If you were on the Internet around 2014 when Tumblr was at its peak, you might have an inkling about the shenanigans its users would get up to – and maybe still do. Today, we’re featuring somepagesthat collect the funniestinteractionsonTumblr. For posterity, but for an occasional chuckle as well, we suppose.
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If someone were to ask me what Tumblr is really for, I don’t think I could answer easily. But one netizen on Reddit might have done so four years ago when theyexplainedto another lost soul what Tumblr is and what people use it for. If Twitter was for short quips and Blogger and WordPress for long-form posts, then Tumblr aimed to fill in the gap in between.Tumblr’s simple interface allowed its users to share any and all types of content easily in their blogs. Whether it was text, video, pictures, orgifs, the site built a diverse and strong community where people shared and explored their interests like nowhere else onthe Internet.
If someone were to ask me what Tumblr is really for, I don’t think I could answer easily. But one netizen on Reddit might have done so four years ago when theyexplainedto another lost soul what Tumblr is and what people use it for. If Twitter was for short quips and Blogger and WordPress for long-form posts, then Tumblr aimed to fill in the gap in between.
Tumblr’s simple interface allowed its users to share any and all types of content easily in their blogs. Whether it was text, video, pictures, orgifs, the site built a diverse and strong community where people shared and explored their interests like nowhere else onthe Internet.
Another great thing aboutTumblrwas its news feed: it was only the creators you followed in chronological order. Nowadays, most social media platforms have pretty annoying algorithms in that regard. But if you really worked on your Tumblr feed, you’d see exactly what you wanted. Most people say that one person’s feed differs wildly from the next.
People like to say that nobody hangs out on Tumblr anymore. But is that really true? According to the statistics fromDemand Sage, Tumblr still has more than 300 million active users each month. Users publish around 12.5 million blog posts every day, so can we really call it a deceased platform?
Recent Tumblr statistics are quite interesting, too. While its demographics are pretty young with 40% of its users being Gen Z and 30% being millennials, its gender divide splits exactly in the middle. The platform saw a jump in new users when Redditors migrated to Tumblr when Reddit began imposing fees on third-party developers.
Many say that the reason why Tumblr didn’t rise to compete with social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat was because the higher-ups didn’t understand what it was for. They tried to implement changes that would make it attractive to a broader audience while ignoring what made it special in the first place.
At the moment, Tumblr is like a safe refuge for some. No crazy billionaire CEOs, no rampant misinformation; just art, vibes, and (silly)posting. Minkel discusses that the owners should perhaps stop trying to make Tumblr for everyone and trying to attract more users and focus on making it for those who want to be there.
“Internet person” and expert in online communities Allegra Rosenbergagrees: “Tumblr can be difficult to navigate for the inexperienced, ridden with parasitic beliefs and dangerous memes. You can easily get lost in the tags, sucked into toxic subcultures,” she writes.
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