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50 Of The Funniest Tumblr Posts That Deserve To Be Seen Again
Throughout the history of the Internet, every social media platform had a different function. MySpace was for budding artists to build a fanbase by sharing their music with their peers. Vine was all about 6-second entertainment. And Tumblr? Well, some might say it was simply meant to be one of the silliest places on the Internet.
If you were on the Internet around 2014 when Tumblr was at its peak, you might have an inkling about the shenanigans its users would get up to – and maybe still do. Today, we're featuring some pages that collect the funniest interactions on Tumblr. For posterity, but for an occasional chuckle as well, we suppose.
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Joe Reaves 1 year ago
All short faced dogs and cats. And then we can start on the breed standards for German Shepherds which have increased the slope of their back to such a point they almost all have hip issues.
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me myself and i (she/her/they) 1 year ago
also reminds me of an astronaut who wore pink in an interview so her daughters could see that astronauts can be pink. love our sparkly scientists and pink astronauts <3
If someone were to ask me what Tumblr is really for, I don't think I could answer easily. But one netizen on Reddit might have done so four years ago when they explained to another lost soul what Tumblr is and what people use it for. If Twitter was for short quips and Blogger and WordPress for long-form posts, then Tumblr aimed to fill in the gap in between.
Tumblr's simple interface allowed its users to share any and all types of content easily in their blogs. Whether it was text, video, pictures, or gifs, the site built a diverse and strong community where people shared and explored their interests like nowhere else on the Internet.
For me, Tumblr was about finding and connecting with the fandoms I enjoyed. Whether they were for TV series, anime, or music, it was a place to find and follow the bloggers and the fan art you find interesting. Granted, it's easy to veer into the weird side of Tumblr really quickly, but I usually stuck with the vanilla side of the platform.
Another great thing about Tumblr was its news feed: it was only the creators you followed in chronological order. Nowadays, most social media platforms have pretty annoying algorithms in that regard. But if you really worked on your Tumblr feed, you'd see exactly what you wanted. Most people say that one person's feed differs wildly from the next.
People like to say that nobody hangs out on Tumblr anymore. But is that really true? According to the statistics from Demand Sage, Tumblr still has more than 300 million active users each month. Users publish around 12.5 million blog posts every day, so can we really call it a deceased platform?
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Recent Tumblr statistics are quite interesting, too. While its demographics are pretty young with 40% of its users being Gen Z and 30% being millennials, its gender divide splits exactly in the middle. The platform saw a jump in new users when Redditors migrated to Tumblr when Reddit began imposing fees on third-party developers.
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So, if Tumblr has that many active users, why do some consider it to be finished? Well, some people like to quantify a social media platform's success by how much money it's worth. And Tumblr's situation is quite sad in that department. In 2013, when Tumblr was at its peak, Yahoo bought it for $1.1 billion. In 2019, it sold to Automattic for a mere $3 million.
Many say that the reason why Tumblr didn't rise to compete with social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat was because the higher-ups didn't understand what it was for. They tried to implement changes that would make it attractive to a broader audience while ignoring what made it special in the first place.
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Jemima Bauer 1 year ago
You know what to do…go to the animal shelter and get more cats to fill the empty bed space.
In her 2023 article for Wired, Elizabeth Minkel writes that one of the biggest charms of Tumblr is that it's like an improv space. Users on the platform seem to interact in a "yes, and" kind of way: one user posts a story and another comments with beautifully done art. If you're familiar with the Goncharov meme, you know that some Tumblr users even invent movies and others just go along with it.
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Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
We may not have the body mass but there's a good bit of sinew and leverage at our disposal!! :-)
At the moment, Tumblr is like a safe refuge for some. No crazy billionaire CEOs, no rampant misinformation; just art, vibes, and (silly)posting. Minkel discusses that the owners should perhaps stop trying to make Tumblr for everyone and trying to attract more users and focus on making it for those who want to be there.
"Internet person" and expert in online communities Allegra Rosenberg agrees: "Tumblr can be difficult to navigate for the inexperienced, ridden with parasitic beliefs and dangerous memes. You can easily get lost in the tags, sucked into toxic subcultures," she writes.
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Kiki Likes Sweets 1 year ago
That is definitely the mousiest mouse I've ever seen. Positively overflowing with mousiness.
"[But] the creativity of Tumblr visible from second-hand glimpses on other platforms is only the tip of an iceberg that encompasses enormous amounts of perpetual creative energy, generated by the affordances of the platform's much-loved functions, traditions, and communities," Rosenberg says, defending the platform.
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Skara Brae 1 year ago
I read somewhere that the no-elbows rule originated from the time when tables were just trestles and a board. Elbows could flip the board off the trestles.
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kzys59pcrp 1 year ago
Hey you, person reading this comment, you are special and people like you!
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Sally Moen 1 year ago
This is an idea that's used by a character in a book by Connie Willis "Bellwether", where the researcher of trends intentionally checks out classic books from the library so as to boost their popularity, with the purpose to keep the public library from selling those books to make room for the newest best sellers. As a book lover and library user, I approve of this
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Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
I got married in my late 30s and I remember telling my siblings had I known it would be so much fun, I would have done it years ago
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
Labradors are food vacuums. They'll eat until their stomach bursts if you let them.
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me myself and i (she/her/they) 1 year ago
they look like a cross between ravens/crows and mary poppins!
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HeavyMetalHeart 1 year ago
I either do that or I don’t do the thing for six months, there’s no in-between.
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Lost Panda 1 year ago
I'm going to use that on my son "Have fun at practice my little knife-footed ice-gremlin!"
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
But what will happen to all the brown cows who make the chocolate milk?
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me myself and i (she/her/they) 1 year ago
but... it's like a flower. it feels like they should be smaller. i've seen them in small pots i know they can be little but they are suspiciously large
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SleepyVampire 1 year ago
But "sixth former" makes it perfectly clear what grade a person is in. \s
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Spidercat 1 year ago
The architect of the Sydney Opera House peeled and ate an Orange. While he was eating the Orange he played about with the pieces of peel and arranged them in a particular way...this arrangement was the original idea for the basic shape of the Sydney Opera House. Funny how the brain works.
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
Do people get chain kitties in their inbox with the threat of bad luck if you don't repost?
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
Ooh I wish I could get such sweet revenge -of any type- on all the teachers who made my life miserable.
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
That's not a Photoshop, that's an actual photo of the grumpy water scarf I used to have (his name was Akiyo and he knew his name) He lived in an enormous tank with all the mod-cons and he was still a little grump :D
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Nuku Nyara 1 year ago
I also made a Jack Sparrow cosplay costume and it's everyone's favorite when I wear it
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Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
I am like this but in a bookstore. Once I even forgot my siblings were with me. Paid and left the store. Thankfully I was barely out when I remembered.
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cj be like 1 year ago
i have a swing in my backyard and when i was little i'd stay on there for hours at a time, and when i'd get off i'd be confused why the ground wasnt moving anymore
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WayoftheStarPrincess 1 year ago
Very resonable, I'd say. Good vs bad and all that. Classic religion!
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Susie Elle 1 year ago (edited)
But have you even seen the size of a healthy rhododendron shrub? There's one in Oosterbeek that spans an entire estate line and reaches the roof of the house.
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me myself and i (she/her/they) 1 year ago
is my cat a violent little devil? absolutely. is said devil adorable and would I die for her? of course
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Sillywaster Stayalone 1 year ago
Why does this cat looks like the black version of the red cat in Courage the Cowardly Dog
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Panda McPandaface 1 year ago (edited)
We can only assume there is limited knowledge of Spanish slang involved here...
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Sillywaster Stayalone 1 year ago
The knight always looked to be like a sea horse so I called it horsey
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Kathy Brooke 1 year ago
And this why Tumblr will always be the greatest social medium. The others will crash and burn, the sky will darken and the moon turn to blood, but Tumblr users will still be painting The Swan and passing salad dressing in March. They will teach each other things for free, provide safe spaces and share their unique view of the world. I pray it will never get so big it gets taken over by a narcissistic billionaire or sacks its staff out of appeasement. It is home.
me myself and i (she/her/they) 1 year ago
i'm genuinely wondering how BP writers get inspiration for these articles. like do they scroll tumblr and reddit at work and look at their screenshots of memes and think "i could be onto something here"??
Kathy Brooke 1 year ago
And this why Tumblr will always be the greatest social medium. The others will crash and burn, the sky will darken and the moon turn to blood, but Tumblr users will still be painting The Swan and passing salad dressing in March. They will teach each other things for free, provide safe spaces and share their unique view of the world. I pray it will never get so big it gets taken over by a narcissistic billionaire or sacks its staff out of appeasement. It is home.
me myself and i (she/her/they) 1 year ago
i'm genuinely wondering how BP writers get inspiration for these articles. like do they scroll tumblr and reddit at work and look at their screenshots of memes and think "i could be onto something here"??
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