Many people on Tumblr have issued responses, acceptances and even apologies on their pages, which all come down to the same thing: "Leave us alone, we didn't do anything to you". However, because they've done this on their own page, nobody will ever see it. Not many of them have considered that a statement should actually be issued somewhere where the opposing side will see it. So, on behalf of Tumblr, an open letter has been written. Please read it, and think about it.
Look,
We didn't do anything. To say that we "stole memes" from you is ridiculous. The very nature of a meme is that it spreads around the whole Internet. You can't claim that everyone "stole" the Rickroll from you - if nobody had bothered with it except you, it wouldn't be as infamous as it is now. Memes spread. Deal with that. Furthermore, you know that. You know that we didn't do anything to offend you, and that it doesn't really matter. So why carry on?
We'll tell you why; because you were told to. You might agree with our last paragraph, but you'll still join in with the raid, so that you can say that you were a part of it. The real reason will eventually be lost. And then what? Then you yourself will become memes. Pointlessly firing off DDoSes at us, hoping that eventually you'll shut us down. Don't you think that if that was going to happen, it would've done already? It's been hours, and apart from the odd jump (which we're used to, doesn't affect us much if we have to press F5 once), the attack has failed. Some people will have logged off, out of boredom. They've realised that nothing will happen. They had the common sense to log off, give up, maybe watch a movie, go outside...or just keep browsing /b/. That last one seems most likely, but that's fine. /b/ can be a fun place, when it's not terrorizing the rest of the web.
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