At this year’s Webby Awards, our founder had the pleasure of giving the Lifetime Achievement Award to GIF inventor and legend, Steve Wilhite. Amanda also had the pleasure of accepting awards for Best Community (yes you are), Best User Experience, and Best Tablet App!
Thank you!!
The Tumblr sale still feels so surreal. I know some of the OG crew look at this space from time to time, so I wanted to say congrats to y’all! I’m glad you got a nice little reward for your hard work, and that you get to continue working on your vision for this site in the way you think is best.
“I tried alcohol, but I didn’t like it very much.”
“We had no idea that cigarettes were bad for you back then.”
“When duty called, your old man stepped up.”
“I was a virgin when I got married.”
“Marijuana is addictive.”
“When they invaded our world, I fought bravely with my human brothers against the Oordwali Horde.”
“I always did what my father told me to do.”
“I loved taking piano lessons when I was your age!”
“The Oordwali were offering to make any human defectors rich beyond their wildest dreams, but I could never betray my own kind.”
“I was always, always, nice to my little sister.”
“I had a full time job starting when I was 12 years old and I haven’t stopped working since.”
“When the Oordwali crushed the human armies, they spared me because they admired how bravely I had fought against them.”
“I never drove drunk. Not once.”
“I called my mother every single day, even when she was in hiding with the rest of the soldiers of the Human Resistance. Until the Oordwali captured her and used her biomass to sustain Oordwali Larva growing in the ground-sac farms.”
“I did not tell the Oordwali where the Human Resistance was hiding.”
“When the Oordwali Overseer chemically castrated me and ordered me to raise two Oordwali pupae into full grown hatchlings, I doubted that I would enjoy the experience. But the second I took both of you home in your bio-sacs and saw those cute mandibles poking out, I knew that I loved you both more than anything in what remains of the world.”
Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.
Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.
So what’s new? Simply, Tumblr gets better faster. The work ahead of us remains the same – and we still have a long way to go! – but with more resources to draw from.
Yahoo is the original Internet company, and Marissa and her team share our dream to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas. I couldn’t be more excited to have her help. We also share a vision for Tumblr’s business that doesn’t compromise the community and product we love. Plus both our logos end with punctuation!
As always, everything that Tumblr is, we owe to this unbelievable community. We won’t let you down.
Fuck yeah,
David
