 1.1 Billion dollar acquisition? Is everyone going to get fired at the end of the week? Flag, number, three.

Mark my words, when the Feds get wind of this, the FCC will be sticking their nose into this as deeply as they can before any final approval is made.

If David Karp sells out he’ll be making a gigantic mistake.

Tumblr over all has the power to currently generate about $300 million in revenue per fiscal year. All David Karp needs to do with tumblr is tell Yahoo! to go fuck themselves, then immediately announce an IPO (Initial Public Offering) and allow the users to buy stock in tumblr, and fully control everything from the ground up. He’s clearly a smarter kid than Zuckerberg, because he has a sounder, user driven business model. Zuckerberg didn’t. All he had was hype, and that’s why Facebook has been such a large disappointment in the finance markets. It’s why his stock is only worth $12 a share.

If David Karp were and kind of intelligent venture capitalist, he wouldn’t allow himself to be bought out like this. He’d take what he’s earned from the IPO, reinvest it into Tumblr, and further down the road buy-out, then shut down Yahoo!, Inc., forcing them to become a subsidiary of Tumblr, Inc. not the other way around. But no. That won’t happen, and within a years time, tumblr will be dead because of Yahoo’s inability to make anything they touch worth a shit.

Go ahead. Let Yahoo!, inc. waste over a billion on Tumblr.

and watch as both it’s user populace, and market value plummet overnight.

Just like with Facebook, this site is not what the Projected market value says it’s truly worth. In fact, it’s more than likely worth a hell of a lot less. The current projected value of David Karp and Tumblr both, is $800,000,000 (Eight Hundred Million) US. But keep in mind what went wrong with Facebook: projected value never translates to actual market value. 

Not that long ago, Wall Street and Finance media giants were predicting that Facebook was worth $100,000,000 (One Hundred Million) US, when in fact, moments after the IPO closed, everyone shit themselves in panic at the realization that Facebook in fact, is fucking worthless at a mere $12 a share. Zuckerberg has quite literally had to sell ad space on both his site, and even gone so far as to create a Facebook phone, just to pay back his investors every last dime he lost. He’s still not seeing a return on any other investments like Facebook Home and won’t until sometime in 2015, because he had no business model to support the claims of Facebook’s insane value.

David Karp faces this same issue. What has he done other than take what Google were already doing quite successfully with Blogger, and given it a facelift and a few new Web 2.0 design features? Nothing really. Now people are claiming that he and his colossus of a social network Tumblr, a largely community driven website is projected to be worth upwards of 800 Million, only to turn around and (allegedly) tell Yahoo! that the offer of 1.1 Billion is too little? Are you serious with that David?

Apparently, no one in the world of Modern business really pays that much attention to history. But sure, let’s go ahead and let Yahoo! blow over 1 billion dollars, because really, everyone will simply jump ship to somewhere else like 4Chan, or go straight back into the arms of either Facebook, or Blogger.

Personally, I say fuck it. Let’s all go back to MySpace!

Tumblr. I came for the blogs.

I stayed for the PORN.

The idiots fixed the “search” feature by taking a step backward.

Two steps forward. One step back. You’re still in the same position as before, and nothing has truly improved. I still have to refresh my browser every time I want to reblog something, and now apparently when I want to type a fucking post.

The tags still don’t wrap themselves like with Missing E. You still can’t pull the tabs to the left to expand the pots and see what tags are where. The Reblog is still broken. The posting is still broken. But hey, you can search for crap you don’t want even faster now! Or can you? I have to navigate back to my dashboard to search for new tags instead of clicking on the damn search bar again.

I want to punch a hipster in the face.

Great. This place is turning into fucking Facebook.

Another big issue I have with all the changes to Tumblr lately is the photo uploads

Why does it only allow “image files” and nothing else? Before these changes it was .bmp, .gif, .jpeg, and .img. Now it’s just.img, and I don’t even think that. What’s wrong with this site is the fact that it seems like Davd Karp and his staff are too busy trying to one up fucking Zuckerberg & Facebook in terms of “look at how much more popular we are that you!” or “look at how much more money we made this quarter than you loser!” that they’ve become to preoccupied to fix any issues with their own site.

Everything seems broken. The Audio Uploads, the text posts, the photo uploads, the reblogs..everything except the Link postings, video and chat features. I can’t even type a post or reblog without the page freezing for a few seconds here or there then all of a sudden making each bit of text I typed show up. At first, I thought this may have just been an issue with Google Chrome, but now that I’m using Firefox, I’ve seen it happening from time to time and I realize now, it’s coding issues with Tumblr itself.

About the video post features though; there should be some kind of direct to YouTube link for tumblr like there is on YouTube, and one for Vimeo as well. I know this is mainly an exclusive feature with Google+ (posting videos from YouTube directly to your stream without navigating away from the main page) but it’s a nice idea. Hell, it’d be a nice idea for Facebook as well, but they hate YouTube because it’s a Google product.

I just hope soon enough Missing E comes back online with new updates to fix the problems with Tumblr, because even if this is an insignificant problem in terms of the rest of the world, David Karp is running an $800 Million dollar business, and really should have his staff on top of these problems a lot faster than they seem to be.

Also, the apparent hate they have for Missing E, is borderline fascist and down right stupid. Hasn’t anyone learned from Mozilla or Google? Third Party developers can make or break your company in a heartbeat.