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No. 191045

At some point Tumblr was actually a pretty decent website before it became the embarrassing cess pool that it is today. Discuss old Tumblr. Were there any blogs/tumblrs that you farmers loved to visit? Or someone that you actually liked/looked up to at the time? Crazies that you loved to hate? Fandoms you miss/were in at the time?



>I'll throw in my 2 cents
I could not get enough of Myrollingstar's tumblr blog, her pictures were so pleasant and pretty.It was so cozy to read and fun to see her artist alley/life posts and clothing hauls.Makes me sad she doesn't post anymore, but it's nice that she's moved on with her life.
I also slightly miss the homestuck fandom, it was fucking out of control but there's was always new content popping up(good and bad), it kept things fresh.

No. 191059

>getting nostalgic about tumblr

Christ, am I getting old?

I know tumblr's been around since 2006 but I never really saw it as an internet force to be reckoned with until 2011-2012, so it still strikes me as very new.

No. 191061

I joined in like 2010 and it was mostly scene hair, boobs and funny pictures. I kind of miss how Tumblr used to be but I guess I kind of grew out of it. It reminded me of Myspace in a way.

No. 191062

I joined in 07. Miss that shit.

No. 191065

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i think about this so often, i'm so glad you made a thread about it, op.

2008-2010 was my favorite tumblr. my dashboard mainly consisted of high definition pictures of scene hair or candy or emo band gifs. the fanart was really good back then too. idk why but content seemed much more fun and relaxing back then even if most of it was actually retarded.

i remember jamjars being really big back then too.

No. 191122

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I used to lurk some tumblr blogs in 2011 and made an account in 2012. I was in some video games and anime fandoms and following some cringe-worthy blogs but it was fun because we were talking about a bunch of stuff and making up stupid theories and sperging about ships. At the time there was some sort of rivalry between hipsters/normies and fandoms iirc too?

Then as time passed, they became more and more SJW, first by posting more often about representation in media and pop culture and personal stuff, although in a reasonable way, then by insulting pretty much anyone who didn't think Chihiro from Dangan Ronpa and Naoto from Persona 4 were trans. I think at some point some of them became really self-conscious about being weebs and tried to compensate by insulting anime and Japanese video games that don't fit their Western/American ideals too or had too much fanservice for straight guys. Shit was weird. And right after all of these things happened, I noticed a huge increase of shitty fanarts and headcanons that uglyfied established characters, racebending, fetishization except it was called representation, etc. I only really started to stop caring about fanbases after some controversy about Attack on Titan (the mangaka supposedly being a far right wing supporter and the anime being sexist in the last episodes of season 1 I think?) and just decided to only reblog pretty fanarts, and I got fed up with it and my bad habit of checking my dashboard all the time to pass time so I deleted my account in the end of 2016 and migrated to twitter. Except now a bunch of tumblrinas seem to do the thing.

One thing I actually regret is that the website had more and improved features while the user base became more and more cancerous. Sometimes And I admit that I kind of want to remake an account to lurk some of my former mutuals and see if they're still rabid SJW. This post is too long but I still feel like there are a lot of interesting things to talk about.

No. 191125

I think I joined in sometime 2011, perhaps? I don't quite feel nostalgic, perse, but I do miss my moody little goth blog and my sims 2 blog. A bit sad that it's an ocean of genderspecial/diecisscum nonsense now.

No. 191131

I miss when Tumblr was for artfags, fandoms, and alternative girls. The artfags and fandom people didn't really bother post selfies unless it was cosplay or something special and the alternative girls who got popular where actually attractive and weren't just posted for 'muh inclusion'

Like, I'd see pretty girls with nice style on my dash and I'd have something to reference when I wanted to try out a new style.

Now it's just sloppy fatasses who look the same but with different skintones and hair colour.

No. 191135

I miss starpowerrr and all her clones. I remember every girl was obsessed with being, like, an irl disney princess lol. It was a more innocent time.

No. 191136

the downfall of tumblr was around the time of
>DIE YOU CIS SCUM!
>c u l t u r a l a p p r o p r i a t i o n
>#BlackLivesMatter
>did you just assume my gender?
>"He looked at me from across the street and said to his friend coming out the shop, "Long time no see!"… I was raped."
>Science is wrong and there many genders if you use your imagination
During the time in which people become 'woke' to Social 'issues', people began to lose their damn minds. Everyone was denying science, believing in fairytales, arguing with each other, aggressive oppressures claiming to be the oppressed
>you can't have an opinion or voice you cis white non-handicapped male
My god, I had to leave and save my sanity. Now isn't Tumblr a barren land of pitchfork holding, hissing SJWs? I miss the edgy black and white blog super sp00py Felice 'eat a burger' Fawn tumblr days

No. 191153

I don't have particular bloggers I miss, the artists I followed there are more present on twitter anyway. I do remember that the first non-sensical SJW I've seen was someone whose url was yamino I think. Claiming she wasn't a woman but genderqueer while calling herself a lesbian, and all sort of things. I followed her for her art at first because she was a bit into Ace Attorney at the time, I noticed that even her fandom related posts were stupid when I saw her compare two AA characters, saying that a killer who had a fucked up and sympathetic background was unforgivable and sexist because of stupid reasons while claiming that another completely evil serial killer was sympathetic because she was a young woman with a probably tragic past said tragic past was manipulating everyone and causing the death of several people for money and fun since she was a kid and if you liked the guy more than the girl you were a sexist piece of shit. Was yamino actually tumblr famous? I remember that some people were trying to kiss her ass at the time.

>>191136
>>you can't have an opinion or voice you cis white non-handicapped male
They think you can't have an opinion if your none of this and you disagree with them anyway, they'll claim you have internalized some sort of -ism. They're making actual minorities who do their best to live in peace and be respected hard to take seriously.

No. 191162

I joined back in 09 I think. I can't say that I'm any more nostalgic than I am for jumping around in the guild bank in Dalaran. It was a passtime. I remember being really stoked when starpowerrr followed me, and I met some great friends on there which i finally, 5 years later flew across the atlantic to stay with for a week. It was great. I never really understood the whole "tumblr is cancerrr reeeee" because, I mean. You decide who and what you want to follow? I remember vomiting a bit in my mouth when I first visited the south park tag, and quickly learned that most fandoms are disgusting, (don't tell me south park porn isn't foul… they're 9). Anyway, I don't use tumblr anymore, getting older and getting into twitter kinda made me forget about the place. But yeah, i never understood the sjw rage, just don't follow/interact with them?

No. 191176

>>191162
I definitely like twitter better, a lot of pretty quality art on there. I'm starting to gear towards instagram and twitter nowadays, seems like a better place to post art and talk to people.

>But yeah, i never understood the sjw rage, just don't follow/interact with them?

That's the thing, most people don't but it's more of them finding you. If you draw/are a fan of something a psycho doesn't like or that would be considered " problematic " in comes the tumblr police to send anon hate and run you out of the website.It's the same with them, they don't have to follow you or see what weird stuff/pairings you want to draw, but they still get involved anyway.They grab their pitchforks and come after you because they think it's the "right" thing to do.Look at fucking Zamii, she was nice and participated in fandoms and got a bunch of shit and driven to suicide over fucking NOTHING;just because someone didn't like the way she drew certain characters.

I mean, I try my best to avoid these kinds of people because I do still like a lot of the content that artists post but garbage still manages to find it's way and bleed into my dashboard.

No. 191187

>>191176
Wow, really, scuicide? I never heard of the girl tbh, but that is extreme. Now, idk how to put this without sounding really mean, and ofc I'm not talking about the dead girl, but my tumblr had a fair amount of followers and I never had angry sjw's flood me, and I'm not in any way a "woke" advocate or whatever. Do you feel like it was the kind of blog that i mentioned who posted porn or south park etc that got shit on? Because I can't really blame people for giving snide comments on that kind of trash? Idk maybe I was just too "lowkey" to be bitched at by the masses.

No. 191192

>>191187
Anon, it just takes one SJW to reblog a picture with complaining commentary or one single person to send an anon ask and that is it, they hound you in droves and the witch hunt commences. SJW's have their communities and one comments on something they don't like, they multiply like cancer. Some times it's sparked by jealousy or 'old fans' who didnt realise the person they followed didn't advocate their own beliefs
>accidentally makes fan art with screen brightness too low
>causes fan art to be too pale
>"I used to be a fan but quite frankly this revelation of your true character has made me very angwyyyy you fucking hitler descendant REEEE die in a concentration camp along with ann frank you antisemitic trash"

No. 191194

>>191192
Hahah holy shit, wow. I guess I never paid enough attention. So far, in regards to twitter, I mostly see actual racists and people who steel art/ask for free art get hounded. Hopefully it won't escalate like it apparantly did on tumblr. Gonna go read up on the scuicide thing now, thanks for the enlightening chat!

No. 191195

>>191187
>SU fandom attacks girl for drawing character 'too thin'
>then begins to attack all her other art
>created 40+ accounts to harass her
>she disappears for a few days then reappears in the hospital after suicide attempt
>people continue to harass her and claim she's faking being in the hospital

this kind of shit is actually damaging, it's different than critiquing someone. pesonally attacking people who are trying to do what they love, forcing them off of a website and then not even listening to them after they apologize and want to die. that kind of shit is fucked up.

it's different than calling out bullshit for real, it's disgusting.

No. 191198

>>191195
Yeah I'm reading up on the situation now, and even tho I agree that bullying someone like that is wrong, I have to admit the bully in me roars when I read that the creators of the show is into lolicon and thinks it's perfectly normal to sexualize characters that are supposed to be children. It's fucking weird, lol. But yeah, her drawing this purple character a bit less purple and not fat is no reason to hound her. Fucking ridiculous, the whole situation.

No. 191199

>>191187
Oh no she lived, she was only hospitalized thankfully! She's doing fine now and actually works for Frederator or something.
Perhaps your blog was tame enough not to attract crazies, or you didn't participate in any super popular fandoms?
Zammi was/is pretty popular and had a stroke of bad luck when people/someone with a vendetta started to go after her because of her SU fanart. It also doesn't help that the Steven Universe fandom is fucking insane and full of sjws.

I know fandom porn tumblrs are more susceptible to hate and bullying, because porn, but the thing about that is they're just fictional characters and people are gonna draw whatever they want. If they don't want to see it they can just not follow the blog for christ's sake. I know incest/ or whatever the fuck is out there, isn't eveyone's cup of tea, but to hound people for it and accusing them of serious crimes over a dumb drawing of some cartoon character is kind of ridiculous(unless of course it actually involves an actual person/is serious but that's rarely the case.

No. 191201

>>191198
i don't have -too- much issue with stuff like that, lolicon is usually used too loosely. some people will even assert that short, small chested girls are children, when they're not. it is fetishy, and a bit gross but i think a lot of people just misjudge it. most of the fetish is for the innocent aspect or the body type, rather than putting chracters in situations of 'child and adult', which is actually fucked up, and that stuff is popular in the anime community. look up kodomo no jikan, something that was officially licensed in the US.

No. 191202

>>191199
Ah, she lived! That's good to hear.

>I know incest/ or whatever the fuck is out there, isn't eveyone's cup of tea, but to hound people for it and accusing them of serious crimes over a dumb drawing of some cartoon character is kind of ridiculous

Yeah, no I agree, but I mean, what kind of padded safe space privilged world do you think you live in if you draw animated child porn but get your knickers in a twist when people call you fucked? You are completely right in stating that it's not illegal and it doesn't mean that the artist is a pedo, but damn if it doesn't creep me out. Like it wouldn't even cross my mind to draw a child getting fucked, and I bet a lot of people feel like me, and then a percentage feel it so strongly that they start bitching? While in this situation they def went wayyy to far, I still feel that an artist who decides to hop on the incest/CP train should be prepared to get some backlash, no?

And you're right, I was never active (or involved at all) with the homestuck/hetalia/SU kinda tumblr thing, probably why i never got attacked. Idunno this whole thing is hard to take a stance on. No people should not bully, but personally i do feel fucking disgusted by a lot of stuff that gets drawn, and I don't believe in posting your shit online and expecting everyone to kiss your ass over it, no matter how insane your art/content is.

No. 191205

>>191202
Yeah, no, anon you're right! I'm just saying it's dumb to make such a big deal over fictional characters, but there definitely is a line tho! .

No. 191217

>>191202

The thing is though, pretty much every fanart is technically cp, because most media, especially popular media, is made for children. An anime is almost guaranteed to have a pre-teen/teen cast. Any western cartoon- same thing. Most popular books are YA, again with a minor cast. Fandom has always worked because you glossed over the fact that you're writing or drawing things involving minors, and for 15 years online and ages before that in fanzines that system was perfectly fine.

Then the SJ hivemind decided to out preach each other and the current 15-20 year olds decided being "protected uwu" was the cool thing, and things like YKINMK became ignored because words are LITERAL VIOLENCE. And now we're at a place where people aren't producing works, or only producing very clean ones of ugly fat black people in the hope of getting noticed and making it into Cal Arts, and it's fucking boring and dead. It's pushed a ton of people of of fandom, and has kept many from jumping it.

No. 191218

People are still defending Zamii lol? In 2017? you all do realize she sent death threats to herself for attention and asspats right. The most she got was Tumblrtards sending her messages on how shitty she was. I could go on how she's a huge lolcow she is but I don't feel a fucking thing for her. She's still a lying manipulator who wants to cry "I'm a mentally ill teenager u can't be mean to me :(" when she's 20 fucking years old who never takes responsibility for her actions.

No. 191220

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I joined in 2010 during my Freshman year. Maybe I was just young, but Tumblr felt so fun back then, despite it just being pretty pictures.

Some stuff I remember:

>'Quality' blogs; HD photos of random stuff
>Vertical blogs (pic related)
>Jamjars
>That swoopy scene hair every girl had
>Acacia and the shitstorm around her
>Homestuck (never liked it though)
>'Do You Love The Color Of The Sky?'
>John Green
>Cream-colored lace on EVERYTHING
>Upside-down crosses on EVERYTHING
>Every alt. girl wore Creepers
>'Indie' kids

One a side-note, does anyone remember the chick that was obsessed with pink whose boyfriend hung himself?
She seemed sweet. I remember the day her boyfriend went missing and how sad it was. After that I think she deleted but idk. Anyone know who I'm talking about?

No. 191221

>>191218
Alright alright, if you want to make a point of it take it to the artist thread in /snow/

No. 191242

>>191217
>The thing is though, pretty much every fanart is technically cp, because most media, especially popular media, is made for children.

Okso, I hear you. Kind of, but statement above is reaching, and you know it, lol. I bet there are a lot of bitchy spergs on tumblr that will attack people for drawing porn of 15 year olds, but I'm willing to bet that most of it is directed at the ones who draw literal children, like my south park example. And also, "can't draw fanart if i can't draw kids fucking" is the exact attitude that makes me shake my head at the whole thing, like… chill? I guess I'm just not understanding the appeal. Anyway, I do understand that it might feel like sensoring, but crying cus people don't like to see Butters being rimmed by Randy Marsh is beyond autistic imo.

No. 191244

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Op are you me? To this day I look at her old blog at least once a month for inspiration. I miss her so much.
I got so excited when I saw this thread.

No. 191247

I joined tumblr in 2011, I was really into to homestuck, I loved averyniceprince so much (finding her thread on /snow was interesting kek), reblogged lots of elf-ish shit and forests then moved onto 'indie' scene and pastel goth girls, I was a bit of an sjw and reblogged lots of feminist posts, although I was a cringy shit it was a fun site to just waste time on

it stayed that way till about 2014 when I got really into aesthetics, so I become a goth/high fashion blog, I posted outfits too and I got semi-popular. I unfollowed most of the sjw blogs I used to follow and since I started reblogging gore photos (like bruises and black eyes) they unfollowed me too. I got a lot of angry messages for reblogging 'eye tramua' and not tagging it even tho I was practically a gore blog at that point lmao, tumblr users think they are so entitled to have people to just go out of their way to make them feel safe

I rarely go on tumblr now, mainly bc I was using it sort of like pinterest to collect inspiring images and I feel like it all started becoming more of the same, theres not much fresh content out there anymore

No. 191252

>>191135
Hi, former starpowerrr clone here. One of my friends was too. We were very cringey and I apologize but at least none of my pictures have been passed around and I never got copycat tattoos thankfully. I was too young (14) so I couldn't have.

>>191220
You're talking about Lexi Bee! There's a thread for her in /snow/. She's into sex work and DDLG now apparently. :/

No. 191262

>>191242
but southpark does shit like that on the show… they're only 'kids' because kids doing that shit is funny.

No. 191289

I had so much fun on tumblr right after Undertale came out, but that shit got so weird after a few months.

No. 191315

>>191242
I've seen people complain about 16/17 years old characters paired up with 18/19 years old characters, saying that it was literally pedophilia and just as bad as CP photos of real children. I only watch anime but apparently there was some drama in the Voltron fandom because of this. Maybe the other anon meant something more like "doujin" than fanarts in general, a bunch of fanarts are definitely safe for work after all.

No. 191317

>>191315
i dont even like voltron but yeah that fandoms totally fucked. even the creators and voice actors would support their yaoi ships on twitter. then when they said one guy's 18 at comic con tumblr went full retard, they have full blogs of 'block lists' of people who ship the 16 yr olds with the 18 one, 'BECUZ MINORS NEED A SAFE SPACE!!1!' 'as a minor i am literally shaking after seeing that ship fanart on my dash im li,t ter ally hab.ing a panic,, att.ack'

these people need to go outside

No. 191319

>>191317
>'BECUZ MINORS NEED A SAFE SPACE!!1!'
This is something I'll never understand, because the internet is the least safe space there could be for your average western teenager. You don't even have to move anywhere in particular and find porn, disturbing or straight illegal content, you can even find it accidentally. And tumblr had the reputation of having a lot of porn, rl people, written and drawn, and the features to hide explicit content used to be existent or shitty so I don't understand why these people choose tumblr of all sites as a safe space. It's also weird to me because when I was a teenager, every other teenagers were actively looking for nsfw fanwork and joking about filling forms on lj and ff.net to say they were 18.

I never watched Voltron but a friend of mine loves the new series and she told me to avoid the fandom like the plague, and we're both used to shitty and popular fandoms.

No. 191320

>>191319
>and the features to hide explicit content used to be existent
non-existent I mean.

No. 191321

>>191319
Yeah no I totally agree; tumblr, or the internet in general, is no safe space. that means that it's not a safe space to draw toddlers with dicks up their asses without backlash either. I don't understand why people can't create content without making it some paedo shit? Like I mentioned up-thread, how fucking weird are you if you do draw CP for fun, but have so many feefees hurt when people react negatively? Pedo stuff is weird to most people. I also agree that 15 year olds drawing other 15 year olds etc isn't weird, and that flipping out for that is taking things way too seriously.

No. 191323

>>191321
I don't get why people would want to draw that sort of things either, but I feel like it's one of these things that will be online no matter how much you could try to convince them not to draw and publish these things. I think that type of content is supposed to be forbidden on almost every social media I can think of so it's possible to block the artists and report them. If it works and these artists can be banned from these sites, I don't see the point of starting a witch hunt, but apparently reporting is still not working very well on tumblr.

Because of this, I feel like people are more prone to taking actions themselves, even when it's not necessary, like the other anons said with Zamii for example, although I only vaguely heard about what happened after her suicide attempt so I may have missed info on her case.

Regarding people in fandoms complaining about fanwork with teenagers where one is minor and the other is an adult but there's a age difference of 1 or 2 years, they think just shipping them is bad, not creating content and publishing it. You could say that Yurio and Otabek (Yuri on Ice characters for context) would make a cute couple in an innocent way or publish hardcore gay porn of the two, some people would think both cases are equally problematic.

No. 191327

Can we not turn this thread into an anti-SJW circlejerk? We get it.

No. 191338

>>191218
>you all do realize she sent death threats to herself
Where are the receipts of this? Because when that whole shitstorm happened, a lot of Tumblrinas who hated her accused her of lying about everything, including going to hospital/attempting suicide, just to cover their asses. Is it just another accusation or

No. 191354

>>191323
sexualized fictional characters are not illegal regardless of the age, just taboo. the reason for this is because images don't actually harm people.they may affect -you- but they don't harm the depictions of children.

using the logic that lolicon makes you a pedo is the same as saying video games cause violence, they have no correlation. and in the rare case it does happen it's because the person was already not mentally sound.

it is often true the opposite way however, that pedos will enjoy 2d, and in japan lolicon is used to help calm the desires of pedos so they don't harm real children. being a pedo is a mental issue, like being gay, except being gay doesn't harm children. yes it's disgusting, but people who are actual pedos and not just fucked up some other way can't help it and it's sad.

now, i'm not advocating lolicon or pedo, but there's a distinction to be made, plus it's dangerous to censor things even if they're gross.

No. 191361

What's the deal with everyone being annoyed by tumblr? You chose which part of tumblr you hang out in. Why would you follow the nutters if you can instead follow worthwile people?

I for one enjoy architecture and obscure film blogs and there's some good stuff. What are people so mad about?

No. 191368

>>191361
alot of worthwhile people get turned over night essentially, reading the thread you'll see what i mean. tumblr sjw shit is contagious. people do it sometimes to become more popular, some people get harassed and are forced to change, others just buy into it too. plus alot of people's interests are weeby. i used to follow jfash blogs when tumblr was good, but those all turned into the same replicas are OK, body positive, there's no such thing as 'real lolita' crap. i'm sure some parts are fine but most of it is fucked.

No. 191370

>>191361
Short version would be
>worthwhile people are driven off the website because it's a buggy mess or the user base is annoying them
>the website actually is a buggy mess
>you can follow only interesting blogs, but that doesn't mean you won't get approached by the part of the user base you want to avoid, they could send you asks or talk shit behind your back
>you can follow interesting blogs and become mutuals with some people and have a group of friends as a results and then some of them will become more and more annoying in a bunch of different ways (they become SJWs or the complete reverse for example, etc.), which could be awkward for some people who won't dare unfollow them.

No. 191372

>>191354
The good old "being pedo and being gay" in the same sentence, though. I'm not trying to start a fight here, but being gay is not a mental issue. Homofilia is found across a vast amounts of different species, pedophilia is found in very very few. Even though "lolicon" etc isn't directly harming a child, I personally think that something has to be wrong with you if you get off to the thought of fucking kids. The idea, of you will. Man, I'm not even talking morally, just, biologically fucked. Homofilia does not apply as both participants, even though they cannot reproduce, are of sexual maturity -a toddler, however. Oh sorry, a fictional toddler. Either way, you might be right about it not harming kids, but I'll never agree that there isn't a level of pedo in a person who's fantasy is animated child pornography.

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>>191372
if you guys want to discuss that further make another thread for it, we're supposed to discuss old tumblr.

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>>191244
Ah I'm glad there's another person who remembers her! Same honestly, she had her own pleasant vibe going on and her pictures inspired me so much! Same with Kaiami.
I was always jelly of how she had her own circle of art friends, and they'd get together and draw or go to cons together. Wish I could do that but most art friends I have are still amateur/have no serious interest in AA or fandoms.

No. 191424

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>>191378
I was kind of jelly of that too since I have to pretty much do everything solo.
Every time I would try to make art friends no one really wanted to hang out or do cons. It's kind of lonely.

No. 191429

>>191244
>>191378
She actually posted a new drawing on her instagram a few days ago. But that's sadly the only update. It would be great if she'd post more of it again.
https://www.instagram.com/myrollingstar

No. 191435

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when i first joined tumblr i was into that whole hetalia/homestuck and superwholock fandom mess.

No. 191452

>>191435
Omg this reminded me of those posts that said "reblog is you support gay marriage" and everyone who reblogged it would add like 3 gifs of superwholock

I used to think they were so annoying but now I miss them

No. 191474

I joined in 2011 or 2012 and still use it to this day. The quality, overall, has definitely dropped though. The beginning of the end was a bunch of high schoolers and college kids becoming "woke" and turning into SJW snowflakes. They make me miss the awful Superwholocks.

That being said, at the same time, Tumblr can still be a decent place if you follow the right blogs. For me, that usually means following people who have sane personal opinions, or following blogs that are strictly dedicated to art/aesthetics/fashion/makeup.

No. 191476

>>191452
I prefer superwholock to Steven Universe or whatever the hell is popular now

No. 191482

>>191435
>>191452
That reminds me of these posts that were like "reblog this before [insert date here] or tumblr will delete your account to make the unused url available" followed by why too many gifs and these posts had thousands of notes for some reason. And the guy who created tumblr whose name I forgot was often called daddy by teenage girls, it was really weird.

>>191476
Same, superwholock was stupid and the fans were obnoxious but the SU fanbase is way more obnoxious and full of itself.

No. 191528

what i miss from old tumblr the most is that whatever "fandom" you were apart of, pretty much everyone in it would all talk to each other and become friends.
but now pretty much nobody talks to each other on there anymore, at least not how they used to.

No. 191545

I used to like looking at shit like [http://themurmuringcottage.tumblr.com] to bring myself down a notch, super curated waste of time though

No. 191680

>>191220
Yeah you are talking about Lexi but I thought her bf shot himself in the head not hung himself?

No. 191689

I joined in 2008 and was most active in 2010-2012, with it slowly tapering off as I got a career and everyone I was following was also growing up and getting into different things. My favorite tumblr was something like bruisedbeatenboys, which just posted fanart or doujin of anime boys with bruises or blood on them. I also really liked lawnlawn/bossies's tumblr, as well as milkmanner (who is now publishing Snotgirl). Thankfully I can usually follow any artist from those days on instagram, but sometimes I wonder if I'm forgetting someone I used to really love.

No. 191691

>>191680
Omg I think I remember that.
Didn't they find his car somewhere where he killed himself ?

No. 192220

I used to go there for the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom a lot back in 2012-13, mostly for the creepy shit that was posted.

No. 192222

Was anyone in the roleplay community on tumblr?

I started lurking around 2009, but I joined in 2010 because I was really into online roleplay and tumblr had a wide variety of RPers.

Basically there was a "main" tumblr that had an admin who established the plot and characters, then you'd have to submit an 'audition' to be in the roleplay, and once accepted you'd create a tumblr page for your character and then get to interact with other people's characters.

It was huge in the Harry Potter fandom since people loved playing canon characters and/or being their own original character. It was basically acting out fanfiction. Other fandoms were popular, but most of RPs had original plots/characters, or were AUs/crossovers. The majority of it was non-sexual, although there were some dedicated to smut.

It was pretty fun, but the community pretty much turned to shit around 2014. There was tons of drama and fighting, and it's nowhere near as fun.

No. 192270

>>192222
I was in the Transformers RP fandom on Tumblr around 2011/2012. It was one of the things that got me to sign up on Tumblr. Me and a group of friends decided to join for shits and giggles, and because we were all big fans of Transformers. It could be really fun when you got a good RP going, and I met some nice people through there. But it could also be stressful.

The community I was part of split twice. Once before I joined, and once after. And there was drama too. In fighting from various personalities over what kind of content should be allowed and what shouldn't, and just arguing sometimes in chats. Also, one person was RPing as multiple characters (as many of us did) but was also pretending to be three different people within the RP. This nutjob would pick a fight as one person, then would turn around and act nice as another. She manipulated a couple of people.

I sorta just quit in 2013/2014 or thereabouts. Sometimes I think about joining a different fandom, because I see people RPing my favorite character and all I can think is "you're doing it wrong". But then I remember the stress and the effort and I just chose to not bother.

A good RP that flowed well was really fun though, and I do sometimes miss those genuine good threads I had going.

No. 660414

I would do anything to go back.

No. 660428

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>>660414
Me too anon. Twitter has proven itself to be the fucking worst.

>tfw I made this thread 3 years ago
rip

No. 660447

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People should make gifs of themselves again. They were fun and cute.

No. 660452

>>660447
it's tiktok now pretty much, just a tiny bit more elaborate

No. 660465

>>660452
Tik Tok is a bit too cringy for me. I like that those Tumblr gifs felt carefree and effortless.

No. 660567

>>191176
It always feels like the people saying "lol just don't interact!" were the ones who were one of the SJW squads harassing people or optionally extremely lucky and oblivious. I was a literal nobody on Tumblr yet still got a few snowflakes riding my ass over petty crap who found me by god knows what means. I didn't even post that much and focused on reblogging fandom stuff.

>>191198
I'd much rather be mad over the creators who abused/groomed real children than drew lewd fanart of the show characters. I never got how people had enough energy to be bothered over fictional characters, it's not like there's a shortage of perverted influencers who have damaged actual people. Think John Kricfalusi for one.

No. 660577

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Remember when every weeb on Tumblr had a Tukut theme? Good times.

No. 660578

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>>660577
looking at it now, this is truly some graphic design is my passion shit.

No. 660579

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>>660578

No. 660580

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I remember a lot of people using this theme too.

No. 660581

>>660577
Anon you're sending me back to 2013

No. 660597

>>660580
>>660579
>>660578
>>660577
Always hated these "anime" blogs, they were the first ones to hop on the gender trends and sjw shit. If I saw these themes or things alike back in the day, I ran as fast as I could

No. 660617

>>660577
I hated it, that shit was unreadable on some screens. I kept the old redux theme until I deleted my blog on 2016, but at that point it was the default theme anymore. I almost want to remake a blog on tumblr just out of curiosity but the main reasons why I liked it dont really exist anymore, like artists I liked and fun fandom discussions

No. 660816

>>660580
Remember redux edits? God, that shit was so obnoxious looking back but it was so fun. It really was like Myspace pages.

None of the popular social media sites are customizable enough right now. I mean Twitter took away the ability to pick a custom hex color anymore.

No. 660892

>>660617
You can still find the Redux code online and copy+paste it in as a custom theme.

>>660816
The thing that I miss the most about tumblr is how customizable it was. You could really put your aesthetic out there compared to other social media that has you locked into their default theme, which is usually white, grey, and midtone blue or something equally boring.

No. 670332

>>660578
i literally spent hours upon hours creating elaborately edited and customized tukut themes lmao with crazy banners up at the top, random shit that would disperse from the corners and flood/float all over the screen etc. it wasn't really anime themed though only partially. good times. no wonder i had no friends in junior high

No. 997588

There is so much about Tumblr and blogging culture in general that I miss. I feel especially nostalgic at a consistent rate for 2010s crafty, quirky, eco-friendly, snailmail, diy-libraries, scarves for trees internet. However, right now I just feel nostalgic for when I was an awkward pre-teen and related to the many depictions of other awkward young people. I felt so proud to call myself a fangirl and wasn't afraid to be awkward and perhaps cringeworthy about my interests. I was proud of what I liked and felt like I really belonged to something, especially when I was so isolated otherwise. It also gave me a great outlet for my creativity and I am especially thankful for how it encouraged me to keep creating. Thanks to being a fangirl I followed a lot of contemporary artists and was inspired to explore various art styles as well as create fan-art. I don't ever want to go back to then and am very happy with how I matured, but it is still comforting at times to re-watch media I obsessed over at the time and reminisce on what it was like to be an 11 year old fangirl, haha

No. 997599

When I was on Tumblr my social media experience was still so pure kek. I remember I had 80 followers on my blog and I thought that was a lot of people. I would spend hours curating images and editing my theme. Everything seems so disconnected to me now, I'm in online "communities" but everyone is always selling stuff and no one really acts like friends. It's like, we're all friendly but not actually getting to know each other. We praise each others products, basically. And don't really express ourselves without having something to gain from it. I miss doing things just to do them.

No. 997630

I really do miss tumblr. I would get autistic about my favorite niche Japanese bands and write long ass blogposts. Ended up getting 1k followers and people made fan art and memes about things I would write kek. It was so much fun and it was nice to have a following and still be anonymous/not show my face.

No. 997637

Idc I still use Tumblr. I feel like it was the best social media app for the socially awkward. Instagram is too aesthetic focused, Facebook is what I have so people don't think I'm a weirdo but it's really for boomers, Twitter is too "woke" and is a giant cesspool. I know Tumblr is where the woke wave came in but I really like the blog format. Feels more personal, like it's my corner of the internet instead of another phone app if that makes sense. Plus Tumblr has the best pictures.

No. 997643

>>997637
fuck it, i'm making a new account and i'm going to post OCs like it's 2009

No. 997644

>>997643
Fuck yeah, I don't care if it's a dead platform, it's cozy. Sometimes I'll get some likes on my posts (like one or two) and it gives me the warm fuzzies. Not so much with Twitter or Instagram.

No. 997647

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I miss Tumblr cows like Shmegeh and Felice, the Shmegeh and other cosplayers drama was my obsession, I loved reading exposés about whether this cosplayer was abusive, that one was a bitch, this one talks behind their friends' backs, that one trooned out, etc. Prime entertainment source.

No. 997657

>>997644
I hope we find each other in a beautiful serendipity, we won't know it but the magic will be in the air

No. 997663

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When I look back on Tumblr, I think of Slimetony. I used to check his blog on the bus home from college every day. His blog and some of the associated ones (the tapir one, the one with the wizard, etc) were top tier. I wonder if hes still on Tumblr and if he is still with his gf

No. 997676

>>997657

what if we become mutuals without ever knowing the other person is also a precious cow

No. 997688

>>997676
>we won't know it but the magic will be in the air

No. 997689

tumblr used to be the source of excellent gifs. i had one of a guy getting hit in the face with a bra that always made me laugh

No. 997704

>>997663
I'm mutuals with the girl he was dating, I don't think theyre together anymore

No. 997714

>>997644
It's not dead, lol. Things like cottagecore emerged from there

No. 997719

>>997714
I thought cottagecore came from Instagram

No. 997724

>>997714
I thought it came from TikTok. I'm hoping for a great Tumblr revival tbh

No. 997763

>>997719
>>997724
The naming system and early style emerged from tumblr. I remember I followed a bunch of lesbian artists/writers who were talking about wishing they could give up on modern life and move to a little cottage in the countryside with their gf all the way back in 2016/2017. Any aesthetic thats named “-core” and doesn’t have a music genre tied to it I immediately associate with tumblr lol

No. 997772

>>997663
Fuck slimetony was locked away in a deep dark part of my brain. It’s funny that I remember his music more than his shitposting, some of it was actually pretty good.

No. 997778

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>>997763
yes i member. It was intertwined with the bambi lesbian thing even

No. 997785

>>997714
"dead" nowadays just seems to mean "past it's peak" or "no longer pre-dominantely used by youth" like how facebook gets called dead but in reality it has, quite literally, 3 billion users every month.

No. 997786

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Does anyone remember the heinous reboot chain that em-in-the-den and satanstrousers started with this post? I followed both of them after seeing this when I was 15 because I thought they were soooo cool, but ended up unfollowing bc em was annoying and satanstrousers was a massive beta even though she answered multiple asks saying that they weren’t together kek

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>>997786
Part 2

No. 997822

>>997788
god I remember this, and thinking even as a 13 yr old he was creepy as hell for implying that about a stranger

No. 997943

Glumshoe

No. 997946

This thread reminded me of how I found this place. I was searching up about Jess woods randomly and found a thread about her on here.

No. 997949

To the anons who don't use tumblr anymore, when and why did you stop? For me I semi-actively used it until 2020 but it was never the same after the SJW stuff really took over around 2015. It was there in the early 2010s (I'm old) but easier to ignore imo and not everyone was in a competition to be the most woke and bigbrained.

No. 997962

>>997949
i just checked because my abandoned tumblr is still online (and i still get messages to this day asking for my "canon url" kek i didn't know the fandom was still alive tbh) and i left in 2015. it was a mix of many factors but mostly it was because i was so sick of fictionkin bullshit and how it ruined everything for everyone. you made one text post about your headcanons for your favorite character and suddenly a 14 year old called ghost or prince sends you an ask and says that you're not allowed to talk about her that way and why tf are you spreading rumors about her?? because she thinks she is literally that 16 year old male character from an anime. who would have thought that things would become worse, huh…

No. 998007

>>997949
I stopped in 2014? bc I found reddit. I only ever used it to follow kpop or sjw blogs (I know). I never liked that you couldn't comment on posts without reblogging anyway

No. 998012

>>997949
I lost interest around the time that they stopped allowing you to upload mp3s and forced you to use Spotify instead. It wasn't the only reason I stopped but music was a big part of my tumblr experience so it was part of it.

No. 998048

>>998012
You can still upload mp3s, though

No. 998139

>>997949
I made my tumblr in 2010 in middle school but ultimately stopped using it by 2013. Reasons why I stopped were mainly because I had a terrible identity problem with myself (I had no hobbies, no fashion sense, literally nothing to set myself apart from anything). I just reblogged everything I saw that I even sort of liked, from big bang theory references to HD nature photos to psychedelic aesthetics to art to just anything that showed up on my dash) I had no consistency and it frustrated me mainly cause I just didn't undertstand myself.

Another reason why I stopped is cause my best friend who introduced it to me and I ended up having a falling out with eachother and it just became immesnsely less fun and lonely.

I had a lot of fun on there though and finally found images and styles I couldn't find on google images lol but I think overall I was just a floater so Tumblr lost its meaning pretty quick for me.

No. 998151

>>997949
I still have an account mostly for likes but seldom post. The site died down after the porn ban and yahoo buyout, it's chill now but it's a lot more boring. Got into a lot of drama when I was active 7-9 years ago, mostly with fandoms. As an attention seeking bitch teen the site was both my paradise and my hell, but it was never the same after yahoo bought it out and banned porn. I briefly had a fan blog for something at the beginning of the pandemic that had a cozy following, and the interactions were all very nice, but it's not the tumblr I remember with fondness and cringe. I ended up deactivating that acc so now all that's left is my useless likes one, and I'm fine with that, it exists for viewing reasons and that's all I need it for

No. 998155

>>997949
i deleted all of my blogs around 2016. first discovered tumblr around… 2011? i remember all the aesthetic blogs and how for some reason every fan blog dedicated to an actor/singer etc would start with "fuckyeah" lmao. 2011-2014 tumblr was incredibly autistic with all the superwholock shit and fandom wars, but tbh at least we had fun. post 2015 it's pretty much all about SJW stuff and communism, it's seriously insufferable. i also miss playing around with themes and stuff, most social media websites today aren't customizable and it's so boring. i loved how creative some people would get with their blog descriptions and layouts

No. 998168

>>998155
The fuckyeah thing was so true jesus. Internet speak 10 years ago used to be so different

No. 998173

>>998151
I remember the porn ban, a lot of the internet was pissed about it. Admittedly I use to browse some of the more erotic content occasionally before the ban.

What was the reaosning behind the ban? Was it just cause yahoo likes a clean image?

TBH the porn on tumblr was pretty contained to its part on the site. Occasionally when searching certain tags i'd come across some but it wasn't often enough to put me off. Idk how Tumblr was able to keep it contained considering how much of the content on there was literally just porn but I'll give them props.

No. 998200

>>998173
I think they didn't want to deal with moderating all the cp users would post of themselves

No. 998202

>>998173
the porn ban was a great idea. they should've done it sooner. the userbase was primarily under 18 and the ban was way overdue. presented huge liability for the company and ultimately did little good for much of the userbase. character erotica and drawn images of husbandos or whatever should've been alright, however.

No. 998203

>>998173
Basically tumblr has never actually made money because it’s users are way harder to advertise to than the average FB, IG or YT user, so they tried to tidy up the sites image to make it more advertiser friendly. Also only a few months before the porn ban users were giving the site heat for hosting CP, porn chatbots and having a useless report system, to the point where the app got removed from the App Store for hosting CP. Yahoo went to panic stations and rolled out a NSFW ban with shit enforcement rules and a super dodgy AI that autoflagged sand dunes as nudes, all without doing anything to address the groomers and porn bots that the site was infested with.

No. 998204

>>998202
What creeps me out is how many underage people and just people who were seemingly normie moved out of the site just because porn got banned… which is a good thing overall? Like, not having to see porn shit when you search for unrelated shit. Why did these people got so offended that tumblr took it out?

No. 998209

>>998204
Tbh it was more a matter of bad enforcement and group migration. I remember posting sfw shirtless Dick Grayson on my comics blog and that got flagged as adult content, with no means to appeal. If that happened too often, even in false flagged sfw posts, your page would be flagged and you’d be blocked from all of your underage followers. When that happened a lot of big users and content creators (fic writers and fan artists especially) threw up their hands and left tumblr behind for Twitter or Instagram. So the creators left, and they were followed by their fans, who were followed by their friends, etc etc. Lots of people thought the nsfw ban was going to be the death of the site (I was one of them kek) but even though the user base numbers have collapsed, it seems the vibes are better than they were at the peak, with most of the newfags and hardline sjws migrating to Twitter.

No. 998271

>>998007
You can though and have always been able to do that afaik?

No. 998272

>>997946
I'll admit to still loving Jess-wood's photography and aesthetic to this day, especially her Jess-woods green phase, not as much the sad bby doll phases before that. I always hoped and expected she'd come back but she never did. Sometimes I scroll through hetlr webarchived blogs, I used to check her blog daily for new photograos when she was still active.

No. 998273

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Honestly I feel bad for the kids growing up on a hyper-commercialised corporate-driven internet, especially if picrel is what they’re lining for. When I was a teenager the internet was a place to fuck around on and you actually had the chance to express yourself through things like theme editing on tumblr and myspace, and you could have a tightly curated experience if you knew who to follow and who to block. Now social media layouts are as sterile and mind-numbing as possible, and if a kid says one dumb thing on their genshin impact twitter, they’re going to have an entire army of users come after them for days, and it’s going to follow them around indefinitely. I feel like an idiot but I wish I could fucking go back.

No. 998275

>>998204
can't speak for everyone but when I was underage I used tumblr mostly for porn/nsfw art

No. 998276

>>998275
you either were an outlier (which I believe) or a scrote then

No. 998278

>>998204
I remember being in high school and looking up simple things like sex or boobs because I was curious and there was literal CP on there which was my first encounter ever with it. It was also easy for fucked up niches to blossom there. I wish more platforms had a strict stance against porn, even if not all NSFW is banned there’s no reason to have literal porn on a site like that

No. 998280

>>998278
Never saw CP luckily, but I remember a farmer (?) outing a picture of a little girl holding a cigarette as a part of a CP set. It was circling around the sad bbygurl blogs. Someone reposted it here. Then many years later, I saw the Luna psychostan make a PSA 'guys it's from CP!!! do not reblog it!!!' which was another confirmation she was lurking lol. Unless she saw the cp set, but I doubt that

No. 998281

>>998273
somewhat related to pic related. i know this sounds gay and lame but i miss the 2008-2012 era of youtube and social media before it was just used to advertise stuff

No. 998308

Does anyone know what happened to Nicole dollanganger? She orginated on tumblr right? Also Alice Snow? Her blog seems to be gone. She was in that sad girl/analog photography blogsphere with jess-woods and maja and those sort of blogs

No. 998311

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>>998276
nta but I also browsed Tumblr for porn (I didn't use Tumblr mainly for porn tho) I liked it because it was easy to find a curated and asstetik~~ selection of porn gifs
>>998278
Gross. I remember being exposed to lolicon through nicole dollanganger and pastel weebs (the Abipop type who would be creepily obsessed with randoseru and other japanese children related items); made me leave the tumblr alt-weeb community. Then I saw that everyone started reblogging lolita/léon movie gifs alongside pushing their ddlg bullshit, so I permaleft

No. 998312

>>998308
samefagging bc sorry nonny I didn't see your post but yes Nicole originated from Tumblr. She's still active music career wise, she has an album on the way named atropa belladonna

No. 998317

>>998308
You may be interested in the sparse updates by people who were in touch with her during her tumblr fame. She used to send 13 years old naked body checks and the like.
>>>/snow/1111635
Unless you've seen them, they were posted 1 year ago. Also another person uploaded letters they got from Nicole
>>998312
I wish she still had drama or at least post blog entries. What I wouldn't give for someone to reupload he ~secret~ privated blog

No. 998321

>>998281
The internet will unironically never be the same again

No. 998325

>>998273
Same anon, this mentality of - sometimes not even fully consciously - having to build a brand for yourself since everyone is doing it seems so stress inducing and awful. I'm not gonna pretend internet of early 2000s was perfect but people were just having fun, not going in with business plan and double checking everything they say to not have anyone go after them. That's especially visible with artists / creatives.

No. 998327

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I came back to tumblr and I'm having a good time, it's so much fun to hunt for cute content to reblog even tho I know I'll run out of blogs with a good archive. My blog is so cute with a lot of post I like in it and there's a lot of queued post.

No. 998332

>>998327
Adorable! Have a good time anon

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>>998327
you reminded me that i actually still have a kawaii pics blog on there which i haven't updated consistently since like 2015. i actually reblogged one thing in 2020 because i logged in and thought, oh i'll just reblog this cute pic of a shiba inu. picrel is what my archive looks like. good times.

No. 998344

>>998325
this explains so much, why lolcow became a safe space for many of us. I sometimes feel like milk is drying up but I don't mind if the gossip threads die but /ot/ and /g/ are such fun places to chill at.

There's too many ads and tracking this and that to feed you for more ads on most of the web, social media and its services. I don't wanna buy anymore stupid shit, show off said shit, engage in consumerism etc… I'm just here to laugh and talk shit in an unfiltered way and hopefully not get banned kek

No. 998449

>>998340
oh i had so many variations of this type of blog before i deactivated!! you made me nostalgic, now i kinda wanna get back on tumblr and shut off all my other social media

No. 998835

>>998271
Idk when I was using it you couldn't. If they changed it later good for them it was annoying af

No. 998861

>>998340
I recently made a new tumblr blog just so I could collect cute pictures like this and look at them when I’m stressed, it’s so fun!

No. 1013875

I miss the funny and witty exchanges in shitposts, funny photo threads and how cosplayers and artfags would act as/draw the character responding to asks. Remember that? I’d say for me the female artists/weebs/gamers were the best part of tumblr. there used to be a lot of college aged nerds in tumblr and man did i look up to them and enjoy their shitposts when i was younger. my zoomer peers could never compete.

No. 1013902

>>1013875
Aaah yes the tumblr ask blogs were cringe but really fun imo. Nowadays the only ones i came across just use a character to talk about trans discourse or other faggotry. Ugh.

No. 1013910

>>1013875
I also remember about ask-my-OC blogs, really funny to send them shitpost

No. 1013912

>>1013902
Tragic.

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>>1013875
>>1013902
god anons you two just unlocked a memory that was hidden deep inside my mind
i absolutely LOVE hikusa's art blogs and they're still up and running (askkyubey and askkagaminelen)
i also remember that one of the first ask-character blogs was the ciel phantomhive one by madelezabeth (her art is okay i guess? but back in the day it sucked lol)

No. 1013939

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I used to follow a guy called paolo raeli, i loved his photos.

No. 1014113

>>998340
you made me realize i was so much more creative and artistically inclined during the years i spent on tumblr. let's all go back.

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>>1013875
I miss the creativity/sense of identity too. I was a damn nut when I got into tumblr, waking up at 5am before high school to sift through my whole dashboard and queue for the day/week. I’d have my blog be seasonal, focusing on more naturey/aesthetic posts, but would mix in the wicca aesthetic, anime/ghibli gifs/screen caps, lotr/GoT gifs, kanken backpacks, fawning over girls with white hair and tattoos. I’m happy that’s how I partially grew up on the internet instead of watching my sister spend hours trying to decide which pic to post to instagram. But then all my nature blogs got mega woke. Also tumblr era was the best music era.

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>>1016620
samefag

No. 1017278

>>997949
I stopped using it in 2017. Started in 2012. I ran an extremely popular forest blog and when cottagecore became the hyped thing, everyone bandwagoned on that trend and it was increasingly hard to find good people to follow who posted forest, nature, and fantasy/fairy vibe shit. All us girls were really close with the same interests (metal and history) until we started to leave one by one.

Pictures of cows, farms, manmade ponds, and baskets of strawberries just fucked up the nature blogger circle. It was lame.

Neocities is cooler anyway and more personalized but I left that too since it felt meaningless. I found it just as easy to use as Tumblr and I don't know shit about coding.

On another note, who remembers those pastel blogs? Faded images of pretty people's webcam pics lmao.

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>>997949
Used it back in 2011 and slowly stopped using it around 2015-16 when tumblr had earned the SJW title and 2018 is when I deleted it because so many people had jumped ship to Twitter. Tumblr is a ghost town at this point and I only use my new tumblr to collect pics. I do really miss the early 2010s. It wasn’t perfect but I’m glad I got to be on the site before everyone started to go insane. Even my Pinterest feed was more tame but these days it’s filled with zoomers posting ugly as sin egirl outfits , fighting about terfs/pronouns in the comment section and tracing other peoples art.
I really do miss how casual tumblr was and how you could post large files that wouldn’t get awkwardly cropped, customize your blog with cute pastel colors and a cute tiny shitty little cursor that was hard to see, and you could tag things, and there were no advertisements everywhere. And whatever you were into there were always blogs for them lmao. It was a great place to find artists too. Sucks a lot of them have disappeared completely and deleted their entire blog.
KEK I even remember thinking the fat/trans/pronoun/nonbinary/queer garbage was a trend that would end after tumblr fizzled out but that shit only got worse!! Past me would’ve never seen it coming. Rip

No. 1045663

>>1045660
Samefag but I just want to say I fucking hate tik tok and Twitter and Instagram. I feel like I’m always having advertisements thrown at me, influencers shilling stupid shit to me, and being overloaded with so much content at once. Everything is so fucking shitty and I just miss when no one took every single fictional character or ship seriously. And when there weren’t advertisements shoved into every single website I just want to browse!!leave me alone!! Im just looking for fanart of my favorite character not all this product autism!!!

No. 1046039

>>1045660
About tumblr becoming a ghost town, I noticed that too when I remade an account last year. I wasn't following anyone because all the artists I liked from like 10 years ago or so migrated to twitter or just straight up vanished from the internet, or they only post once every three months at most. Do you think tumblr would have been less deserted if it weren't for the bots or staff mistaking normal art for NSFW posts and deleting content for the wrong reasons? I remember deleting one of my previous accounts in 2018 because most artists I followed back then had some of their posts removed over and over again for no good reason at all.

>customize your blog with cute pastel colors and a cute tiny shitty little cursor that was hard to see
Twitter was a little bit like that years ago too. Before an update in 2014 it was possible to choose any background and any highlight color you liked. Social media as a whole became sterile and now you can only pick a white theme, a black theme, and maybe a dark blue theme if the website is being a little bit generous. Tumblr seems to be the exception to this nowadays.

>>1045663
>influencers shilling stupid shit to me
Tumblr doesn't really have influencers, now that I think about it, right? Maybe that's not the case anymore but being tumblr famous back then meant you just had a lot of followers and notes on your posts, not that you'd get money from it and posts thinly-veiled ads. Although, years ago I read that a user called "pizza" managed to get money by selling her blog or something to a company after her posts became popular for being funny but it's been so long since I read about and since that blog was deleted I'm not even sure anymore.

No. 1046047

>>998155
i dont think it was autism because there was still capability of nuances thought and they were obviously just having fun unlike now where it actually does behave like autistic schizophrenia where they seem to believe these fictional characters exist on another plane of existence and they think you're an immoral person for liking something they dont lmao

No. 1046074

Fuck, is it impossible to have an art community not full of aggressive LGBTfags and coomers anymore?

No. 1046081

>>1046074
It seems that way. Even in the stuffed toy community, I'm over here trying to make fairy princess forest animals and bitches are putting ball gags and bondage on Hello Kitty.

No. 1046120

>>1046074
Wonder if it can be done by restricting nsfw content in some groups and settings, or if that will just attract more..

No. 1046275

>>1016620
>>1016621
I always wondered where all the awesome photos on Tumblr came from. I guess probably from other parts of the internet and people uploading themselves but I've never seen so many great pictures on any other sites. Tumblr is truly amazing for that and if it goes offline I'll miss it for that aspect.

No. 1046452

>>191045
I never had a tumbr account but followed a few pages centering on Yu-Gi-Oh! content, sadly run by mostly fujoshis and half of the art was degenerate shit. It was around the time when sjws took over that I stopped caring. Onision drama brought me back but when I started browsing Lolcow, tumblr was dead to me.

No. 1046491

I know this thread is four years old but I don't really think Tumblr is that embarrassing anymore. I actually loved the porn ban, now I'm almost never exposed to gross coomer shit, and I still follow quite a few active blogs and I still have a lot of really cool mutuals that I've "known" for almost half a decade at this point. I really think one of the major barriers preventing some people from getting into it again is that they log into an old blog for some fandom/subculture that hasn't been active anywhere on the internet for a while now, or start a brand new blog and don't know how to find their niche. I only really casually used Tumblr for fandom stuff back in the day, and there are definitely still some very active (if often cancerous) fandoms, but that was never the main appeal for me. I love radblr, even despite the drama, and I love my small group of cool people I interact with, and I love my pretty pictures. The typical sjw stuff is pretty much limited to like, picrew icon Steven universe fan blogs, and the only way they'd end up on my dash is if I followed one.
I think it's also so much easier to stay relatively anonymous on tumblr than stuff like twitter and instagram, and you can tell someone to kill themselves or threaten to murder a public figure with usually no repercussions.

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I think what started the fall of tumblr was when good artists would take "breaks" to focus on school work etc., so they would lock their accounts because they know how addicting the internet can be. This allowed the 'crazy sjws' to takeover and create a toxic community that wants to create witch hunts than good content. I think Steven Universe was the pinnacle point of this sort of behavior and where it really took off to continue in the future.

I'm pretty salty tumblr 'died', I can't name a single site that has UI/site customizations as tumblr. Twitter is absolutely horrendous- even if you take out the culture, navigating the site is such a shitshow as you're forced to see hundreds irrelevant bullshit to get the few posts you want to actually see.

No. 1048632

>>1046074
I think the artists on instagram are the most chill relaxed people of the community they’re not aggressive and even if they were instagram isn’t that type of app where it allows discussions and texts. You can have mutuals who just post and talk about strictly art and everyday life here. Also artists should ignore sjws and not acknowledge them honestly in the end they’re mostly kids who dont know what theyre talking about or severely mentally ill adults so i always have this kind of attitude when they comment dumb shit under my posts engaging with them fuels them

No. 1048698

>>1046491
>I don't really think Tumblr is that embarrassing anymore.
Same. It feels less immature and all the gendies went to twitter.
>I actually loved the porn ban
Same. And it really makes you think. Why did most of Tumblr go away when they banned porn? Banning porn is good isn't it.

No. 1048707

>>1046081
>Even in the stuffed toy community
Trust me, that's full of troons. Anything kiddie or immature attracts troons and people with kinks. They love corrupting innocent shit.

No. 1048747

>>1048698
>Why did most of Tumblr go away when they banned porn?
I refuse to believe this is a real question… It's because Tumblr has always been a broken, barely functioning mess so a shit ton of posts that weren't porn at all got automatically deleted while actual porn stayed for a very long time.

No. 1048771

>>1048747
Ngl, I think a lot of people left because a lot of them were just coomers. I think I only had one reblog wrongfully censored and they restored it within days, haven't had a problem with it since.

No. 1048787

>>1046275
i used to follow a ton of photography blogs on tumblr. they usually repost stuff from flickr.

No. 1048788

>>1048771
Yeah well that's just you. For some reason anything a little bit too beige was censored and not everything could be restored. A lot of artists left because of that, then a lot of people following artists left as a result.

No. 1048878

>>1048788
And to add to this, a lot of porn blogs are still out there, and at the very beginning of the ban, because tumblr automatically guessed what was porn or not just based on color, a lot of blog porns just posted porn in black and white to bypass the ban. Basically the porn ban is a good idea in practice and a horrible on in practice because the website was coded by retards.

No. 1049064

>>1048878
you could just tag your post #sfw and it would bypass the bot, it was truly fucking retarded

No. 1049097

I miss tagging shit for specific people. I loved going to friend's blogs and checking their tags for me and laughing because it would always be my type of humor or something I liked and it was just great. Yeah now I can just DM a post or a video to friends but I like having a specific tag on my friends blogs just for me, at least I can go back and look at things instead of scrolling for hours to find a video I sent yesterday. Sometimes I'll visit my best friend's old tumblr blog and go through her tag for me. Perfect time capsule of our early friendship years, I love it.

No. 1049116

>>1049097
there's something so cute and wholesome about reblogging a post and tagging it with your friend's name. especially when people reblog something just because they know you'll enjoy seeing it on your dash. i miss those times.

No. 1057435

I am looking through my tumblr to find a specific audio and I stumbled upon this and LMAO. Tumblr actually had decent and funny stuff before it became the birthing place of wokeness(there's a tumblr post of this still,I'm posting the youtube link for convenience)

No. 1057445

>>1057435
Didn't know the joker was into Katy Perry's music.

Reminds me of stupid shit like video related for some reason. Tumblr genuinely made me laugh so much back then.

No. 1057462

I wish I didn't delete my tumblr

No. 1057475

I just remade my tumblr yesterday after deleting it and not having one for years

No. 1115154

>2009/10 tumblr
>2012 tumblr
>2014 tumblr
>keep current shithole tumblr

Which would you choose to resurrect and why?

No. 1115181

>>1115154
The lack of porn from current tumblr mixed with the fandom activity of whenever MLP was the most popular

No. 1115186

>>1115154
2016 tumblr, actually. It was fucking hilarious.

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>>1115154
Tumblr in 2012 was really fun for teenaged me. But I noticed that in the 2007-2010 period, there were a lot of more serious written blogs that seemed really cool but they all just died out. If I was new to Tumblr as an adult that'd be the side I'd want to experience.

No. 1115206

>>1115203
Same for me. I only got on tumblr in 2011 and found that time a lot of fun as a teenager but Old old tumblr sounds really cosy. I'd kill current tumblr twice if I could, I can't stand the humour and the pretending not to care about shit while still competing to be the most woke

No. 1115214

>>1115154
2012 tumblr was fun and i wish my blog from back then was still around. unpopular opinion i guess but i hated 2014 tumblr and don't know why people miss it so much, all i remember was proana being everywhere, ddlg and nymphet degeneracy becoming popular, and everybody being obsessed with that terrible arctic monkeys album. kek

No. 1115215

>>1115181
Thing is.. the reason it was active was the porn… im sorry but its true

No. 1115216

>>1115154
2012 to 2015 was tumblrs peak

No. 1115220

>>1115215
Lots of the porn was female curated/drawn by women. No super nasty scrote shit unless you went looking for it in ddlg tags and shit.

No. 1115238

>>1115220
What i say? Porn was keeping it active and i was thinking of the female curated porn you mentioned. It was keeping a lot of communities of fans active i remember drawing nsfw of popular ships made you instantly tumblr famous as an artist The degenerate porn and porn ban ended up killing it tho

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pony ask blogs, definitely.
and pastel-toned pale porn blogs.

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>>1141292
Goddamn I miss the ask blogs era. It would never be the same with the way the internet changed, so I am glad the ask-blog trend is dead.

No. 1141409

>>1115154
Whichever era had the least activism. I definitely learned a lot from tumblr but it basically killed the whole website. I miss fandom.

No. 1141908

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I miss the weird crossover era of tumblr. when people made fandoms out of nothing. my favorite was rotbd/rise of the brave tangled dragon. i used to read the fanfics about it and shipped merida with jack frost.

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>>1141908
samefag, i remember when everyone was making hipster edits of disney characters. there's an active blog on tumblr called welcome to walt academy that makes me nostalgic

No. 1142865

What do you think the most drastic changes to tumblr over the past 10 years have been? I was most active in 2012 and I remember everyone worshipping Harry Potter and JKR, troon shit was only just beginning to take off and the site was pretty much divided between fandom and hipster.

No. 1232816

>>1142865
Probably the mentality around JKR because it went from insanely beloved and "how could you hate HP!" to "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PIRATING THE GAME/MOVIE!". I noticed that there isn't really a lot of fandom activity now it's mostly just un/funny posts and twitter screencaps.

I miss tumblr's memes, no other platform was able to recreate it.


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