While I'm posting here and no longer under any obligation to rep the company, I might as well share this incredibly funny story from behind the scenes that I don't think ever got out: Due to the constant problems we had around "The Chaser" being also a name of a sex thing online (you would not BELIEVE the kind of confused fan mail I had to sort through), in 2019 we had very seriously planned to rebrand our online channels.
After a laborious process whittling down hundreds of potential names we settled on another alcohol related term, a popular Australian slang term for wine, as we thought that was in the spirit of "The Chaser" but also uniquely Australian.
Literally the only reason we didn't end up rebranding was the whole company fell into an omnishambles in 2020, and we were all too busy both figuratively and literally putting out fires to even think about doing a full company rebrand.
And that, my friends, is how The Chaser through sheer dumb luck, managed to avoid what would have gone down as possibly one of the worst company rebrands in the history of everything, when that same name came to mean something else VERY different a few years later:
Bothersome beast, comforting friend
Of all the haikus that haiku-bot made, this one is actually good imo
being on tumblr is like being in a car in a parking lot
like it's technically public, but you're also sorta in your own little bubble, and people have to be Actively trying to listen in order to hear you, if they're even aware that you're speaking at all. and then sometimes you accidentally bonk the horn with ur elbow and suddenly the whole parking lot knows you're a virgin
I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is
I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.
Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.
Here’s proof of what I mean:
Jokes on you, I don't know how to flirt
don't ever flirt on my post i'll kill you
I got this under a post about Tumblr being a faesite, what does it mean?
This person clearly doesn’t belong here. From Ask Historians on Reddit.
Can't believe I'm doing this-
20 notes: I'll try to drink more water (In progress)
50 notes: I'll start drawing again (In progress)
100 notes: I'll start writing again (In progress)
200 notes: I'll make a list of things I like about myself
240 notes: I'll work on Gilded Veil again
300 notes: I'll remake my intro post
500 notes: I'll list all of my interests
900 notes: I'll stop hurting myself
950 notes: I'll open up to my therapist about my declining mental health
20k notes: I'll open up to my parents about my declining mental health (Likely not gonna reach this, if it does I'll be surprised)
30k notes: I'll rewrite the whole US constitution (Although it won't be the US constitution anymore)
Rules: Only 10 comments for each person, that's it
Kat
It’s my birthday so I’m forcing people on my dash to look at my cat. I can’t afford to blaze it but please look at him. His name is Fionn!
A very kind soul has decided to blaze this post! And if you want to see more of Fionn, check out @fionn-the-cat