I was trying to explain tumblr to someone who had never used it before and she said “So what do people post there? Videos, like on tiktok?” and it took all my self control not to say “Mostly we just post bullshit.”
Wild, I too explained tumblr to someone today, and I did not refrain from saying we posted and reblogged fandom bullshit 🤣
She literally had NO frame of reference for ANY of it and I was just like “how do I even describe this site”
You can describe Tumblr as “a blogging platform housing thriving fandoms, underappreciated artists, and tons of shitposts” but that doesn’t even come close to the EXPERIENCE of using Tumblr.
You are on Tumblr. You scroll past a thread spouting hot takes about a fandom you’re not in. You see signal boosts for people you will never meet. An ad tells you to put butter on your pillows. Your mutual spams about infinity train for a full hour and you don’t hear from them for days. “Everyone at the farmers market wishes to know me carnally.” The inherent terror and joy of seeing the color of the sky.
You are on Tumblr. You post two videos. The first gets uploaded after five minutes. The second video never uploads. You reupload the second video. Nothing happens. You check your activity. You don’t know if someone just liked the same post eight times or if Tumblr is broken. Two people follow you. You’re not sure if they’re porn bots or empty blogs. Someone messages you about ray bans official charity event. Two days later the second video is uploaded twice. You close Tumblr. You open it again. There’s a thread about how to hide a dead body. Someone tells you to touch grass. You try to search for a post on your blog. The search function does not work. There is a screenshot of a tweet of a Tumblr post. The reblogs are incomprehensible. The tags are worse.
You are on Tumblr.
This reads like a welcome to nightvale traffic report
this is the highest honor you could give. thank you
