Nov 4, 2021
Related Recs
There is no judgment and its like a big sleepover with the girlies. You can literally post anything and it doesn’t matter. Also having multiple blogs helps with me having 100 different aesthetics.
Feb 27, 2025
🔁
i think that while it had it's own host of problems it was really the ideal social media.
multiple media formats were supported. it was easily searchable. the ui was perfect; minimalist, iconic, but also customizable. while there was some kind of recommendation algorithm it really was just largely user-sourced: you followed specific blogs, specific tags, and that ultimately led to a super rich online experience where for certain the stuff you wanted to see was on your timeline and if you saw something you didn't recognize but liked (or something you recognized but didn't like) you could actually change your feed to include (or exclude) that new content, which more often than not came from people / tags you were already following
subculture on tumblr flourished in a way that instagram and twitter have never replicated; the fact that you could follow a$ap yams, frank ocean, et al and be tapped into this new moment in art and media or be in the pits of fandom tumblr or just be somewhere in the middle and constantly see cool photos, essays, etc. (where again, all of this is indexed on specific tags so people can post common stuff on the same thread) is just so much what the ideal digital platform is (for me, at least) - and unlike ig and twitter, you could be multi-faceted on tumblr; the algorithm (or your followers) didn't punish you for liking and posting about multiple things
instagram has carved its niche out by asking users "how monetizable can you make yourself?" twitter has carved its niche out by asking users "how disaffected and aloof can you make yourself?" tumblr was the only place where you weren't actively punished just for being earnest. it's still around but it absolutely isn't the same and the second someone can make a website with the exact same feature set without getting sued i'm so fucking there. pi.fyi is the first site that feels "tumblr-esque" in a while (honorable mention to are.na which i just haven't had the patience to figure out yet)
Apr 1, 2024
💻
I’ve been on Tumblr since 2008. I had a blogspot for a while, which stills exists except none of the images were properly embedded so it’s just like, a bunch of text saying things like “i love this picture! i want to kiss somebody! I love music!” Tumblr is, in my opinion, the best social media site out there. It feels like the only place where images and information are passed around, saved and shared in a really earnest and personal way lol. I know twitter sort of works this way, too but I’m just not a twitter person, as much as I’d love to be. It’s also just a really lovely way of saving reference media, and it’s as anonymous as you want it to be. I love to use my tumblr as a mood board for my life. People are also soooo funny on tumblr, and I love the dashboard layout, it’s so soothing to me lol..but maybe it’s soothing because i’ve been using it as a comfort since I was, like, 12. I am rooting for tumblr to survive for as long as possible. Follow me @grossives it’s not that interesting but I give you full permission to scroll back to 2012 when I was reblogging cobra snake pictures of models, and flash photos of crystal blue pool water lol.
Dec 20, 2022
Top Recs from @noah-dillon
⛪
The only way to concurrently understand Xi Jinping as an American Golden era traditionalist and make sense of Charli D’amelio’s apathetic rise to fame.
Nov 4, 2021
🍨
You need to try. If nothing else I am THE ice cream connoisseur. I can say with full confidence this is the best American based ice cream flavor of the past 10 years. Innovation at its finest. Sweet initial reveal on palate, chased by savory aftertaste. The hallmark of what shouldn’t be but is. The Tom Cruise dating Cher of dessert.
Nov 4, 2021
🚿
The pendulum has settled over a new generation of health enthusiasts and non-phd biohackers. Deuterium is a naturally occurring heavy hydrogen isotope. DDW water is the elimination of this isotope variation to create “light” water. Our bodies must filer out the Deuterium isotope which causes free radical release and long term organ failure. I want to be young forever. I want to live always for fear of an eternity in purgatory. This water helps me.
Nov 4, 2021