How Tumblr's most popular teen comedy geniuses struck it rich—then lost it all.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.
Teen Life on Social Media in 2022: Connection, Creativity and Drama
Majorities of teens credit social media with strengthening their friendships and providing support while also noting the emotionally charged side of these platforms.
Designing the Social
This book explores the complex place of social media in young people’s lives and the role it plays in shaping how they understand and present their identity publicly on a wide array of platforms. It proposes a new theoretical framework, Comic Theory, for understanding identity performances.
Designing the Social
This book explores the complex place of social media in young people’s lives and the role it plays in shaping how they understand and present their identity publicly on a wide array of platforms. It proposes a new theoretical framework, Comic Theory, for understanding identity performances.
Tumblr
Tumblr. Pure effervescent enrichment. Old internet energy. Home of the Reblogs. All the art you never knew you needed. All the fandoms you could wish for. Enough memes to knock out a moderately-sized mammal. Add to it or simply scroll through and soak it up.
Tumblr
Tumblr. Pure effervescent enrichment. Old internet energy. Home of the Reblogs. All the art you never knew you needed. All the fandoms you could wish for. Enough memes to knock out a moderately-sized mammal. Add to it or simply scroll through and soak it up.
Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022
For those who don’t know or remember, Tumblr used to have a policy around porn that was literally “Go nuts, show nuts. Whatever.” That was memorable and hilarious, and for many people, Tumblr both hosted and helped with the discovery of a unique type of adult content.
Preparing for the Creator Economy Apocalypse (with Chris Gethard)
@troius on Tumblr
Blogging through the back half of Bleach for the first time. Watching TYBW. Etc.
Home | Unplatform
The definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.)
Home | Unplatform
The definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.)
Automattic + Tumblr
Those of you who’ve followed my Tumblr over the years have probably come to expect a mix of travel photos and the occasional link to my WordPress blog. Well, today is different. I’m delighted to share that Automattic is acquiring Tumblr.
‘There’s a Value in What We Produce Because We Feel – and an AI Chatbot Can’t Feel’
Byline Times' Editor in Chief meets Kate Devlin, Professor of AI and Society at King’s College London, to explore how relationships with AI companions aren’t particularly new, why she believes the under-16s social media ban is flawed, and why human creativity can't be matched
Tumblr discovery got people book deals. Twitter made people famous. Tiktok influences the charts. MySpace intro'd us to our favorite bands. Vine! Clubhouse! platforms made some of the audience able to monetize for a bit privacy, ownership are compelling but not at scale. \hottake
Ron Bronson
The AT revolution is super cool, but it's not reaching normal people. The generation that played in web 2.0 have aged out of tinkering. It's noisier now too, but there's an even bigger part people are missing....