i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter
the result is this garbage
I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.
the holiday season is almost upon us and I’d like to bring back this absolute fucking monstrosity of an audio file
i dont think this site is actually going to go down. i think this is what will happen:
tomorrow, december 17th, the day of silence protest will occur. a large amount of users will be participating, making the people who are in the loop of the circulation of said protest info aka the most vocal and connected users of the site, think that their dash is completely dead
small blogging circles will continue to do their thing, many unaware of what is occurring outside of their world
posts will be made with screenshots of pornbots that havent even been deleted yet with staff @’d to point out how this sweep isn’t even working
users will devise workarounds to the filtering system when staff refuses to fix it
on december 18th, most of the day of silence protesters will return to the website. memes about the preceding day / the event will be reblogged en masse. then it will become apparent how many users actually jumped ship
staff will, once again, either refuse to listen and keep trying to drown this site in a capitalistic river while repeating over and over again that they “love” us, or make some significant bettering change months too late and blame it on a different event than its userbase protesting
none of the problems they were trying to solve will be solved
i will keep reblogging funy goodby tumlr memes until its out of fashion and then i will continue being here till im brave enough to deal with twitter or till i get sick of tumblr
thanks for coming to my ted talk and to all of you who are really leaving its been an honor to serve alongside you
the thing about tumblr that i think i’ll miss the most if it goes down is the like…quiet companionship on this site. i’m not talking about like knowing there are other people here who have the same views you do, or who don’t judge you for being honest and expressing yourself, though those are all good. i mean like…the mutuals you’ve had for years who you don’t talk to but you know. you might not know them well but it makes you happy when they post a cute selfie, or talk about something good that happened at their job. familiar names. little friendships. little connections in the vast sea of the internet, where you have to choose between total anonymity or sharing everything. we built communities in this hellscape and i don’t want to say goodbye to my neighbors just yet.
