Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will! - Valleywag Comments

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

Motherfirefly — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:10:47 PDT

But I love Simon Frankson.

Motherfirefly

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

jim_rock — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:12:55 PDT

my web dev friend did my tumblr for a used copy of devil may cry 4 for 360 and a White Castle breakfast sandwiched I overnight fedexed him. True story.

You can tell. My tumblr is hit.

[jimrock.tumblr.com]

jim_rock

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

SurotamaPsyche — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:45:32 PDT

@brechtgirl:
Comment on Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will! I wrote a post about all this controversy if you're interested: http://tmblg.com/post/34054964

SurotamaPsyche

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

brechtgirl — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:22:16 PDT

And then they don't work in IE: [numblr.nostrich.net]

brechtgirl

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

raincoaster — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:03:04 PDT

@Nicholas Carlson: Exactly. I often say if I had to teach blogging to the violently insane with OCD, I'd use Tumblr. No comments means no flamewars (because Tumblr users are too lazy to put them in posts) and any kind of lobotomized, heroin-dazed club kid can figure out how to use it.

But 'tis crap.

The fact that they're setting it at a thousand means they're pricing it against custom website design, rather than blog design. Smart, since their demographic is rich morons. I should do this, price it at $499, and target middle-class morons. It's not like I'm going to run out of customers for a few years at least.

raincoaster

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

Peteski — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:45:32 PDT

$ 9.99

Peteski

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

Maura Johnston — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:34:21 PDT

@Nicholas Carlson: "(The funny thing about fancy tumblr designs is that no one actually looks at them.)"

ding ding ding.

Maura Johnston

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

caseyliz — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:08:13 PDT

Honestly, when I first saw this website a few weeks ago, I assumed it was a joke.

caseyliz

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

vulturesquadron — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:03:47 PDT

Also, those designs are a fuckin snooze.

vulturesquadron

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

vulturesquadron — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:54:42 PDT

I like how most of the people on Tumblr openly admit that it's their venue for crap that doesn't make the cut on their "real blog".

Also, none of them can hack CSS? What the fuck is wrong with kids these days?

vulturesquadron

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

seth_barnburner — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:52:39 PDT

I actually think Trustafarians revel in the fact that they aren't mainstream, even though they drive Range Rovers and went to a $40,000/year NESCAC school.

seth_barnburner

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

stoppay — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:31:24 PDT

all the cool kids call it "tumbla"

stoppay

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

Michael_Irie — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:25:07 PDT

Pretty poor use of "Trustafarian"....

Trustafarians go on Phish tour, speak in wanna-be patois, drive Subarus, and use their parent's cash to sport for the hefty PG&E bills that result from growing exclusive strains of high grade cannabis ....

That being said, maybe if they hire someone to set up a Tumblr page, they could potentially convince their benefactors that they've actually got a job of sorts...

Michael_Irie

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:12:09 PDT

@sample032: Tumblr is a push-button blog platform. You can "follow" other tumblr users and pipe all their posts onto your "dashboard" -- which is kind of like Facebook's news feed. (The funny thing about fancy tumblr designs is that no one actually looks at them.)

Nicholas Carlson

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

RocketRockit — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:11:11 PDT

Fuck this, no seriously, fuck this.

RocketRockit

Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will!

sample032 — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:03:14 PDT

What does Tumblr do, again?

sample032