#dating back to the days of 'daddy Karp'

[the-four-humors]

Saw someone arguing with an actual staff member - who was confirming that, behind the scenes, your definition of what Tumblr 'is' as a user is different from the actual metrics - that Tumblr is "the fandom website" and implied that it always has been.

Which is just............. demonstrably wrong?

There were YEARS where The Bit that everyone committed to on this website was 'hipster blog vs fandom blog'. There have ALWAYS been Normies on Tumblr, and they make up a MUCH bigger part of the userbase than anyone wants to admit, because they're the quiet majority.

They're the ones reposting memes and making moodboards. They're the ones making Taylor Swift a trending tag. They're the ones that people on Twitter wax nostalgic about.

While staff have been more involved with the fandom side of Tumblr lately, fandom blogs have never been the priority.

[toytowns]

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personifying popular websites and tumblr was always some nerdy hipster ginjika. 4chan’s ginjika was always sexually harassing or ‘dating’ tumblr’s ginjika

daddy karp

someone made a really long post with every possible trigger on earth for a video tumblr released which i’m 99% sure was an april fool’s day video

the bird in the chocolate fountain

kuzco is a disney princess

‘make that ask rebloggable’

‘i want my hat back’

those annoying as SHIT long posts about ace attorney role players arguing about dumb shit and it went on for miles

tumblr nose

flower crown edits (still love those haters can die mad)

so many onceler ask blogs

forcibly removed from the premises

the breadsticks at olive garden

‘3d’ photosets promptly ruined by tumblr’s frequent broken layout changes

portal to hell

hot dog legs

the aphobe list that contained asexuals, nazis and people who were never even involved in any ace discourse to begin with

dashcon

the down with cis bus that totally happened #cisphobia

oppression olympics

the birth and death of neopronouns

Leelah Alcorn’s suicide and the nasty bitch that capitalized on it

sixpenceee’s family still owns slaves. fucking tried to start an online therapy thing. posts bullshit

‘i have 4 hours left to raise xyz amount of money’ scams

crave that mineral

gremlin dva

shoplifting communities

hipster memes

constable frozen’s slow descent into being horny on main

MY DASH DID A THING

‘this is my culture, not your costume’ but it’s innocuous cat or dog costumes

pockets daddy

weird old forgotten tumblr things that I never see included in this sort of list:

ah, the scalene triangle

loving Cole Sprouse

hating Cole Sprouse 

the tons of “social experiment” memes that followed

the first wave of Actual Cannibal Shia LaBaeuf memes from before there was even a video for it

trying to trick “hipster” blogs into reblogging fandom content 

the whole strict dichotomy between fandom and hipster blogs as a whole tbh

“I was here here before MTV!”

12.9 year olds

“what is air” and “my ovaries” 

non-tumblr people were peasants

nice legs daisy dukes

slideshows with comic sans and sometimes making your mom or sibling comment on some cringey show they’d never seen

homestuck

tumblr user pizza (what ever happened to them???)

tumblr user the-vashta-nerada 

Nine In The Afternoon jokes/references all the time??

imagine how is touch the sky

“you tried” stars and all the variations thereupon

do she got the booty?

“can you give me directions to the olive garden?”

night bloggers 

add more help me relive the past 6 years i’ve wasted on this garbage website