its funny how literally the only thing holding this website together is the fact that its kind of old fashioned and not tiktokky or algorithmy and now staff are trying to fuck that up
Everytime I see tumblr try to pull a “let’s make it more like this other social media platform” I think of an experiment where Coke did a blind taste test against Pepsi products and found most people prefer the taste of pepsi so they changed their recipe to taste more like pepsi. The product performed terribly. Shockingly, the people who preferred pepsi were just going to drink pepsi and the people who preferred coke didn’t want a drink something that tasted like pepsi. People choose social medias and basically anything for what differentiates them from alternatives
max declaring (monotone) that he’s taking over the red bull instagram account for the day, asking for questions, answering precisely one of them (“how are you feeling today” “relaxed”), and then turning his phone off completely is probably the very most the PR department could have hoped for.
you need to be earnest. you need to tell people that you love them. you need to speak on how you’re feeling honestly. you need to be sentimental. you need to stop letting the fear of other people laughing at you have so much control over how you express yourself. you need to get over yourself. you need to be embarrassing but true.
