2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
DEAR READER
Cosimo Galluzzi
Not today Justin
oozey mess
Peter Solarz
taylor price
Sweet Seals For You, Always
h
trying on a metaphor
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Cosmic Funnies
Stranger Things
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
No title available
Kiana Khansmith
styofa doing anything
sheepfilms
Sade Olutola
Andulka
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Argentina
seen from Brazil
seen from Morocco
seen from Malta
seen from India
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
@literature-mindcandy
Shout out to the USA for pissing Canadians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7
Shout out to the USA for pissing Australians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7
/ventingBS
I wanna tell my spouse about what had me crying last night and this morning but he went and visited friends he hasn't seen in a year. I don't want him to feel guilty about going. And I know he will cause he feels he needs to care for and protect me.
But my headspace is fuxking hell right now.
Why am I like this
BE MAD BE SAD BUT DONT U DARE GIVE UP
WHAT THIS PERSON SAID
PROTECT EACH OTHER AT ALL COSTS ✊
I think the wildest thing about the TikTok Ban is that TikTok decided to adhere to it beyond the letter of the law.
They bent their knee willingly and gave up space and a platform they did not have to. They consciously decided to fuck over their user base when there was no valid reason for them to do so.
I've seen people talking about how you absolutely do not want to obey ahead of authority, and to see TikTok do it is... weird. It's unsettling. It feels like a dangerous stunt.
Specifically, it feels performative. It's got the marks of a Great Drama™, and given Trump's first 4 years and his absolutely bonkers love for theatrics over anything else, this just feels hollow. Like TikTok is trying to turn it's - generally younger - user base into "fans" of the republicans.
They can't really scoop up youths any other way, honestly. But using a big impactful story and putting Trump as the "hero" who saves their beloved platform.
It's not even the 20th and I just don't like how this new administration is starting. I do not like a private company complying beyond the letter of the law in advance of that law either. Because the only thing the law laid down was that they couldn't update the app on Apple and Google.
There wouldn't have been any fines or legal ramifications.
Here’s the latest message those 170 million American users are seeing as service is restored.
From Raddagher on bluesky
An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag
#fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta
but you CAN tag
#fuckbiden and #fuckkamala
I honestly expected the changes to trickle in more slowly, honestly, but I'm not surprised either.
I'm not going to say "Don't use TikTok" - I am going to say, if you use TikTok you need to be 100% aware of the foundation of the platform, your risks for being led into fascist idealism, and how easy it is for it to happen.
Even on social platforms that aren't trying to push you directly like that, it is still very easy to have it happen. This is why and how purity culture took off, this is why and how we ended up where we are right now, this is why I constantly say to check those knee-jerk reactions be they positive or negative because it is almost always a manipulation tactic.
It's not easy, if it feels easy you're probably on the slide. It's work, it's hard, it's exhausting, but it gets easier.
Hang in there. Be kind. Be fierce. Drink water. Don't categorize or judge entire groups of people. It'll help you no matter what. ❤️
my friends and I have created a game we call Quipposting, where you play quiplash but you roll a wheel full of character archetypes, and whatever it lands on, you all answer as if you are like, a wizard or cowboy. This legitimately makes quiplash go from a fun enough game to an S+ tier absolute unabashed banger
the best characters are Mafia Goon, Cyberpunk Hacker, Castle Guard, Sewer Rat, 16th Century Peasant, and Alien Poorly Pretending to be Human
OP we desperately need examples
these are all from mafia goonposting but I think it’s my absolute favorite one of all time so I have a lot of pictures from it. Turn on some jazz and wait until people start talking in the accent and you’ll make Magic
via NYPost: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to launch a “big f–king operation” across sanctuary cities — including Chicago and New York — immediately after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, multiple sources told The Post.
Starting Jan. 21, multi-day “ground operations” will be launched across cities that have served as safe havens for migrants because the local authorities do not cooperate with the federal government when it comes to immigration issues, sources said.
As we see a barrage of evil executive orders come in, they are not immediately enforceable and will takes months or years to implement.
That’s still not great, but don’t let these pile up to the point of hopelessness. Take a breath, and look community leaders who will fight it every step of the way.
Reminder that when Trump was in office before a LOT of his orders got overturned or held up in lower courts for long enough that they became irrelevant. It also does not mean they WILL be enforced. Stand with your community where you can. The fight is not over. Do not obey in advance.
Last sentence above is the most important. Tyranny requires people to shut up and fall in line. Do not obey in advance.
Okay so I got Rednote because I heard about the whole migration thing and I never bothered to sign up before, and the cultural exchange has just been really fascinating
Some sentiments I see from the Chinese side:
For a lot of people, it's the first time they've been able to directly interact with foreigners and make use of the mandatory English classes that they've been taking since elementary school
This is a special in moment in time, where the people in both countries can just converse and see just how similar they really are. Many people are staying up late to really get the most out of it because we don't know how long this can last
Lots of misconceptions being corrected, including but not limited to: Americans don't get period cramps, all Americans have big houses like on TV, work in the U.S. is easygoing
Finding similarities between parents, like asking if they're digging a hole to the U.S., or saying that when they were young they had to walk uphill to school in the snow both ways
Two things they were shocked by: cost of university (in China, the better the school, the less you pay), and learning about rural food deserts in the U.S. ("aren't they farmers?")
Lots of comparisons on the cost of rent/groceries/medical costs/salary/work hours etc, with the resulting sentiment that the common people everywhere really are the same and have a common enemy
Lots of them have changed their typing habits so that it's easier to machine translate and are now stuck with a sort of "translation accent" in their Chinese from that as well as reading so much machine translated Chinese
After the Americans joined, the quality of the posts have gone way up ("Rednote algorithm knows there's guests here and so is serving the best dishes now" / "Why has Rednote been hiding the good stuff? The guests are worthy but we aren't?")
Also there was a post asking Americans to post pics of their work lunches, but I think the Chinese users might've been disappointed by the comments, because half the comment section was pictures of empty hands ("Didn't have the time") or like. a cup of coffee
Bokuto, carrying all the grocery:
Akaashi, offers hand to help: Here-
Bokuto, aggressively moves all the groceries to the other hand and holds Akaashi's hand: Thank you.
Playdate 🌟
I like to think that one of the lessons Aizawa taught class A is "always have a knife".
You never know when you'll need a knife so never not be in possession of a knife. As such every member of class A has a knife hidden somewhere in their hero costumes. His gift to them when they graduated were custom engraved knives with their student number on them.
Not on board? Ok. Just imagine how funny it would be tho.
Villain: "Number one hero Deku! I am punch proof! The more you hit me the stronger I get! How will you defeat me now-"
Midoriya: "Knife."
Villain: "Wha-" *gets stabbed*
Midoriya: "Knife."
Hero: "Oh no! We're tied up! However will we escape!"
Tsuyu: "Knife."
Hero: "What?"
Tsuyu, pulling a knife off the bottom of her foot with her tongue: "Knife."
Groupie getting a hug: "Are you using your quirk or are you just happy to see me?"
Kirishima: "It's a knife."
Groupie: "...What?"
Kirishima: "Knife."
Villain, completely insulated in rubber: "You're a one trick pony chargebolt."
Kaminari, reaching down into his boot: "Oh boy are you wrong my dude!"
Hero: "You need to calm down."
Bakugou, reaching down into his V-neck: "Listen here you son of a BITCH-"
Hero: "WHY DO YOU HAVE A KNIFE!?"
Kouda: "Stop scaring the pigeons! They're a domesticated species that we abandoned back into the wild. They're sweet creatures who are pets by nature!"
Douchebag: "Or what?"
Kouda: "..."
Douchebag: "..."
Kouda: "..."
Douchebag: "oh my GOD HE HAS A KNIFE-"
Lol, I'm dieing.
