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Depending on how you approached the internet over the last decade, Tumblr was either a haven or a place one only saw in some rather unhinged posts shared elsewhere. Love it or hate it, it’s a community like no other, bursting at the seams with some absolutely great content.
In case you needed an internet-post-based pick-me-up, we’ve gathered some of the best and funniest Tumblr posts for your viewing enjoyment. Get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and examples in the comments section down below.
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#1
We Will Test Out Your Metaphor!
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#3
My Old Person Trait
David Karp was 19 years old and working through a gap between consulting contracts when he built Tumblr in 2007. The concept was deceptively simple: a microblogging platform where users could post text, images, GIFs, audio, and video to their own customizable "tumbleblogs," and then reblog anyone else's content to their own feed. It sounds modest on paper, but what it actually created was something the internet had never quite seen before.
Through the early 2010s, Tumblr exploded in popularity. By 2014, its users were publishing at least 84 million posts every single day. It had become the spiritual home of fandoms, memes, social justice movements, creative writing, and a particularly unhinged strain of humor that couldn't quite exist anywhere else.
#4
*eye Twitches*
#5
For The Positive Side Of Movies
The site's rise was significant enough to catch the attention of Yahoo, which snapped it up in 2013 for a staggering $1.1 billion. Yahoo's then-CEO Marissa Mayer expressed unbridled optimism about the acquisition, but the two companies were never quite a natural fit, and Yahoo struggled to integrate Tumblr with its other operations in any meaningful way.
#7
Scurvy
#8
Controversial Opinions
GalPalAl 2 hours ago
I am gonna speak in brass tacks. Employers and people lie. They want someone who is dumb enough to follow what they need done by choosing the least qualified person who they can manipulate and pay them pittance for a s h i t job. If the person doing the hiring thinks that is a legit question, glad you ran as fast as you can.
#9
Nonbinary Wine
Verizon inherited Tumblr as part of its 2017 acquisition of Yahoo. That same year, Karp stepped down as CEO. Things were already not going particularly well. In 2018, Apple temporarily pulled the Tumblr app from its App Store after the platform was found to be hosting content that violated child safety policies.
#10
Mmm, Bitter Almonds
LizzieBoredom 6 hours ago
That's what I'd say if the police started asking questions about my late husband.
#11
That's How It Works
#12
Shocking, I Know
Roman Arendt 5 hours ago
Oh, absolutely! I'm constantly annoyed by myself for a start. And my queer best friend. But I love her. And I weirdly love being annoyed by her.
Tumblr and Verizon leadership responded by banning all explicit content, but the ban satisfied neither users nor advertisers. Within months of the decision being announced, the platform's traffic dropped by over 30%. The 84 million daily posts of Tumblr's peak had already fallen to around 30 million by 2018, and the vibe never fully recovered.
#13
Cheese
#15
Drunk But Still Staring At Her Selfies
By August 2019, the site that had once sold for over a billion dollars was purchased by Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, for the bargain price of $3 million. It is one of the more spectacular devaluations in internet history. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said his company would try to preserve the passion and sense of community that so many people around the world had come to associate with Tumblr. And to his credit, it appears they have. As of 2026, Tumblr still claims around 135 million monthly active users, proving that some things are simply too weird to die.
#17
What An Attention Seeker
Zoe Vokes 6 hours ago
The joker has been around for decades, often with a lot of mystery about who he was before. The standard explanation for him is that he’s criminally insane, not that he fell in some chemicals. Not all villains need a sympathetic backstory or a redemption arc, especially in comic books. He likes causing chaos
So what exactly keeps people coming back? A lot of it comes down to what Tumblr is not. Unlike Instagram or TikTok, Tumblr offers deep customization and gives users freedom to fully change themes, HTML code, and layouts, rather than funneling everyone through the same polished, algorithm-driven template where every post feels like an audition. Tumblr has always been looser, weirder, and considerably less interested in making you feel inadequate. Its reblog system, which lets users add their own commentary to a post as it travels across the platform, is at the heart of everything.
#19
“It Didn’t” “But What If It Did?”
#20
Two Kinds Of People
#21
People's Bodies Are Not The Problem Here
Bartlet for world domination 7 hours ago
Trying to restrict whatever because of how someone feels is problematic.
Unlike a simple retweet, a reblog becomes its own new post on your blog, which means that conversations can evolve and sprawl in genuinely unexpected ways. The funniest, most memorable Tumblr content is almost always a thread, a chain of strangers building something bizarre and brilliant together.
#22
My Steak Is Too Juicy, My Lobster Too Buttery…
#23
Boybands And Polycules
#24
Know Your Audience
Tumblr stands out as a unique haven for fans to celebrate their passions and create vibrant communities, from fan fiction to fan art, memes to meta-analysis. There are no word limits, meaning a 3,000-word Harry Potter fanfic can live comfortably in a single post.
#25
Moon: Japan 😍😍
#26
AI-Sober
Michael Largey 50 minutes ago
I've tried them, but a chatbot always seems to me like a disinterested seventh-grader with access to Google.
#27
The Last Neanderthal
Fellfromthemoon 6 hours ago
OP missed the twenty-five thousand year gap between the last Neanderthals and the agricultural revolution (and closer to 30 thousand to the domestication of sheep.)
Tumblr's anonymity has also made it a welcoming space for LGBTQ+ communities, social justice advocates, and anyone who might not feel comfortable expressing themselves on platforms tied to their real name and face.
#28
Guy vs. Man
#29
Made Up Words
#30
My Gender Is Whatever Is Most Convenient To The Bit
The platform's unique blend of humor, art, and activism has created a space where culture evolves in real time. Posts spiral, take unexpected turns, and end somewhere completely different from where they began. Whether you understand the joke depends entirely on how long you have been paying attention. For a lot of people, that is exactly the appeal.
#31
The Copper Legacy
#32
A Ring Of Dance And Stone
#34
Tumblr vs. The New York Times
Doug Moyer 3 hours ago
I'm currently training my dog to not want any affection or attention from me. Life is so much better.
#35
Organically
Ronja Oksanen 12 hours ago
I feel this! Few weeks ago my neurologist said my brain was beautiful while we looked my mri images and I'm still giddy about it 😁
#38
Social Cognihazard
#39
Cat
#40
Girl What?
#41
Anyway Here’s Wonderwall
#42
Bang For Your Buck
#43
Class Names
#44
Alcohol
#45
This Is Me And My Same Color T-Shirt And Shorts
#47
This Made Me Sad, So You’re All Seeing It Too
poiplescales 12 hours ago
This made me cover my face as I laughed, I enjoyed this one the most
#48
The Moon, The Tides, And The French
#49
Title
#50
Day That Lives In Infamy
Caffeinated Ape 3 hours ago
Honestly at this point that statement is probably correct no matter the context.
#51
Official Diagnosis
Did I say that out loud? 14 hours ago
Not sure why this was my first thought, but, where is Captain Wafflestomper?
#52
The Devs Made A Grave Mistake
#53
Cigarette
#54
Diagnosed In One Sentence
#55
A Healthy Marriage
poiplescales 12 hours ago
Jesus is recorded as having brothers and sisters. Hopefully they never did the " WhY cAn'T yOu Be MoRe LiKe YoUr BrOtHeR JeSuS?"
#56
R/Curatedtumblr × R/Greentext Crossover Episode
#57
Your What On The Poor?
OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 hours ago
Uh, yep. Reading in class was always one of my favourite things, especially since it introduced me to books I might not have read in my own time, like Of Mice and Men, How to K**l a Mockingbird, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, or Holes. We studied limericks, poems, rhyme structures, the obligatory Shakespeare. Literature/English classes are so important for kids.
#58
Space Space Wanna Go Space Yes Please Space
Michael Largey 3 hours ago
Initially NASA wanted all spacecraft navigation be controlled from the ground. The first astronauts were former pilots and refused to go along with the idea.
#60
Born To Bake. Forced To Game
#61
Bro Not Gonna Wake Up In The Morning 😭
Fellfromthemoon 6 hours ago (edited)
There was a German crime series on TV (started in the late seventies), where the characters drank like there was no tomorrow. I'm not kidding, nobody could've drunk with the main character in one single episode and lived. In the second (or third?) year they overcorrected it, and the main character started to drink milk instead of alcohol. Because they neeeded the activity, but realized the beer+schnapps went to the very unrealistic territory. (Ein Fall für Zwei.)
#62
Just In Case,,,
#64
American Schools Aren’t Teaching Phonics Anymore
poiplescales 12 hours ago
This explains why I as o often get responses that ignore what I actually said in my comment. I hope those people eventually do learn to comprehend intention and feel the burning shame of remember failure.
#65
As A Former Southern Teen, This Is Accurate LOL
#66
95 Miles In A 25 Mile Zone
#67
This Is Really Cool!
#68
Hp "Worldbuilding"
#71
Respectfully, Please Stop Vaping In My Face. I’m Tired
#72
The Continued Tribulations Of Mr Smeagol
BookFanatic 4 hours ago
When I reported for jury duty, I brought along the unabridged Lord of the Rings trilogy (one big tome). Security immediately flagged it and went through every page because they didn't believe a book could be that large without it being a front for smuggling prohibited inside.
#73
If You’re Planning To Support The New Show In Any Capacity Just Know That I Do Think Less Of You As A Person :)
#74
Cookie Clicker Capitalism
#76
Sincerity Audacity
#77
Clocking Out
Rick Murray 13 hours ago
Well, *I'd* have found the comment amusing... (and just slightly upset it wasn't 0.04 more)
#79
One Radical Claim
Remi (He/Him) 1 hour ago
We had home ec with basic cooking at age 13-14. And yes somewhere around that age kids should learn some independence skills like cooking, laundry, changing lightbulbs etc. The normal adulting stuff
#80
My Name Is Fictional Woman And I Can Be Pregnant Without Repercussions
#81
Ancient Sumerian Has Arrived
Rinso The Red 5 hours ago
Except, it isn't. Life expectancy is averaged. Infant mortality rates had a LOT more to do with this number than people dying relatively early in later life. Do we live longer now? Absolutely. But that's not to say that people didn't live into what we consider old age back then.
#83
Unconventional Meme Storage
#84
Genuinely Insane Stance
#85
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