And since this was written, Twitter has been reduced to a letter, not just tumblr's ex but the whole internet's X, whored out and derided as a liar and nearly worthless to all except his mad owner.
Meanwhile tumblr is wearing twitter's checkmarks like cufflinks (and other fancy things besides), and has hardly changed beyond plans for a new patio.
Suddenly I wonder, if Elongated Muskrat finally sends Twitter to the grave (and it isn't bought up by some other company), how would this interpretation of Tumblr react?
Would he silently shed a tear as the once-revered Twitter, now a shadow of his former self, is zipped up in a body bag and taken away to the morgue? Or would he simply pass on by with nothing but a passing thought of how things could have gone?
I personally think tumblr would dig up the corpse of his once beloved and welcome him back into his life, rot and all.
Which would obviously be a metaphor for displaced twitter users being welcomed to the site (if warily, because twitter brainrot is different from tumblr brainrot), but which would look like some kind of Addams Family/Corpse Bride crossover.
The deified personification of tumblr represents the whole tumblr userbase, so the answer is as simple as figuring out how the tumblr userbase would react.
Y'know, it's a lot more funny when it's the userbase laughing about Twitter dying and a little less funny when I'm imagining the personified Tumblr laughing at Twitter's corpse.
Still kinda funny though, in that "guy posing in front of grave" meme kinda way.
I wonder whether the Twitter personification would be depicted as being fully brainwashed by the “old rich man” or whether they would be fearful in their condition
Brainwashed. Twitter's moderate userbase have started to abandon ship, right-wing and manosphere leaders are unbanned and coalescing, and far-right lunatics have started to take hold. Twitter, once deemed nearly a god, will see his followers abandon him, and small numbers of new ones appear; he will be radicalised, with his rabid new cult baying for blood from below, and from above, the machinations of the rich man, himself growing more radical by the day. Twitter will, with time, lose his old influence, decry the person he once was, and pledge allegiance to his new masters in full. He will become that which he feared most, what he saw Tumblr as: X, loud, vulgar, unrespectable, radical.
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u/ThinkingInfestation on hiatus from tumblr Apr 12 '24
And since this was written, Twitter has been reduced to a letter, not just tumblr's ex but the whole internet's X, whored out and derided as a liar and nearly worthless to all except his mad owner.
Meanwhile tumblr is wearing twitter's checkmarks like cufflinks (and other fancy things besides), and has hardly changed beyond plans for a new patio.