It’s a Crying Shame Tumblr Hasn’t Quite Figured Out ItsRevenue Problem Yet
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Here’s a short (true) story about the times we live in:
1. A few weeks back, a Rochester dad named Greg Pembroke decides to take to Facebook to share photos of his 21-month old son Charlie crying about… well, everything. His friends are so amused that they suggest he create a Tumblr blog about the wailing toddler. His first Tumblr post, captioned “He is out of pretzel sticks,” shows Charlie crying as he crawls on the kitchen floor; it appears on April 2 on Pembroke’s exceedingly spare Tumblr blog titled “Reasons My Son Is Crying.”
2. The Tumblr community goes crazy for Charlie. Or, rather, for his dad’s wry little conceptual-art project, which shows shot after shot of Charlie, always in tears, with dryly hilarious captions like “I wouldn’t let him drink bath water,” “He is bad at eating yogurt” and”I wouldn’t let him eat Buzz Lightyear’s head.”
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