Well at least it makes a change from the usual dark screen? But anyway, well done Tumblr for infantilizing your user base: the service itself is buggy as hell and can hardly go for 5 mins without some sort of error message, but at least you can try to be cute and talk about “Tumblrbeats” that need feeding, etc. I dunno about you guys, but personally I find it a little patronizing? After all, Tumblr, you’re running an IT company, not a kindergarten. Being cute won’t make it less frustrating when you’re trying to use the service and you’re presented with a message talking about feeding the beasts, blah blah… View high resolution

Well at least it makes a change from the usual dark screen? But anyway, well done Tumblr for infantilizing your user base: the service itself is buggy as hell and can hardly go for 5 mins without some sort of error message, but at least you can try to be cute and talk about “Tumblrbeats” that need feeding, etc. I dunno about you guys, but personally I find it a little patronizing? After all, Tumblr, you’re running an IT company, not a kindergarten. Being cute won’t make it less frustrating when you’re trying to use the service and you’re presented with a message talking about feeding the beasts, blah blah…

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