Adam/NEON

Just to confirm for myself that this was true, I went and made a new account and took some screenshots.

After the usual inputting of email, username and birthday (which, I don't remember if tumblr used to require you to enter your birthday? I feel like it didn't??) it takes you to this page:

it requires you to follow five tags from a selection of categories (I didn't count the exact number of categories, but there's a lot. The right section of the screen scrolls down). I followed some very neutral tags:

The "Next" button doesn't become click-able until you pick all five.

After that, it took me to this page:

it suggests 10 different users for each tag that you selected in the previous page (the right side of the page scrolls down to all five tags). As far as I could tell, there wasn't a way to ask for more users in each tag.

Again, the "Next" button doesn't become clickable until you follow three people.

And finally after that it took me to the dashboard:

There wasn't any way to change my icon before this point. So long story short, seems like the og post is true y'all :/

1. jerboa.