Okay, staff, I am super freaking pissed about the update and here’s why.
I cannot read your new format.
I’m not trying to be whiny or nitpicky or over-dramatic. I can appreciate that you were attempting to make things look more organised/less confusing/whatever. I also expect the new format is a great improvement for people who have screen readers. That’s great. That’s fine.
I just cannot freaking read this. I have dyslexia, and my dyslexia is set off by pictures, bold, italics, anything that is more “interesting” to my brain than plain, unadorned text.
Like this monstrosity:
Look at it. Just look at it. The pictures get in between the lines of text, there’s distracting colors and pictures everywhere. The names are bolded when they’re really not the most important thing. Looking at this, I see everything except what I’m supposed to see, that cheesy series of puns. (No pun intended.)
You literally couldn’t have made a worse format for me if you’d tried.
The thing is, your format was what made me really like Tumblr in the first place. It was super clear who was writing something new, because look, there was a freaking line pointing right to it. Unless someone started writing in all caps or bold or whatever, all the text in a post had the same amount of emphasis. Finally, SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET I COULD READ.
And now, now I can’t read any of it at all.
So yeah, I’m pissed.
Like, I know that you’re not going to change it back, because you never seem to listen when anyone on your site complains about anything. I’m not sure why I bothered writing this to you guys, given your track record.
But now’s your chance to prove me wrong. Seriously, the least you could do is give us an option here. You’ve still got the old code. Just stick a button somewhere to revert to the old format so I can enjoy my text posts in peace.
This is one that actually happened. When gay marriage was legalized, republicans were refusing to issue marriage certificates to anyone, hetero or homo.
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i wanna punch my computer why all these things with dreamworks better than Disney/Pixar?????
Don’t even with me, when you try to tell me that shit i point to DW’s latest fuck up Turbo and Pixar’s only miss Cars 2
tell me which is better, cmon
plus I don’t see dreamworks producing anything close to the disney rennaisance except for httyd (which is great like wow)
dont even
dont even with me
If I recall a few weeks back you were fangirling about Shrek? But in the field of animation (which I suppose you’re referring to as opposed to complex and/or creative storylines, in which case you have Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Chicken Run, Shrek, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, How to Train Your Dragon, Megamind, Rise of the Guardians, and The Croods, for starters), Shrek was not a visual masterpiece in everyone’s opinion. But this is all a matter of opinion. Let’s move to some more concrete evidence.
Disney, glorious Disney, while I adore its Renaissance Era as much as the next guy, has also had 77 years to ensnare a fanbase. Whereas Dreamworks Animation was created a mere 17 years ago, and this little fledgeling company has reached a $430 million average gross, surpassing every animation company (including Walt Disney Animation Studios) aside from Pixar.
Now, if we’d care to elaborate to Pixar, it would be fair to say that Dreamworks has some pretty worthy competition. But to say that Cars 2 is its only flop is a critical understatement. It’s true that many of Pixar’s films have surpassed 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, and some Dreamworks films haven’t been able to match up. But lately, Pixar, while they have all my respect in the world, appears to be faltering. While Cars’s 74%, Brave’s 78%, and Monsters University’s 78% on Rotten Tomatoes are far from unsatisfactory reviews, they’re beaten not only by How to Train Your Dragon’s 98%, but also by The Prince of Egypt’s 79%, Chicken Run’s 97%, Shrek’s 88%, Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit’s 95%, Kung Fu Panda’s 87%, and even Madagascar 3’s 79%. And the latter was about escaped zoo animals joining the circus.
But let’s ignore the reviews for now, because they’re not always reliable. After all, Mr. Peabody and Sherman is currently tied with Monsters University when it comes to percentage of critic likeability. While some agree, other skeptics claim that can’t be right.
So let’s move on to comparative flops.
Yes, Turbo was ridiculous. Yes, Shrek did not need that many sequels. Yes, we all try to forget Bee Movie ever existed. Dreamworks has made quite a few mistakes.
But how could Disney ever forget their wonderful gem, Home on the Range? How about the brilliant spectacle, Chicken Little? And The Brave Little Toaster was obviously a masterpiece. Best of all, how could we ever neglect that Disney has an entire company called Disneytoon Studios, devoted mostly to cheap, direct-to-video sequels that turn this:
(Tarzan, 1999)
Into this:
(Tarzan and Jane, 2002)
Disney has produced over 40 direct-to-video movies just for money’s sake.
Dreamworks has produced one.
And even then, the animation quality is not the greatest, but, well…
(Joseph, King of Dreams, 2000)
At least it has, like, actual shading.
But I’ve ranted so long about reviews and box office results that I’ve left out the good meat of this argument, animation.
The Disney Renaissance, of course, started with The Little Mermaid. A wonderful movie, yes, I’m not going to argue that at all, but let’s take a look at something.
(The Little Mermaid, 1989)
Throughout most of the movie, save for a few bits of the “Part of Your World” and “surfacing” scenes, nothing on Ariel has a shadow. Her hair, body, tail, everything, is all one solid color. The animation is smooth and the movie is beautiful, but it’s not perfect. This shading didn’t really get utilized in Disney at all until the next year.
(The Rescuers Down Under, 1990)
(Just a sidenote that the above movie got a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, lower than multiple Dreamworks movies including Rise of the Guardians and The Croods. While it is a Disney Renaissance movie [and still a good film], it is often left underrated in many lineups for fear of tainting Disney’s “flawless” image during this era.)
Meanwhile, Dreamworks Animation’s second movie ever produced has animation and shading like this:
(The Prince of Egypt, 1998)
It’s arguable that The Prince of Egypt had a few years of animation progression on The Little Mermaid, but shading like this is a team effort, period. There’s people specialized in this. Was it a matter of technology, or stylistic choices? It’s all up for debate.
There is, however, the prominent claim that Dreamworks is so much more attentive to fine animation detail than Disney, primarily in CGI.
Lately, this post has been circulating, showing that both Disney and Pixar are just now exchanging their pasty-faced CGI leads for blotchy, detailed skin, while Dreamworks had been using details such as blotchiness for quite a few years now. But faces are always doted upon. Faces are the most obvious things noted.
Let’s take a look at some details that both companies could’ve understandably overlooked, but Dreamworks didn’t.
Foot detail.
(Disney’s Tangled, 2010)
(Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians, 2012)
Ice and snow detail:
(Disney’s Frozen, 2013)
(Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians, 2012)
Water effect on clothes and hair:
(Pixar’s Ratatouille, 2007)
(Dreamworks’ The Croods, 2013)
Now I’ll admit, some of these were super hard to compare, especially the water effects. After all, looking at when these movies came out, and the progressive allowances of animation for their times, they’re all really great. Heck, Pixar made the first computer animated movie of all time. Disney left classic musicals that people will cherish and love for ages to come. All three companies included in this argument have their ups and downs, and have created pure masterpieces amongst them. In fact, according to who you talk to, they’re all pretty much equal.
But here’s the reason I stayed up until five in the morning finishing this freaking post.
There is a difference between voicing your opinion and cussing out an entire company and the people that enjoy its work. To call Turbo Dreamworks’ latest failure (and yes, I know what word choice you used, but I’d rather keep this professional) and imply that both Disney and Pixar are centuries ahead from every other Dreamworks film ever made is horrendously disrespectful to people who have devoted years of their lives to creating these films. To every animator, screenwriter, and director who have worked so hard to bring these stories to life.
To Chris Sanders, who co-wrote, co-directed, and did storyboard art for Lilo and Stitch, yet left Disney to create How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods at Dreamworks, where he remains today.
To Jeffrey Katzenburg, who actually worked on The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, but left Disney to freaking create Dreamworks Animation Studios and give the biggest animation company of all time a run for their money.
Your opinion is not wrong. Your opinion is not right.
My opinion is not wrong. My opinion is not right.
They are opinions, but there is a much more tactful way to voice yours when it comes to a movement that has influenced and touched millions of people, even if you cannot see the beauty in it.
So rest assured, even if you take none of my opinions—or even my evidence—to heart, that doesn’t change the fact that Dreamworks is my inspiration, and something I and so many others are willing to protect.
It has given me complex, admirable people of color.
Women with bodies and hair like mine.
A pair originally scripted to be gay.
Original stories that aren’t all pre-written fairy tales.
And above all, characters I can relate to in their struggles…
…their imperfections…
…and their dreams.
So if you can’t see why people would give Dreamworks as much credit, if not more, than you do Disney, then don’t worry, I’m not angry at you.
is there a limit to how many comments will show on the posts now? cos the comment chain seems to go straight down from the original posts instead of kind of to the side not to mention each individual comment takes up way more space than they used to. are we gonna end up with posts with a billion comment we have to scroll past..
lets find out. Everyone comment on this
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I’m watching chopped
poopey butt clan
it was really hot and humid today but i feel like everyone complained about it more than was really warranted
let me know when there is an unironic “spread this like wildfire” comment
i’m in class rn and this update is fucking ugh
WHEN WILL THE SWEET EMBRACE OF DEATH FIND ME
lmaooooooo this update is awful
Luckily they didn’t update it for me yet. Let’s see how long they take.
this update is the visual version of the word “yikes”
save the bees
i’m tired
why me
anyone know a good graphics maker i need a signature for my posts
motherfucking jesse eisenburg jesus christ fuck dude
welcome to hell!welcome to hell!welcome to hell!welcome to hell!
wolf children is about a lady having a relationship with a furry
In Octodad, how did the lady have kids with an octopus? And how are the kids 100% human? These questions need to be answered.
Considering the trend of bestiality romance novels going on neither of these things surprises me
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood??
tumblr is a 100% funcational website
Motherfucking Jesse Eisenberg jesus christ fuck dude motherfucking Facebook movie bullshit jesus can you fucking believe this shit
Goddamn created Facebook and fucking lawyers and shit right fucking Winklevoss Twins goddamn rowing the boat fuck yo shit i can’t even fucking believe this shit have you seen this shit fuck i just watched this shit fuck Jesse Eisenberg man
Motherfucking Spiderman Spiderman you put in the time fuck put in the time motherfucking build shit with his bare hands fucking best friend shit Jesse Eisenberg
No man i’ll just talk about the Facebook movie all day shit man you have to be so interested in the shit i have to say about the Facebook movie fuck dude i just watched it a year and a half ago fuck Jesse Eisenberg man he fucked over Spiderman crazy Winklevoss Twins rowing trent resin or did the soundtrack fuck this guy who invented Facebook i don’t like dying i can’t think of who the fuck invented Facebook all i can think is the guy who played the guy who invented Facebook who the fuck invented Facebook MARK ZUCKERBERG
What if your legs didn’t know they were legs
I can’t leave this site for a few days without some new update happening can I?
Marlon Brando was bisexual. Bupita happened. I have a cat named after River Phoenix. Johnlock is canon. I’m a lesbian. Mexican food is the best.
Johnlock is canon. Tumblr hates all of us. It’s pumpkin spice everything season.
johnlock
I hate everything about this blue hellsite
DLC culture is stupid. Why are you selling me an incomplete broken game and then expecting me to buy the rest of the game months down the line. And the DLC are just as fucking broken (COUGH AWAKENING COUGH) Fuck DLCs JUST FINISH THE GAME AND PUT THEM IN THE GAME.
hear it hurgling
AND STEVEN!
i want to die
I just want to reblog this and stress this: Levi lost his entire squad. He didn’t lose 20% of his squad. He didn’t even lose 50%. He lost his whole squad. Look at what it’s done to him. You can see the death in his eyes, but he keeps on going. This is why Levi is one of my favorite characters.
Im a farking lesbian
hate michelle tanner
i want to die
stop maining luigi in smash bros
shit boy! boy i die
What do you have against Michelle?
make it long boys
young man, you are young and a man
shut up steve
Fight me, Janet
(ノ◉◇◉)ノ彡┻━┻ COME AT ME
The guy who is the front man of this band can literally be described as “a dudebro with a beard complex” and I literally hate every nanosecond of his egotistical, sexist ass
Want me to pass the promethium?
Ehhhh, can I listen to it on, ehhhhh, Spoofy?
the dark man took my son
Johnlock is literally the worst, that show should be dead and gone by now. Get better tastes.
Listen here cum-slut, I bet you 5 million dollars that you don’t own a bird. But guess what? I own 7. And I can tell you right now that a bird would never just walk into something like a chocolate fountain. They’ll rarely walk directly into water.
But say that your idiotic theory is correct.
Say it did actually walk into it.
That animal still probably died.
Is that still funny to you? Do you still get your kicks out of knowing that that bird was probably terrified and opening its mouth to scream in that last panel?
And if you say yes then you seriously disgust me as a human being.
I’m here with a message about a very issue that’s close to my heart. An issue that effects me and many others everyday. My message is simple, don’t touch my shit. We live in a world where millions of people go everyday without touching my shit. Why can’t you be one of them. You alone have the power to stop touching my shit because you’re the one touching my shit. In fact research indicates that that the simple act of touching your shit and only your shit, we can eradicate the issue of you touching my shit almost immediately, with only a dime a day. I made a little stack of dimes and put it on my dresser. It fell over, so I know your touching my shit. Don’t touch my shit. I’ll set up a camera, don’t think I won’t! Once I woke up in the middle of the night and it was dark and I could see you touching my shit. I mean come on, who else would it be. Your shit. My shit. Stop touching my shit now, and you’ll receive this commemorative token bag. Then it will be your shit. (Don’t call. Just stop touching my shit) And you can touch it literally whenever you want. Join me, and together we can create a world where people keep their hands to themselves. You know who you are! Seriously, who taught you manners, have some respect.
A long long time ago I can still remember how That music used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those people dance And maybe they’d be happy for a while
But February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver Bad news on the doorstep I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride Something touched me deep inside The day the music died So
Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die This’ll be the day that I die
Did you write the book of love And do you have faith in God above If the Bible tells you so? Do you believe in rock and roll? Can music save your mortal soul? And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well, I know that you’re in love with him ‘Cause I saw you dancin’ in the gym You both kicked off your shoes Man, I dig those rhythm and blues
I was a lonely teenage broncin’ buck With a pink carnation and a pickup truck But I knew I was out of luck The day the music died I started singin’
Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die This’ll be the day that I die
Now, for ten years we’ve been on our own And moss grows fat on a rolling stone But, that’s not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen In a coat he borrowed from James Dean And a voice that came from you and me
Oh and while the king was looking down The jester stole his thorny crown The courtroom was adjourned No verdict was returned
And while Lennon read a book on Marx The quartet practiced in the park And we sang dirges in the dark The day the music died We were singin’
Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye And singin’ this’ll be the day that I die This’ll be the day that I die
Helter skelter in a summer swelter The birds flew off with a fallout shelter Eight miles high and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass The players tried for a forward pass With the jester on the sidelines in a cast
Now the half-time air was sweet perfume While sergeants played a marching tune We all got up to dance Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field The marching band refused to yield Do you recall what was revealed The day the music died? We started singin’
Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye And singin’ this’ll be the day that I die This’ll be the day that I die
Oh, and there we were all in one place A generation lost in space With no time left to start again
So come on Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Jack Flash sat on a candlestick 'Cause fire is the devil’s only friend
Oh and as I watched him on the stage My hands were clenched in fists of rage No angel born in Hell Could break that Satan’s spell
And as the flames climbed high into the night To light the sacrificial rite I saw Satan laughing with delight The day the music died He was singin’
Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die This’ll be the day that I die
I met a girl who sang the blues And I asked her for some happy news But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store Where I’d heard the music years before But the man there said the music wouldn’t play
And in the streets the children screamed The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed But not a word was spoken The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died And they were singing
Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die This’ll be the day that I die
They were singing Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die
Motherfucking Tumblr jesus christ fuck dude motherfucking Tumblr update bullshit jesus can you fucking believe this shit Goddamn created Tumblr and fucking bloggers and shit right fucking glitchy posts goddamn spamming the dash fuck yo shit i can’t even fucking believe this shit have you seen this shit fuck i just saw this shit fuck Tumblr man Motherfucking Tumblr man Tumblr man you put in the text fuck put in the text motherfucking type shit with his bare hands fucking best friend shit Tumblr No man i’ll just talk about the Tumblr update all day shit man you have to be so interested in the shit i have to say about the Tumblr update fuck dude it just updated a few minutes ago fuck Staff man they fucked over Tumblr man crazy glitchy posts spamming they already fucked the soundtrack player fuck these guys who invented Tumblr i don’t like dying i can’t think of who the fuck invented Tumblr all i can think is the guys who played the guys who invented Tumblr who the fuck invented Tumblr
DAVID KARP
Normally I don’t comment on Tumblr updates because normally they don’t really affect users… like shifting the icons or changing the logo, those don’t really do anything to hinder us or affect how we use the site.
But this comment shit? This is disgusting. If everything else wasn’t proof enough, this shows that staff has no idea how their userbase interacts with their site. So allow me to briefly speak for us:
No one, and I mean NO ONE, wanted you to change the layout of comments. Reblogs were NOT supposed to be read as individual comments. Sure, in your picture, it looks like the jokes still flow one after another. Because they are all nice and short and one-line puns. Which very rarely happens in comparison to everything else on this site.
What DOES happen is discussion. People like to communicate with each other through reblogs. They like to talk about a news story or an upcoming material release. This is not fucking youtube, where certain content creators provide something unique, and everyone else is just there to admire it. This social media site promotes discussion: where any user can write something, share something, show something… tag it appropriately, and engage with others interested in the same things.
Changing this to a user-comment format removes this idea completely. Now, the original poster is completely indistinguishable from the others, which was something that gave a bit of importance before. Now, posts that relied on the format for proper flow, by dragging your eyes to the right with names and back to left with commentary, have been destroyed - I can no longer easily tell who is responding to what. It now looks like every comment is responding to the source, which works for youtube, but NOT for this site. Sometimes the discussion tangents midway between two users, and the source is merely the context, not the topic. See how that would look bad in this new format? [Youtube comments counter this by tagging the person they are responding to over and over. You really want that on every post?? It looks awful there, why would you want to mimic that?!?]
But the worst part is, you did not “rearrange reblog comments so that they’re actually readable.“ Admittedly, the one thing this helps is that now, comments that went off the right wall are fixed. But just look at your dumb gif! What before all fit nicely on one text post is now 7 different spaced out comments. What could be read and understood at a glance now forces you to scroll almost double the length. How the hell did you think that was “easier to read” if you can’t even read it all at once??? And how do you think this will affect large commentary posts?
With this update, you’ve ruined something integral to how Tumblr users engage with your site and with each other. We enjoyed the > layout because it made sense. It’s been that way since Tumblr was created, and it sure as hell wasn’t broken. If I wanted random comments, I’d go to news sites. To forums. To Facebook. To Twitter. To Youtube. To literally any other site. Comments are a step BACKWARDS. Every site has a comment section now. Tumblr’s layout promoted discussion over time, only rivaled by Reddit (and maybe 4chan?) as THE discussion-based social media site. How you failed to understand that and capitalize on it, and instead are trying to break that system, is beyond me. But this update was by far the worst one to have been done. I seriously hope you consider reverting it.
