human brain: sometimes we need to do boring things with no gratification or immediate benefit
monkey brain: absolutely not. die
for those who dont get it missing e was like the proto-xkit, a browser extension from the early 2010s designed to improve tumblr cause believe it or not this website used to be a lot fucking worse technically
but the thing about it was that tumblr absolutely DESPISED missing e, like i cannot overstate how livid they were at the time that someone was better at designing their website than they were. they started having these popups appear saying that missing e was like, a virus or some shit and it was malevolent and that the act of having missing e installed meant you weren’t allowed to receive support from tumblr staff.
like forget whatever happened with the original xkit guy, tumblr, as in the website, the staff behind the website itself, ACTIVELY ran missing e’s creator off the website because he was doing a better job of making their site than they were
I remember.