Tumblr Fan Magazine

A Tumblr about Tumblr and a Flipboard Magazine about Tumblr

[jv]

Not to be a corporate shill, but some of the latest things added to the merch store are pretty sick

[sreegs]

Do you think the users have any power to change tumblr or keep it afloat? (Intentionally I mean)

Yes, if more of them show up and you keep using it more frequently, Tumblr's metrics go up and so does ad revenue

[bernadette]

I sold ads at tumblr. Twice. Once while owned by Yahoo and I came back shortly after it was purchased by Automattic. I left about 7 months ago. One big thing is to chill out on the “silence brand” replies and reblogs and other horrible shit users say on platform when tumblr DOES manage to land direct ad revenue. It just hurts the 100 people working at tumblr trying to keep it afloat (who on most days want to curl into the fetal position and wail). For the most part, people working at tumblr are the same kind of weirdo as you just doing our best to keep the site alive under some pretty shit circumstances (primarily a huuuuge lack of engineers and a general remit that the site first needs to make more money before they can get more engineers but they need more engineers to make more money and around and around we go). Look. I get the “we hate capitalism” vibe, but those very LOUD voices will be part of what continues to drive advertisers away and ultimately helps kill the site. It seems funny unless you’re on the end of that conversation with the brand that took a chance on tumblr ads when they have an endless plethora of other sites to put their time, energy, and money. As @sreegs said, use the site. Get your friends to use the site. Like the ads. Click on the ads. Reblog the ads. More actions equals more revenue which, god willing, will get more engineers hired to actually help build/fix/improve our beloved hellsite.

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Tumblr User Shows Real And Hilarious Conversations Apollo 11 Astronauts Had

Apollo 11 was the historic flight that first landed humans on the Moon. It became one of the biggest landmarks of the last century, showing the world that our technology was advancing enough to take off and reach towards the stars.

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The race to save the first draft of coronavirus history from internet oblivion

How researchers, archivists, and citizens are racing to preserve a record of we lived and changed during this strange period of history.

“The pandemic and the forced change in our behavior is also changing the way we interact with our personal social-media archives. During the pandemic, people are taking nostalgia-driven journeys into their own online histories, seeking comfort by looking at the way we were. Even this is becoming part of the story of how we lived online during a global crisis.”

“For example, a generation of young adults are flocking to Tumblr, which has seen a bump in traffic since people began socially isolating in mid-March, for nostalgic comfort and memories of their younger selves (this might explain the recent spike in searches on Tumblr for 'emo hair'). Users are spending isolation reblogging old photographs, talking about malls, and sharing 'cottagecore' images and other cozy content. ('Cottagecore' is an aesthetic that centers on an idealized version of living in the country. It’s where many people wish they were spending lockdown.)”

“'College students are now back at home because their dorms are closed,' says Amanda Brennan (@continuants), a librarian at Tumblr. 'This is a very big time for them to just be like, ‘Look at how much I’ve grown’ and ‘These are things I used to love the last time I was in this bedroom.'”

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The Tumblr aesthetic of 2014 is all over the internet

Millennials and Gen Z are revisiting indie pop, grunge fashion, and the early 2010s Tumblr aesthetic. Wouldn’t it be nice if life still looked like that?

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Tumblr now removes reblogs in violation of its hate-speech policy, not just the original posts

Tumblr is making a change to how it deals with hate speech on its blogging platform. The company announced today it will also remove the reblogs (repostings) from any blogs that were suspended for violating its policies around hate speech.

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Tumblr will now remove all reblogs of posts that violate its hate speech policy

Tumblr is targeting Nazi and white supremacist content.

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Tumblr's new mental health initiative provides tools and support during coronavirus pandemic

Feeling isolated, bored, or experiencing anxiety? Check out Tumblr.

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Tumblr Loves Animal Crossing, But It Especially Loves Raymond

ComicBook.com recently had the chance to speak with Tumblr's meme librarian (and head of brand advocacy) Amanda Brennan about, well, a lot of things, including Megamind somehow, but most of all: the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and how Tumblr users are dealing with the social-distancing new normal during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

[arilevine]

Did you know Tumblr users are 30% more likely to discover and share content than the average internet user? 

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People online are flocking to 'cottagecore,' an online aesthetic that idealizes agricultural life, to calm their hyper-stimulated nerves

The #cottagecore tag on Tumblr is a soft pastiche of rural life.

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Tumblr Sees Coronavirus Bump in Traffic With Growing Community

The social blogging platform saw a 5% uptick in global daily users.

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Everyone is defending 'Lilo & Stitch' after animator's Tumblr critique

A Tumblr post criticizing 'Lilo & Stitch' has the internet up in arms in defense of the film and its troubled protagonist.

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Remember Tumblr? It's Now The Coziest Place On The Internet

Think bread art and recipes, Animal Crossing New Horizon’s memes, adorable art projects, chill-lofi playlists, pictures of dew sliding off leaves. Cozy.Tumblr.com is where older millennial hipster culture meets Gen Z’s well-established penchant for coziness.

[cyle]

The AOL Instant Messenger theme and sounds from the Tumblcoin Store are now available as a Tumblr Labs experiment. Turning it on enables the theme and sounds on the Tumblr web dashboard, and enables the AIM sounds on the Tumblr mobile apps. The nostalgia is palpable.

Pro tip: if you don’t see it after turning it on, try refreshing your browser.

[cyle]

Sadly, I’ve disabled the AOL Instant Messenger stuff. Sorry, folks. Sometimes the fun can’t last forever.

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ELASTIC SELF

"In [Tricia] Wang’s theory, a network like Facebook, which enforces real name registration and consists of a person’s friends and family from time immemorial, encourages bounded use. It’s like the small town you never left, the grammar school class you couldn’t pass out of, the first dead-end job. It’s a network mired in past and present, and by its nature it enforces a limited sense of identity and expression.

By contrast, something like Tumblr encourages unbounded use. It allows you to experiment and play. It’s the big city, and each new tumblelog you create is like a new bar or neighborhood where you can try on a new self and see how it fits. In one instant you can be a pug lover, reblogging the best animated GIFs of the flat-faced dogs. In the next, you can dive deep into the Go Pro snowboarding community and post snaps from your latest run.

Hence Wang’s notion of the elastic self. Like rubber bands, when we step into Tumblr we can stretch and reshape ourselves into different configurations. Each new hat we try on stretches the rubber band just a little bit further, and over time it might evolve into a new configuration. This allows for remarkable opportunities to explore different potentials of self and self-expression."

From An Xiao Mina’s The Social Ties That Unbind (via @kenyatta )

[bryanasortino]

my heart is swollen…. Tumblr raised $80K to be donated to Planned Parenthood <3 

photo by @jasonseney

[alittlespace]

So proud of this small but mighty team!

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way to go @staff