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Original post by @cryptotheism

Tumblr March 2026 Blackouts

So we're all pissed at the new update as we should be and I've been seeing many people proposing blackouts, which is amazing! But all the dates are different and people might get confused at what's happening when, so I just want to organize every blackout (at least that I saw) in one place.

So far I saw six people with dates.

The earliest one, organized by @yourlocalfandomfriendo begins on March 18th and will last 48 hours.

This overlaps with a second proposed blackout by @veejiez for March 19th.

There is also one on the 20th proposed by @daysleftofsecondterm and another one on the same day from 6AM UTC to 6AM UTC on the 21st by @everythingwsnormalhere.

These three days are all very soon so not everyone may see them in time to participate, but if you are able to participate for any or all of these days, I highly encourage you do. Otherwise there are two more blackouts coming up:

The next one after these will be on March 24th as organized by @aroacesafeplaceforall who suggested doing 12 hours.

And the last one, which I personally have a lot of hope for as it's a major day for activity on Tumblr and a blackout then could be especially impactful: April 1st, as proposed by @darkwood-sleddog

There is also a discord set up by @yourlocalfandomfriendo and @aroacesafeplaceforall for anyone interested in joining in!

SO OVERALL, it may sound like a lot, but no one expects everyone to participate to every date here. But PLEASE try to participate in at least one or two of these, even if you feel it may not do much.

Typical strikes, the ones we hear about all the time, win by withholding their labour for consistent periods of time; that's the power people have at work because that's what's exploited.

For blackout strikes, we need to withhold our attention; the resource we own which is exploited through the selling of both advertisements and data.

My comparison of blackout strikes with regular strikes will be for a whole other post, but for the time being, just know that

withholding our attention is our digital bargaining weapon

Tumblr literally lost 63% of its monthly traffic from 2024 to 2025; they are not in a position to play around with those of us still here.

So PLEASE try participating. We cannot let every decent online space get enshittified with no care or consideration for the communities using those spaces.

And where labour strikers risk losing incomes and jobs, all blackout strikers risk is... gaining some of their attention back for a little bit.

qqueenofhades

What the absolute fuck is this new tumblr update.

qqueenofhades

Doubtless this has been pointed out many times, but as I will note (on a reblog of my own post since I don't want to "post steal" from God knows who else), the whole premise of this stupid-ass update is that Users Want Individual Publicity. They must Maximize Their Engagement and Selfishly Get Their Own Numbers so they can Have The Most Visibility For Their Own Stuff. Every other social media website assumes that you are a selfish monster whose only purpose is to algorithm-max Visibility For Yourself, rather than sharing notes collectively among the community, and Tumblr was enjoyable for not doing that. Now, we all know how annoying it is when you get a dumbass on your post, or several dumbasses collectively arguing with each other and you have to see all their dumbass replies, but even that is still preferable to having no engagement with your own post. You can also just turn off notifications for a post with dumbasses in the replies, and live your life blissfully untroubled by it further.

Whoever is left running this godforsaken website clearly still thinks that It Must Be Made Into Twitter, regardless of the fact that The Website Formerly Known as Twitter is an absolute hellhole that now literally generates AI child sex abuse for Nazis, and still is failing to get the picture that Tumblr users do not want Visibility Engagement Maximization or whatever the fuck tech word slurry. Nobody uses their real names. Everyone absolutely hates when their posts go viral. Nobody wants to Get Their Precise Portion of Notes and nothing else. We do not want to Increase Our Profile Or Market Share. We want to be left the fuck alone to post our stupid memes and have our stupid little in-jokes and our stupid little gay fanfiction. Tumblr, as usual, has completely missed the boat.

If you want to tell them directly to roll back the update, here's the link again (click Contact Support in the upper right corner, then Feedback from the drop down). You can be polite and straightforward, just something like "Please put reblogs back the way they were, this new system is unnecessary and confusing." It never hurts to not be a dick. But you can and should make your feelings clear.

#gif #my gifs #dan howell gif #dan howell #danisnotonfire #dan and phil #dan unhinged howell #philm club #heared rivalry #reaction #no but like that got me good #10/10 reaction #but also #what #I know I don’t post danandphil here usually but I just had to #phil and his singular emote

technofeudalism

if you wiped every ICE agent off the face of the earth, a hundred million people would become safer overnight. if you wiped every furry off the face of the earth, the entire internet would collapse for good in a matter of hours. i know where my allegiances lie.

technofeudalism

what's hilarious about this post is that the consensus seems to be that i underestimated both the number of people who would become safer overnight and the amount of time it would take for the internet to collapse and i actually agree. it's the type of statement you'd expect a lot of people to see and think "what a wild exaggeration," but nope. i'm underselling it for once, actually.

fuckthisbloganditscurses

Happiness Will Come To You.

12goblins

when tho

fuckthisbloganditscurses

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

wizardshark

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

zigxortega

zac--efren

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

scientiablr

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

#not fucking around

bloomasunder

Magical Girl Kaneeka design ideas: "The Reaper" and "The Spider".

some thoughts, including ep 5 spoilers, below:

#scarlet hollow episode 5 #kaneeka

yeahivegotanaccount

By the way. Avery looks so good in ep 5. Breathe if you agree.

#ITS TIME #anyway #you won’t be seeing me for the next long while while I go play pt 2 #wish me luck #gotta leave before spoilers

colossalsquidz

One thing that’s really funny about Scarlet Hollow is the difficulty of the various romance routes. To romance Dr. Kelley you MUST be hot and you MUST sacrifice ~15 years of your life to a ghost. Meanwhile Wayne is convinced from the jump you’re spooky soulmates and you can attempt to punch him in literally every single interaction up to the kiss scene and still land him. No notes.

#no notes indeed #perfection