~ Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013
~ Verizon bought Yahoo (which was big and bloated) for $4.83 billion (including Tumblr) in 2017.
~ Automattic (the guys that own Wordpress) bought Tumblr for less than $3 million from Verizon in 2019.

We don't quite have enough information to make this a cautionary tale, but it sure smacks of being a cautionary tale.

Edit: Fixed formatting

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is spez Mormon? Because he looks super Mormon.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He used to moderate jailbait.

So yeah, Christian or Mormon for sure.

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has it been proven that he used to mod jailbait?

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Apparently you used to be able to give mod status to any random redditor without them having to accept it, so even if he was made mod it doesn't actually mean much. Fuck Spez though.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

He both looks and acts the part.

[–] r7vil50j@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You shouldn't judge somebody by his.. ah,..

Goddam, you're right.

[–] SCmSTR@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Wait, hold up. Is he actually Mormon?

Edit: I looked around briefly and there doesn't seem to be any clear evidence for him being Mormon or part of the lds church.

But also, Mormons love porn. There have been multiple studies from porn websites and Google that show that Utah has not only one of the highest per-capita consumption of porn, but also have a major (iirc, majority) interest in trans women. Which is... fascinating.

Edit2: jk, looks like my info is old. The trans and Mormon thing was from like 2009 and may be a shitty study by one guy on subscription porn. It seems like NOW, utahians don't use pornhub at all, but this year there was a huge increase in VPNs. (/s) but also, https://www.pornhub.com/insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/pornhub-insights-2022-year-in-review-united-states-relative-searches-by-state-map_.png 2022 by state, directly from pornhub

https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2022-year-in-review for the whole report

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