johnathan-harker-apologist
Let me get this straight because I’ve only seen memes and am piecing this together as i go, but i think i figured out what’s happening.
Tumblr is advertising the tumblr app, on the tumblr app, using a photo of a guy in a Pikachu cosplay, because that’s what they think it will take to successfully sell this app, to people whom already use it?
But now the ball shaving ad is gone? Or is that one still in the mix?
makoredeyes
It’s real and your timing was uncanny
Ok. Why is tumblr advertising tumblr on tumblr though? What happens when you click the ad?
*sigh*
I suppose shit like this is why tumblr gave us the option to turn ads back on. Hold on. I’ll be back after i experiment.
I’m getting plenty of ads. Real actual ads. Mattress firm. Burger King. Walmart. Actual ads. No weird Pikachu man. What is even going on here? Is he just a very infrequent ad? Is he a tumblr ploy by @staff to get those of us whom pay to be ads free to turn on ads so we can see him? Is he am actual facts ad for ads free tumblr and already being ads free means you don’t get the ads free tumblr ad? I have more questions, not fewer!
I CLICKED THE LINK And
I’m
desasterdan
The weirdest part is, when you click on the ad from someone who reblogged it, it sends you to a blog with just the word ‘help’ on it
What?!? No. What??!
jordisstigander
THERE’S LORE????
Okay, so I just spent five minutes scrolling furiously until I found the stupid Pikachu man ad so I could click on it. I was dreading the possibility that this was fake.
ALTIT ISN’T
I had already clicked the ad. I decided to click the links.
The first link takes you to the trending page.
The second takes you to the underwater girlfriend page on best of reblogs.
The third is a trash panda on dank memes.
The fourth is the horse plinko tag.
I…can’t believe that this was here the whole time. How hard do you think is was for @staff to watch us complain and not say anything?
I pay tumblr 5$ a month and thus never ever have to see ads whether I’m on browser or app, unless i go in and turn them back on. So my means of learning about Pikachu man was from memes suddenly showing up on my dash one day. So I’ve sort of just been piecing this together as I go. I just think it’s so funny though that most of tumblr saw the ad and y'all are so well trained to never ever ever click on ads, that no one had apparently thought to click the ad to figure out what the heck Pikachu man was trying to sell. Which I’m so proud of y'all! But we sincerely almost let Pikachu man come and go without this bizarrely delightful discovery.
madame-serpentine
holy shit
musingsofaraven
Have we gotten an answer if the ball shaving ad is now gone?
nudityandnerdery
I can confirm that it is not gone, I have still seen their ads in the past 24 hours.
