July 10, 2023

The Mary Sue: Tumblr Continues to Be the Best Social Media Site in a Sea of Internet Chaos

The Mary Sue: Tumblr Continues to Be the Best Social Media Site in a Sea of Internet Chaos. “Listen. I’ve written about Tumblr before. I won’t hide that I unapologetically grift for this website, despite its storied history. Tumblr is a mess of broken social norms and skrunkly mcturgl humor. It has gone through multiple poor UI changes and has cost its investors thousands, if not millions, of dollars. Yet it’s exactly this nature of chaos, anarchy, and piss-n-grit sensibilities that make it the website I love to call home.”

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March 13, 2023

The Verge: How a social network falls apart

The Verge: How a social network falls apart. “Twitter is in a period of decline. The site still functions, people are still using it, but there’s a familiar stink that lingers on the website. It reminds me of the twilight days of two other social media platforms I’ve used: LiveJournal and Tumblr — onetime vibrant communities that grew in popularity until everyone seemed to be using them, which then began a long, slow death.”

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December 17, 2022

Wall Street Journal: Tumblr Shoots for a Comeback With Users and Advertisers

Wall Street Journal: Tumblr Shoots for a Comeback With Users and Advertisers. “As the commotion surrounding Twitter’s new ownership leads some users to consider moving to smaller social-media sites, Tumblr is pitching its free-to-use microblogging service as a welcome throwback to the early internet: a place where people can be as weird, creative and nerdy as they like by posting and reposting media from photographs to poetry.”

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November 29, 2022

Screen Rant: Tumblr Users Made Up Fake Scorsese Movie Goncharov & It’s Almost Convincing

Screen Rant: Tumblr Users Made Up Fake Scorsese Movie Goncharov & It’s Almost Convincing. “Tumblr users have concocted a fake movie by Martin Scorsese, called Goncharov, and it’s remarkably, eerily convincing. Scorsese is the maestro of crime thrillers like Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and The Irishman. His next project is the eagerly anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon, which stars frequent Scorsese collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.”

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April 23, 2022

Mashable: You can sh*tpost to thousands of people with Tumblr Blaze

Mashable: You can sh*tpost to thousands of people with Tumblr Blaze . “On April 20, the blogging platform launched Tumblr Blaze for all users over 18 in the U.S. The feature is a way for users to increase the reach of their posts, which show up as a sponsored post to a random broader audience, depending on how much money people spend. For $10, you can get 2,500 impressions; $25 gets you 7,000 impressions; $65 gets you 20,000 impressions; and $150 gets you 50,000 impressions. Impressions are the number of times a post is shown to other users, and those users can be anyone in the U.S. who ‘might or might not follow you.’”

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March 18, 2022

The Verge: How WordPress And Tumblr Are Keeping The Internet Weird

The Verge: How WordPress And Tumblr Are Keeping The Internet Weird. “Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, which he co-founded, and Tumblr, the irrepressible social network it acquired from the wreckage of AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon. Matt’s point of view is that the world is better off when the web is open and fun, and Automattic builds and acquires products that help that goal along. That bet is perhaps most pronounced with WordPress itself.”

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February 25, 2022

KnowTechie: Tumblr now offers a paid option to remove ads, still no porn though

KnowTechie: Tumblr now offers a paid option to remove ads, still no porn though. “We keep speaking of Tumblr as if it’s dead, a relic of the past, when that just isn’t true. According to SimilarWeb, Tumblr ranks in the top 75 in the United States on the list of most popular websites. It’s the 103rd most visited site in the world. As of July 2021, Tumblr still hosted more than 529 million blogs. While Automattic has kept the adult content ban in place for some dumb reason, Tumblr bloggers are still a vibrant, active community.”

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February 21, 2022

Mashable: Remembering Tumblr’s strangest, most formative communities

Mashable: Remembering Tumblr’s strangest, most formative communities. “In the rearview, a singular Tumblr era has taken hold of the cultural consciousness. Known as the 2014 Tumblr Girl aesthetic, the overall vibe involves a devotion to American Apparel, subversive teen series Skins, the black-and-white filter, Lorde, and Matty Healy of The 1975. But there’s so much more to Tumblr, the blogging platform that raised an entire generation of fangirls and artists, than one aesthetic. What about the often forgotten communities on Tumblr that made it such a meaningful platform to so many different people? They might have been written out of public consciousness, but they’ll always be a formative part of our adolescence.”

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February 6, 2022

The Atlantic: How The Snowflakes Won

The Atlantic: How The Snowflakes Won. “Tumblr, launched 15 years ago this month, once had a reputation that was as big and confusing as that of Texas or Taylor Swift: It wasn’t just a blogging platform, but a staging ground for an array of political movements, the birthplace of all manner of digital aesthetics, and the site of freaky in-groups, niche conspiracy theories, community meltdowns, and one very famous grave-robbing scandal. At various points during the platform’s reign of online influence—from roughly 2010 to 2015—the phrase Tumblr user served as a proud identity marker, or something like a slur. Today, it’s an archaism.”

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January 18, 2022

New Yorker: How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete

New Yorker: How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete. “Tumblr is something like an Atlantis of social networks. Once prominent, innovative, and shining, on equal footing with any other social-media company, it sank under the waves as it underwent several ownership transfers in the twenty-tens. But it might be rising once more. Tumblr’s very status as a relic of the Internet—easily forgotten, unobtrusively designed, more or less unchanged from a decade ago—is making it appealing to prodigal users as well as new ones.”

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