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Someone at Tumblr jazzed up the app's release notes with wacky fan fiction about founder David Karp

Someone at Tumblr jazzed up the app's release notes with wacky fan fiction about founder David Karp

David Karp

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Tumblr founder David Karp.

In the release notes for a recent update to Yahoo's Tumblr blogging app for the iPhone and iPad, the company did something a little...different.

Where usually, the release notes include a list of changes to the app (or at least the frustratingly vague "Bug fixes and performance improvements), Tumblr wrote a little bit of fanfiction about CEO and founder David Karp and a hypothetical board meeting. 

Check it out for yourself, as captured in this tweet from Greylock Partners' venture investor John Lilly:

 We're no Tumblr experts, but it sounds like this might have been exaggerated. But it's a great way to punch up a minor app update. 

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