Do you work in sales at Tumblr? Have you noticed a disturbance in the force? We're hearing that bad shit went down at Tumblr this week, and while it is not going to be announced until next week, for now everyone at Tumblr is drinking heavily.

Marissa Mayer addressed her haters during Yahoo's earnings call. Tumblr, she claimed, will generate $100 million in revenue in 2015. As for profitability, Mayer said Tumblr will reach "positive Ebitda," which doesn't seem like enough return to shut down activist investors.

Faced with sagging ad sales, Yahoo has decided to keep trying to same failing strategy: gobbling up fledgling startups to reinvigorate the aging behemoth. An activist investor already slammed this approach as a money-burning fuck up. But CEO Marissa Mayer is undeterred. She plans to squander profits from Yahoo's stake in Alibaba on more youthful startups.

It was bad enough that companies like Facebook and Google relentlessly mine your information and sell it to advertisers. But now third-party startups are getting into the mix. Thanks to unprecedented access to photos uploaded to apps like Instagram, these third-parties are scanning and storing people's photos on behalf of major advertisers.

Activist investors are awesome at concern-trolling. Just look at Starboard Value's open letter to Marissa Mayer, a new contender for the underminer's hall of fame. The hedge fund "wants Mayer to stop buying companies" because it's worried recent bets haven't paid off.

Yesterday, prominent Yahoo! employee David Karp told his team at Tumblr that Derek Gottfrid, an exalted VP, was just fired. Soon after, an early Tumblr backer and noted New York tech-loon shared his very, very frank thoughts.

Nobody really enjoys using most of the Yahoo! branded apps or websites, so the company's future rests largely on the money it can make from advertising. For this reason and perhaps others, it's not a good sign that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer showed up hours late to a client dinner because she was asleep.

Yahoo! exec David Karp and the President of the United States are currently running a Q&A session about issues that affect American youths—because, like everyone always said, Tumblr is where the teens are. And hey, they both love drones.

In July, Tumblr's tween creator David Karp predicted native, multimedia advertising would be the most exciting, dazzling part of the company. At the year's end, they're running depressing link ads for the yellow pages.

Since Yahoo! decided to buy itself many million cool, popular teens, we've been wondering just how much the billion dollar purchase is working out. Are they clicking ads? And more importantly, just how popular did Tumblr make its historically square parent company? It was murky before, and now they're making it even more opaque.

Rich Kids of Instagram is being turned into a novel. Coming to an Urban Outfitters discount table near you next summer.

Nick Bilton presents more evidence of near-implosion at the International House of GIFs: "At Tumblr, the venture capitalists grew so impatient with its founder, David Karp, as he struggled to make the company profitable, they were discussing his removal before the site’s sale to Yahoo."

Editorial Director Christopher Price, who joined Tumblr a week after it launched and has been part of its inner circle ever since, is jumping ship.

Yahoo! saved Tumblr from certain death or ignoble decline, a company that was killing itself because it didn't care about making money. Months later, Tumblr's dropout prince seems more interested in flying drones and looking at GIFs than being a CEO.

Upside-down uber-acquirer Marissa Mayer is fashioning herself into something of a content queen. According to Kara Swisher, the "hey-look-at-me CEO" wants Yahoo visitors to look at Katie Couric too.

Tumblr says it wasn't hacked, but it looked that way to a hell of a lot of its users: for a harrowing fifteen minutes, images of sexual intercourse, Satanism, and other horrors permeated the Tumblrverse without apparent cause. The kids are not alright.

AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reports some glum news from a recent Yahoo! financial filing: when the confused internet portal sealed its deal, Tumblr has only $16 million in the bank. That's a lot to us, but peanuts for one of the most popular sites on the entire internet.

The story of Tumblr in the arms of Yahoo! has been one of compromise, of spirit in decline. David Karp wanted his blogchild to be a bastion of free expression and porn. But in the months since he sold out, advertisers are steadily colonizing Tumblr. Are you excited for Bisquick GIFs?

In the slow battle between humankind's love of porn and Tumblr's need to somehow make money, we find ourselves in a sort of ceasefire: boobs can stay, but they won't be easy to find. Caught in the armistice are plenty of inoffensive things. Why can't I search for #gay on my phone, but it's easy to find naked teens?