The Tumblr Controversy Iceberg

[@annierminx]

As someone that never left the platform, this feels exactly like when my mom tells anyone all the embarrassing stuff I did as a kid

[@ramens]

LOL

[@Ghost-vd2ow]

LITERALLY

[@LunaSotomonte]

you're so right lmao

[@funkytime69]

same

[@MrLegatoblue]

Lol I was on there from like 2014-2020.

[@illymation]

god i love and hate tumblr culture. occasionally ill find myself reciting what i thought was a widely-known meme / internet history event, only to realize ive just outed myself as a fairy-lights-bedroom-dwelling tumblr-infused fossil of a person. finally i can direct my peers to a good lesson! another banger video from izzzyzzz!

[@CarrotSpunk.]

Yo

[@messiyer13]

Tumblr is the ultimate melting pot of the internet. It smells like blue cheese.

[@zuckertheoctopus3095]

oh ,y god illy is an izzy fan

[@ToxicNectarine]

good to see you here, lol

[@salem_spectre]

ILLY IS AN IZZY FAN???...I mean they are only two letters off so it makes sense /j

[@ouchyeouchzowie]

the fact that tumblr's considered uninhabitable for large businesses and advertisers is one of my favorite things about it

[@benayers8622]

un-inhabitable maybe?

[@ouchyeouchzowie]

@@benayers8622 right, sorry

[@rushpatriot2866]

That's the only thing good about it

[@meghanachauhan9380]

@@rushpatriot2866 if you're far too up on one side, you'll hate everything on the other

[@jayp1890]

Idk manscaped seems to live there

[@lottiestewart8918]

I met my wife on tumblr. This means I had to try and explain Tumblr to my very supportive but very confused grandmother

[@nalalalalala9946]

Beautiful love story~

[@megasocky]

Are u that one post where someone just said they wanted a gf on tumblr and it led to them dating > getting married > having a child??

[@lottiestewart8918]

@@megasocky I wish! Our story is just a bit boring bc we made friends online and then started dating, which I think is probably pretty common (especially as we were both autistic and didn't know it yet!)

[@yippeeflowers]

honestly if you want simple, it's a microblogging site. good luck though lol

[@charlottewinchester4461]

Sorry I’m replying to this so late but I also met my wife on tumblr and my name is also Lottie!

[@tundra4331]

As an active Tumblr user, this is like staring at a list of my cults sins and doing nothing about it

[@frillydress]

Lmaooo

[@ExStepsister]

If our God is to be born, sacrifices must be made

[@someedgyusername]

If we don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing ;]

[@rats_in_a_PACK]

@@someedgyusername this is so clever /gen

[@bake-io1cf]

@@ExStepsister like painting your hair blue and becoming a pooner with zippertits

[@aes2621]

There’s a video about the Bonegazi situation; Ender is thankfully not free to steal our bones. During the court proceedings they ran off to FLORIDA with their daughter. Cops went and took them back for arraignment. Ender got fined and 5 years suspended sentence . Because fun fact! There were no laws in Louisiana for specifically stealing human remains, the closest they could use was petty burglary. They have since made a law against stealing human bones

[@sophaloph1129]

imagine being the reason it’s illegal to steal human remains 💀

[@aes2621]

@@sophaloph1129 if only it was titled the “Little Fucking Monster”’s law

[@DToTheB]

​@@sophaloph1129 bro ain't nobody trusting you if you're the reason a law exists

[@Whole-Milk]

It’s actually illegal to even buy human bones from “legitimate sources” in Louisiana bc of this case 😂

[@skibidirizz-t6v]

Whats funnier is that Ender was a white woman, so that poc witches excuse was completely bullshit

[@butterflyzero0]

Kinda surprised you didn't mention the mass exodus after porn was banned on the site. I remember so many people, especially artists, being really upset. Also the way that tumblr would autoflag images that weren't even nsfw. My bunny's blog had some pics and videos flagged which like, it was just my rabbit lol

[@---nobody---]

Did they go back on that no porn thing? Or do people just post it anyway and they can't keep up with deleting the content? Because there's a shit ton of it on there still haha

[@m00rflower]

​@@---nobody--- no, they didn't go back on it -- closest was that they they added "mature content flags" or something a little while back, which I think are supposed to act as a way to opt in to seeing some more mature content if you're an adult. They don't seem to do much, at least not for me as someone who is an adult. Posting nsfw stuff can still get people's posts or blogs shadowbanned in the tags, but because the site is held together by dental floss and staff seems more concerned with making merch than moderating their site or dealing with the pornbot scourge, people find a way. like how the proana communities izzy mentioned are still VERY active despite being against ToS and just morally reprehensible, people can navigate the restrictions easily when the moderators aren't paying much attention to new tags and censored words.

[@hayleinope8873]

And somehow the porn bots combined with the N@zi bots like immediately after.

[@prismavoid3764]

The bots that handled the porn ban were so badly programmed that, despite Tumblr staff explicitly saying text posts were still allowed and only images/videos would be moderated, thousands of text posts were banned ...Even including the post on the _official staff blog_ announcing the porn ban.

[@mirrormimi]

Because your feed becomes a very isolated chamber depending on who you follow, I was so fucking confused when the porn thing happened. I remember thinking "bruh, who cares about the ban, there's probably like, 20 porn blogs at most, and there must be barely any people on this site looking for that". And then thinking, well, I'll be damned, you are all some horny weirdos.

[@sofcarolq]

Izzy saying the wrong year for destielgate and simultaneously using the wrong us election candidates in the reference photo honestly just enhances this whole experience 💀

[@geealion]

I was gonna make a correction comment but honestly yeah it just contributes to the vibe of the video

[@Nemamka]

The candidates didn't even phase me but I was like, quarantine? In 2015? I was living my best uni life wdym xd

[@genericsinger]

I honestly didnt even notice lol

[@littelcreatchure506]

I thought I was going insane omg

[@buglyyy]

no bc how do u get that wrong it feels like yesterday to me 😭

[@sydisokay]

I’m still bitter over a girl who never returned my copy of “The Fault in our Stars” with specific mascara tear streaks on Chapter 21. I specifically cried on those pages how dare she take that from me. This might have been over a decade ago but I haven’t forgiven her.

[@lainiwakura1776]

lmao

[@thesteadfastduelist6258]

Heh

[@titanofyoutube4834]

P...people cried because of that book?

[@sofy5173]

@@titanofyoutube4834 Y..yes

[@win-rawr1096]

@@titanofyoutube4834 listen if it’s your first experiance with angst it’ll rip your tears from the ducts

[@merlumili]

the biggest thing the iceberg is missing is the porn ban for sure. There's definitely a before and after it happened when it comes to Tumblr culture and obviously there was pleeenty of memes (I still use the 'female presenting nipples' thing for jokes lmao)

[@conspiracypanda1200]

The most recent reference to "female presenting nipples" I remember was F1nn5ter's Twitch ban.

[@biskitt1000]

The weird thing is, I loved Tumblr pre-ban. Tumblr was active, people were normal and it was a great way to find people to Connect with. After the ban, all those people seemingly left, and now there’s only sugar daddy-bots, creeps and men thinking Tumblr is the same thing as tinder, other than that it feels so dead. Pre-ban, people would ask me what music I like. Post-ban, people wil start a conversation asking how many dildos I own.

[@merlumili]

@@biskitt1000 yeah, tumblr was definitely better before. Though those kind of people were always a problem, somehow it's even more noticeable now.

[@Samzillah]

​@@biskitt1000 when the p*** ban happened a whole bunch of blogs who had previously posted nudity or reblogged nudity basically had their posts flagged and banned their accounts. Most of those people who were banned had no recourse, and likely didn't care to make a new account with a new email. They basically decemated their user base 😂

[@lainiwakura1776]

That on top of Verizon buying the site, who instituted the ban.

[@MajorUrsa]

i am a long time Tumblr user and i can confirm that the"i like your shoelaces" thing works. the response tends to be "oh fuck you goddamnit" and not "i stole them from the presedent" but it works like a bell to Pavlov's dogs

[@AroundTheBlockAgain]

My favorite tumblr story about it is this one: reportedly, someone once got the response ".....Joe Biden is a lesbian??" (op had been wearing lesbian pride color shoelaces)

[@arthas640]

@@AroundTheBlockAgain the least believable part of that is someone both noticing and recognizing lesbian pride colored shoelaces.

[@pseudoruu]

@@arthas640 skill issue

[@arthas640]

@@pseudoruu I'd argue more that it's just hard to notice then difficult to identify. Lesbian pride colors are already kind of obscure since they're a niche within the 500 different pride color schemes, shoelaces are already kind of hard to notice, and most shoelaces like that are either striped laces (where the colors run the length of the lace) which makes them hard to differentiate and notice since from anything but point blank range they'll blend together into a vague peach color or the laces are alternating color which makes them easy to misidentify since you need to see the length of the shoe's eyelets to identify so if they're wearing bell bottoms or boot cut pants they can easily get obscured and then you've just got some laces with 1 or 2 visible colors making them look more like peaches and cream colored then lesbian colored, and even as a guy who lives in a pretty LGBTQ+ heavy area (Seattle, live within walking distance of one of the first openly gay bars in the state) if you asked me "what's more likely: that that person is a fan of peaches and cream or a lesbian?" I'd go with peaches and cream because that's an awesome dessert with broader appeal globally then recreational scissoring.

[@brandi3947]

@@arthas640 lesbian pride is arguably top 3 most recognizable

[@tarotsushima3332]

'Bitch that's the tubby custard machine' is a hilarious precursor to 'Baby that's Keke Palmer'. Even funnier that both lines were used to disprove obvious misinformation

[@hp8685]

i hadn't heard the second one before and googled it... apparently Keke Palmer has a podcast named after that meme now lolll

[@Nemamka]

"Harold, they are lesbians" - same energy

[@sydliminal]

"pretty sure that's taylor swift" "no, it's becky"

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

Any relation to Totakeke, the Japanese name of KK Slider from Animal Crossing?

[@ramintaurbonaviciute9736]

I think the actual case with TCC is that it stand for 'true crime community' AND ''teacher crush community'. They have beaf with each other for having the same acronym

[@gallowsAlgorithms]

i mean teacher crushes are pretty close to true crime anyways LMAO

[@mothgirl0512]

@@gallowsAlgorithms As long as the teachers dont reciprocate those feelings then it isnt that bad

[@zelltronic]

Or put a hit out on your wife like my freshman history teacher.

[@IloveNaruto1992]

​@Zelltronic I'm sorry we cannot just move past that your Freshmen year history teacher did what????

[@zelltronic]

@@IloveNaruto1992 a few years after i graduated he retired. he was known to not be a nice dude, he'd be the first to tell you if nobody did before you met him. Then moved to diff state, and long story short, someone caught wind of him hiring a hitman on the dark web w bitcoin and they intercepted before anything happened to her. Last name was Replogle, pretty sure you can google it. he plead guilty 😂 theres more details like how it was gonna play out and everything. Some people are not well.

[@ZirconiaGacha]

I find the fact that "hey peebrain,- you teleport?" ends up forcing you to do some self care to complete it honestly beautiful

[@philosophy_bot4171]

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[@AlexAnIdiot_]

⁠@@philosophy_bot4171 are you the haiku bots cousin or something?

[@glasscardproductions4736]

​@@AlexAnIdiot_ What a lovely coincidence, being under a Tumblr video! ^w^

[@Dotherandom]

One controversy I def feel bad about is the Peter Pan craze on tumblr where so many of us got a crush on the cast member of Peter Pan at DisneyLand that someone ended up finding who the actor was and he ended up losing his job since Disney is really hard-core about cast members not revealing to the public their real names in order to 'keep the magic alive'

[@moonlight293]

Omg I didn't know that happened to the Peter Pan guy. That's a shame.

[@aeddiefarmer]

There's an Ashley Norton video about the Peter Pan craze where she goes over some of the weird boundary crossing stuff fans did, but she thinks he probably was let go for something simpler, like he was perhaps aging out of playing the role convincingly.

[@onlyinsomniac]

I mean, being a lesbian is kind of the ultimate "just girly things"

[@pixyglitch8020]

Technically girls are girly so liking girls is girly makes sense

[@Zectifin]

I've always joked that homophobes have it wrong, whats more manly that two dudes doing it together, like bros? The same would also apply to women.

[@manboy4720]

the straightest woman on tumblr:

[@j.2512]

no one is lesbian after 30, she is probable married to a man now

[@Verylonghiatuslmao]

Unless ur gf is a tomboy

[@sushiferz]

justgirlythings coming out as wlw is the best thing to happen to tumblr

[@CommanderWiggins]

It's the exact counterpart to the "Hello my future girlfriend" guy from the early days of internet memes coming out as gay. It's truly poetic.

[@The_Dumbest_Flower]

There's nothing girlier than dating another girl

[@Colon-D...]

Wild Lethargic Weasel......................

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@Colon-D... No, Woman Loving Woman.

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@The_Dumbest_Flower Lesbian. Or gay.

[@onionbubs386]

The bone witch got in more legal trouble for possession of marijuana than they did for stealing bones. But I wouldn't say it went no where. This actually prompted Louisiana lawmakers to update their laws on possession of human remains to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again. I would say a tumbr post changing state legislature is a pretty significant thing.

[@earlyworksbootleg]

ONION BUBS

[@Ghastlyteaparty]

Never used Tumblr, an I already knew bout bone witch 💀

[@ashleybyrd2015]

ONION BUBS!

[@furiousmagician5912]

onion bubs

[@onionbubs386]

my people 👈😎👈

[@AthenaBaucum]

43:40 fun fact: when i went to the psych ward as a kid about three or four of us all took pictures from coloring books and colored them in weird ways (changing color or shading, adding devil horns or teeth, or just scribbling) and were doing the youtube foot lettice voice of "look at this picture a bipolar 14 year old drew... You can just see the insanity in his mind..."

[@renthemen.]

that is genuinely hilarious (btw the yt foot lettuce guy is called Chills)

[@matnolia]

I was around for tumblr prom, I remember people posting pictures of their outfits and the whole hype of asking your mutuals to “go with you.” I was about 12 years old and asked my mutual/crush (who later became my boyfriend) to “go to tumblr prom with me” 😭 all of tumblr culture was so silly

[@invisible3972]

I joined tumblr back in 2011 so I wasn't there to experience the "tumblr prom" but I agree, I miss how we were so openly childish and juvenile lol

[@Senjamin]

Tumblr prom was so cute tbh I asked out my now husband "as a friend" and we didn't even start dating til 5 years later lol

[@vulturequeen4805]

I misread this as tumblr p*rn and was terrified at you being 12

[@hexterspectre1191]

@@Senjamin that’s so sweet tbh!! I joined the site in 2013 so I always thought tumblr prom was just a site in-joke like Tumblr University, kinda going “haha wouldn’t it be funny if this happened!” it’s really cute to know that not only was it a real thing kids and teens actually did just for fun, but people wound up meeting their actual significant others through it!! I wish you, @Matnolia, and your respective partners nothing but the best! 💜

[@ratboygirl]

@@Senjaminthat’s so adorable 😭 did you meet on tumblr?

[@lynnwinters5387]

It genuinely feels like Cole Sprouse just felt embarrassed and pulled a redditor "I did this on purpose all along" move

[@UCfaerieixi]

"it was a prank bro"

[@maddisonjohnson4308]

Wait, what did he do?

[@jabbragier8574]

@@maddisonjohnson4308 acted cringe and doubled down on the cringe

[@maddisonjohnson4308]

@@jabbragier8574 Yikes!

[@Malum09]

100% it was that.

[@Vapormoon]

the fact izzy said "hold on to your shoelaces" and i IMMEDIATELY knew what that meant despite not using tumblr for nearly a decade proves how permanently this hellsite damaged my brain

[@SwirlEye]

RIGHT. oh my goooood i was like shit goddamn.

[@Vapormoon]

@@aceofspadefish4971 Tumblr gonna be used in high school anthropology history text books in 200 years

[@FlipX100]

"I like your shoelaces."

[@CBTheCandid]

What does it mean?

[@kathi2984]

@@CBTheCandid The phrase "I like your shoelaces." was a way to identify fellow tumblr users. If the person receiving the "compliment" was a Tumblr user, they would answer "Thanks, I stole them from the president.". However, if the other person wasn't a Tumblr user, you could simply go on with your life without exposing yourself. This code dates back to a post from the time around 2012, which was made (who would have thought) on Tumblr. Hope this helps :))

[@humpitywithdumpity]

Little did we know that the Josh Hutcherson image would make a comeback months later

[@Spunro]

i jumped out of my seat and had to pause the video for a minute after hearing the words “josh hutcherson”

[@unapersona4620]

@@Spunrosame lmao

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

Yeah, funny how Izzy used a more current image of him.

[@fhdkdlbdhdk]

you're SO right about the darker sides of the aesthetics. my 2013 posts about me being a drug addicted anorexic 17 year old in an abusive relationship with an older guy got thousands and thousands of notes and reposted to "aesthetic" blogs and i regret them so much

[@albedoweatheruno]

oh my gosh i just realised reading through this the third time that you were legit a drug addicted anorexic 17 year old in an abusive relationship with an older man and not like.. a 13 year old playing a character based on the aesthetic they saw online i hope youre doing better and healing well :)

[@j.2512]

women gaslight other women into horrible behaviour then blame men for their stupid choices

[@Skwadley]

@@albedoweatherunooh my god same. idk why 2013 translated to 13 for me. ig cause i was 13/14 lol

[@wheresmyhugat]

​@@j.2512 you should keep yourself safe... NOW!

[@nineinchthread]

​@@ha_des sounded like victim blaming for a sec NGL

[@ixnoah]

Tumblr's revival due to twitter's downfall is the most beautiful case of irony.

[@LiveLaughLovecraft]

True! Although people did left because of the ban on NSFW things

[@strangeaelurus]

​@@LiveLaughLovecraft yeah but the staff allowed people to show b00bs again around the time that Twitter was starting to decline because of musk so I think that was part of it

[@crumblyairship]

@@LiveLaughLovecrafti find it funny those people left and went to Twitter and now they're cycling back

[@latviankhan2989]

that explains why twitter is allot better now lol

[@latviankhan2989]

@Charlotte Kirwin lol I don’t see a universe were twitter “falls”, it is the best social media site that exists right now. And censorship (for the most part) is finally gone. Tumblr doesn’t appeal to such a large group of people like twitter does

[@edwardhyde1886]

There's been a recent revival of the Onceler fandom- and seeing it just in the top of the iceberg is slightly surreal. The guy was literally *split in two* to be shipped with himself 💀

[@skookiecat_29]

If I had a nickel for every time a character was shipped with a different version of himself I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[@mrlaz9011]

imagine being so vain, you split into two just so you can make out with yourself.

[@AnInsideJoke]

I can kind of see it being at the top though, because while it was a selfcest pioneer, it's still pretty tame compared to a lot of other stuff. For instance, the infamous Wereralph, which I don't think she talked about here. Even if the OG account (and it's most infamous post, the one with the pineapple) got nuked, Wereralph still remains on another blog, and there has to be SOME archive of that post SOMEWHERE.

[@edwardhyde1886]

​@InsideJoke true, it was rather tame compared to the other shit on here, I'm no Tumblr connoisseur but I know a bit too much about the Onceler fandom and *that* part of it is just so 💀 to me

[@SkydiaStrike]

@@skookiecat_29 I'm guessing the other one is sans lmao

[@hannahdawg6829]

The bone witch one gets even worse because the bones they were "gathering" were displaced human remains from people who had been buried in the ground. It is very hard to keep bodies in the ground in Louisiana due to how wet and marshy the soil is, especially the closer you get to the Mississippi Delta. A lot of the people buried in the ground tended to be poorer PoC who couldn't afford or weren't allowed to have those fancy above ground mausoleums that New Orleans is famous for, so unfortunately a lot of times their remains float to the surface and get washed away.

[@realnepetaleijon]

Izzy makes me simultaneously proud and ashamed of being an ex tumblr girly

[@emofurryboyfriendasmr]

there is no leaving tumblr

[@realnepetaleijon]

@allyart5904 please no it’s been five months I’m healing …

[@realnepetaleijon]

@@emofurryboyfriendasmr oh god ur right I still am a homestuck acc I’ll never be sober

[@moorebear1]

You want to go back to tumblr, you want to go back so bad 🪄

[@gmaxjayden]

“Ex tumblr girly” but you’re a Homestuck account?

[@drunkdrop9193]

it’s astounding how tumblr managed to thirst over a magic triangle with a tophat

[@lenaboyer6981]

What blows my mind is how good the fanart and fan-made character designs are, like looking at all the Onceler fanart I totally understand the appeal/thirst and then I see how he looks in the movie and have no clue how the thirst started in the first place.

[@-Foliage-]

From the reader x human!bill fanfics i've read, I think being an evil demon is such an integral part of his personality that if you for some reason wanted to remove that you could just project whatever ideal personality you want on him and it wouldnt feel any more out of character. Although some of the bill fans are into fucked up monsters. Also he fits the "owo quirky random" aesthetic pretty well. (I say this as a tumblr user who really hates the normal-guy-au fanfics and ships my self insert oc foli with a slightly more human version of bill cipher btw, although im trying to be as unbiased as i can)

[@potat19]

@@-Foliage- as a fellow Tumblr user, I’ll never forget the first time I stumbled across bill cypher smut, it was weirdly… Good? Lmao

[@GumSkyloard]

The best thing is how Alex made the canon human Bill design a gross ugly triangular old man. Fucking glorious.

[@Darling_Decay]

I’m sorry he was just so hot, I as human I couldn’t control myself, I was swept into the ocean and drowned

[@averyeml]

I love that she tries to explain SuperWhoLock because 1) it cannot be explained 2) just looking at her chosen reference images the connective tissue is clearly Skinny Trench Coat Men

[@mayazra7023]

Was listening to this in the background when I heard "destielputinelection day" and "2015" and I went through the stages of grief being confused about the date being wrong and then mad and sad at myself for having such a visceral reaction. Brb touching grass. It was 2020 not 2015 tho

[@ladymoragsbootlaces8059]

I just went through the same thing, I could've sworn it wasn't long ago and was for the most recent election and felt weirdly wrong because of how vividly I remembered it but apparently mixing up memories or not and I googled it and- oh, no I was right, nothing to worry about lmao

[@AerisAquata]

I can confirm, people did take pictures of themselves for tumblr prom. There was a homestuck tumblr prom too that I remember dressing up for.

[@cruella4341]

How do you live with that

[@AerisAquata]

@@cruella4341 I was 15. I've forgiven myself.

[@colourfulDefuser]

That's so cool.

[@luigi7834]

what a flex

[@yippeeflowers]

​@@cruella4341how do you live with yourself?

[@gryflght9972]

The biggest mystery that remains is WHY ON EARTH was I unironically listening to “tumblr fandom style” and “I don’t care I ship it” 24/7 in my teen years…

[@Dotherandom]

Oh gosh, your comment gave me emotional whiplash "eyyyyyy sexy cosplay!" 😭

[@wompadillœ]

Oh my god NO DON’T REMIND ME- I loved listened to those songs so much that, despite ten years having passed, I probably still remember most of the words and I hate that

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

Ugh, you just sent me direct to the "I don't care, I ship it" AMV. I haven't seen that in half a decade. Damn you.

[@no1legobatmanfan]

I DONT CARE I SHIP IT OH MY GOD

[@Esterfox1987]

STOPPP I LITERALLY THOUGH I SHIP ITT WAS A ORIGINAL SONG

[@cupidhe4rt]

Honestly now that many people have moved on to other platforms, myself included, Tumblr is probably my favorite social media site because it's actually pretty peaceful and low-key now. It feels kinda cozy

[@SkydiaStrike]

Can say the same. I joined tumbler when most people left, and it's the only site where I don't go insane. Also Neil Gaiman is there.

[@kirrb-dot-exe]

Lmao I remember how everyone left Tumblr from the pornbot apocalypse and the subsequent flesh-colored pixel lockdown. Ironically most people went to Twitter after which,,, explains a lot

[@CommanderWiggins]

Despite being a certified Tumblr kid, I sometimes forget just how unhinged Tumblr used to be because of how chill it is now. (I mean I'm sure there's still drama but that's true of every social media platform.)

[@johannaelloso9418]

My favorite part was the customization of your profile I was wondering why tumblr wasn't mainstream

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

Yeah most of the drama is of the same variety I can just block certain words and avoid it

[@justme-qd6qb]

I feel so bad for John green, like he honestly seems like a great guy and knowing his history with mental health issues that whole ordeal must've been awful

[@neonradius]

Yeah I think a lot of the criticism got very personal very fast. Like, it’s fine to say that you don’t want to read a teenage girls story written by a man, because it’s kind of creepy or you just don’t feel like he can do it justice. But to call him a p*dophile over it and accuse him of brainwashing young girls, especially when it was based on his real life friend (who was a teenage girl), is super personal and crosses a line in my book. I also felt the same way with turtles all the way down. Obviously, you don’t have to like it, and if you don’t like how he writes mental illness that’s a perfectly valid opinion. But a lot of people accused him of trying to gentrify and glorify mental illness and take away from stories from real authors with mental illness. And when people corrected them to say that John does have OCD, people started accusing him of lying or faking it. Like i’ve said, you don’t have to like his books, and I don’t want to be one of those people who are like “oh you can’t dislike a book it’ll hurt the authors feelings”. But if the only way you can critique a book is by personally attacking the author, you’re not critiquing the book, you’re harassing someone.

[@neonradius]

I also think his response to the copypasta was super mature and it called out the kind of double standard that I found on early tumblr where it was both “uwu gay rights super progressive!!” but also “haha you’re gay” was a common insult. I don’t know how widespread it was, but I definitely remember being frustrated with it back then. And I find it funny that his response included a line that was basically “get a better insult”

[@SorasShadow1]

my favorite fake dashcon thing was someone trying to plant the rumor that someone had a baby in the ball pit, it wasn't a serious or genuine attempt at misinformation but there was a glorious .3 seconds where it made people wonder "wait, the *what*" and i think that's beautiful

[@paadoxal]

wait like?? GIVEN BIRTH?? aa

[@ridley_grace]

dashcon baby day was an incredible day

[@revriee]

​@@paadoxal imagine being that baby today man 😭

[@hexterspectre1191]

tbh I think it’s for the best that it’s fake. imagine being that baby. imagine being fresh out da womb and already tumblr famous. I’d force myself to spontaneously combust.

[@melasnexperience]

(Ralph Wiggum voice) "They were making babies in the ballpit, and I saw one of the babies, and it looked at me!"

[@drfoxweyman7594]

"This party is cool, but I wish there was a way to find the geeks and gamers in the crowd" "I like your shoelaces." "Thanks, I stole them from the president"

[@mikulover12]

i used to constantly tell my classmates that and im embarassed about that

[@Alara666]

A big thing I remember back when I was a tumblr user in my teenage years, was the Anorexia communities, which were super toxic and encouraged each other not to eat. It was very harmful, I understand the need for communities of people who understand each other but this was genuinely hurting each other 💔

[@jazzycat8917]

That still exists. The "ED Community" still thrives in its lil pocket and encourages each other to stay sick and continue self harming in pursuit of unhealthy weight. Most of they have bios that basically beg people to not report them (as encouraging EDs is against ToS).

[@SharkUsingaComputer]

@@jazzycat8917 if you see seemingly random letters and numbers in someones bio along with "block dont report" turn ur ass around and run!!!!!!!!!

[@SHINee4bleach]

When the Tumblr suggested posts started, they were kind of broken and as part of that glitch, I got a few very disturbing pro-ana posts on my dash. Probably because I liked an intuitive eating post. So, the community still exists, at least as of last year

[@Alara666]

@@SHINee4bleach Yeah unfortunately I’m aware they still exist :( I’m just not on tumblr anymore

[@nootn00nto]

they still exist. Just migrated to twitter and tiktok.

[@Lackaday.]

This was a wonderful trip down memory lane! :3 My favorite post that I'll reference any time I get is "Tag your gore". Where a user posted a picture of a cut open pomegranate, and then another user started yelling at them to tag their gore. When op told them it wasn't gore, its fruit, they're not gonna tag it, the responder DOUBLED DOWN and kept arguing. A classic.

[@meka.1142]

The guy asking him to tag his gore is actually the lorax, hence why he didn't want to see a cut open fruit, making the Tumblr lore go full circle

[@DayUndying]

It was homestuck fanart too

[@coldbrewedbat]

One of my favorite things I witnessed on Tumblr was when the ban on spicy content happened, they rolled out new ads around the same time and the spicy content filter was SO BROKEN it censored an IHOP ad that was a stack of pancakes it confused for something else... like you cannot make this up lol imagine being on the marketing team at IHOP and finding out the ad you're paying for is being censored so people can't see it Edit: the ad was a picture of a really tall stack of pancakes that took a bit to scroll past on mobile. do with that info what you will

[@CommanderWiggins]

I remember people trying to see what ridiculous things would be censored.

[@Kane_225]

Something must’ve flown over my head. What in the world could a stack of 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 of all things be mistaken as being racy enough to censor…help me out here?

[@Aleutica]

​@@Kane_225 probably maple syrup being mistaken as cum because of the texture or something?? 😭 that's the only thing i can think of lmaoo

[@FrozenCampbellSoup]

@@Kane_225 the pancakes were probably seen from above or something, and uh pancakes with a piece of butter on top looks a little bit like a boob. It’s a stretch, but considering how sensitive the filter was…

[@cimorenegal]

@@Kane_225 Definitely boobs. The filter was set to detect anything w/ skin colors and vaguely curvy shapes as "nudity"

[@teplavecernice]

can't believe children's hospital and goncharov didn't make it onto the iceberg- great video btw!

[@lucifherbivore100]

Literally my first thought xD

[@whateverworksmate.721]

Great movie! Scorsese's best, perhaps

[@cybersheepie]

what’s the children’s hospital? is it the one with the weird red pattern on the floor? bc ive also seen references to a tumblr mental hospital or something 😭😭

[@lidlove123]

Excuse me, it’s basic color theory

[@maxlikesdinos]

omfg i forgot about goncharov-

[@faameexplains1192]

Wait, wait, wait. Can we talk about how izzyzz referred to destielgate(which took place in 2020) as taking place first in 2015, then showed a picture representing the 2016 election while stating everyone was in quarantine? I'm DYING

[@LasagnaTheArtist]

THANK YOU I was just gonna comment on that, I felt like I was in a twilight zone episode. I knew it was from the Trump-Biden election.

[@chkingvictim]

YES I WAS SO CONFUSED 😭😭😭

[@faameexplains1192]

@@chkingvictim YES I WAS LIKE 2015? THERE'S NO WAY DESTIELGATE HAPPENED WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL

[@mantis-manthegreat]

I know she's not American, but you've gotta get your years correct 💀 unless it's a joke and we're the dumb ones

[@justpeachymomo]

omg im glad someone else caught that. thought i was going crazy for a second

[@katieb3172]

I will never forget the time the Steven Universe fandom almost bullied someone to suicide because they said she drew the Pink mom too skinny

[@bisexualantigone]

anyone who garners any kind of popularity or does shit like this online really should never be taken seriously and usually are deeply unwell in real life

[@KazShiro]

I could say the same to the fnaf community regarding the comic series getting discontinued because of the fandom back when afton/purple guy was headcanoned as Vincent.

[@ThePopo543]

I won't either. It was the first thing I ever heard about both the tumblr community and the SU fandom, and it made me stay far far away from both of them.

[@98Clank98]

idk from what i remember seeing at the time it was probably fake. op did the whole "im op's sibling posting on their blog now because you people made them hurt themselves" thing which… could've been true? but generally that kind of thing is just the poster faking it to try and make people feel bad. obviously they shouldn't have been sent death threats for drawing rose quartz skinny, but from what i remember seeing at the time they hopefully weren't actually in the kind of danger they claimed to be.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

The story of Steven Universe fans driving a girl to suicide is fake, but the fact that the Internet used this story to make the fandom look bad is pretty malicious. Same can't be said with Undertale's "cupcake needle" incident. Boy, I do feel bad for the fact that Steven Universe's reputation got destroyed by the Internet, specifically for those rant videos.

[@Inthepotwithdiogenes]

Man, no words could ever capture the excitment and fervor on tumblr durring the whole "putin resigns/us election day 3/supernatural series finale". It was truely magical, and i say that as someone who has really only ever been a spectator on the site and hasnt seen supernatural. You had to be there, the energy was unmatched.

[@Bridget466]

I remember it being sarah Z’s short video post about the destiel canon that I actually checked tumblr and Twitter trending. I got so hyped I texted my friend, who got into the series years ago, in the middle of the night to tell her. It was so much fun!

[@whateverworksmate.721]

Remember remember the 5th of November.

[@m.k4447]

The Dabi reveal in My Hero Academia happened on the same night too 😭 I remember being out that night and checking tumblr on a complete whim while in line for the bathroom, it was batshit insane

[@maxlikesdinos]

my friends and i still celebrate every November 5th…such a cursed day

[@mitkitty]

I was trying to sleep before a night shift but i was so transfixed i couldn't. It was like being high without any drugs involved, i was losing my shit

[@haileygrenier6142]

one time at school i complimented someone on their shoelaces (they were RAINBOW!!) and they said "thanks i stole them from the president" and i had to clarify that i was genuinely complimenting their shoelaces

[@happy--radio]

During the first Tumblr prom I ran a Twilight Princess Link RP blog. Someone asked Link to prom (an OC) and I said yes and posted an edit I made of Link in a green suit 😂

[@sunettas9738]

Aww that's cute

[@tappytart]

I can't believe Goncharov was not in this list! This nonexistent movie even sparked fanfiction on AO3! Also, I remember when the Destiel Putin election escapades happened over night. You'd just wake up the next morning and everything was suddenly on fire

[@justsomegirl_xiii]

Goncharov was real. To Me.

[@Engel-07]

>nonexistent Sureee, sure.

[@AroundTheBlockAgain]

A lot of people seem to think tumblr's dead nowadays, despite shit like this still happening there

[@darkdreamer871]

as someone who has been on tumblr long enough to witness all of these happen in real time and is too old to worry about being Cringe™ this was a delightful trip down memory lane!! also I can't believe there's a tumblr controversy iceberg without a single mention of hellsite staples like Human Pet Guy, the toe necklace, the Miku binder, the infinite chocolate hack, or tumblr user pizza-really puts into perspective how much "lore" the user base has accumulated

[@Purpie_Slurpie]

oh my god the fucking miku binder

[@jb_types_stuff]

How does one use Tumblr anyway?

[@vespernight4236]

Surprised the little fandom around it's original creator wasn't mentioned. Ppl were legit thirsty for this guy think they called him daddy. It's and endless treasure trove of online bs

[@EmeraldAshesAudio]

Thank you for the additional rabbit holes.

[@Omfgitsjo]

I don't think anything can ever match that insane energy of DestielPutinElection day for me. I was already feeling a little loopy that day because I was on new meds and the combined news of Destiel being canon + the anxiety around the election was just... undescribable. Truly the best payoff to being a chronically online ex-Supernatural fan. I was seeing shrimp colours.

[@666_cthulhu]

“shrimp colors” is my new favorite phrase

[@sweetbubblegum55]

We have to wait for 2024 so some insane event like November 5rd 2020 and September 8th 2022 to happen that will blow the entire internet into pieces.... Again

[@no-rp5fj]

I was in the psych ward that whole week and opening up my phone right after getting discharged and seeing the stream of updates from friends? Unmatched experience

[@Aros4]

Bro the worst part for me was that this was in the middle of the pandemic and I made the absolute worst decision to watch it with my friend from the beginning to the end. We were dealing with our political and death related anxieties by watching Supernatural. I remember laying in bed completely overtaken by the sudden burst of information that I truly felt like I was in super mega hell too

[@caryshelm4702]

am i going crazy or did she say 2015? destiel putin election day went down in 2020

[@thespiderthread]

I joined Tumblr around the Mishapocalypse and it was certainly, uh, an Experience. Also, this is the first of those iceberg videos where I recognise every single thing and I'm both impressed and ashamed of myself

[@IloveNaruto1992]

Same. I am both proud that I've stuck with something this long but also, damn it's Tumblr.

[@Venya9]

Literally the same. I also vividly remember the Mishapocalypse happening, it became a core memory.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

So that's what it was.

[@sopapopp]

i only joined tumblr a few weeks ago but i still recognized like 80% of these stories just from the sheer amount of these tipes of videos that i consume lmao

[@thespiderthread]

@@sopapopp Welcome to the hellsite lol I genuinely keep forgetting new people actually join Tumblr, it feels like everyone has been on there for at least 5 years most of the time, so it's neat to see someone who's actually new! Like meeting an online unicorn, except it's all about a broken spaghetti code of a microblogging site

[@FirstnameLastname-cy3vi]

It's always the 'fake identity' controversies that stick out to me, such as HIV-Living claiming to be HIV+ alongside many other identities they did not have in order to write a Hamilton high school AU centered around having HIV+, or that time a major name in ace-exclusionist tumblr turned out to be lying about nearly every aspect of who she was in order to win extra representation points over 'cishet' asexuals. Only on tumblr would you find controversies this wild and specific and completely and utterly pointless.

[@reesesbeanses]

the ace exclusionist who lied about her identity, allolesbean, also ran HIV-Living. she claimed to be an HIV+ lesbian sex trafficking survivor who lived in India, which she used to try to boost her claim that accepting asexuals is a form of discrimination against HIV+ people. She also claimed that the entire concept of asexuality was pedophilic and sexualized minors, because the idea that minors can be asexual also implies that they can be sexual (as in non-asexual). No idea if she actually hated aces or if she was just a huge asshole who loved the idea of an entire demographic group being socially acceptable to hurt on purpose.

[@Engel-07]

Wait wait whose the second person

[@FirstnameLastname-cy3vi]

Can’t quite remember the exact tumblr name but it was some change on the words “Discourse Princess” (might have been discorsaprincess). Most iconic for their pfp of this emoji: 💖

[@maddyocean5948]

that’s freaking disgusting. you know those kinds of people hurt those marginalized identities than actual bigots in my opinion. just talking and lying about labels cause it’s “trendy”. as a person with many marginalized identities (disabled, lesbian, person or colour, autism) those people make people like me look bad (as if we use our identities as an excuse to be shitty people, it’s not). i hate people that queer know there’s people want and are desperate for representation, and lie about it and lie to community as if it’s a sought after thing to be freaking OPPRESSED?? those people are worse than bigots tbh. they make those people look bad. they reduce our oppression and suffering to nothing but social points among other marginalized peoples. they reduce our suffering as nothing but labels and a way to manipulate other marginalized identities. it’s just do gross how the same people that use our identities to sway peoples opinions (although it really shouldn’t) and to manipulate others by saying things like “but i’m disabled/a person of colour so this thing is not offensive at all!” people actually do that. they pretend to be a person of colour, or a gay person or both! to try and sway the public opinion on whether racism is okay or not. it’s just disgusting and makes me sick. reducing all our struggle to nothing but pity social points.and it makes All OF US look bad.

[@icarus7198]

As someone who has experienced and continued to experience all this, I feel like I’m being beat to death with every entry

[@siarhian10]

It's honestly such a weird feeling to be both old enough and online enough to remember these when they happened

[@CommanderWiggins]

Born too late to explore the earth. Born too early to explore the universe. Born just in time to experience all the juiciest Tumblr drama.

[@hexterspectre1191]

saaaaaaame. I can still remember the day DashCon happened. I remember seeing that ball pit for the first time scrolling tumblr in my bed on my old-ass Acer laptop that could barely run the Sims 2 at a solid 20FPS and seeing people attending posting live about how fucked up the whole event turned out. “Do not cite the deep magic to me Witch, I was there when it was written” kinda feeling

[@gregorysteffensen3279]

It's funny which ones of these feel higher or lower on the iceberg for me since I was mostly on witchy and sci-fi Tumblr - for example, sixpence or bone stealing witch feel dang near the surface, but then some of the weirder fandom Tumblr stuff this iceberg has as surface feels damn near abyssal to me

[@benddeg]

Hey Updated on the Bone Thief: She got arrested for it and had to do community service. Justin Wang did a video on it for more details.

[@ThatGuyMikey1]

Came to rewatch this and was jump scared by Josh Hustcherson. That man haunts my every waking moment. I can hear the song Whistle playing in the distance. It is rapidly approaching. He is coming for me. I don’t have much ti

[@Plue0002]

Josh Hutcherson 6:54

[@aestheticpxin5106]

I was freaked out too I was not expecting Josh Hucherson

[@Corgimations]

@@aestheticpxin5106SAME

[@unapersona4620]

7 months, and yeah, i can still hear the whistle when i least expect it

[@UncleAndyArt]

It's wild to me that I've watched so many deep dive videos about tumblr culture that despite never being a tumblr kid (I never understood the layout, so I just stuck to Facebook and DeviantArt) I knew every single one of these stories already

[@ActualSolitaire]

I had a similar experience. For me, I was incredibly afraid of social interaction and felt too young and embarrassed to join, so I never got to experience prime Tumblr (shame) but I did obsessively dive though Pinterest reposts of popular Tumblr posts and basically managed to absorb most of the culture though that. lol thems were the days.

[@spiderside3892]

during the sixpenceee discussion I suddenly remembered "buy my silence. for 8000 a month i will stop" and i was so sad you didnt mention that shitshow. if you ever feel like doing another one of these, I would love to see it!!

[@floofysparkledemon6662]

one time i told my friend i liked their shoelaces, and they replied with the "thanks, I stole them from the president" response, and I just got really confused. I didn't use tumblr, they were just cool show laces (they were rainbow :))

[@PeriluneStar]

Those sound like cool shoelaces actually lol

[@Fresitaichigo1]

I have 2 favorite things that you didn’t mention: - Weird festivities like celebrating the Ides of March as if it was a national holiday - The episode of mass hysteria that was Goncharov the Scorsese mafia movie

[@goldenmolelover]

one of my favorite things about the whole john green copypasta is in his response he didnt even say "men"- he said "people with penises". kind of every time i hear about john (or hank as well by that matter) i only become more of an enthusiast. (also, ive legitimately never gotten the hatred he got. it just seems like people were just mad and wanted a guy that in their minds was fit for that role who they could focus on, then proceeded to pull apart every thing hes said or done)

[@CalamitasCalliope]

A big part of the people being against him was that people just thought he was cringe. The majority of the people involved in hating him were very young, and it really didn't mean much else beyond that

[@josephinehendricks]

They hated him because they were losers who wanted their loser friends to think they were more progressive and cooler than they actually were

[@pandoratheexplorer8211]

As someone wise once said: he might be cringe but that is not a moral failing

[@elif6908]

I was very sad when John left Tumblr, I hope he comes back. And Neil Gaiman never got that reaction which I don’t understand. Not that I want Neil Gaiman to be harassed, I just don’t understand.

[@m.n.2971]

@@elif6908 ​Maybe because Neil Gaiman had his big break before tumblr was even a thing? The fact he already had an established fanbase that hadn't grown up with internet probably helps him a attract more ''level-headed'' people (though he gets the ocasional ill-intentioned ask, most of the time everything seems pretty chill! I love his blog). Meanwhile, John Green solidified his presence on the internet with his vlogs and blog, and attracted a different audience. Or maybe it's luck, who knows?

[@JammingBear]

Shes like a grandmother talking about “back in the day” even tho it was only 5-10 years ago😅

[@0uttaS1TE]

On the internet, 5 years may as well be 50.

[@JammingBear]

@@0uttaS1TE lol

[@devil_pls]

@@0uttaS1TE True. The internet kind of moves on its own pace

[@zestytriss5282]

Babies born 5-10 years ago are now 5-10 years old right now😭

[@Nemamka]

I mean destiel putin was less than 3 years ago TT_TT

[@SpookyVerii]

as an active tumblr user for over 10 years, it’s very funny because these jokes still get circled around every other week. i see supernatural gifs like it’s 2012. it’s a never dying era in my lovely hellhole

[@bake-io1cf]

tumblrinas all peaked in highschool

[@gmodstarstruct2815]

@@bake-io1cf my guy is really out here dropping "Tumblr users are losers" like it's the hot take of the century

[@bake-io1cf]

@@gmodstarstruct2815 More of a well known fact than a hot take

[@gmodstarstruct2815]

@@bake-io1cf exactly. what’s your next grand statement “tomatoes are fruit”?

[@xx_iheartgirlz.mp3_xx]

@@bake-io1cf most of us are in high school...

[@hotworlds]

My fav controversy was the sudden interest in 'meth tumblr' and specifically the user 'methedupsamurai'. He was a semi-attractive guy who fronted a metal band. Visually not people's idea of a heavy drug user, so he got totally woobified for some reason despite being a literal crackhead and totally acting like it. (Maybe he was a bit of a real-life tumblr sexyman.) He was huge for several months sometime in the late 2010s and then everybody turned on him when he started saying extremely transphobic things. Shocker lol

[@sora2474]

As someone who is very interested in learning what I missed as a child *with* restricted internet access, this is the perfect channel

[@PersonYT4545]

Same

[@Candyrock15]

Honestly you're fortunate

[@WolfmanBrown]

I’m enjoying coming at it from the opposite direction: The grown man who avoided Tumblr because of the user interface.

[@motleythewild]

After living on tumblr for years, and then getting busy and losing interest, I've actually started using it regularly again and it's honestly still the best place to be, for me. I can't stand any other social media at this point. It's still a hellsite, but i'm a demon and hell happens to be my home.

[@eepybinky]

time stamps :D tier 1: the onceler fandom: 2:25 tumblr sexymen: 3:55 justgirlythings:5:11 superwholock: 6:55 mishapocalypse: 7:51 dashcon: 8:45 tier 2: johngreen copypasta: 11:33 tumblr prom: 13:23 yahoo buys tumblr: 15:18 the scam trifecta: 16:04 i like your shoelaces: 21:03 broken dashboard: 22:20 tier 3: tubby custard: 22:59 constable-frozen: 24:23 destiel putin: 25:24 bone stealing witch: 26:45 the interwebs: 28:52 fake stories: 30:36 cole sprouse: 32:42 tier 4: do you love the color of the sky: 34:47 sharpie bath: 35:21 rabiosexual: 38:19 sonic for real justice: 39:54 april fools day: 40:57 tier 5: woodys roundup: 41:52 sixpenceee: 42:48 ray bans sale: 45:21 tumblr ads: 46:18 needle cookie: 47:52 tier 6: tumblr aesthetic: 49:42 tcc: 51:17 hey peebrain- do you teleport?: 52:28

[@reign_issue]

thank you /)

[@banafanafofana6914]

boooost

[@mintminttsontson]

5:11 That one doesnt work soo

[@somecat3367]

I used to be a part of the teacher crush community on Tumblr back in middle school. I got into it kind of late so I think I was spared a lot of the creepy stuff that happened, but it did encourage my behavior more than it did relieve it. The fact that the community was used by adults to talk to kids that could be considered "easy targets" so to speak is very creepy and extremely weird. I do think it's important, however, that we give kids safe spaces to talk about their feelings especially at a time in their that can be confusing and down right depressing for them. At the age "teacher crushes" usually happen, a kid could be going through many changes to their body and self esteem. Not to mention what could be going on at home. In my case, and what I feel like is a lot of other kids cases, this made me seek out any sort of validation. I developed an attraction to someone I should not be close with and that's what got me into the community. I am lucky this never led to anything serious happening, and this teacher was still a genuinely good and caring person to me, but it probably caused my self esteem to completely crash and anxiety to go haywire. Talking about it, not to the tcc but to my irl friends and counselors, helped me get better and out of this cycle of validation seeking. Social media of course isn't a good place to discuss your issues, but I think we need to help kids with these types of attractions and issues find safer ways to work through them rather than just telling them that they're cringe or wrong for really liking one of their teachers. (Not saying that's what they said in the video, just that a lot of people hold that opinion rightfully so) Sorry I know this is kinda late and I understand if what I say sounds wrong. Just wanted to talk a bit about my dark Tumblr experience ^^

[@lexirysbar]

Also as a teacher it’s actually quite normal developmentally for kids to develop crushes on teachers. But what’s not normal or okay is for a teacher to encourage it. Or to act on it. A teacher or any adult has the responsibility to protect their students. Children have a lot of changes going on and an adult who cares for them who’s not related to them will often be confused as someone they have romantic feelings for or an attraction. Again it’s normal but as the adults it’s our responsibility to protect the child and make sure we keep them safe.

[@meka.1142]

​@@lexirysbarWhat doesn't help is media fetishizing it, even in college when they are both adults, a teacher (or professor), is a position of authority over a student which is not a healthy dynamic.

[@dannyboy4682]

You're right. Online spaces are bad for this because it can normalise unhealthy habits that kids need support with, not encouragement. In general I think tumblr was a space it was very easy to get groomed on...

[@Hacknerds]

I was friends with the person behind the Woody's Round-Up thing for a long time, but they ended up being outed as a sexual abuser two years ago and burned their entire online presence to the ground. That was a lot of fun...

[@666_cthulhu]

well that’s disappointing

[@adripurdy1998]

ah yes another snoopingasusualisee mutual?

[@Hacknerds]

@@adripurdy1998 Yeah 😬

[@finne0n]

NO...... wtf....

[@creepypato3984]

So the person that kept outing people online for being bad individuals ended up being a bad person themselves, trying to compensate! Oh, who COULD'VE SEEN it coming!

[@lou-cidmire3065]

I had personal experience with "Tumblr Prom"! - I was there in the trenches of awkward and earnest queer teen flirtation - and oh yes, I took part without an ounce of irony in my heart. Back around the 2010s, I "tumblr-dated" a long string of girls, one of whom was a Canadian lass deep into "bandom" who loved cheesy cutesy couple stuff, like prom pics. (Yup. "My girlfriend from Canada" cliche irl. lmaooo) She asked if I'd go to Tumblr Prom with her and I obliged, donning my second-hand blue blazer adorned with airbrushed roses straight out of the 80s, white button up, way-too-big black slacks, and a bouquet of fake black roses I had lying around. Aaaand *post*. A 15-yo emo trans boy in his tentative butch lesbian phase, young Justin Beiber haircut, with all the power and swagger of a 2-month-old puppy, doing his best tumblr sexyman pose & holding fake flowers for his most recent biannual Canadian tumblr girlfriend, a tall glass of ginger nerd grinning eagerly in a blue satin dress. Enough time has passed that the memory has become endearing rather than embarrassing. I mean, how cutely cringe is that? Online prom for baby nerds. No idea if the pics we exchanged still exist in the tumblr aether (blog is long deactivated) but they live rent-free in my head anyway. 💙 Oh, nostalgia.

[@arieslofi]

that's adorable:( glad y'all could have fun with it

[@Boggythefroggy]

This is the cutest thing, not cringe at all. Even if it is, kids should allowed to be cringe while they’re young.

[@weirdkimion]

Lil babies! This is very sweet and wholesome.

[@zodiark111]

Tumblr X 4chan personified me and my girlfriend's relationship back when we were much younger. We were obssessed with it since I was the edgy 4chan user and she was the quirky tumblr user, who both set aside our differences in the name of love. Thank goodness I grew up and got off of that forsaken shithole of a website. Not sure if she's still on tumblr.

[@RainbowNanaki]

I mean this with 100% sincerity: Congrats for getting off 4chan!

[@brokenmirror3911]

irl character development and redemption arc.

[@kwarra-an]

The two genders

[@emptyteardrops]

I like how _that_ picture of Josh Hutcherson showed up and this was before the memes

[@your_favorite_alex]

it haunts me..

[@mhrlz]

rightt

[@catisyellen9877]

I hope tumblr stays a thing. I’m surprised it still exists due to it not being profitable. I wonder who’s keeping it afloat.

[@666_cthulhu]

idk but they’re doin the lord’s work and of course by “LORD” i mean LOngified furb Reposted on every Destiel blog to sow the seeds of pure, unbridled chaos cos there’s nothing holy about tumblr

[@WhizPill]

@@666_cthulhu Glad you asked because I'm in the process of publishing a documentary about Tumblr's refusal to go extinct.

[@albedoweatheruno]

i still see really recent tumblr posts (as in, this year) getting 100k notes if theyre super popular so *surely* theyre doing something right???

[@666_cthulhu]

@@albedoweatheruno in terms of turning a profit? ehh not really 😅 but their dedicated user base would never let them go down without a fight

[@nightigal]

​@Whiz Pill the remaining user base refuses to leave

[@princecorgi337]

regarding tumblr prom: i "went to it" with my bff in highschool at the time. people did dress up for it and my mom even took pictures of us it was hilarious. i look back on it with fondness

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Aw! Why is "tumblr prom" listed as a controvesy???

[@aaronpoole5531]

The teeny tiny mention of Steam Powered Giraffe during the Dash Con segment made me so happy because that's how my soon to be wife and I met on Tumblr! My url was only one letter off someone else's, based on their song Rex Marksley. Fast forward 10 years and we're in the final stages of me moving to the US to finally get married and *finally* live together 💖

[@steampunk-llama]

Holy shit love wins 🥹

[@soph9033]

This is so cute, love that for yall!

[@theforgotten1213]

That's so cute.

[@aaronpoole5531]

Thnx cool cats :>

[@julianpeppers1889]

Oh, the thinspo and "self harm as an aesthetic" blogs are unfortunately common. Many gore and csa trauma blogs reblog or post pink cutesy images and the nature of the search function makes it super common to see that stuff if you just want to see cute things, unless you use 3rd party blocking features, and even then, it only works if people are tagging things appropriately. I've also been followed or messaged by thinspo blogs right after venting about weight related self esteem issues, almost like some of those people deliberately search for hurting people and try to trigger them.

[@milkymoo_]

a lot of the stuff in this list is older, but some more 'recent' tumblr events off the top of my head include: -horse plinko -live slug reaction -there are benefits to being a marine biologist -goncharov -pomdering the orb -kung pow penis -that one sword lady ad -chocolate guy -tumblr blaze, tumblr polls, and subsequent tumblr sexyman polls with LOTS of propoganda flooding the site -penis smp and some more older ones to top off the list, -god of Arepo -childrens hospital -alexandras genesis -hatsune miku binder -human pet guy

[@elenka775]

As someone who has never used Tumblr these sound terrifying

[@tia2237]

HORSE PLINKO‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥‼️🔥‼️🔥‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️🐴🔥‼️‼️🐴🐴‼️🔥🐴🐴🐴‼️🔥🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴

[@alinashirinian2485]

Can't forget the Pikachu demon man... Oh how I wish I never saw this ad

[@balletwb94]

I was legit waiting for her to mention the sword lady ad

[@Sfb-x1f]

I'd forgot about human pet guy 😭

[@jamesevans6332]

Wheatley being a Tumblr sexyman is so extremely bizarre to me. He's not tall, brooding or mysterious, he's just a literal idiot ball who goes down an evil path in the second half of the game and regrets doing what he did when he is defeated. Tumblr just deadass put any dorky villainous character with the potential to be redeemed up on the sexyman pedestal, huh

[@pinkfakecheez]

i think his va being a very tall skinny white british man helped

[@jamesevans6332]

@@pinkfakecheez You know what, fair enough

[@jazzycat8917]

​@@pinkfakecheez not just any tall skinny British man, the TALLEST SKINNIEST British man

[@666_cthulhu]

it feels so wrong every time i hear someone call wheatley a tumblr sexyman but hey that’s what we get for naming our dog wheatley still makes more sense than tony the talking clock if you ask me 👁️ 👄 👁️

[@alexisb3829]

Yeah I can’t believe Tony the clock is one of them

[@decay09]

i JUST got back from a con that was held at the same convention center dashcon was at. people found the exact location of where the ballpit was based off of the floor markings. its actually a lovely convention center. the infamous room is actually GIGANTIC, it can easily fit hundreds of booths while still having plenty of room, which makes the ballpit a hundred times funnier.

[@user-qqqhhhuuu]

I feel like whisper memes are the “justgirlythings” but in modern day.

[@cellperfecto421]

An hour of obscure Tumblr stuff that only extremely online people like us would care about. You never disappoint with this quality content: keep up the good work.

[@juncohill]

Godspeed, comrade.

[@Bludgeoned2DEATH2]

☭

[@ImTheGuy]

We shall pray for her sanity

[@0uttaS1TE]

Izzy's like the detective in a Lovecraft story

[@goofaliciouso]

Godspeed.

[@warkillerheroes]

​@@Bludgeoned2DEATH2 AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@joancan665]

The neurotic teenager behind "your fave is problematic" went into journalism, color me shocked

[@Nemamka]

She actually had an article in the NYT about the blog and admitted that it was all bonkers and wrong judgement and she regrets having done that. It was really refreshing to read

[@siyuanlu6231]

Being still quite active on Tumblr, I have almost forgotten about all of this. These days the site is such a breath of fresh air after the hostile chaos of TikTok or Reddit... or maybe I just follow really chill people now

[@bagelbitee3756]

I feel the same way so it’s definitely not just you. Tumblr nowadays feels more like an actual community than just another shitty social media site

[@ainerobertson78]

The fact that tumblr now sells merch for some of these is insane

[@BBkiny]

It always confused me that they shipped the Onceler with himself instead of humanizing the Lorax like they've done with so many other characters

[@renthemen.]

I think it's the dynamic that people ship, so the lorax being human wouldn't be the same as oncest

[@rosie3946]

I went to tumblr prom with my homestuck fandom friends... in hindsight I still think it was quite a sweet idea

[@absolutelyridiculous6743]

Omg Homestuck...!!

[@nevergame_]

and incredibly cringe xd

[@digitalsoop]

I was gonna comment saying that the Homestucks definitely did Tumblr prom bc I remember a lot of Homestuck cosplayers posting pictures lol

[@meganclow6959]

I read this as "tumblr porn" like 3x I was so confused 😅

[@giantpinkcat]

Imma tell yall one thing: The concept of a cartoon about a Cop going on innocent fun adventures with a bear would NOT fly on Tumblr nowadays.

[@MasonMarkle]

thank for more questions than answers

[@mickeyveach3612]

The most ironic thing about the Onceler Fandom is that it feels like a manufactured parody of shipping culture but is somehow not.

[@m00nrac00n]

It was painfuly not selfaware and oddly pure at the core of its depravity because of it. The "anything goes" of tumblr sexymen.

[@Josuh]

sans undertale also suffered such fate but at least that was loosely (very loosely) based on the game itself, Oncest is the wildest shit because of how it even came to be

[@Rey_Palpatine]

The fact that a bunch of people just came together and went "wait the Onceler is hot, right? What if there were 2 Oncelers and they smooched" and it exploded into this whole thing is pure insanity

[@fexarii]

Yk despite knowing all of the Tumblr incidents by heart by now, I still decided to finally make an account and it's honestly one of the best things I've ever done. If you want to post your self indulgent cringe, there's definitely someone on that platform who will eat that shit up, no doubt. Want the most quotable sentence you've ever laid your eyes on? It's there. It's all there. Everyone's insane there and I love it.

[@schwiftyjerry666]

It's amazing, I'm in a very small and obscure fandom and still get people regularly interacting with my posts about it on tumblr and being genuinely interested in what I have to say. There really is something for everyone on there.

[@kblixt]

@@schwiftyjerry666 I love that small obscure fandoms thrive on there. And nowhere else you will see gifsets from a number of things

[@honey_skulls1237]

THIS! i finally joined barely 3 months ago and i'm already really active in my somewhat obscure fandom, have multiple mutuals and my art and even my text posts are still getting interaction multiple days after posting them. It genuinly feels like being part of a community Deviantart and Instagram could never

[@luthientinuviel3883]

​@@schwiftyjerry666same im in a little fandom there and connecting with folks, its so nice to have a community for these things

[@sambastien6083]

I never knew the backstory behind the rabiosexual thing, but it makes a ton of sense that the movement for autistic trans folks got mocked and warped so badly - it's hard to find a safe space without people wanting to ruin it :< another great video; I've learned something today! Thanks Izzy :>

[@bunnyboy3272]

Right ? Makes me kinda sad I totally would’ve been friends with the original creator hope he’s doing okay

[@csub6712]

But rabies kills you

[@jayp1890]

@@bunnyboy3272he has a tiktok!

[@punkuke]

I love how the needles in the cookies story could also go in the "Fake Tumblr Stories" category. The rabbit hole of big lies on Tumblr is insane....

[@christinegovas-robert4378]

I'm an Xellenial so I missed the Tumblr boat by about 7-10 years. My biggest takeaway from your videos is that every generation that comes of age in the post-internet era will have its own website that documents its sins. My generation has MySpace. The current generation has TikTok. There's something kind of beautiful about it.

[@pmchad]

What the fuck is a xellenial

[@dottieoleary666]

I was part of the original wave of tumblr aesthetic hipsters lol, seeing the site evolve- or devolve depending on your pov- has been a real fun ride. I'm having a tumblr themed 30th birthday party this year and I'm certainly going to put this video on to remind my friends of our cringe

[@j.2512]

tumblr themed 30th birthday party: A bunch of morbidly obese junkie genderblobs with colored arm pit hair drinking soy and talking about their srs complications

[@spectre9340]

Please wear drawn-on mustaches on your index fingers 🙏

[@Nemamka]

omg happy 30th birth year, same here! :D What a neat idea for a party!

[@KerbalRocketry]

one note: the cock post was not the last straw for john green, the last straw was when somebody sent him hate with a photo of his home attached

[@lizfranklin127]

Hi friends! ❤ The Starbucks hissing story is my post. It was basically the same story as the tubby custard, where I saw a near identical post, but without the last sentence about wasting our lives on the same site. People didn’t get pick up on the joke (reading it back now, I don’t blame them 😅), so I just played into it and replied to hate asks with things like “*hisses at you*”, or “hipster blog 😡”. I’m not mad at all about its infamy- it’s actually hilarious that it’s still floating around the internet pissing people off over a decade later.

[@shinerstheseagull]

Iconic behavior

[@ZoeIsNotIcy11]

I remember in high school a friend of mine (read: classmate I had a positive relationship with in class) came in with genuinely neat looking shoelaces. I complimented them and then froze as they stared in understanding at the compliment and the double meaning. Finally we laughed it off and they told me they got them at Hot Topic, but man did I never speak up about footwear again, lol

[@zo_mi_di]

Okay but the fact that they’re from Hot Topic is JUST AS MUCH of a self burn 😂

[@misteryA555]

​@@zo_mi_di I once complimented a friend's shoelaces because they were rainbow and I'm gay and she responded "Thanks, I stole them from the president" and I stared at her in confusion. I'm used to improving jokes but this friend of mine never had before so I was surprised she chose something so specific. She then explained that it was a tumblr thing which was even more shocking because I had been on tumblr for at least a year at that point and yet never heard that joke (this was during it's peak, not years later. I have an uncanny ability to be in the room and yet miss every important thing happening lol)

[@kaspershaddox2750]

as an ancient homestuck it brings me joy to always see the sharpie bath brought up because it Did happen and that fandoms mistakes should never be repeated

[@WriteUnread]

I love how all homestucks respond to "heres a fucked up thing your fandom did" not with defensiveness but with "lmao yeah"

[@kaspershaddox2750]

@@WriteUnread i was there in the trenches ive seen some shit people will never believe im simply here to spread the truth

[@Homodemon]

Yeah, it really happened, I was the bathtub

[@isaiaholdford439]

you know it happened, for sure? how?

[@kaspershaddox2750]

@@isaiaholdford439 one of my friends was at anime expo the year it happened and had known the people who owned that hotel room lmao

[@Sir_Crow]

With the Sixpencee thing, the artwork of the parked car staring at the massive robot thing at 43:12 seems to be artwork stolen by Simon Stålenhag (one of my favorite artists of all time). I highly recommend checking out his work as well as limited time TV series if you haven't. A very good combination of sci-fi and paranormal.

[@littlequail4444]

not only was there tumblr prom, there was a specific *onceler prom* too! it was put on by two onceler cosplay blogs, i was the date for one of them. i thought i was gonna be crowned prom queen but no, the other onceler was :/ we had an actual party too, it was on skype! i went out and bought a green dress from the thrift store for it and had to go to a friend's house to participate and not get interrogated by my parents ;w;

[@ry5551]

tumblr was literally my childhood. i remember wearing cat whiskers to school and forcing my friends to participate 😭

[@spectre9340]

I'm so glad you recovered from that 🙏😫

[@14AMRURU]

​@@spectre9340 real