ICYMI - Inside Tumblr’s Latest Meltdown
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Tumblr is once again trying a new way to monetize its content, but will its users allow it? On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined by fellow former Tumblr teen Allegra Frank to discuss their own origins on the platform, Tumblr’s numerous attempts to make money, and why the users who called a strike over its new Post+ feature might not have the best understanding of the legal system. (We reached out to some copyright professors to find out.)
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | It would be very rare to find a Tumblr that would even be worth the cost of a $399 subscription. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton and you're sending to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 0:16.9 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:20.5 | Today, we've got Allegra Frank, Slate's culture editor extraordinaire, and all-around incredible person joining me in the studio. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, Allegra. |
| 0:29.0 | Oh, hi. |
| 0:29.8 | That's so nice. |
| 0:30.8 | No one has ever complimented me, period, let alone so nicely like that. |
| 0:37.2 | I've definitely complimented you in the time we spent together. |
| 0:39.7 | Why are you lying on air? |
| 0:41.2 | No one else but you. |
| 0:42.4 | Okay, okay. |
| 0:43.6 | I'll take that. |
| 0:44.3 | I'll take that. |
| 0:45.3 | I'll take that. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm so excited to have you here for like 27 different reasons, |
| 0:52.7 | but the most important is that you |
| 0:54.2 | are an expert on what we're discussing today, which is Tumblr. I did take Madison's absence |
| 0:59.9 | as an excuse to do another Tumblr episode. Love it. I would like to clarify, however, |
| 1:05.2 | that today's episode was actually inspired by an email from one of our listeners. Shout out to |
| 1:09.7 | Michelle for proving I'm not the only |
| 1:11.9 | one still obsessed with Tumblr. Michelle basically asked us to explain what's up with the new |
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