The moment the platform terminates your account, your organic search footprint is flattened to zero, and your newsletter acquisition pipeline is severed.
When you are weaving complex, live-serialised hyperstitions, continuity is everything. By pulling the plug without a second thought, Tumblr didn't just disrupt a feed; they actively sabotaged the momentum of an active, unfolding mythos.
Not everyone can take the deal. Not because they are ungrateful. Not because they are difficult. Because the deal was designed by and for people who were never going to struggle with it.