TEN YEARS OF LEMONADE (April 23rd, 2016)🍋

At its core, Lemonade explores themes of betrayal, healing, resilience, and Black womanhood. The album is widely interpreted as a journey through the emotional aftermath of infidelity in a relationship, often believed to reference Beyoncé’s marriage. However, it expands beyond personal pain into a broader reflection on generational trauma, identity, and empowerment. Through different musical styles, ranging from R&B and rock to country and hip-hop, Beyoncé tells a story that moves from anger and suspicion to reconciliation and self-acceptance. The accompanying film adds layers of symbolism, drawing on African American history, Southern culture, and feminist thought.

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise. 

First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.

We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.

In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that,  including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.