Why Tumblr Died So Quickly

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[@storming.]

Because they banned p*** on their website…

[@chairsilver2]

yay

[@aeyde]

no

[@ilyz3001]

Nice

[@taorbdhilxa5321]

快点升级到宇宙中最邪恶的🤔

[@agentorange3774]

As soon as Tumblr died it’s users escaped to other platforms and we’re all worse for it.

[@gorechild2199]

I was just about to comment this, beat me to it for 10 minutes

[@theonlyhikaru]

Those "other platforms" is 90% Twitter

[@Chillagon_Productions]

@@gorechild2199 lol bruh

[@mjdagoat5440]

Fr

[@kijete]

now tumblr is one of the better social media

[@michaelterry6576]

I'm going to say it. The biggest factor was banning porn.

[@jokerzwild00]

Some real debauched and bizarre shit used to be housed on that website. I honestly don't blame them, it was either ban it all or face potential legal repercussions. These people wish death on those folks who use language in a way they don't agree with, all the while thinking it's perfectly fine to post pictures of people fucking dogs and cats. Even babies. The first time I saw the degenerate "Little" thing was on Tumblr. There's a whole generation of young people coming up who think this kind of behavior is normal.

[@michaelterry6576]

@@jokerzwild00 I don't disagree with anything you said about it. Tumblr was was a worse deviantart in its format, but with the cancer of what Twitter is today with all the drama.

[@skavensoldier5297]

Correct

[@larion2336]

I originally thought that, but looking at the timeline of their decline it becomes obvious they were bleeding the majority of users before the 2018 ban.

[@bigbettybloom9107]

@@larion2336 ppl started leaving when yahoo bought it. But the porn aspect was what was keeping tumblr afloat. Once they banned that, that was the nail in the coffin.

[@AwokenEntertainment]

Tumblr was such a raw, pure platform at its peak.. crazy to think about how quickly and hard it fell.

[@Profitglutton90]

@Vallis Daemonum too little too late. 99% of people have moved on.

[@Profitglutton90]

@Vallis Daemonum ah, gotcha. Guess everyone that matters has rightly decided to abandon any serious work on the platform then.

[@razi_man]

​@@Profitglutton90 Damn, who hurt you this badly?

[@Profitglutton90]

@@razi_man it’s a random website…it’s not that deep bro

[@razi_man]

@@Profitglutton90 You're offended, I'm not sure why.

[@sailbot1]

They dropped pornographic content and that was a major exodus right there.

[@prinzvalium242]

@@Yy-ig6fm 💯

[@strangecreature4369]

it's really funny how a social platform can die Bc porn addicters

[@davidfrancisco3502]

@@strangecreature4369 Or alternative social media platforms gets smeared as the opposte Of pro free speech for not allowing porn.

[@strangecreature4369]

@@davidfrancisco3502 if u mad about banning porn in any platform, you are a porn addict and nothing more

[@strangecreature4369]

@@davidfrancisco3502 and free speech my dedznts sometimes i thank God for being in middle east when all of wastern shit is hated(furries, otherkin, ext)

[@Chloe-wj9ck]

Poor Twitter got the worst of Tumblr’s brain dead users

[@KanishQQuotes]

While tiktok has injected new levels of degenerate nonsense

[@balazscsotai8354]

Twitter and Reddit

[@an18yearoldmongolianguy]

@@balazscsotai8354 Reddit was already degenerate way back in the 00s and 10s, it’s kind of “allied” with 4chan, and we all know that Tumblr and 4chan hate each other Tumblr mostly moved to Twitter, and maybe Pinterest as well as Wattpad Twitter got the worst of it, the platform was actually pretty decent before Tumblr users emigrated there

[@faisal3398]

@@balazscsotai8354 at least on reddit they seem relatively avoidable, no chance on twitter.

[@nateo3040]

It explains a lot of what happened to those sites

[@SantiagoSalse]

Back in 2011 it was amazing! Hours of reblogging pictures of things you like, events, places, all with nice soft filters and amazing illustrators and writers. You could understand everything a person was just by scrolling their reblogs for a bit. A very cool way to define and know yourself better

[@felipe-zm8yd]

its still the exact same just minus the steven universe and supernatural weirdos

[@f-liiiz]

@@user-cm4qb1uw8d yes

[@lucasbaldridge9407]

This…this is truth in its essence 😢

[@ivovanderavert1269]

I'd like to make an addition. As Internet Historian pointed out in his Q&A about Dashcon (on his second channel), not only did the organizers scam their attendees out of their money, they did so under the guise that the hotel threatened to throw them out "because of the trans/gay/queer/etc." when clearly, the hotel did not care. This why you can see them chanting and doing the Hunger Games thing - they were gaslit into believing they were making a statement against "oppression" by giving the organizers all their money. Being oppressed is very handy when it suits your own wallet apparently.

[@OWnIshiiTrolling]

Identity politics was huge on tumblr. Identity politics is first and foremost about maximizing your claim to oppression without actually being oppressed. It makes sense that, in spite of reality, they would claim to be oppressed when met with any inconvenience.

[@ivovanderavert1269]

@@OWnIshiiTrolling Indeed, as Jordan Peterson put it: it's the laziest way to feel superior without putting in any real effort to actually make the lives of others better.

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

This is exactly what's been happening on a national level. Paying a second time for things that we should already have. Greed is why we pay more for gas now. It's not UKraine, or Covid that's taking things away from us - it's greedy people making up lies for more money and control.

[@andipatel5044]

I have no idea if I can make tumblr I want to have fights with sjws

[@renon1946]

@@andipatel5044 no, you don't. Your time is worth more than that.

[@mcds6307]

Tumblr was like a psychiatric ward for these people. It kept them separated from the rest of us. Now that it died, they have polluted the whole internet.

[@brianmurphy250]

Most are in Twitter…and they can stay there.

[@nuztyme675]

😳😂😂

[@indiomoustafa2047]

@@brianmurphy250 No, theyre fucking everywhere. If you have tried to be a part of an online community consisting of more than a dozen people, the tumblr politics is pervasive

[@carriethompson84]

Lmao.. I never used Tumblr but I know it was really popular at one time. For some reason, the people that I've seen talk about Tumblr in certain videos here on youtube, I can't help but to just laugh my ass off at your comment

[@sree3650]

@@carriethompson84 Why? Coz the comment sounds funny or that you got offended and laughing because of it?

[@oregano-gremlin]

lol as someone who uses tumblr, it may not be succeeding financially but it's actually still very much active and fun. there is absolutely art and fandom content there, and most of the crazy people are on twitter now. the "terrible reputation' of tumblr isn't really that much of an issue, most of us just take it as a running gag (aka calling the website the hellsite & stuff). there's also no algorithm, and there aren't really any influencers either.

[@Elven.]

As someone outside the US, I got sucked in by the social justice warrior trend without noticing it. I got tired of it. But as the trend later reached my country, I was already in the know of how ridiculous it is and how it will end. At the time, I thought I was supporting people who suffered some sort of injustice. Now when any group that's a convincing trend gains momentum online, I know that their philosophy is to be taken with a grain of salt 🧂

[@buckiemohawk3643]

it literally caught fire on tumblr. And it spread like one rotten apple

[@janinebelleestrada7096]

Are you by any chance from a south east asian country? Because social justice warriors (aka silver spoon kids who hasn't touched grass) are everywhere in social media

[@highbahamut6188]

i'm so proud that i assaulted an male feminist back on high school

[@letmethink8350]

Glad you came to that realization.

[@skippychan1904]

@@highbahamut6188 I don’t think you should be proud of assaulting someone tbf

[@remi609]

I would also like to point out that 4 Chan trolled these people into oblivion and just damaged their reputation even more

[@archersterling6726]

is there a compilation somewhere? would love to see that

[@emismith4655]

That was like one minute

[@remi609]

@@archersterling6726 you can find a video from Internet historian on the topic

[@theguythatcoment]

Literally who?

[@scotchsoda3165]

4 Chan..........STILL UNDEFEATED!!!!

[@bondgabebond4907]

It's amazing how people's lives are ruined by living on social media.

[@acewickhamyoshi8330]

After 50 years oonline . I had 7 year breaks so like 1977 all stafwars . Then we left1983 . We left we studied what happened . CMe back1990.. left 1997., 2004 was myspace .. then 2010 we left . But we had 3 years on tumblr .but we assumed 202014 . We left but we were still there til. Well a few months ago

[@Marbeary]

When tumblr died it was the start of the decay of all of other social media platforms. Still amaze why tumblr went to war with 4chan and lost and now 4chan is still alive and still relevant.

[@phalamy9180]

tumblr isn't dead and 4char really isn't relevant anymore lmao

[@niggardlylad2008]

They both lost and are both irrelevant now

[@cultistsash]

@@phalamy9180 Found the Tumblr user.

[@comradesam3382]

@@phalamy9180 you underestimate the power of weponised autism

[@Racko.]

@@TeaBeeAdventures 4Chan is a much bigger cancer to society

[@cro-magnoncarol4017]

I remember Tumblr back in 2009-2011, it was actually a pretty cool site. It just got highjacked by a bunch of weirdos...

[@alexeytsybyshev9459]

Now look at what's happening to Reddit. How do they keep doing this?

[@cro-magnoncarol4017]

@@alexeytsybyshev9459 I argue Reddit was already going down hill long before the Tumblr Exodus. I remember things going south as far back as 2013-2015

[@inputoutput2938]

Honestly it's kind of like that again with the lower number of people, kinda like an inactive volcano, still going but not extinct

[@RealMadrid15UCLs]

Twitter went downhill as well

[@honey3762]

I remember 2011 being the last year being in the art community online being fun

[@LeDank]

When I was in college (2012-2013), my girlfriend used Tumblr a ton. Her dashboard was about half avant-garde art and half artistic pornography. Everyone at art school’s dash looked like that back then. It wasn’t furries or radical politics. Just people making edgy and creative stuff. That was the main user base of weirdos who eventually got alienated by the way more cringe weirdos.

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

Can't believe Onlyfans fell the same way (They reversed it but it still had controversy). This is the result of a company taking away the one element that makes them so successful. That would be like KZbin without comments. I also recommend watching Technocracy. One of the best KZbin series that exposes companies and Tumblr is one of them I'm hope you won't end up like Jake Tran by being a total sellout. Afterall, you are one of the best KZbinrs out there who exposes these companies

[@DankusMemicus]

Onlyfans reversed that decision almost immediately after they announced it.

[@eisviech9984]

What did Jake Tran do?

[@NotFckingBen]

@@eisviech9984 He started getting sponsorships from the same kinds of companies (and scams) that he was condemning.

[@Chillagon_Productions]

@@eisviech9984 selling out examples but not limited to promoting yotta on a lottery video promoting grid trading bot on a video about how crypto trading bots are scams

[@jcvideocool]

i saw you from mystery recapped

[@dee1720]

honestly i think the banning of 18+ content was what really catapulted tumblr into its downfall and everyone just flocked to twitter afterwards

[@someguy4252]

huh funny choice of words given twitters logo contains a bird.

[@marw9541]

The ban on porn was 3 years after the site was already in decline

[@xxzekxx58]

⁠@@marw9541 It declined faster when the banned happened

[@jackroyaltea5034]

That poor girl. She didn’t deserve any of that.

[@Aaron-qe9ms]

This still happens to this day.. it just shifted over to Twitter. They harass creators and then repost "fixed" art.. Usually it's just a race-swap with no extra effort.. but still.. Twitter has become the New Tumbler.. and now it's going down in flames as well. Elon is making sure of that. I wonder where these people will go after that.. Reddit is already infected to a sizable degree.. I wonder if Reddit will fall next.

[@Narvella]

I felt psychically sick after seeing those cruel comments

[@NP3GA]

I hope she's alright now

[@sorrydudebros]

Yeah, good thing nothing like that happens on the internet anymore because no one uses twi-i mean tumblr... oh wait.

[@sylviam6535]

No one is less tolerant than the ‘tolerant’ crowd.

[@Reddzion]

I remember making a 2nd account on there, as my first got deleted after they took away the ability for NSFW artists to upload their work, so i instead would share opinions on world issues, and callout genuine bad people, and my god, the amount of online abuse i got from the crazy lgbt teenagers at the time was insane, they'd go after my account and flood my replies, constantly telling me that my opinion doesn't matter because i'm straight, or that straight women "weren't allowed on the website anymore"

[@blastbottles]

you put the w in women

[@xystian]

the most based tumblr user post-exodus

[@offlineraided]

They werent real teenagers 🤭 nobody told you the truth

[@nachgeben]

@@offlineraided * anymore. The userbase that remains were teenagers, but have grown up on the site. However, they still behave like teenagers because they traumatized themselves into locking in maturity.

[@ididntaskverified3663]

The internet stunted their growth, their brain eventually was molded by technology to keep them like that

[@obietrice2309]

as somebody who was never familiar with tumblr, everything you describe about it sounds like modern day twitter. Tumblr users went to twitter and that explains so much about why twitter is so bad now lol

[@sadie9728]

Also literally nothing he says describes Tumblr in any way now. It's one of the most chill, user-defined experiences on social media. I assume because all the turds went to Twitter.

[@kosmosXcannon]

A good amount also went to reddit.

[@PelemusMcSoy]

@@sadie9728 I heard they're begging the old userbase to stay away.

[@NadiaSeesIt]

Twitter has sucked since the beginning, full stop

[@bradfromthevalley]

a few years ago it seemed like twitter better at creating a culture for independent artist, with all the people asking you for fiver promotion, i keep having the same chat, hey I listened to your music and it is really good....as I am thinking here we go again.

[@truesoprano2152]

I think I can accurately say that I was bullied off of tumblr. I used to be really active because I loved posting art and talking about my favorite characters, but every time one of my posts gained traction there were always extreme SJWs who would find my posts and find a reason they were "problematic". As time went on, most of the sensible tumblr users left so the bullying became even worse. My mental health was actually really affected by this, and it caused me to actually start crying in public once. The final nail in the coffin for me was in the Elder Scrolls fandom where someone posted a black Argonian character (by black I mean black scales, as Argonians are literal lizard people) and someone posted that it was incredibly racist, and a HUGE majority of the fandom jumped on the bandwagon and started bullying the artist. I made a simple post that I thought the controversy was ridiculous since it was about, you know, a lizard, and I got told to kill myself. Something else I hated was that someone who unironically "otherkinned" as my all time favorite Elder Scrolls character was claiming to be him while telling other people to kill themselves, which I know the actual character would never do. It sucks because tumblr really was the perfect platform to discuss fandom things and I haven't found a good replacement website. To make things worse, a lot of these SJW types have migrated to other websites, and there are now huge echo chambers and clique mentalities on reddit and twitter, too. Tumblr has unironically changed the internet for the worse.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Similar thing happened to me on Tumblr. That, and some toxic dumb creeps spread lies about me and got my blocked or harassed/threatened by other people. I lost a bunch of my “friends” as a result (they were never my friends, except for one or two who at least heard me out).

[@XavierJoseGJose]

How about Amino? I hear it's nice but it's also a tad confusing.

[@Stroggoii]

The final eye opener about how evil SJWs are is that when 4chan trolls who self-identify as "the internet hate machine" tell you to kill yourself, they don't mean it, but SJWs do.

[@mariacillan9668]

I could understand the ridiculousness of the black lizard being racist, but the otherkin? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davidjohnson7917]

I once had hateful anons being pricks. One said he has a distaste of my blog posts. One said my blog has poor qualities over my post talking how unhappy I am with something. One complained about my blog's theme being blue and yellow (you know why). One complained about the wrong tags I put in a very rude manner. I'm glad I left Tumblr.

[@TheIDcard123]

I think there's a bit more context of tumblr's downfall that you've missed in this video Moon. There was a huge issue on the site in regards to child pornography that was not addressed by Tumblr itself and was running rampant. Eventually, Apple ended up dropping it from the app store because none of the issues were being resolved. Tumblr's solution to this was to have a bot that would automate quality control. The problem this brought however was that posts that never broke terms of service and conflicted with artists that created adult content for their audience would end up having thier posts deleted for inexplicable reasons. Also, very little means to contact representatives to assess, handle, and resolve these issues highlighted the company's incompetence for their userbase. That also contributed to the mass exodus of Tumblr and I'm surprised you never brought that up.

[@muleorastromule3491]

You probably don't stay monetized mentioning CP.

[@lainiwakura1776]

Don't forget the giant bot problem that they refused to do anything about as well.

[@Vespyr_]

He can't talk about those things since he has to bow to censorship for monetization. KZbin is not a free platform.

[@punishedpinecone4772]

Totalitarian bigots tend to be pedos as well, who could have guessed

[@SpaceCat223]

Its still there in the app store. I guess they fixed it, and it got put back up.

[@tommyanytime]

Tumblr was like that angsty cool kid in highschool that eventually graduated and just disappeared

[@SenorGuina]

Tumblr? Cool?

[@josephikrakowski1137]

Ok pal I don’t think I’d be using cool and tumble in the same sentence

[@CountPlanes]

@@josephikrakowski1137 Like a niche celebrity. Huge to the in crowd, to outsiders an average guy whose a lil comical in their sparkly cape.

[@inputoutput2938]

Every time I hear someone say tumblr dissapeared I think of that one post where its like you're talking about a dead friend when they're standing right next to them. Edit: Just saw another commenter talking about it, it was the "I can still hear his voice" one

[@offlineraided]

Tumblr is the creeper who gets arrested for underage stuff on his computer 🤢

[@michaeljordanpeterson8590]

It is wild how the people who yell the loudest about inclusivity and tolerance are so quick to resort to harassment and death threats

[@andycampbell8622]

Conservatives literally lynch people and start wars 😂

[@mistertestsubject]

Tumblr is actually pretty chill these days, and I find there's a lot more interesting niche stuff going on with it now. Not a whole lot of people use it, but at this point that's kind of a good thing. Edit: some of yall never learnt how to curate your space and it shows.

[@calipurnioelreydelodio7141]

It's pretty chill. Just people who insult you if you don't know about everything behind of the LGBTQ, pronouns, BLM and other movements that I prefer to ignore because is a headache I don't want.

[@HeShoeTooBig]

if they grew a few more brain cells, they'd allow adult content again and just separate it. have ads on non-adult stuff. no ads on the adult stuff. like how youtube and literally every other site does it.

[@inputoutput2938]

@@calipurnioelreydelodio7141 Sorry but if you're having problems with this you seem to be actively seeking this kind of discourse on the app.

[@arthurmorganSUN]

Yeah, chill. I got into fights with bitter feminists there more often than other platforms. They're still quite aggressive even unprovoked, I usually did the provoking in other platforms but in Tumblr, I suddenly got insulted for a harmless take always. Idgaf, I attacked them back ofc. But it's just ridiculous to immediately get defensive after I merely pointing out that both Full Moon and New Moon makes the sea rise in an ATLA post, I was just pointing out fact irl that she's wrong about and suddenly I got accused as being offensive and insulting... So I showed her what a real insulting and offensive comment is.

[@seganesergrafxvision64_92]

@@inputoutput2938 idk i asume you support unhinged behavior since people on trying to enforce you to agree if you disagree with something and engaging in narcissistic behavior

[@viablue8143]

I’d like to add a little info to the “last straw”, the NSFW ban, as someone who used to be on tumblr a lot. To begin with, I was never interested in the political, SJW corners of tumblr, or p*rn. I consumed art and game content - at the time, tumblr was the main hub for sims 4 mods and CC, and I spent hours browsing different creators and their works. Then the ban came. And the problem with the ban wasn’t simply that it destroyed the NSFW parts of tumblr (which were huge), but that it simultaneously destroyed everything. They used an extremely flawed algorithm to flag supposed NSFW content, but this didn’t work at all. The bot would miss actual “problematic” pictures and flag anything and everything else. It became a smaller trend to post (censored) pictures of completely innocent things that got flagged as NSFW. Artists took massive hits. The sims 4 community did too. Others did as well - but as I was only involved with these 2, I’ve seen them get destroyed with my own eyes. Many of the largest creators left the platform because their works have been flagged as NSFW and deleted. So many blogs were lost because of the errors the bot made. And support couldn’t keep up. It wasn’t possible to get through to staff about the incorrect flags, and so… the blogs and the creators just up and left. And along with them went the people who only used tumblr for their content. The absolute joke of the situation was that while a boob was apparently not tolerated in the slightest on the website, neonazi blogs openly supporting genocide were absolutely thriving. They glorified the Holocaust but that was alright, what mattered to tumblr was that there wasn’t a single boob in sight. I wish that was a joke, but I checked them myself when this was happening. Those blogs had no issues. They were up for months after my favourite creators all left because their blogs were wiped clean, despite posting nothing bad. (I checked it out now, and it seems like they eventually got rid of most of them, but… too little too late.) So… yes. Tumblr tried to make the platform look good to advertisers, and they decided that this was worth destroying one of the largest part of their website, the NSFW content corner. And because they didn’t think it through nor did they take extra care to do this properly, they simultaneously destroyed several other completely unproblematic communities and couldn’t undo the damage they did, all the while not solving the actual problem with the website; the toxic fanbases, the neonazis, etc. By acting like p*rn was the only problem, they destroyed the site for nothing. And even if there isn’t as much chaos anymore, tumblr will never come back because it’s a platform that relies on creators for traffic, and the creators they chased away won’t be coming back. I still use it because of the ts4 creators that remained on there, but I no longer browse the site, I just grab what I need and leave. And seeing how little engagement even the trending posts get, this seems to be the same for most users.

[@SoulGizmo]

Not even surprising. KZbin uses a the same bot to flag posts too probably

[@veggsbacon1891]

"P**n makes the world go round." - some guy It seems that harsh violence is a bigger "pRoBlEmAtIc fetish" from more people...

[@stigmurder99]

Tumblrtard cope?

[@datekaname2246]

@@stigmurder99 No because it's the literal truth. If r34 was never banned tumblr would still have a sizable user-base. Most people have "certain" desires regardless of where they stand politically. Do you think it's just a coincidence that a sizeable amount of people moved to Twitter (ie the next best thing after tumblr for former tumblr users) after the r34 ban for no reason. There more to it than just that, but it's was a pivotal reason. It's not like deviant art was an alternate choice either (that site is on its death bed imo)

[@viablue8143]

@@stigmurder99 Sorry, I don’t know what that means

[@shwetaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Tumblr is sanctuary for people who read fanfics or who promote fandoms. November The Fifth, 2020 , Supernatural fandom literally made the whole site crash within a matter of hours. Whenever I felt like giving up on SM--Tumblr, Pinterest and KZbin came to my rescue without causing a toll on my mental health. I know this personal account is different than what is being showcased here but yeah, tumblr must be protected at all costs.

[@XavierJoseGJose]

I agree. Tumblr is still sort of active and the subreddits are still nice. I like r/curatedtumblr cause they got posts that basically made me like Tumblr screenshot posts. It's just so fun and weird and educational and stupid. Never gonna see something like that again. 9gag potato long posts were one but they are long gone. Pinterest is not helpful in getting those kinds of posts tbh. Or maybe I'm using Pinterest wrong.

[@StoutShako]

I used to be a big part of the Roleplaying community on there and still even have several of my old blogs still up. But the changes they've been making to post editing is slowly degrading that fanbase, as well.

[@marty553]

I completely agree

[@BYTltd]

So promoting mental illness 😭 promoting "fandoms" and fan fiction is beyond cringe is literal super cringe

[@meepmeepinton]

To add to the banning of explicit material. One of the reasons the banw as put in place was because there was a lot of cp posted on tumblr. I came across 3 separate blogs that were filled with cp. Did my best to report and much as I could, but the accounts and content stayed up. Instead of tackling this directly, they banned all adult content, which felt like a punishment to everyone else. They also decided to use an algorithm to ban explicit content, but the algorithm was shit, leading to lots of regular content also being removed when it wasn't explicit in anyway

[@Ваш-ф1п]

As someone who has a tublr blog and regularly spends quite a lot of time on the app, takes like this feel like the "I can still hear his voice" meme, if you know what I'm talking about

[@comd4609]

I know right

[@LordGagaGaro]

I wanted to comment this same exact thing lmfao

[@comd4609]

"This year, I lost my dear husband edgar.." "QUIT TELLIN' EVERYONE I'M DEAD" "somtimes I can still hear his voice!" sob

[@inputoutput2938]

Exactly!

[@comd4609]

@Lps buzakia personally, I mostly just look at art, fandoms, talk to ppl thru tags, and memes

[@CarlDillynson]

Dashcon wasn’t held by Tumblr, it was held my independent people who had no event planning experience whatsoever. It was supposed to be called “Tumblrcon” but Tumblr reached out to the organizers and told them they can’t use their company’s name, lol.

[@thegamingbayskeletor1637]

So, let me get this straight Tumblr is kind of responsible for the current state of the world we live in

[@B4llsD33p69_OwO]

Not particularly, but its pretty high up in the chain. Larry Fink with his investement score evaluation that heavily favors "progressively" outspoken enterprise agenda is the most responsible for that.

[@mangodip2170]

pretty much. all the worst degenerate shit came from Tumblr

[@nekoloons4844]

the internet is reponsible for the world rn and since that includes tumble, technically yeah

[@LeifMaelstrom]

Tumblr was a nice stable benign tumor. Then it popped. Now our world is metastisized with disgusting corruption.

[@obama69890]

@@B4llsD33p69_OwO true.

[@faisal3398]

Seeing how tumblr is gone now I can see the positive effect it used to hold, the social outcasts had a place to dwell leaving other platforms relatively normal but now platforms like twitter have been overrun with them causing many people including myself to quit the site. I find any place nowadays on the internet with any hint of anonymity is a birthing ground for increasingly radical ideas, as sad it is to say. I was on the internet about 15 years ago and I really appreciated the anonymity many sites provided as I was young and not comfortable sharing personal information online including my name. It maybe me seeing the past in rose tinted glasses but the freedom we had was used mostly positively and in good heart, things like trolling wouldn't cause and uproar just seemed harmless fun. I suppose nothing great lasts forever.

[@firelordoregano5632]

you know tumblr like,, still exists and is active right

[@jwanikpo]

tumblr is still there, and now its a pretty chill place to browse art and weird memes if you curate who you follow, theres almost no reccomended content, which i see as a big plus

[@sped325]

@@firelordoregano5632 the events of the exodus has been in effect for years now already, it doesn't matter it's still active since the damage to twitter has been already done with it becoming the worst social media now after tumblr thanks to their userbase migrating there and polluting the place. Even if Tumblr is still open unfortunately it had lost it's grip on the weirdos and outcasts of societies so they have moved to other places ruining it for normal people

[@ghoulchan7525]

uh it's still there. in fact i just checked my page.. also it's the only site without a real algorithm trying to decide for you what you want to see. it's a decent site if you know who to follow and what to avoid and blacklist. Tumblr really is what you make of it yourself.

[@Theintrovertednow]

I'm still active on tumblr I enjoy it I just like the fan fiction on there and seeing the art on there

[@michaelglynn7010]

Some people on Twitter and Reddit say how they miss Tumblr, but like it’s not dead? You just can’t post NSFW on it anymore….so what do they miss from it? Like they banned NSFW because the poor moderators were getting flooded with people trying to post CP

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

SHUSH SHUSH SHUSH. DO NOT TELL.

[@D4wid01]

You have one of the best content out here. You're seriously underrated

[@aakkoin]

The guy is blowing up, I just hope that he doesn't get censored for wrong-think

[@HypnosisBear]

@@aakkoin same here friend. I just hope he doesn't get " *sucided* "

[@soundscape26]

He just sells doomerism... nothing that groundbreaking.

[@hungerfan552]

It's not good content it's propaganda

[@theultimate341]

@@hungerfan552 "Things I don't like is propaganda"

[@kstar98k81]

I remember using Tumblr from like 2012 to 2016. It was actually pretty fun and humorous back then. Yes, the fans and fan wars were annoying as hell, I hated them. But there was a lot of funny/cool things too. The people who took tumblr seriously irl were cringe.

[@davidjohnson7917]

I used it from 2014 to 2023

[@maxenswlfr1877]

Some people really don't know how to use a block button and it shows

[@catyatzee4143]

This is something that I wouldn't say led to the downfall, but was part of the larger downfall, was the loss of Xkit. There was a coder who made browser plug ins (XKit) that made Tumblr work SO MUCH BETTER, it got to the point that the website would update and then everyone would be messaging him to update his plug in. It was one guy who had a life to live and eventually the community got so demanding with the speed of the updated version to come out that he just abandoned it. So the website owners still needed to improve their website but were letting an unpaid dude do it, and when he left they still didn't fix their website

[@georgeoswalddannyson6008]

Xkit is still going strong actually, in fact they're even partnering with the dev team

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@georgeoswalddannyson6008 Good to hear. They just need to bring back NSFW stuff and I would go back.

[@crispywings9066]

@@lainiwakura1776 down bad

[@mkielson8290]

@@crispywings9066 I really wish they would. I want these fuckers back in containment.

[@calliecuttlef1sh]

@@lainiwakura1776 lain would never do this, L + change ur username

[@dfmrcv862]

"The first problem was the site's userbase..." Whaaaaat? You mean the group of people who once pushed a young artist to suicide for not drawing a character to be fatter was an issue???

[@mauriciofonseca2079]

Tumblr is the best social site, isn´t toxic like twitter or Instagram...

[@limitbreak2966]

Porn. It was the porn, or more the banning of porn.

[@sailbot1]

I agree %100. That was a major exodus.

[@strangecreature4369]

You guys really can't live without porn, that's really sad

[@cinemint]

@@strangecreature4369 Tumblr is a site for degenerates that makes everyone who uses it into degenerates

[@nivajaranjit4322]

neither could tumblr. and thats not really that sad

[@strangecreature4369]

@@nivajaranjit4322 just wastern people in general i swear just ban porn for a week and the wastern countries would collapse

[@paragjyotideka1246]

Sees title "Why Tumblr Died So Quickly" *We all know why.*

[@kingmidasxynopyt]

Not to advertise but yeah, ghostgum made a video on it already

[@MattheMatthew]

When you see the word "inclusive," run. Those people are crazy.

[@aurora_skye]

Nope.

[@BYTltd]

On god lmao 😭

[@Unmaskedblasphemy08]

Inclusivity jumpscare 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[@TheRealTedNeal]

“They were slapped with a dose of reality” Like all social media sites and it’s users should be.

[@okayolek]

the gaming side of tumblr, which i frequent, is very much active but understandably frustrated with the site and its' constant quality-of-life changes that make the site worse and worse to navigate and post on. to me, it's still leagues above facebook, instagram or tik tok as a platform for content creation.

[@Isaacool]

its sad because relative to other social media platforms tumblr was never really that evil.

[@dibberz-v1z]

homie did you ever go on tumblr before 2018?

[@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470]

​@@dibberz-v1zExactly lmao peak Tumblr was absolutely insane. A fairly entertaining sort of insane though, unlike Twitter which is more depressing.

[@Doc-Glock]

Looking back on Tumblr, it was less of a social media platform and more like a containment area.

[@H3XED_OwO]

SCP before it was "cool"

[@SomeJerkOnTheInternet]

more a breeding ground for SJWs who then, when the illness was mature, it infected Twitter, where it is a fully grown Disease.

[@TheWolfie234]

I still have an active account on Tumblr since 2014. I love the site because I can connect to my niche fandoms and interact with other 'misfits'. While I do sometimes partake or ignore the absurdity of the website. I find that I curate my own experience so I still enjoy the content there the most compared to other sites. I feel the same thing will happen to Twitter as I feel our stupid SJW have *mostly* fled there. Leaving Tumblr a better more mellow place. We still have idiots but the people and blogs I am around curate our own experiences as are relatively chill.

[@kobayashidragor4564]

It's come full circle and now it'll slowly grow again because it's a wonderful place to be in 2022

[@Silveirias]

Agreed. Tumblr is wonderful because I decide who I follow and there's not algorithm pushing content onto my dash (especially when you use xkit to get rid of the recommend stuff) like Instagram does. It's really easy to make your tumblr experience a positive one. The dash is also in chronological order like Twitter and Instagram used to be before the algorithm took over.

[@lovegood141]

tumblr user here, we are very much alive lol and enjoying that are platform is less over crowded and chiller than other social media sites like Twitter and tiktok. There’s even a lot of new and thriving communities on tumblr due to the younger generation!

[@trolledfrog678]

I'm curious, tell me more

[@XavierJoseGJose]

@@trolledfrog678 me too. I hear fandoms of old still thrive there. Not much engagement but it is something.

[@SIedgeHammer83]

The moral of the story..... never ever bend a knee to SJWs.

[@ryang2573]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

[@theoneman2084]

@@ryang2573 Beautiful Quote.

[@krunkle5136]

Never shut down the loony bins.

[@christopherthompson5400]

to be fair it was full of cp and I don't really care about politics as much as i would shutting that shit down. yeah it sucks that all the freaks fled to every other site, but at least child predators don't get a w

[@rekaivns]

Imagine using the word SJW in 2022 lmaooooooooo

[@hisllagb]

Man if you're an illustrator for instance Tumblr is a very nice place still. Still does good numbers, nothing like twitter tho. It is in a weird fcking spot as a business but it is way less stressing to use than instagram.

[@MagicalIsadore]

Came here to say this. The worst of tumblr is gone. It's been nice for art.

[@pdpUU]

And there’s decent, sincere engagement now!

[@hisllagb]

@@MagicalIsadore yeah i'd argue that tumblr is the least extreme social media experience you can have in 2022

[@MagicalIsadore]

@@hisllagb it really is. The tags work better now, more control over your space, and your page design is customizable while remaining feed-friendly. It's great, and it doesn't take much to curate your experience on Tumblr.

[@MagicalIsadore]

@@pdpUU YES. Twitter feels so plastic. People who have reached out to me on Tumblr, on the other hand, were genuinely engaged in my content.

[@This-is-a-commentt]

Tumblr is far from dead, it’s just not the most mainstream

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

and it should stay that way. keep silent.

[@Princeofallsaiyan12g]

​@@gabrielsfilms2086Tumblr was retarded

[@KeithAdam]

The same reason Tumblr began to fall is the same reason why all these companies desperately trying to match ESG Criteria are losing revenue and users. Netflix seems to be one of the few who’s actually woken up and realized it might be better to ignore ESG and just focus on the product…

[@phoenixflambe3319]

what's ESG?

[@remipereira7308]

It's a set of criterias to which companies have to obey in order to be *bankable" and therefore attracting investors. Thats why most websites, and I would include Netflix inside, began producing poor content. Moon did an interesting video about it, targeting specifically Netflix.

[@stephenramos2824]

@@phoenixflambe3319 environmental social governance

[@RN1441]

@@phoenixflambe3319 It's an ideopolitical way of classifying companies that should or shouldn't be invested in due to non-earnings considerations. While on the surface it sounds like it's a socially responsible thing, it is often employed to 'greenwash' companies or punish companies that say the wrong things regardless of what they actually do. For example, SINOPEC the chinese state OIL company somehow has a lower ESG score than Tesla. In short it's a way that ideologues try to control the financial markets rather than competing in the open.

[@phosspatharios9680]

Well, relying on investment instead of a virtuous cycle of increased sales revenue being used to expand the business for greater sales revenue is what makes most big businesses to have to fall to ESG in the first place. External investment is a crutch and overrated as heck.

[@viewsfromcairo]

Honestly, if you knew where to look or who to follow, Tumblr was a dope social media site.

[@annoyingginger5077]

Honestly, it still kinda is. We rarely have famous people on there and it's very fandom based, there's easy ways to avoid stuff you don't like as well. It only 'died' because staff didn't listen to us, they listened to companies like Apple, who wanted censorship.

[@viewsfromcairo]

@@annoyingginger5077 agreed. It’s probably the reason why I’m still on there rather than IG or Twitter. There’s so much great content to be found there.

[@annoyingginger5077]

@@viewsfromcairo I'm on all three, mostly because of friends and news, but Tumblr is by far the one I'm most active on, I post way more and I actually speak my mind about people because there's a lack of censorship and because no one I know irl is on there.

[@yusufcagowayne1990]

> tumbler > dope Choose one

[@kobayashidragor4564]

@@viewsfromcairo it's wonderful I find so much there

[@sc6658]

You make it sound like it shut down but so many people on KZbin making videos about it do. I still use it regularly (and have for over a decade) and it’s the only tolerable social media platform nowadays. My dash is just full of horror gifs, absurdist humor, and my mutuals with bizarre esoteric political and sociological opinions.

[@wm8840]

I was on tumblr specifically for the fandom side of things and maybe it was inevitable, or maybe I was plainly unlucky but I was exposed to so much toxicity in there... On one side there was the people glamorising depression and mental illnesses that I feel just worsened my own mental state. The most jarring thing I remember was someone I followed that had a fandom blog suddenly started posting overtly pro-ana stuff out of nowhere, I gave them a chance but after a few days of this I had to unfollow them bc I didn't want it to influence me. I still don't get how you can go from posting pictures of your favourite artist to encouraging people to eat ice if they're hungry, it's just messed up. On the other side there was the people increasingly becoming "woke", day after day I was bombarded with SJW discourse, when I joined the site for non-political entertainment so idek how it even came to this. At first I entertained their ideas and I even considered myself a feminist because I was young and easily swayed, but there was a point I realised they were taking it too far. Again this came from someone I actually followed, one day they suddenly started asking white people to unfollow them because "white people made them uncomfortable". Some people would claim this isn't racist because "white people can't experience racism" but how can you ask a certain race to unfollow you and not expect me to think you're racist? I just couldn't believe someone would reach such a level of delusion. I stayed on the site for a bit longer but at some point I realised I was better off out of it. If anyone is wondering my active period was around 2013 to 2017, a bit of my middle school and high school years.

[@calebanderson1527]

Ana?

[@galaxystar3450]

I I I I my my my.....geez get over yourself already

[@wm8840]

@@calebanderson1527 ana in this case is short for anorexia, pro-ana is a way to call people who promote anorexia. They'll often post things like "inspiration" (pictures of severely underweight people) and "tips" (extremely restrictive diets/advice on how to avoid the natural craving for food when you're starving yourself)

[@calebanderson1527]

@@wm8840 that is so sad, hopefully this term ends soon. i hope u r ok now

[@ChuckC]

This is actually mind blowing. I used Tumblr in the 8th and 9th grade (2009-2010) and back then it was basically just about rebloging cool photos to create an aesthetically pleasing blog to look at . I had no idea it went so far off the deep end since i grew out of using it after those 2 years

[@kemmli]

What are you even talking about??? Tumblr is still here

[@hunterjohnson7387]

As a fan of Steven Universe what happened to Zamii was awful and the people who sent death threats against her sham on those people and thanks to Rebecca Sugar and the crew from the show for stepping in to defend Zamii from those awful people.

[@davidfrancisco3502]

Rebecca Sugar is the one who wanted those petty tyrants and degenerates as her target audience by making feminazi/rainbow flag propaganda marketed as a kids cartoon.

[@hunterjohnson7387]

@@davidfrancisco3502 you don’t know her and she came to Zamii defense and also I watch Steven Universe because I love the characters the representation is good too and it’s one the show’s that gets it right and this is coming from someone who has watch the show from start to finish your whole augment base on nothing but assumptions and you probably never watch the show which destroys your whole augment and another that destroys your augment She stood up for Zamii meaning she never wanted those awful people as her target audience.

[@---zg9oq]

Imagine being a Steven Universe fan lmao

[@davidfrancisco3502]

@@hunterjohnson7387 She's a zionist who worships Molloch.

[@hunterjohnson7387]

@@---zg9oq ever single fandom is not perfect and the people who sent those deaths threats to Zamii are awful and they are no SU fans in my eyes they were rightfully thrown out of the fandom and they will never be accepted back in.

[@marktaylor6491]

I've never heard of any of this. Not Dash Con, not the Stephen Universe artist. Just goes to show how cut off these people were from reality. As for the site itself, it never appealed to me. My political interests focusing more on the economic side of things.

[@ghxstie666]

master of coin

[@justacasualgamer1957]

I sense libright in you

[@marktaylor6491]

@@justacasualgamer1957 Libright?

[@InkfinityOkamix3]

@@justacasualgamer1957 nah, he’s subbed to Vaush. Absolute opposite of libright

[@christopherthompson5400]

ooh whats you opinion on the privatised state of both the medical industry as well as the psychiatric wards and prison systems. It seems interesting to me that institutes of society that are used by federal and local government, isn't it wild that these systems aren't owned by the government?

[@paragonviolet1719]

It's really sad that tumbler died. I really felt that I belonged there when I was an isolated kid who had no friends. Spending hours reading fanfiction or going through an art hashtag were really fun. I stopped using it once I started noticing that there are people who would just attack everyone for no reason.

[@davidjohnson7917]

Same here.

[@FupaDoncic]

Still don’t get why Vine disappeared too. It was Tiktok but more wholesome in a way. If you compare the two you can see the decay of human values.

[@Thor-Orion]

Twitter bought vine and ignored it then shut it down. It's actually really simple. Twitter is run by idiots. That's the whole reason.

[@evenhartwick4422]

yeah Vine was great i miss watching it before i went to sleep most nights

[@ultraboombean]

@@evenhartwick4422 i think they did not have a good monetization scheme

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Exactly

[@Thor-Orion]

@@ultraboombean it's entirely twitter's fault for buying Vine and then not promoting it nor getting it properly monetize that app.

[@YueXiong93]

From a place for hipster artists to an SJW being offended of an artist who's artworks they don't agree with, what an eye roll

[@pentelred]

Sjw's ruin everything man that just a fact

[@bunnyleaningonasquishedbun5542]

It's basically Twitter now

[@pumkin610]

@@bunnyleaningonasquishedbun5542 that's exactly what a good chunk of twitter is

[@Racko.]

@@bunnyleaningonasquishedbun5542 Twitter DNA came from Tumblr extremists

[@handfulmacaroni]

i find it funny how he says “completely dead” despite the fact many are still active on jt to this day

[@kylev.1163]

Tumblr was like 4chan and reddit had a baby. I remember seeing some pretty fucked up blogs on there with pretty large fanbases. I remember there was some tumblr poster who was frequently posting photos of their self harming history, and newer scars they were creating. I remember this girl was so pale and scarred, and incredibly disturbing to look at. But she kept cutting for her audience. That for me is what openned my eyes to how poisonous social media has become to the internet. The same ideas plague apps like TikTok in a more sexual tone.

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

And the saddest part is that they're hurting themselves for these strangers without realising they're just one video on a list to them and nothing more.

[@kobayashidragor4564]

It doesn't matter which goddam platform u use , "C O N T E N T" Exists everywhere. When Instagram was my only social media , I literally SAW literally everything on there and I wasn't really missing anything. And now I use only tumblr and it's not like I'm seeing any more or any less I just prefer it as a platform. Every major platform overlaps

[@witchwood3259]

I build a photography tumblr from scartch to 4k followers in the last two years i would not go as far as calling the website dead. Its actually a cozy space where you have a way stronger feeling of community than on other social medias. I can just recommend trying it out! The way you can choose what content you want to see is way better.

[@glanni]

Yeah, tumblr is NOT dead.

[@ToaArcan]

Stop telling people we're still alive. They might come back.

[@glanni]

@@ToaArcan On second thought, tumblr is completely dead, no need to even think about it!

[@heinoustentacles5719]

Tumblr is dead but Heyuri is alive and well.

[@sadie9728]

Yes but we're happy to let everyone not on Tumblr think it's dead. There was near panic when Musk was going to buy Twitter and people were threatening to go back to Tumblr. We're in a good place now.

[@Raptor3388]

I remember subscribing to Tumblr in the early 2010s to see arts and fashion contents, it was pretty great to have a daily dose of new stuff. I was also following comics dedicated pages, but progressively, they were and more more sexually oriented, not porn, but the whole focus was about the fan made sexual orientation of some of the characters. Other than talking about the artwork or the stories, everything was about gender/race swap, all the characters were suddenly gay, and that's all that seemed to matter. Same happened with the rest of the content I was following. It's fine to talk about it and do a what if, but social justice became the main focus of everything.

[@sweetbananacake3438]

Tumblr is actually pretty chill and fun right now, especially if you like Dracula, because lots of people on there are subscribed to Dracula Daily this year. So tumblr's more undead than fully dead.

[@no-qe9tb]

It's more peaceful than dead, I'd argue. No one's trying to be famous off of it, we're all there for a less shitty algorithm.

[@sweetbananacake3438]

@@no-qe9tb I totally agree.The undead thing on my part was just a bad vampire joke, because I was already on the topic of Dracula.

[@no-qe9tb]

@@sweetbananacake3438 Sorry for the misread on my part, Dracula's top tier tho

[@marjorie4310]

@@no-qe9tb it’s probably more peaceful because there are fewer users and many of the more toxic ones left.

[@no-qe9tb]

@@marjorie4310 Yh exactly. I only joined it because people left. However, people don't want likes or follows on there as much so there's less clout-chasing which is cool.

[@kantraa]

tumblr isn't dead!!! it's unironically become a lot cozier when the sus people left. people think that tumblr is dead because it doesn't spoon feed you content in the same way that twitter does. you actually have to follow creators in order to see stuff

[@inputoutput2938]

Exactly this!

[@stevesmith7839]

Myspace was like that after everyone left.

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

Maybe migrating there and rebuilding without the wokescold would be a good idea if it didn't ban erotic art

[@oarlee2389]

Tumblr is so much better to be on now than it was during its' prime.

[@spiritofchaos58]

Shh! Don't tell them we're still alive! We don't need people coming back!

[@Fillardmillmore]

It's not dead! I use it everyday and my sister has a large following (10k) with posts that consistently get hundreds of notes. Sure it's way less popular than other social media but it's definitely not dead and I think a lot of people have an outdated perception of it

[@no-qe9tb]

As a Tumblr user, nah. I joined it specifically because people migrated to Twitter and Tik tok. It's the perfect anti-social media social media because we can literally do anything to any other user EXCEPT porn. Bots don't bother you and you get all sorts of properly curated content from other social media without the desperation for more follows or likes. I just love the freedom I get on there.

[@boomerangmonkey8263]

It's probably because the bad eggs left.

[@no-qe9tb]

@@boomerangmonkey8263 Yh, the block feature would have been abused if I had my account before 2021.

[@heinoustentacles5719]

Try heyuri as well.

[@ENJERUNEbutLIVE]

As an artist I used to enjoy Tumblr interface and overall algorithm that at the time was one of the nicest algorithms towards artists that didn't hide or fucked you if you weren't compliant with the trends like other apps did and still do. But what made me quit was the really extremist users that harassed everyone not only for political reasons but for silly things like fandom headcanons that you don't share or like zami070 if the characters you're making fanart didn't look exactly like in the show.

[@The13thRonin]

Tumblr... Out of touch with reality!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

[@mcrmakesmedance]

OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

[@hinas_teabrewer]

​@@mcrmakesmedance It's monday

[@eveleene3613]

This is sooo weird as someone who started using last year. Personally, its still one of the best spaces for fandoms

[@eveleene3613]

@@Valkyomi xD went to twitter, thank god for that

[@sloaiza81]

What are fandoms?

[@eveleene3613]

@@Valkyomi Reaaaally says a lot about them tbh. I only made my acc recently but Ive been a lurker. The way Tumblr finally feels fresh after stagnation is awesome. Really loving the app update too! XD idk, Tumblr is actually really thriving right now

[@ericvulgate]

Please just type the word into google. It's a big subject.

[@waitingformyfoundationdays6764]

@@Valkyomi ^^ THIS!!

[@TheHuntermj]

When you build an entire platform on a foundation of mental illness.

[@pentelred]

Facts all the weirdos had a voice,and now they're using their voice to ruin other platforms

[@mmjcmusic]

Sad thing is they're just ruining other platforms. I've been on reddit since 2011 and the platform and the community is barely recognizable.

[@ericvulgate]

This is true. Reddit held out but they are capitulating to the content police now.

[@nekoloons4844]

@@mmjcmusic im not sure thats what ruined reddit tho. Most people on tumblr was as Moon calls it "a sjw" but reddit is pretty far right on the political spectrum, unless you go out of your way to find otherwise. Reddit does have similar problems to tumblr but i wouldnt say thats because of tumblr, y'know? Im not defending tumblr by any means but I think blaming reddit's issues on a dead website is just a lazy excuse so the reddit mods don't have to improve the site

[@nakedslayer6685]

Asshole don’t blame us crazies for this the clinically insane prefer 4chan

[@RedBroski]

Yeah, I'm so glad that garbage site died. I never wanted to make an account on there, just seeing screenshots of the degeneracy that went on there made me sick. Sadly now all of those depraved people have moved to other platforms (definitely TikTok, the newest trash site, and Twitter of course), and there was a very noticeable drop in quality for other apps I used. The userbase became so toxic and full of literal filth, people so unhinged and out of touch with reality who screeched and wiped their shit everywhere and sent death threats to people for no reason besides being white or male or, god forbid both.

[@dayna8181]

Now that every social media site is trying to monetize everything, Tumblr is a breath of fresh air. As someone who stayed on Tumblr through all this, the site is still pretty great. There's no way to make money on Tumblr, so you don't have any influencers and there is no algorithm. If someone gets weird, just unfollow them. The site's userbase is much older now, and incredibly self aware.

[@kobayashidragor4564]

Tips? Post+? Ur arguements fall flat. The only reason I like tumblr over the others is stuff like the queue function, the tagging system, the reblog system which has nothing to do with retweets, reblogging is completely different and far superior. Yeah just specific features. The open API, the archive feature. Exploring tumblr without using an algorithm of any sorts is exactly why I use it. I do not care if someone thinks it's better than other sites because it has more of one thing and less of another. EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA SITE HAS A BIT OF EVERYTHING. This whole culture of stereotyping a platform based on what exactly? One community? Can you even fathom how simple minded that is? I don't use social media to reaffirm myself of my own stupid beliefs I use it to discover and explore WITHOUT a stupid algorithm and tumblr is the only major site I can use to do that properly besides like Flickr but that's eVeN mOrE dEaD right moon?

[@nourmallysalty]

tumblr is still pretty much alive and kickin’ with the fandoms/art blogs going on. even after the great porn purge you can still be able to find it cause it’s now loosely regulated

[@huronheron6274]

I LOVED tumblr when it was fun. It was easy to use, it had so many fun communities to explore and people to talk to. It was great! It was sad to see the SJWs ruin it, and then the explicit content, like you said, was the nail in the coffin. I recall reading about a small retraction from the site, on some post (not official) stating ARTISTIC nudes were okay, but I never seen one that wasn't restricted. Anything remotely nude or POSSIBLY showing something was restricted. Not all the "explicit" content on the site was actually XXX rated, but they treated it all like it. And so the site is dead, when it used to be so much fun.

[@flamingopersonn]

"It was unstoppable! ...until it was stopped"

[@astarcalledsun]

I'm still on there. I mainly use it for reposting and reblogging photography.

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

shhhhhhhh

[@geologick]

At the height of Tumblr, I had 3 different accounts, each with a ton of different blogs matching each of my interests. One by one, I deleted them. The nail in the coffin for me was the gender ideology bullshit that started infiltrating every corner. It was absolutely bewildering the things people would get outraged over. And now...it's everywhere, not just on Tumblr.

[@XavierJoseGJose]

I don't like the feminist lesbo comics about the two different types of women. It is very cringe. It was fine but it died for me as time went on.

[@pierce5612]

Tumblr is still super active. I run a semi-popular blog and I'm gaining followers at a rate of 1000+ over just a few months. (Currently at 26,000+) It doesn't compare to TikTok's or Twitter's numbers but the site is still full of a sizeable amount of users

[@annoyingginger5077]

Yeah, I have a quite small blog, under 100 followers, but I'm in some fandoms where we explode when something happens and we get a load of traffic. Overall Prince Philip's death proves that we are still active, it wasn't even a specific fandom event but we just went mad.

[@catsareawesome256]

Tumblr was based and legendary asf for banning inappropriate content

[@ThomasChaote]

I think nothing of mentioned matters as much as banning 18+ content. Then the downfall really began. But this ban also messed our posts and suddenly my regular blog was not good for public audience.

[@abcdef27669]

“Why Tumblr died so quickly”. And I’m glad for it.

[@mmmsheehoo]

Nah I want them there so they wouldn't infect other platforms pretty much a containment unit

[@an18yearoldmongolianguy]

@@mmmsheehoo Sadly it’s too late, the once okay Twitter is now the new gathering place for all the idiots on the Internet

[@honey3762]

I’m not! I wish the users didn’t migrate to Twitter :(

[@Hans-tr6dx]

Auf KZbin merkt man zurzeit, dass sich das rechte Lager zunehmend entpolitisiert, da immer mehr Kanäle wie jener der 'Deutschen Wanderfalken' entstehen. Eine gute Entwicklung, wie ich finde.

[@Zamu273]

Because they banned porn...

[@Zamu273]

@עילג ישראלי oh absolutely but they mainly died cuz they banned nsfw content Let's be real Tumblr was a place where furries and similar people who were socially outcasted could gather and share their niches For god's sake there was an entire thread about putting tapeworms in your ass on purpose The site's dead and it won't come back. And I'm glad

[@qty1315]

I was on Tumblr briefly earlier this year and just as my little blog was starting to get a little bit popular I was literally bullied off of the site. Like, they literally told me to leave the site because I wasn't welcome. I looked at the top post that day on the site only reaching 20000 views (the top post that day of the entire site), I realised I wasn't having fun being there and that it wouldn't be worth it on any level to stay, so I left. I think that says it all, really. The userbase sucks, and there isn't any real benefit to putting up with the userbase if the highest amount of views you can get is so small compared to what you'd get on any other major platform.

[@inputoutput2938]

What's the point of getting veiws in general, what good are internet points

[@qty1315]

@@inputoutput2938 Validation. It's why everyone is online. Do you think Moon is making these videos for fun, Redditors are making posts without even thinking about the amount of views, or the commenters here aren't even considering the amount of likes they'll get? Just as an example, so many KZbinrs always complain about KZbin not being great for creators, but there are so many video-sharing options available for them online, as well as the option to start their own site being easier than ever, so why do they stay if KZbin is so bad and unfair to them? It's because they can't get as many views on other sites, and they'll even admit to that. It's why once a social media site gets established as a site where it's possible to gain a million views/followers it's hard to get people to seriously think "Well, does it really matter if I can get a million views on a dumb internet site? I'm gonna go on Vimeo instead because I can get less views and followers." Plus, as much as we joke about 'fake internet points' not mattering, we've seen that even if there's no monetary benefit it really does matter if 50 people like your blog post or a million people like your blog post because those aren't just things that the site spawns, those are real people who are influenced by your opinion enough to tell you that they're reading your opinion and being influenced by it. You can see people use those 'internet points' to do all manner of things, from actually having enough influence to determine who becomes president, to grooming children, to starting cults, to becoming millionaires, to cancelling celebrities, and to making multi-billion dollar corporations bend to their whims. Living in 2022 and still dismissing views/likes/followers as 'fake internet points' that have no impact on the real world just shows that you have a pretty shallow worldview, especially in the comments section of a KZbin influencer.

[@someguy4252]

@@qty1315 validation is not the reason some folks like me are online, in my case its merely to pass time untill i inevitably die so i dont go insane from things like bordom or talking to walls. you might be wondering why im bothering to reply, i just hate being painted with a broad brush is all.

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

What was the topic of your blog?

[@Hooorse]

Thank you. Had never heard of Tumblr before this week, so this video was a very helpful summary.

[@Trauson]

We know the real reason why tumblr died... The ball pit.... OH THE BALL PIT we knew what was going to happen after we saw that!!!

[@jackel5019]

i heard someone pissed in it

[@evenhartwick4422]

that still hilarious someone thought extra time in a ball pit would be a suitable compensation prize for people who paid for VIP tickets. even if it was massive like they said it would still be a pretty laughable compensation prize. like I'm a grown man what am i going to do in a ball pit just give me a refund

[@kspoo10_]

@@jackel5019 There's a story going around of a baby born in the ball pit. I have no idea if it's true or not.

[@zondervonstrek]

It's funny They banned adult content, from my experience that was a huge portion of the content and draw. I never heard anyone say Tumbler was dying until that brainstorm. It should be noted this ban was pushed by the SJW types who thought they owned the site.

[@khrsting9939]

It was cause some users who were victims of CSA were finding photos of them surfacing and circulating on the CP blogs. And a major blogger at the time was a victim of CyberStalking, doxxing, and Revenge Corn by her ex while she may have still been a minor, in retaliation for her going off to college and having such a successful Tumblr community and platform compared to him. It was so awful witnessing what happened to her. I’m sure they weren’t the only ones either.

[@stevemc01]

The one lasting legacy Tumblr managed wasn’t its giant status in social media. It was its redefining of the term “degenerate”.

[@SurrogateActivities]

I quit it before the ballpit event. But while I was on it back then I was in my late teens and I was definitely groomed. I was looking for more and more twisted porn art and with that came their ideology on gender and sexuality. It's like delusional poison within sweetened poison. Thankfully I live in a very conservative country so I didn't do anything with those bad ideas. After a few years I found some info about the dangers of porn(early stages of nofap movement maybe?) so I quit it. From that point everything was only improving, I'm in a much better place now.

[@marjorie4310]

I was a new mom looking for light fandom entertainment between diaper changes and bottles, and I got sucked into radical feminism for years. I go there sometimes for custom content for my Sims, but I don’t interact with anyone. Most of them have all their political allegiances smeared all over their profiles so I know they’re nuts.

[@ladyseeker2927]

Porn and political ideology. Those two things together destroy everything they touch.

[@zubbys]

Wasnt the destruction in this case because they removed porn?

[@decoraqueena6413]

@@zubbys an public website like tumblr should not have been allowing pron in the first place.

[@NoName-dx1no]

@@decoraqueena6413 and there’s tons of minors on it, like obviously there’s tons of them there with the amount of immature, petty, toxic and irrelevant drama there is. They really should’ve thought it through at the start

[@DroMeetsPhoto]

@@decoraqueena6413 what do you think porn sites are? Private? Lmao anyone can access porn from a plethora of public sites if they have cognitive ability to type "boobs" in a search engine lol. Sure the content needs to be moderated to keep as many minors as possible out and to facilitate legal material. But banning NSFW content tends to just shoehorn in censorship for the sake of censorship. You can still find porn on Tumblr yet artists whose art contains even a bit of nudity got torched.

[@bobbuild2417]

@@zubbys they shouldn't have allowed it to flourish

[@mihaleben6051]

Nope. Its back. Tumblr is back

[@Princeofallsaiyan12g]

Yeah you are right I again start using Tumblr

[@underlord3761]

Aah, Tumblr.. the crazies from that failed asylum are now radicalizing the people on Twitter.

[@runezunn6655]

Some of them are on deviantArt and other places but yeah, Twitter is the prime hotspot of toxicity and even that is falling apart.

[@LikaLaruku]

For me, Tumblr was like a cross between Gify, an image booru, DeviantArt, & Yahoo Groups (used heavily for scanlating manga & webtoons). I never saw anything else on that platform. One thing I hated about it is that you couldn't post comments on posts, like if they asked a question you couldn't answer it, if they're looking for lost media, you can't reply with what you think it might be from, etc.

[@kennygladin8205]

I remember coming home from work and going straight to Tumblr to see what new posts it had and new friend requests or friends had anything to say. I could spend hours on it. It was so much fun I loved it. Then they changed all stuff is gone that I liked.

[@dutchbiker4825]

I never heard "Get woke, go broke" in so many words. Kudos Moon!