That sounds absolutely plausible and is thus now incorporated as Truth into my memory of the goings-on.
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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 23 hours agoI can’t verify the truth of it, but I heard that the catalyst to the porn ban was a meeting where they were pitching Tumblr advertisements to some company, and wanted to demonstrate how tags and engagement works, so they pulled up the #McDonalds tag live to demonstrate and they got a screen full of Ronald McDonald porn.
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tabular@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’m loving it
limonfiesta@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I don’t care if this is debunked in the next millisecond, this is my head canon from now till the end of time.