Tumblr - The social media cycle

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prokopetz I think the real problem here is that big media corporations seem to believe that social media userbases are fungible, and persist in acting on this belief no matter how many times it's demonstrated to be wrong There's a specific pattern of events that plays out over and over (and over) again, and it looks something like this: 1. Social media platform becomes popular 2. Social media platform is purchased by big media corporation in order to gain access to it large user base 3. Big media corporation realises that social media platform's demographics are not the demographics they want to sell things to 4. Big media corporation institutes measures to drive away "undesirable" users, apparently in the honest belief that the outgoing users will automatically be replaced by an equal number of new, more demographically desirable users 5. This does not, in fact, occur 6. Social media platform crashes and burns You'd think that, by the sheer law of averages, at least one person who's capable of learning from experience would become involved in this whole process at some point. #tumblr #the great purge #internet #technology #social media #business #capitalism 1,815 notes

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Nedhitis

Dec 04, 2018 at 06:13PM EST

Not social media, but the same can be said of Diablo right now. Blizzard expects their new Chinese demographic target to effectively replace any Diablo fans that decide to ditch the series and keep their earnings and more, and maybe that WILL be the case… for a while. Unfortunately, not only do less than 10% of mobile players ever pay anything for those games, but also, they are very fickle. They cannot keep a steady userbase with a quick cash grab game like Diablo Immortal compared to past titles, and that will inevitably mark the franchise's doom if they do nothing about it.

The bottom line here is that people honestly have no reason to have to forcibly adapt to any company's changes if they have better options, and Tumblr users, just like fans of any game, indeed have other options, so they will take them, and the ones to suffer the most negative consequences from all of that is the companies, not us.

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shogungari

Dec 05, 2018 at 01:44AM EST

I've always joked that the people in charge of large companies that make ridiculous decisions no normal human would conceive are actually fairies. As in, the fey of lore who burn your house down for giving them socks. Only something as insane as a fairy could think anything corporations do is a good idea.

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