Oh no. Itâs our 15th anniversary.
Oh god. Thatâs 1 5 years of your nonsense. Donât worryâit comes as a surprise to literally all of us that the world continued to do its thing, bringing us to this point.
So, how you been keeping since we celebrated the big one-oh, well, five years ago now?
A bratty teenager at heart, Tumblr has remained the same hellsite youâve always made it: with your faves, aesthetics, and fandoms, your blogs and sideblogs, your reblog chains and tag conversations. Some of you will have been here for The Dress and the ball pit; some of you know those as lore but only come here for the sexymen and, idk, bees, the bee movie. And youâre all valid.
Throughout February, weâll be reblogging some of the most iconic reblog chains from our time here with you to @best-of-reblogs. To kick it all off, here is a selection of ~moments~ yâall have manifested. You obviously donât need us to talk about thisâyou do that enough among yourselves. But, for heritage purposes, hereâs the lowdown anyhow. Donât mind us while we lurk in the back with the popcorn.
We all learned that friends come in many shapes and sizesâsome of your favorite friend shapes are frogs, Furbies, worms-on-a-string, and orbs.
You asked your faves a bazillion questions.
Youâve asked Neil Gaiman about your ineffable husband headcanons, Joseph Gordon-Levit for filmmaking tips, and Taylor Swift about re-recording her albums and the provenance of Meredith and Oliviaâs names. All ask answerers have remained equal here, where follower counts are private, and âinfluencerâ is a dirty word.
Standing up for whatâs right.
In the last five years, you continued to fight for net neutrality. You worked towards making the internet a safer, kinder, and more joyful space. Youâve celebrated and lamented three very different US presidents. Youâve rallied in the face of racism, learning from and educating each other.
From Superputinelection to the disruption of the international shipping trade, you learned about real-world happenings right here on Tumblr. You remixed reality with the best of âem in a celebration of new traditions and oldâsome now illegal to scroll past without reblogging, while reblogging others constitutes a crime. Then thereâs the homegrown variety lurking in the depths of tags and posts that couldnât go viral anywhere but here.
You started craving the simpler things in lifeâthe woods, frogs, dresses with aprons, gingham, homemade piesâin an unforeseen age that made living those dreams impossible outside of moodboards, Animal Crossing, and Stardew Valley. Your cottagecore hopes and dreams fueled the Radar and log-in screen.
In what became one of the biggest moments on Tumblr in the last five years, Destiel went canon. Many times. In many languages. In memes, on your televisions, on your blogs. For decade-long fans of Supernatural and non-fans with transdimensional cracks in their dashboards, November 5 became A Day in 2020.
In the five years since we celebrated our first decade, you created 170,926,810 new blogs, made 40,798,681,685 new posts, and liked 75,280,353,933 posts, both old and new. You made each other cringe, celebrated the mundane and the extraordinary with your Fuck Yeah blogs, and shared many cursed things we are unable to utter here.
All this to say, come celebrate with us. Stay tuned for some historic reblogs throughout this month of February in the year of the orb, 2022.
Stay weird, Tumblr. Youâre doinâ great.
