I was at the Tumblr meet up. The clapping was very standard polite clapping after conversations were interrupted for a standard, “thanks for coming to the tumblr meet up, there’s x, x and x over there feel free to grab stuff”. Of the people I spoke to and conversations I overheard no one was really gaga for tumblr. People were honestly there for the much needed free breakfast stuff and to mingle with other people.

(In response to this for anyone following along.)

Yeah, that’s fair. Thanks for writing, and if I implied that people were fanatically cheering or anything that certainly was not the case. It’s great that SPX organized the meetup and I hope people had a nice time. I’m projecting because this sort of thing is on my mind of late – didn’t mean to imply that the clapping itself means much of anything. It just made me think about my concerns with Tumblr specifically and artists posting free content to third party sites in general. Matthew Thurber makes some good points related to this if you haven’t read this article. I need to think about this topic more.