Spaghetti Code Ass Webbed Site

Attempting to catalogue the unique ways in which this website's code/database is entirely borked

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[roach]

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

[lenasai]

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

roach

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

the-universe-at-large

roach:

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

YES YOU DID

high-saffron

the more you reblog this the more it breaks

the-universe-at-large

WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO

dangergays

literally what is happening @staff you dun goofd

[actualchiotdelphine]

i tried to reblog this and the stupid app just crashed

[toujours-fidele-deactivated2018]

what

[kiwi-draws]

wh

[dnalkaline]

[overlordmao]

w-

[acefandom103]

If you’re seeing this, I managed to reblog this post.

[postmastered]

I-

what?

[mlmc4ctus]

i’m frightened

[i-cant-believe-its-v]

Attempting to reblog

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Notes:

This disaster of a post seems to be the result of two distinct events that compounded upon each other. Unfortunately the details can be challenging to suss out, so the following is a best effort explanation based on available evidence.

Event 1:

The initial post was published by @roach shortly before 4AM UTC [1]

A great many users received notifications that they had been tagged in it, but found no such tags present [2][3][4]

@roach edited the post several times over the next hour, two remaining version contain a block of usernames, followed by the string "mfc-ads" repeated 1,000 times [5][6]

A screenshot posted by @the-universe-at-large (current URL @bleary-eyed-blue) shows what may be the version of the post they had been tagged in, also containing a block of usernames [7]

Some users replies suggest that they originally reblogged a different version of the post than they are attached to now [8][9]

A possible reconstruction of events involves @roach repeatedly editing the post to add "batches" of user tags, before editing it again to remove them

Event 2:

That very same day, Tumblr began switching from the older "indentation" reblog format to the current "caption" style format [10]

@the-universe-at-large's reblog (and others [12]) partially retained the "indentation" formatting despite the wider website's migration [9]

When @high-saffron (now user @anthraxplus) reblogged @bleary-eyed-blue's post [13], they noticed that @roach's root post (in the new format) was re-inserted into the beginning of the chain every time there was a reblog, and did several times [13]

As duplicates accumulated in the top of the chain, the post seems to have more fully migrated to the new format some time before @lenasai's reblog. However, some quirk in the process flattened the whole corrupted chain into a single post, which then had its authorship attributed to @lenasai, as the most recent contributor [14][15]

The @roach conga line continued to grow irregularly for some time, before settling on the 28 currently present

Sources:

[1] https://www.tumblr.com/dnaha/128161107666/roach-hi-yo [2] https://www.tumblr.com/lmporterroblnson/128162201579/roach-hi-how-was-i-mentioned-in-this [3] https://www.tumblr.com/the-a-r-t-i-s-t/128164407735/roach-hows-everyone-doin-tonight-i-just-broke [4] https://www.tumblr.com/paledrake/128162523614/roach-hi-i-broke-tumblr-they-somehow-tagged [5] https://www.tumblr.com/chocolatewarkittens/128162793370/roach-hey-tumblr-did-you-know-that-the-text [6] https://www.tumblr.com/i-taste-melancholy/128162743855/roach-hey-tumblr-did-you-know-that-the-text [7] https://www.tumblr.com/bleary-eyed-blue/128168632021/roach-hows-everyone-doin-tonight-i-just-broke [8] https://www.tumblr.com/whistlingwadewilson/128162268296/roach-i-broke-tumblr-lmao-yeah-i-did-know [9] https://www.tumblr.com/bueno-desolation/128164399483/roach-hi-doing-good-thanks-for-asking-how [10] https://www.tumblr.com/@support/128127169452/ever-see-a-crazy-long-indecipherable-reblog-chain [11] https://www.tumblr.com/anthraxplus/128168673257/the-universe-at-large-roach-hows-everyone [12] https://www.tumblr.com/se7-seethe-blog/128161624861/roach-hi-sorry-have-we-met [13] https://www.tumblr.com/anthraxplus/128168703042/the-universe-at-large-roach-roach [14] https://www.tumblr.com/busytown/128222679024/dangergays-the-universe-at-large [15] https://www.tumblr.com/lenasai/128223024163/roach-hows-everyone-doin-tonight-i-just-broke

[yvfu]

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Notes:

When liked, the user's like count visually increments, but upon reloading, the count resets and the heart is removed. It is unknown why certain likes are recorded

The body of the post is empty, it is unclear if it was always so, or if it originally had contents

Attempting to step back one reblog further, the post seems to have been removed

The original header of the post is not visible, making it hard to say who the root poster was

[zazzedcoffee]

The Poll Wormhole

Poll A

a

b

Remaining time: 2388 days 8 hours

[zazzedcoffee]

The Poll Hole, if you will

Poll B

a

b

Remaining time: 2388 days 8 hours

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Notes:

Both polls are stated to remain open for 10 years past publishing

Option 'a' in the first poll shares a UUID with option 'b' in the second and vice versa, making a vote in one poll count in the other as well

[zazzedcoffee]

Who would win?

🐎

🦀

Voting ended onFeb 5, 2023

[zazzedcoffee]

voter fraud, GO!

🐎

🐎

Remaining time: 17002 days 15 minutes

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Notes:

Second poll will remain open until 50 years from publishing

Bot options share a UUID, making a vote for either count for both

Previously, a vote in the first poll counted for both options in the second

A vote for the second poll increases the vote count for both polls, despite the first ostensibly being closed

[zazzedcoffee]

Whoopsie doopsie! The poll broke :(

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )?





Voting ended onFeb 11, 2023

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Notes

Poll is stated to be closed with 0 votes, but remains open

Votes are not stored

Title and fields were both empty, with title being replaced with the default "( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )?" after the fact

[brokenpostarchive]

Notes:

First level reblogs show original user as "leilockheart", later reblogs show "deactivated" (see HERE)

When liked, the user's like count visually increments, but upon reloading, the count resets and the heart is removed. It is unknown why certain likes are recorded

The reblog counter says 0, but certain reblogs are visible

An edited reblog in the tab seems to display its original contents

Only likes of the current reblogs are shown in the like tab