List of Youtube Documentaries and Video Essays on Tumblr Lore, for anyone wanting to learn or re-live it:
Meta
The Story of Dash Con
Tumblr Etiquette Manual
The Tumblr Calendar Explained
Tumblr Gimmick Blog Iceberg
Tumblr Live Explained
The Bizarre Story of Cole Sprouse's Tumblr Experiment
Cursed Tumblr History (heritage posts)
Aesthetics of the Tumblr Past
Life and Story of the Tumblr's CEO
The Story of JustGirlyThings
The Evolution of the Tumblr Girl
Evolution of the Hipster Trend
Fandoms
Sherlock: The Story of TJLC (The JohnLock Conspiracy)
The Supernatural Finale (Destiel Becomes Canon-ish)
Destiel Is Canon
Harry Potter: The Story of Snape Wives
The Onceler Fandom
Hamilton: The Insane Scandal of Hivliving
The Tumblr SexyMan Iceberg
The Lies of Tumblr
Alexandria's Genesis: The Internet's Fakest "Disease"
Hey Peebrain, You Teleport? Tumblr's Dark Mystery
Oppa Homeless Style
Tumblr's Infamous Fake Stories
Tumblr Fake Stories Part 2
Fake Tumblr Posts
That Time Tumblr Invented A New Greek Goddess
The Unreality Blogs
Clown Husbandry
Goncharov (1973)
Drama&Cores
The Tumblr Controvery Iceberg
Color Theory
The Rise And Fall Of 'Common White Girl'
Sonic for Real Justice (strange aeons)
The Bizarre Tumblr Saga of Sonic For Real Justice (izzzyzzz)
This Tumblr Blogger had a Child Slave
Iceberg of Infamous Tumblr Blogs
Tumblr Adds
Heterosexual Pride on Tumblr
Rabies Pride
Goblin Core
The Tumblr Needle Cookie Story
Scams:
The Story of 'All or Nothing'
The "Woke" Tumblr RPG that Scammed Thousands of Dollars
Tumblr's 80,000 dollar animation scam (Miss Officer and Mr Truffels)
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[ID: Digital fanart of Barbie facing forward and smiling with her right hand reached out. She is dressed in a cardigan over a collared shirt, pink tie with gold stripes, and skirt with her hair blowing to the side. Sketchy pink eyes surround her and cast a pink glow onto her. The title “Barbie in the Magnus Archives” is written on the bottom. End ID]
I kinda want to draw the barbiestortion now.... maybe the barboneturner too...
EDIT: they have been drawn :]
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I remember when I first started using tumblr; I fell in love with a single creator on here, or their blog, because they posted Harry Potter insider information that I didn't see anywhere else. For about 4 months, all I did was follow that one blog, and I patiently waited every day for them to put new content on my dash, which gave me a lot of joy. I then slowly discovered that they were not the only one; there were OTHER Harry Potter blogs, and they posted edits, screenshots, fan-theories, fanarts, fanfics, art, gifs, stories, fandom lore, conspiracy theories, I was absolutely delighted with this! I wasn't confident enough to make posts myself, but following all these people and sharing their posts and getting excited for events and website openings felt like being a part of the community. It was right when Pottermore was about to open and we were all signing up as beta testers.
And after that came Doctor Who, then Supernatural, then Sherlock, and slowly I was drawn in to more fun and childish media by the power of fandom excitement and tumblr gifs alone. I watched Glee because tumblr blogs kept posting gifs of it, I played games that people recommended. It was infectious, and everyone was posting rainbows and gay-positive edits at every corner, I felt safe here, even though I didn't even know I was a lesbian back then.
I think falling in love with one single tumblr creator is all it takes to come here and stick around. Tumblr hasn't lost all of it's excitement, we just got more jaded because we're been baited and accused of being cringy a lot, and a lot of homophobes have joined since, but we still have that infectious fandom energy whenever something big happens. That's what kept me around for 12 years. Features that enable us to follow users and enjoy their content are already here and functional. All we want to do is enjoy and support creators. The dashboard that displays their content as they make it, and enables us to interact and support them is all we need.
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