Tumblr isn't Dead

[@AlexMax2742]

Tumblr is actually way better _because_ most people think it's dead. It help keep the old-internet vibe alive.

[@endarus6053]

This

[@18Hongo]

Question: how old is that vibe? Because if we're talking OLD internet vibe, that was mostly just chatrooms, which, for the youngsters out there, were like Discord, but with (inexplicably) even more paedophiles. I'm not sure that's a vibe anyone really wants to preserve.

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

​@@18Hongothey obviously just meant the pre AI Fever Dream feel.

[@maplepainttube8158]

@@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit I think even before that, like maybe akin to the era of youtube where it was at the point where there were youtubers who made regular videos, but most of them did it (or at least started) as a hobby with no expectation of ever being able to make a living off of it. It was just fun, and creative, and smaller, and WEIRD

[@tmmaster6904]

​@@18Hongothink old enough to where youtube still had annotations

[@nateguardia8806]

Them thinking that Tumblr is dead helps to avoid anything too complicated that Tumblr didn't start and end themselves.

[@ThatCrazySylveonIsAtItAgain]

The details of Tumblr's death were greatly exaggerated.

[@Devinix314]

Love that Ace Sylveon PFP

[@ThatCrazySylveonIsAtItAgain]

@@Devinix314 Thanks! I got tired of being mistaken as trans, so I found an Ace Sylveon instead!

[@MariaGreenwoodArt]

@@ThatCrazySylveonIsAtItAgainthat is so real

[@Briskeeen]

It's still a transphobic, bigoted website

[@not_umbre]

​@@ThatCrazySylveonIsAtItAgain hi Pokemon fan!!

[@chrosairs7057]

Tumblr actually developed camouflage like a wild animal

[@abigaillizard4864]

Yeah, gotta avoid the toxic people like a predator

[@johanaytb211]

​@@abigaillizard4864 I mean, there are still plenty of toxic people on Tumblr. It's just far easier to avoid them because we mostly get to choose what we see.

[@boppy423]

Make them believe we've perished so they can't come scrambling towards us

[@thetf2foundation39]

Twitter tried to jump ship a few years back and tried to come back, we either played dead or rolled around in the yard that's covered with what the winder internet thinks is filth. Reddit was an exception because tumblr and reddit are almost alike, a blogging platform with social features.

[@invurret9533]

Trust me, it won't make a difference. I tried tumblr and couldn't figure anything out. Actually this is probably a me thing I just don't use social media like ever

[@absolutewisp]

​@@thetf2foundation39reddit users are also used to their platform being insistent on becoming constantly worse, so we feel right at home on stumblr /hj

[@SarahAbramova]

​@@thetf2foundation39 except, imo Reddit actually sucks.

[@skyhideaway]

they won’t survive in tumblr anyway

[@solxiv2476]

Tumblr being "dead" is what makes it so good. A lot of toxic people love attention so they will actively avoid a "dead" social media platform. Not saying there are no toxic personalities on it, but there are way fewer and a lot more easy to ignore.

[@CuteLilEldritch1010]

Honestly, most of the toxic assholes that were on that site back in 2018 either migrated to other social media or grew up and matured into sensible, kinder people. It’s one of the reasons why Tumblr went from a platform that I avoided like the plague to a platform that I frequently engage in, (even if I’m still struggling to navigate it sometimes)

[@casualcaptor]

also, you curate your own space. so you can get to the point where you see people complaining about the new drama or discourse, but never see any of it actually touch your dash. it's nice

[@DezAmmySel]

THIS!! Also the fact that you really CAN'T brag about tumblr fame. They don't show others how many followers you have, and having a post breach containment and become popular is actually a _massive pain in the ass_ that NOBODY wants! So anyone looking to be a tumblr influencer will be sorely disappointed!

[@oliviax727]

I'm sorry but Tumblr is EXTREMELY toxic. I started using it last year and holy shit it's so bad. The only reason why it "seems better" is because of instead it being full of nazis it's full of queer people who think that their minority status makes it okay for them to be edgy or awful to others, often other queer people. I have never seen worse on tumblr than on either reddit or youtube

[@joda7697]

The lack of algorithmic content is precisely why i like being on tumblr. No i will not elaborate.

[@Valysion]

Because you choose what you want to see yeah i get it.

[@hoodiesticks]

​@@Valysion No, because some unhinged mutual chooses what you see

[@undeniablySomeGuy]

I was surprised that people actually found and gave ❤s to my posts. One was a 3000+ rambling piece about something nobody asked about, and the other is a random crossover fanart. I only have 1 follower, an IRL who didn't interact with any of them.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

People who need this explained won't understand either way.

[@bethanybrookes8479]

Honestly, I enjoy it when some of my most prominent posts are a post bemoaning the lack of a certain character in DC, like, they brought back so many characters but he's still stuck as a stone statue on pluto a few million years in the future! And a post throwing shade to fictional victorian psychiatric professionals. It's two completely separate fandoms and I made them in the same week. it's great. I feel like that is something that could never really happen on any other social media. Like. Instagram is so focused on giving your account some kind of, idk, brand? I think that's the best way to put it? Xitter is just toxic at this point I don't wanna touch it with a 10 foot pole. Facebook is so much more focused on interacting with either people you know or in specific interest groups. Discord is a chat room. Tiktok doesn't really lend itself to the kind of stream of conscious 3am rambles or just stopping reading for a sec to post some shitpost idea you just came up with when reading in the way tumblr does. It's fun and it's unique and the only thing that it's algorithm ever seems to throw at you (in the for you page) is tags or blogs that you have actively looked at or interacted with at least once.

[@Shad0wWarr10r]

one thing Tumblr users can collectivly agree on is theres not enough Vanilla extract in the cake

[@Violet_Jedi_Sylveon]

There's never enough vanilla extract

[@doyrte]

@@Violet_Jedi_SylveonI can assure you there is a maximum to vanilla extract before cake tastes awful (personal experience)

[@Violet_Jedi_Sylveon]

@@doyrte sorry for your cake loss

[@PlushieMaxxing]

@@doyrtewe haven't reached that point yet. MORE

[@aRandomFox00]

The entire cake is now literally just 100% vanilla extract concentrate. BUT IT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH.

[@shinyagumon7015]

Honestly I respect Tumblr users for completely rejecting the livestream feature they tried to shoe in, not because I hate livestreaming or short form videos, but more because I'm tired of every social media desperately trying to capture the same audience. Like I use different social medias for different things, I don't want every social media to be like TikTok the same way I don't want every social media to be like Twitter or Instagram. I think KZbin shorts are ok because it's still video content which is what KZbin is for so it fits.

[@CaedmonOS]

I don't like the KZbin shorts. Not because I don't think the content is good, but because I don't like how it interacts with the app. It just screws up everything whenever you click one.

[@flaetsbnort]

tbh Tumblr fumbled the livestream feature so hard that the users deserve very little credit on this one. Every ad for it looked like a banner for a porn site.

[@Miss__Mystic]

The most innovative thing the site did was adding polls and everyone was losing their minds over it. I’m still not over the nsfw purge, especially since the porn bots are still so active.

[@DezAmmySel]

@@flaetsbnort we literally had to painstakingly turn it off every 30 days and remind everyone else to disable it as well. I agree with your comment to an extent, but we DID put in the work to make sure it STAYED gone

[@phictionofgrandeur2387]

Tumblr is somehow both heaven and hell, day and night, living and dead... It is the antithesis of itself.

The duality of man.

[@DezAmmySel]

that's why we call it our hellsite. it's a hellsite, sure. but it's OUR hellsite

[@The-Draconian]

Tumblr is the opposite of Tumblr

[@kennyadriangreenwood5421]

That's called purgatory

[@MissFazzington]

People tend to assume that, in order for your platform to be "alive", it requires to be filled with soulless personalities played by jesters seeking nothing but fame and gain, overflowing with companies engineering the most cunning ways to shove their propaganda down the user's every sense, maximizing inconvenience just enough for you to watch their ads yet not abandon the platform. It's shocking how some people cannot conceive the idea of a place where it's just people expressing themselves, calmly showing who they are and communicating with each other not as competitors but peers.

[@bluesbest1]

Meanwhile the Tumblr jesters actively _avoid_ fame and gain and only ever gain it involuntarily. Except, of course, the cryptid Eldritch Horrors.

[@Tr0lliPop]

Sometimes I feel like people have forgotten the actual purpose of Social Media platforms as an invention. They were made to socialize with people you can't meet in person for one reason or another, but everyone treats it like a fame contest where people compare follower counts and internet points for a shallow ego boost.

[@thefriendlyenemy7908]

I completely agree with this statement, except for your use of the word jesters. The personalities on other social media sites are not jesters, they are clowns. We, the people of tumblr, are the jesters, mostly because we all seem to agree that jesters are cool and silly and we talk about jesters privilege like, 90% of the time on our site, or at least that one post about it will sometimes get reblogged around idk. where was i going with this i forgor

[@FloeAnimations]

“I went to take nap and you thought I was dead, and instead of calling 911 you replaced me and starting singing fricking show tunes?”

[@aquapenguin9697]

"the show must go on"

[@The-Draconian]

This gave me flashbacks.

[@adalindenau5035]

I see you are a person of culture

[@iamsushi1056]

I would rather not have an algorithm that actively learns about me thank you very much

[@RainbowGod666]

e x a c t l y

[@jamesphillips2285]

Stopped using Bumble almost immediately after it said it was using my swipe data to improve recommendations. I was not vetting people closely enough to warrant such action!

[@emv005]

thats just creepy gives off 1984

[@Thuselessone]

Tumblr will never die. Like a phoenix in the ashes, like a vampire in the night, like any piece of food I drop on the floor even though I’ve gotten sick from this habit many times before and need to stop it, it remains.

[@DezAmmySel]

making myself the "5 second rule only works on floors that have been recently cleaned" rule is what got me to stop. maybe it'll help you too?

[@SeltzerFountain]

I'm convinced that nobody on the internet now has object permanence, if everything that's not in their face always in their face is dead

[@aspillust]

"You had to find the blogs you liked and follow them yourself" GOD FORBID you have to put effort into personally curating your online experience, the HORROR /s we are dying as a society 💀

[@Shythalia]

Funny enough, that's how I treat my Facebook experience. And every time Facebook would recommend me other Pages, I just click the X on it and move on.

[@Shythalia]

Funny enough, that's how I treat my FB experience. And every time FB would recommend me other Pages, I just click the X on it and move on.

[@Shythalia]

Funny enough, that's how I treat my FB experience. And every time FB would rec•mmend me other Pages, I just click the X on it and move on. [YT won't let me post this reply 🤦‍♀️]

[@smproject16]

The second I learned you couldn’t see follower counts on tumblr I immediately felt so comfortable on it

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

0:53 i can’t even begin to explain how stupid i find this entire paragraph to be

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

if you are too lazy to find and follow a someone you like that is??? an issue???? i’m not the only one who sees that’s an issue right

[@bimboforcocoapuffs]

i genuinely had trouble believing they actually thought what they wrote and weren’t just fitting in a hypothetical argument for “the fall of tumblr” as an seo friendly topic/headline. but unfortunately that’s where some people must be mentally. :/

[@TheNerfer]

The fact that you don't have a ton of algorithmic garbage shoved in your face is what's good about tumblr. It lets you focus on what you like, not what the platform wants you to like.

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

ENA PFP

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

@@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard Based.

[@LeoForgetsToCreate]

Main reason on why I love Tumblr is that no one other than my mutuals even see the absolute feralness that has come over me for whatever fandom I'm in at the time. And I know that the ones who DO see my proud garbage heap are the exact same as me! Sure we may no longer be in the same fandom, but I do love seeing you on my dash yelling in the tags about wanting to eat someone's art! And whenever our fandoms collide either from one of us convincing the other to check out the media or by shear coincidence, we know get to rave about our shared interest together!

[@aspillust]

EXACTLY. i go on tumblr to scream about my interests and i LIKE IT that way

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

i also love following people and then a month later completely not knowing who they are or why i followed them, but keeping them because they reblog some damn good content

[@klltsun_2576]

I love how I can just go on tumblr and write paragraphs of whatever obsession has me in its grips, and scream about it and cry, and feel no shame cause everyone else has their own interests they shamelessly and proudly post(or reblog) about. I met some new mutuals because we're in the same fandom. I remember before i had tumblr, when my need to express my love had no other place to go to, no tumblr or even discord, I ended up posting on facebook like, maybe 2 times cause I couldnt contain myself anymore. Family and classmates are on there. Even when I tried to subdue how I expressed myself, I still felt embarrassed and cringed once I "calmed down" later on. Meanwhile, I dont regret any fandom post I made on tumblr

[@RonanSeatter]

yea its not dead just in a state of limbo, everyone thinks we are all dead but we really aren't

[@1thedanfan949]

Shrodiger tumbler

Undead?

[@RonanSeatter]

yesn't

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

@@1thedanfan949 they put us in the box several years ago and forgot to actually conduct the experiment before clocking out

[@dawn8293]

I'm new to Tumblr, and I love that I can perfectly curate my experience with very little algorithmic interference.

[@fosstera]

Welcome! Have fun and remember to reblog posts you like, as simply "liking" the post does absolutely nothing for its visibility

[@dawn8293]

@@fosstera I'm doing that😊! I don't know that it's helping visibility, though, as I have 1 follower 😂

[@naolucillerandom5280]

Same, I just go in, scroll a little, do some oddly specific searches, think about posting or reposting something, remember I hate attention, procrastinate.

[@littleperson8315]

i have been VERY tempted to use my unused tumblr account to log my hrt journey. something about screaming into the void and the void _maybe_ hearing me and responding is very alluring. the diary app doesnt cut it 😂

[@bethanybrookes8479]

Do it! Just don't be afraid to block assholes liberally. So many people on tumblr are also documenting their gender and sexuality journeys (interspersed with other things like fandom bullshit and random bullshit) and are super happy to listen and scream with you.

[@scouty1922]

"-Better because it's more hostile towards humanity." THAT'S the perfect way to put it! Also that damned TikTok has been dying a slow, drawn out death for a long time now, most likely due to it's algorithm and distain for positive engagement. Honestly, Tumblr may be the best social media ever.

[@abiean222]

the problem with tiktok is that you can make a 10 minute long video now but if you are doing that, why not just post it on youtube? youtube has a much nicer search feature that is the same with or without an account and has more videos in greater variety. the key to having a successful website is for it to serve a unique function that you can't get elsewhere. now that youtube has its shorts feature, the endless scrolling for videos in short-form content has a contender, and tiktok is not rising to the challenge. also, tiktok won't let you watch videos without an account and not everyone wants a tiktok account, so there it goes losing viewership.

[@The-Draconian]

Tumblr is the social media for anti-social people.

[@sunfishensunfishen2271]

Tumblr is like the ecological equivalent of a bog. 1700s mfs trying to make farmland just don’t understand

[@josephperez2004]

Insert Monty Python and the Holy Grail 'Swamp Castle' reference

[@Aderon]

Truly one of the most tumblr experiences I've ever had is just how often I see posts with a 4th degree of separation, and that's as far as a post can get. Some artist I don't know posted a piece? Well I'm going to see it because one of their followers reblogged it, and someone I follow liked that they reblogged it, so now I have this piece of art from a random person on my timeline and I know *exactly* how it got there.

[@SarahAbramova]

"We can't let people know we like it here!" That's what this reminds me of.

[@interruptingPreempt]

Tumblr and the Fediverse: where you have to remember what you actually like, instead of having algorithms force-feed you and telling you it's good. (Welcome back, Bettina! 👋🌊)

[@trianglemoebius]

The fact that Tumblr hasn't somehow integrated with the Fediverse is actually astounding to me, it's one of the few (perhaps even the only) external service I think Tumblr would benefit from working with. Part of this, I think, is the shared outlook; neither the FV platforms nor Tumblr view themselves as, or really are, services or social media. They have this "older-internet" mindset where they view themselves as tools (in Tumblr's case, a tool for blogging, in which anything to do with socialization exists to make said blogging easier). You'll notice neither FV programs nor Tumblr face much feature creep, and this is why. It also helps they're both okay with existing in their own little bubbles, and not trying to be the "next big thing".

[@LoraLoibu]

@@trianglemoebius tumblr is the "side area" of the internet and it's perfect as it is

[@dovearchambault9229]

I've tried TikTok and found it entirely unpleasant. It'd scream whatever content it decided I needed to see as soon as I opened it, and would not show me stuff from people I followed. Also, infinite scroll? There was no scrolling, just moving from one pseudorandom piece of content to another. It wouldn't even call me by my username, just the random numerical ID they assigned me.

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

i feel this so much. i especially despise when people suggest i download tiktok. a grimace spreads across my face everytime someone explains to me how fun tiktok is and they simply do not stop

[@UvularBean81269]

I use Tumblr infrequently, but when I do, I always try to post something that will make someone smile.

[@mckay7965]

Tumblr is the TF2 of social media, we will never die. Either that, or TF2 is the tumblr of gaming, either or.

[@philippeleprohon4823]

Both?

[@mckay7965]

@@philippeleprohon4823 both.

[@Mizu_Melon]

@@philippeleprohon4823 Both is good.

[@titanic_monarch796]

i think the subscribe and bell popping up in the algorithm segment is a really good gag

[@Thesilliestkid]

I remember when back in early 2023 I was like "man, if only there were more fanart of this dead fandom im in" and then I found Tumblr and by god it felt like god gave me a personal invite to his domain for dinner and boy will i eat that up

[@JoLiKMC]

If _Tumblr_ tries that "Tumblr Live!" crap again, I swear to God, I will fully withdraw back to _LiveJournal_ for keeps. I have *two flipping decades* invested on that blogging site; don't think I won't do it, if need be!

[@dstmicpnk_]

Step 1: Make the internet think tumblr is dead Step 2: Make tumblr think I’m dead by not posting for 5+ months

[@MrFlame-zk5cy]

Tumblr users just want to be left alone, thankfully, with articles like this we will continue to be off the radar

[@darthplagueis13]

The best thing about tumblr is that I can type whatever I want and as long as I don't reblog too many posts or make the mistake of declaring that PMSeymour will never read any of my posts... well, odds are that he will, in fact, never read any of my posts. I can basically scream into the void because nobody is gonna read it. The most reactions anything I have written has ever gotten on there was like 120 and that was because I made the mistake of mentioning vampires. I probably could confess to murder on tumblr and noone would ever notice. And I think that's lovely. It's a social media platform that lets me simultaneously be introverted.

[@StarmanWaitingInTheSky-10]

tbf is pm seymour reading one of your posts that bad? its a decently niche audience, id say getting on jeany collects is a much worse fate

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

​@BlackRoseUT i think its more of a tumble in-joke more than a serious bad thing as if Seymour's thus being you shouldn't even dare name lest you wish he turn his attention to you

[@StarmanWaitingInTheSky-10]

@@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard hes like voldemort, everyone whos in tumblr probably knows about him but nobody dare speak his name

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

@@StarmanWaitingInTheSky-10 Ecactly! least *you are assimilated into the binge compliation too*

[@Avriel_Mimiga]

that's probably why i struggle on Tumblr, i am not a writer, not at all, let alone a blogger

[@themindeclectic9821]

Not a day goes by that I don't miss Tumblr

[@user-vh6le3vm4i]

its still standing

[@justin2308]

I’m honestly starting to wonder if we’ll eventually approach a large period of Internet regression, as people migrate en masse from these advanced algorithms and social media influencers back to old-school blogs and forums.

[@suchendelokidottir5673]

I'm not on any of the other hell sites. I like screaming into the void knowing Noone will ever hear me. It's nice.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

Best tumblr ad I've seen so far.

[@maplepainttube8158]

Tumblr is the one website where I don't hate myself after being on it for too long

[@skyhideaway]

tumblr is by no means a great platform but it’s the best one we’ve got right now, and that’s saying a lot about social media nowadays

[@AsterSkotos]

Hell of a good sell, I might visit that site someday now

[@jeremy1860]

If I had to cite one reason why I've preferred Tumblr over other social media sites, it'd probably be its willingness to embrace just pure nonsense. It's a lot of fun ^_^

[@Emily12471]

I'm going to be honest i don't have a clue how the site or app works, i just find whatever my cirrent hyperfixations tags are scroll a while(while following the tag) and follow and reblog and follow the ones whose opinions are cool or i like the art of(though i reblog to a side blog unless i have something to say which is rare, i like my main blog to be somewhat organized what can i say) Hell i don't know how to tag period

[@thewizardslime6764]

"Tumblr has no video content" "Tumblr has no algorythm" yes it does shutup. Which btw it's not bad. Tumblr is fun

[@ShinChara]

I agree that hostility to humanity makes things better.

[@marvelcraver]

(Tumblr+AO3)- 10 years from every user=wattpad Note:I recognize that wattpad has an algorithm bit I personally used it sparingly and more a jumping off point to find new people to binge and be friends with

[@1L1KEP0TAT0ES]

Same I only use wp now to talk to people I used to know 😭

[@lucidlemon9930]

I like going on Tumbler to talk about my special interest without fear from when my old friend would shit on me, my new friends don't but I always have that feeling

[@tlotro625]

Tumblr is an eldrich god.

[@axew3127]

God hearing the intro makes me smile. I love the lack of algorithm and anonymity. I can go on tumblr and say the wildest shit and feel safe.

[@VanNessy97]

Keep telling everyone we're dead!

[@TGOArchive]

Tumblr will still be here after the apocalypse.

[@FruityPebblzz]

I'm someone who only recently got on Tumblr, I wasn't there for it's prime but I can happily say I love being on there right now. I'm quite literally a young creator, I made my account in highschool and I would never in a million years go to Twitter or TikTok instead. Hell I've seen more toxicity on fucking Pinterest then I've ever seen on Tumblr. Tumblr 100% has a much smaller user base and that's why I like it. I'm not here to become famous or whatever, I just wanna see cat pictures and read some in depth analysis on my favorite fandoms.

[@angeygirl]

Pretty sure Tumblr "died" during The Great NSFW Purge of 2018. Yeah the moderation at the time was pretty out of control, but then the horny people moved to twitter and brought a lot of toxicity with them. (or so I've heard, I was avoiding Tumblr at the time) Nowadays the emphasis is on connecting with your mutuals and being generally unhinged while tapping into as many community inside jokes as possible. TBH there's a lot of enjoyment to be had in reblog conversations with people who are otherwise strangers if not for the fact you both want to use very strange metaphors to explain your feelings about fictional characters. It's not about status, it's about "RB to give your mutuals garlic bread"

[@user-vh6le3vm4i]

there still is some left over nsfw but you can block those bots easily i like to play a game where i draw out the report to like it apers this artificial intelligents is posting foul unsavory and disgusting inappropriate not safe for work content on this account please ban immediately

[@krelekari]

The problem with the "NSFW" bans wasn't them banning NSFW, it was their first introduction of an algorithm to the website to look at every picture and automatically determine if it was NSFW. Trees were marked NSFW and people were permanently banned, SFW artists suddenly blacklisted because the algorithm thought something was NSFW about everything. It was killing the site and retroactively applying it to them for any old art it finally got to 2 weeks later. People were getting blacklisted for the things they reblogged years ago, not even the main poster and almost 70+% of the bans weren't NSFW Worst part, some NSFW stuff wasn't flagged by the algorithm, the code was just bad. Obviously. But it was an NSFW ban so everyone assumes the people who fled were perverts when in actuality it was most of tumblrs funnymen and artists trying to self preserve and not lose all the fans they gained in an instant for a meme they posted years ago. Still a good site, but damn it's a shame perspective of tumblr has been so abundantly poisoned throughout the years

[@gornser]

Tumblr is totally dead. Can't even open the site anymore. Don't fact-check this. Just stay away.

[@RainbowGod666]

1:37 SOMEONE FUCKING GOT IT

[@Sylvayex]

people who say tumblr is dead have never gone on tumblr. we are thriving

[@SharowbladyeGaymerPorate]

I've always been someone whose loved Tumblr More as someone who watches yt of Tumblr Twitter, TikTok ans Instagram never got my attention Tumblr is a site I never wanna go down bc it's a site which i like. Maybe I'm weird but please Tumblr never die

[@plantelo]

Tumblr appeals to me precisely because I can curate my own experience, and because, unlike other platforms, just reblogging is enough.

[@MMV-berry]

_funnily enough, tumblr is the most Alive place ive been in on the internet besides neocities_ _with blog themes and chronological dashboard, is so nice seeing ppls thoughts on real time (and if you know how, even be able to time travel and have a genuine 2010's dashboard. is wild) and even if the search function both on blogs and The Site Itself are so bad, love me some of the tag systems ppl come up with only rivaled by dewey's decimal system_ _plus, if i wanna reblog the entirety of Frankenstein contained on a single post, i can do that there_

[@humphrke]

This is just making me want to get a proper tumblr again tbh. I havent used it regularly since i stopped doing tumblr rp

[@phictionofgrandeur2387]

Tumblr is like my old username, a Phoenix Of Grandeur.

[@TGTKgaming]

I hear the deep takes are long gone on Tumblr, but you really just have to find your people. Tumblr users don't propogate that Tumblr is alive, and neither do I, lest I am in good company

[@tamsih1290]

Tumblr is not a social platform or a blogging platform, its an ANTI-social platform ran by a crazy kangaroo thats on the hunt for its nemesis, the penguin.

[@tamsih1290]

And if anyone here gets that reference, it is your duty not to explain it in true 'hehe' fashion. The same goes for that reference.

[@tzarg]

@@tamsih1290 he he

[@Shythalia]

I only ever use the For You page of Tumblr when I'm bored.

[@SkelitonWren]

I love tumblr its greatt

[@LifeIsAnOmoriReference]

As a young creator I can confirm that I enjoy using Tumblr. I post fan art, mostly for Cinderella Boy (amazing Webtoon 1000/10 would recommend), and I love the community that’s been built by the CB fans there

[@PixelaGames2000]

As someone who uses tumblr regularly, I agree with this. This…is accurate.

[@MissingRaptor]

Based on what I've seen in these videos, I have 2 main conclusions. A) Tumblr doesn't look dead to me. It just looks like it's no longer in the spotlight and (in my opinion) trying to keep a platform in the spotlight tends to be what breaks it. And 2) the "Reasons it's Dead" here sound more like features than like bugs. It clearly has its happy niche and is thriving there. It doesn't need to "expand it's appeal". "Expanding it's appeal to a broader audience" tends to make it a worse experience for everyone involved (eg/ D&D E4).

[@frostboi77]

noooooo bettinaaaa now with this title everyone will know we're aliiiiveeee i rmb seeing the start of this post, i found it ever so slightly insulting b4 it occurred to me id rather pretend to be dead HAHAHAHAHA

[@tagtraumerin5077]

Tumblr is my favourite platform rn. It’s so peaceful and quirky.

[@CosmicAggressor]

Wow. Imagine anyone actually beliving tik toc is anything other than a blight on humanity.

[@YourWaywardDestiny]

How the actual fook do people type out words that are anywhere close to "there are no true Tumblr personalities because of no video" and think they're correct.

[@tzarg]

yeah wait I just realised... what... also, they **wrote** that, specifically, they wrote it, so... even more confused

[@CaydenAdams-rb3kf]

I'm gonna say first but I'll never forgive myself.

[@Wanaskiwin]

im glad im to unpredictable for AI learning algorithms. KZbin, to a lesser extend tiktok i still manually (and intensively) search for what i like.

[@harperglitterheart]

I like how they think it's dead

[@Bobb11881]

Tumblr is if a possum was a website.

[@JustDevon1]

“Tumblr died a slow and painful death” People on Tumblr: “It’s all going according to planned”

[@RadioRobot-ix3gw]

"Sorry Tumblr, but I have only gotten lazier," Sounds like a you problem

[@DmantosSanint]

Tumblr: ...keep telling everyone I'm dead

[@GDMendezWrites]

When tumblr got video live streaming, we ALL lashed out and they took it off. It's not that tumblr can't have video content. It's that we don't want it.

[@RasheedaParker-qn9ec]

Awesome 🤩

[@stardust-reverie]

that guy complaining about tumblr not being like tiktok fills me with a violent rage that my plushies may or may not feel the wrath of

[@L-ghtlessSky]

if you make them all THINK we’re dead.. they can’t come crawling to us when X falls down..

[@Itachi45481]

I like tumblr for everything twitter has done and continue to snicker at our supposed death

[@davidblakley6806]

dead site nothing to see here. Move. Along.

[@hqTheToaster]

I'll try to respect their wishes.

[@victorianilsen763]

We are dead.Or we're just having experiences most of us on the internet taking the time to do it in physical. In essence , we could be jumping out of an ai... And put on the squirrel suit and job off the side of a mountain.. They seem to have made it look safe

[@victorianilsen763]

Our personalities go on forever.Our bodies not so much sometimes but if you don't believe that anymore if you just experienceING Experiences for your learning.. What are you choosing to learn through

[@MiniEnder]

Then there's people like Bettina and PM Seymour who constantly remind us youtube users of tumblr's existence.

[@tzarg]

literally.

[@GoliathPyroson]

Gods, don’t tell them Tumblr’s alive XD we don’t want them there

[@eaglest0554]

It's so sad that tumblr personalities never got to develop because of the lack of video content. Anyway, back to watching pm seymour videos voiceovering posts from famous tumblr personalities.

[@HotCrossB1S]

I'll keep your secret fellas. Stay hidden you lovable weirdos. 🤫

[@skitstheskitty2787]

i don't want tumblr to become tiktok because random people making eye contact with the camera genuinely activates my fight or flight a bit. thank GOD i can read posts at my own pace on tumblr

[@youtubechicken120]

they TRIED social video content, and we as a whole BULLIED it OFF the platform. BECAUSE WE DONT WANT IT. i dont need like 7 apps doing the same thing. im not gonna stop using shorts in favor of whatever app-of-the-week is 'hot'. So there's no need for anyone else to have it. we dont need 7 people doing the same job we need those other 6 people to do the jobs that no one else is doing.

[@someonehavinganidentitycrisis]

Whose funeral did i got, than...?

[@sou.p]

get* then*

[@EchoFrost13]

This is also why I hate Facebook. I don't want my family to know about my weird ass interests!

[@DezAmmySel]

where's that one post related to this where they're calling other sites The British Museum because they're basically walking into our "houses" while we're eating dinner and loudly lamenting about how we all "died" while snagging "relics" (posts) off our kitchen counters in front of us to post on their website. Like... We're not dead! Still glad y'all think so, but where in the h-e-double _FUCK_ do you think all the tumblr screenshot posts come from??? The beyond???

[@tzarg]

50 years ago