50 Hilarious Screenshots From Tumblr That Prove It’s One Of The Silliest Places On The Internet
InterviewTumblr hit its peak between the years 2013-2018, but its impact on the internet will stick around forever. The company prides itself on being a “mycelial network,” rather than a social media site, and a safe space for all, so there's no limit to what can be found there.
Below, you'll find screenshots of some of the silliest and most awkward interactions that have ever taken place on Tumblr, courtesy of the Antisocialduckling Instagram account, as well as an interview with the page's creators. From brilliant one liners to the pun-niest posts, we hope you enjoy the hilarious pics on this list, whether you've been an avid Tumblr user for a decade or you’ve never ventured onto the site. And be sure to upvote all of the ones that make you want to channel your 2014 Tumblr girl era!
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Tumblr was launched in 2007 and was an almost immediate success. By 2013, it was purchased for 1.1 billion dollars by Yahoo! Inc., and during 2014, the site hit over 200 million blogs. It was known for being a slightly subversive space where everyone was welcome, so it’s no surprise that the site attracted some of the funniest and silliest people on the internet as well. And that’s why Antisocialduckling on Instagram has unlimited content. This page, which has amassed an impressive 233k followers, has shared 7,500 wholesome and hilarious screenshots from Tumblr, featuring some of the most brilliant interactions the site has ever seen.
We got in touch with the page’s creators, Mash, Bram and Jake, via Instagram, and they were kind enough to have a chat with us about how Antisocialduckling was born. “We saw other pages with a similar style and decided to make this page to post what makes us laugh,” they told Bored Panda. “And hopefully that makes someone else laugh.”
There’s no question that Antisocialduckling has made hundreds of thousands of people laugh. But one thing you might find interesting is that the creators of the page actually never were avid Tumblr users. They can still appreciate how unique the site is though. “It’s special because it's nonsensical and chaotic, which I relate to strongly,” one of the creators shared.
And as far as how they decide what to share with their followers, there are not a lot of strict rules involved in the process. “If it makes me laugh, I post it,” one creator told Bored Panda. But they did note that all of the posts they share are screenshots they took themselves, and if there is someone who can be credited, they are sure to tag them.
We also asked the creators of Antisocialduckling if they had any particular posts they’ve ever shared that were their favorites. “The little gif where Timmy the Ostrich runs in circles,” they shared. “Guy is just a little bit lost.” And as far as what the future holds, the creators say that they don’t have any specific plans yet. “We will just keep posting and see what happens!” If you’d like to follow along with all of their chaotic and hilarious posts, be sure to visit Antisocialduckling on Instagram right here!
Ask anyone who was addicted to Tumblr in 2014, and they’ll tell you the site changed the landscape of the internet. It was a pioneer, and nowadays, it’s easy to forget how much of a trendsetter Tumblr was. But lucky for us, Jess Joho at Mashable wrote a piece exploring this topic to ensure we all remember. The first way in which Joho says Tumblr changed the internet is how it provided a safe place for women, queer folks and “kinksters” to explore their sexuality. “The Tumblr dashboard was one of the only places to see sex viewed through a primarily female gaze, to see what women liked to look at and not just hardcore [content] filmed for male pleasure," says Rachelle Hampton, Tumblr scholar and co-host of the ICYMI podcast.
I'm choking on my laughter right now because my favorite coworker is Francois and we're in Texas, and it's actually hilarious watching his face when he's talking to someone and you know he's thinking "what the hell is going on in these Americans heads?!'
The dichotomy behind personal space is fascinating to me. Americans want physical space around them, whereas most of the rest of the word seemingly want mental space - as in, "if you don't know me, please don't greet me." Please correct me if I'm reading that wrong.
The proper distance when talking to another person varies by country. I recall reading that in Canada it’s about 1.2 meters and in some Arab countries as little as 0.6 meters. So when a Canadian and Arab talk you may see the pair moving as the Canadian walks backwards to increase the distance.
Load More Replies...The look on a Brit's face when he orders French dressing in a US steakhouse. Real memory for me. Also trying to get him a "proper" cup of hot tea in Texas. Thank you, waiter who put the saucer on top of the tea mug to imitate a teapot.
Hot tea? Did you really need to specify that? A 'proper cup of tea' is always going to be hot anyway.
Load More Replies...Ice in your water for some reason? I get that you don’t like it, but can you really not figure out that it’s there to make the water cold. “For some reason”?
Who is serving room temperature beverages with only ice to cool it down?
Load More Replies...My family is French, but we live in California and I can confirm it can be hilarious seeing my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins in various situations when they come to visit.
American here: here’s a hug, a high five, and we’ll share some beer. It’s cold beer, here. Gotta prep ya for that. I would watch this.
I always ask before I hug anyone. Consent is sēxy and needs to be universal. I even ask my sister's kids before I hug them. If they say no, I'll drop it. That's just me, though.
I also ask before I hug anyone. Sometimes I just don't want to be touched at all and when I've said no to family bugging me I've been told to suck it up. Once I cried because someone hugged me after I said no. Like please don't touch me when I'm not expecting it. I'm only okay with like two people touching me
Load More Replies...i should go to america and film it, call it “Dmitryy in the Midwest”
Must be a regional thing, because no one in New England will hug you out of nowhere.
My thoughts as well, except I'm in Oklahoma. However, my ex was military and so are both my boys, so I've lived and been quite a few places all over the US. I have never been randomly hugged by anyone and I am very much a people person/social butterfly.
Load More Replies...And when people yell at you in English when they realize it isn't your first language, because that will somehow make it understandable...?
In all fairness, I understand French better when it is yelled at me. Probably just because yelling makes sure you pronounce words more clearly.
Load More Replies...This already exists. It's a comedy by Sacha Baron Cohen and it's called Brüno.
I really like Americans, but when I lived there I used to dread when I met new people and they first realised I was from overseas, because the level of excitement was often just too over the top compared to what I'm used to. "What, you're from Australia, shut the front door! Wow! Oh my god, welcome! Do you love it here already! Do you have kangaroos where you're from?! What do you think of our country!". It was objectively sweet, but just so full on. Also, one guy did excitedly ask me what I thought of supermarkets. I'm not sure why he thought Australia doesn't have them???
I'll apologize on behalf of everyone like this because this is me! I am easily excitable and fascinated by foreign places, accents and anywhere outside the U.S. so I'm genuinely, over the top excited to meet people. In the future, will curb that enthusiasm, though. I did learn quickly while in Cambodia visiting my parents (lots of Australians there) that Australians are not generally an approachable people. I think Americans -the non karens & non inteoverts- are just more expressive and forget that sometimes our happiness or excitement is annoying to more reserved cultures 😔
Load More Replies...And last plot : he becomes ill and discovers american healthcare system
Erm... I'm a born and raised American, and it's "culture shock" every time I either step out of my house or turn on/read the news! And that's for my OWN country! Then again, I'm of the OG "NERF OR NOTHING" Skip-It generation...IYKYK
I have been to Canada (I KNOW it's not the US) and one early morning at 3 am we ended at an obscure dinner because we were hungry after a night out and drinking. I kept telling that since we were going to bed I just wanted a light breakfast, something salty though. The waitress took my order and i specified I wanted a small portion, child like small. She brought out the plates and mine was FULL with eggs, tomatoes, potatoes, sausages and whatever she could fit there. My friends were choking on their own spit because of the look on my face and her saying to me "The cook took half the portion away darling, it's not that much". It was an enormous quantity. It was a portion for 4 back home. My friends plates you ask? They were double mine. We were in Montreal somewhere in the suburbs.
It's not an either/or, you know. Unless you've got overground piping, water from the tap should be perfectly cold enough to drink. Not iced, but not warm either. In Europe, except for US-style fast food venues, you would always need to specify, or at least be asked first, if you want ice in any soft drink, but especially with water.
Load More Replies...That's my dads name! He moved from France to the US in his early twenties
Due to American tip culture, wait staff are constantly hounding and harassing people with their awesome customer service, and sometimes unwanted conversation
Oh my ... there's a place known for parties for various reasons ... actually, they accept any and every reason to invite everyone they know, everyone those known people know, and whoever gets picked up on the way also ... my sister was a lot closer to most people around there than I was ... I stopped going there because not wanting to be hugged by people I see like once a year made me ... I don't want that. I want to touch CERTAIN persons, sometimes. Hugging somebody is reserved for very special occasions, very special people, it's rude to use it as a standard substitue to just saying hello. Even people I never met, who didn't even know whom I had come with, came and effing HUGGED me. I'm not even THAT friendly, or look like I was THAT friendly. I ... just didn't go anymore. Often, I had stuff to do anyway.
And gangs of waiters beating you up in an alley because you didn't realize tipping was mandatory
Eventually the word will become so common that it will lose its meaning
Load More Replies...Although the average person, when they lose interest in something on Netflix, just bail on it without disparaging hundreds of millions of other people.
Tumblr was also a trendsetter in the way that it wove social justice discourse into internet youth culture. “Whether you know it or not, you likely learned words like ‘problematic’ thanks to Tumblr,” Joho explains. Popular blogs dissected issues like feminism and systemic racism in ways that were easy for youth to understand. “Tumblr changed online discourse forever by mainstreaming and distilling these complex socio-political theories into meme-able concepts accessible to young people who want to make the world a better place,” Joho continued.
I once thought I saw my coworker (who had a blonde bob hairstyle,) from across the store and shouted, "Hey, Sandy!" It was a lamp.
Unlike many other social media sites, where having anonymous profiles often harbors hate and inappropriate content, Joho says that being anonymous on Tumblr made the site a much more welcoming space. “Tumblr's anonymity gave its young users permission to build online identities without needing to offer up any of their IRL selves for the internet's ridicule,” she writes. “Unlike TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter, Tumblr was the one social networking platform where you could gain thousands of followers without ever revealing your face, name, age, gender, location, school, job, or any other personal details. That's probably a big reason why it was such a safe haven for the marginalized, too, as closeted queers found welcoming online homes that let them escape IRL homophobic households.”
Should've put a rowboat next to it while they were building it...What if they need the bathroom?
Tumblr also rejected the idea of monetizing social media or promoting influencers. “As a group of proto anti-capitalists before anti-capitalism was cool, the Tumblr community remains adamant about keeping monetization off the platform. That probably contributed to Tumblr's shorter lifespan, but it's a hill the platform's survivors are absolutely willing to die on,” Joho writes.
It's not a swallow that carries the coconuts, it's FLOATY COCONUTS CARRYING THEMSELVES!!! THIS SOLVES EVERYTHING!!!!
Tumblr was also the go-to place for many fandoms to thrive. “Fandom Tumblr liked to define itself, to a certain extent, in opposition to other Tumblr communities," Palmer Haasch, an Insider entertainment reporter, told Mashable. "There was a dichotomy that users kind of reinforced between the 'fandom' side of Tumblr and other, like, 'aesthetic' sides. But it was more so this dynamic where...fandom Tumblr was preemptively like 'even if you think we’re cringe, we don’t care and we’re gonna fan out harder."
Are these pics inspiring you to create a Tumblr account of your own? (Or revive yours from a decade ago?) We hope you’re loving this deep dive into the strangest parts of Tumblr. Keep upvoting the pics that you find particularly hilarious, and let us know in the comments below what your experiences with Tumblr have been like. Then, if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring screenshots from Tumblr that the world deserves to see, look no further than right here!
Better to risk looking ignorant in your search for knowledge than to not seek and remain ignorant.
Well...I was so confused about the placement of the cat until I realized, "oh, the other kind of balls."
People always say when they see pics of rare phenomena like this, 'oh, I would love to see something like this in real life.' We both know if you saw this in real life you'd be wrapping tin foil round your head and hiding in the closet, Tonya.
My friends and I did this too. Has to be a common thing for young people. We also posed like we were dead, usually draped awkwardly off of furniture.
I’m sorry potato but your brethren are no longer with us
My friends would describe me as smart, curious, and analytical.
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I love when people are surprised that tumblr still exists. Like pfft, you really thought it could die?
Tumblr cannot be killed. It's a pillar of the interwebs
Load More Replies...not me scrolling the list looking for anyone im friends with, and i found one! xD
I love when people are surprised that tumblr still exists. Like pfft, you really thought it could die?
Tumblr cannot be killed. It's a pillar of the interwebs
Load More Replies...not me scrolling the list looking for anyone im friends with, and i found one! xD