Don’t like TikTok? Try Tumblr TV
Remember Tumblr? To quote Eddie Murphy’s Buckweat, “Boy, it been a long time since den days!”
According to TechCrunch, with all of the uncertainty surrounding TikTok, Tumblr is launching Tumblr TV. From TechCrunch:
In 2015, the blogging site Tumblr launched a GIF discovery feature called Tumblr TV as an experimental product. Now, with the U.S. TikTok ban leaving the fate of the short-form video app uncertain, Tumblr has decided it’s finally time to launch Tumblr TV, which has since evolved to support video, to all its users as one of its standard features.
The company on Tuesday announced the product’s graduation from its experimental projects home known as Tumblr Labs, explaining how the tab would become available to everyone. New users will see the tab in a fairly prominent third position in the app. Meanwhile, existing users will be able to toggle Tumblr TV on or off in their Dashboard Tabs configuration settings, Tumblr said.
The decision to promote the video product from an experiment to a core feature nearly 10 years after its creation has a lot to do with the demand for TikTok alternatives in the wake of the U.S. law that banned the app and others with Chinese ownership in the country.
It remains to see what will happen to TikTok (and we’re prepared for anything), but could Tumblr TV fill the void?
EDIT: Not yet it can’t; Not even close. I just went on to mess around with it and Tumblr TV has a ways to go in terms of usability and worthwhile content.
