Oh no. Itโs our 15th anniversary.
Oh god. Thatโs 1 5 years of your nonsense. Donโt worryโit 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 youโve 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 youโre all valid.
Throughout February, weโll 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~ yโall have manifested. You obviously donโt need us to talk about thisโyou do that enough among yourselves. But, for heritage purposes, hereโs the lowdown anyhow. Donโt mind us while we lurk in the back with the popcorn.
We all learned that friends come in many shapes and sizesโsome of your favorite friend shapes are frogs, Furbies, worms-on-a-string, and orbs.
You asked your faves a bazillion questions.
Youโve 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 Oliviaโs names. All ask answerers have remained equal here, where follower counts are private, and โinfluencerโ is a dirty word.
Standing up for whatโs 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. Youโve celebrated and lamented three very different US presidents. Youโve 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 โem in a celebration of new traditions and oldโsome now illegal to scroll past without reblogging, while reblogging others constitutes a crime. Then thereโs the homegrown variety lurking in the depths of tags and posts that couldnโt go viral anywhere but here.
You started craving the simpler things in lifeโthe woods, frogs, dresses with aprons, gingham, homemade piesโin 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 15 years since we celebrated our launch, 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. Youโre doinโ great.
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