#and i joined this hellsite in 2014

[awakefor48hours]

I have a confession to make. I didn't know Cecil until recently.

#from what i can tell #cecil gershwin palmer #was tumblr's sexyman in 2013 #and i joined this hellsite in 2014 #i'm sorry #i'll do better #is this how tiktok kids feel

[sins-of-the-sea]

"DO NOT SPEAK OF HIS NAME!!"

"But he was before our time!! We shouldn't be affected by his presence when he still walked the Earth!!"

"His presence is still felt, however. You can see it in the eyes of the people today. The scars are deeper than the soul. There are entire laments over how much he warped the youth. By the time we came around, the marks he made could still be felt. I am certain the victims and survivors of the time will look back a decade ago with deep regret and sorrow."

"Please, Josep!! Don't force them to relive the memories!! They were just children!!"

"I know that! I am trying my best to be careful and kind."

"We weren't a part of it, but I can feel the second-hand sorrow and agony the madness it brought forth.

"We were just lucky Immy was an adult by the time the Lorax came out as a film and would be too old to be caught up to the Once-ler sexyman madness that took over the RP community on Tumblr at the time."

"Immy never understood 'sexyman' trends anyway, people should be lucky they haven't seen early 2000s obsessions in deviantART with Sesshomaru and Sephiroth."

"If it weren't for that particular trend, though, I wouldn't be here."

"Immy tried. She tried so damn hard. But she'll never understand 'sexymen'."

#[Dashboard Commentary] #AFPIASJFIHASIOAHSOSIAFJOASIFH #I didn't join this hellsite until around 2014 so #the -s t o r i e s- #*stares into the void* #I dodged a bullet #[Dumb] #[Captain Josep Frascona] #[Abena Frascona] #[Guy Duchamp] #[Giovanni Vespuccii]

[sexhaver]

i’m sorry i’m like this too.

but this site is so fucking WEIRD about john green. the cock monologue is whatever, but you also have a post about green being “weirdly chummy” with fans and. come on that was the actual problem in 2014. he was getting accused of pedophilia and grooming which was disproved at the time and remains completely untrue.

john green wasn’t predatory for writing YA novels with teenage girl main characters. he wasn’t predatory for interacting with fans who sought him out. he wasn’t predatory for creating an online community that remains safe for minors to participate in currently. he’s not a predator and he isn’t weird to his fans. it’s genuinely messed up to imply and keep implying that a YA author was being predatory towards fans after it was disproved. he had a public social media account before it was common for authors to engage that way. we were teens and we got weird about it.

it is actually serious to say john green was being inappropriate towards children and it’s important for all of our safety that we stay Very Very Clear about what predation is and who is Actually Dangerous To Children.

first off, no, you're not sorry, if you were sorry you would realize this ask sounds ridiculous and not send it, and yet here we are.

what really gets me the most about idiots such as yourself is that you make such a painstaking show of recounting How Things Really Happened, as if there's a massive conspiracy of historical revisionism afoot with the end goal of smearing a middle-aged YA author when like. i was literally there. i used this website before john green joined. i watched him get popular, i watched as we all took the piss by editing his text posts like we edited 10000 other text posts, i watched as a teenage girl called him a "creepy uncle at a pool party" and he responded by siccing his adult YA author friends and fans such as yourself on her so hard she deleted, i watched as he called nerdy girls an "underutilized resource" in a video targeted at boys, i watched as he jerked himself off in the notes of a gifset of his own movie ("is this the FIRST TIME the GIRL has kissed the BOY????"). i was (and still am) mutuals with the guy who edited the iconic copypasta over his announcement about hitting 100k followers or whatever.

i did not suffer through all of this, the worst fucking years of this hellsite, to be talked down to by tiktok users who deign to cite the deep magic to me. he was not targeted with post editing copypastas (yes, plural, it had been ongoing for months) for being neurodivergent. he wasn't even targeted for being creepy or predatory, although that was definitely a discussion being had at the time. he was targeted because he was fundamentally cringe before the word "cringe" had been discovered, and because he took himself so seriously that you were guaranteed to get a response from him every time.

imagine if Lin Manuel Miranda made an account on here now, and you could edit his posts, and every time you edited them, he would reblog it back from you saying "haha, very funny guys, but this is an edit! i didn't say this!", which you could then edit again, and so on and so forth. and then imagine if, a full decade after this happened, people who weren't even there started calling this practice "violent harassment" because someone edited his post to the "what the fuck did you fucking say about me?" copypasta once. and furthermore imagine that when you laugh at these people, they get really really indignant and demand you take them seriously and imply that somehow you're losing the debate by refusing to engage with them, and also that this is a debate all of a sudden instead of them embarrassing themselves

[queer-acacia]

MCYT creators who I’m fine with joining tumblr and why:

1. DocM77

This one is for obvious reasons— this is the gay dilf sex website, after all.

2. Rendog

I feel like Ren’s attempts (and failures) at flirting would be an amazing thing to see in text form. Someone from outside the MCYT fan base might try to cancel him for it though, so there’s risk involved. I think he’d be willing to do that though.

3. Bdubs

The man’s already talked about joining this hellsite, I feel like it’s only a matter of time until he finally does. He’s going to be very confused about the maid dresses.

4. Mumbo

Mumbo needs an outlet where he can really just let himself go absolutely batshit crazy and just say whatever the fuck he wants. I feel like this is a very good place to do so.

5. Wilbur

The man constantly looks like a 2014-era hipster blogger. I’m honestly astonished he HASN’T used tumblr more.

6. Tubbo

Y’all know that one c!Tubbo acct? I think his posts would be a lot like that

7. Slimecicle

Charlie just kind of radiates chaotic neutral energy that would do fantastically on a platform where there are little to no rules. He can finally be free. I desperately want to see him say the most deranged and unhinged shit imaginable.

#mcytblr #mcyt #hermitcraft #dsmp #mumbo #docm77 #rendog #bdubs #wilbur soot #tubbo #Charlie Slimecicle

[thatshirleylee]

That Time When I Tried To Join A Tumblr Competition

I started using Tumblr probably around 2013-2014 when Superwholock was a thing. And I was part of the thing. Let's... not talk about it. Then came 2015, the year where Yahoo! just bought Tumblr. After spending $1B on this hellsite, yahoo immediately decided to try make Tumblr "the trendy social media site amongst The Youths" and held a competition called TumblrU asking university students in Hong Kong to start a Tumblr blog. "If your blog got picked by us, you'd be granted a free trip to Tumblr's New York headquarters!"

(The event's instagram is still around. The Hong Kong Tumblr team was handing out free popsicles and drinks if you're willing to take a picture with their signs and post on Instagram. #WeAreAttitudr I guess.)

I immediately grabbed three other friends who also uses Tumblr and signed up. We set up a tumblr called @shiningwhales-blog and reblogged whale gifs and terrible whale puns.

The corporate organized a grand opening event with a slightly famous Hong Kong singer-songwriter Phil Lam and gave us free T-shirts.

(that's me under the blue arrow)

It then became clear that what yahoo wants is people making mood boards out of their daily lives / original illustrations instead of reblogged content of their original US userbase. (See the tumblr blog that Phil Lam set up for this)

And that's the story of how I got a free tumblr T-shirt and learnt that yahoo is going to lose all of its money on this site way back in 2015.

Bonus: I met Chef Martin Yan in 2016 while wearing the T-shirt. My family was at a hotel in Malaysia; somehow there's a quite decent library in the hotel and of course I went in there to avoid my relatives. That's when I bumped into him discussing a milk tea ad campaign with someone:

#tumblr #yahoo #thatshirleylee

[internet-schvitzinq]

Life update?

SO.

Over the last 4-5 months or so I've been dealing with twitter doing whatever the fuck it's doing and also trying my hardest to understand the concept of Mastodon. I've had plenty of explain it to me and my brain still just can't grasp the hang of it. Its actually kinda how it was with me and tumblr when it first started; I had no idea what it was and didn't officially join until 2014. Once I did join and get the hang of it, it quickly became another digital home for me (despite all the shit that's happened on this hellsite since then. And it's been.. alot lmao.)

I think for the time being, I'm going to start treating this place more like my primary home instead of my twitter because I'm becoming increasingly less comfortable with the way things are going and I'm really only on there for my hockey mutuals who only seem to want to interact with me when there's a game happening or if we are talking about hockey. There are only maybe 2-3 people that are capable of a multi-faceted friendship (and I'm very thankful for them).

Anybutts. That's about it on my updates aside from my health issues being a bit wonky; take care of your digestive health ya'll e__e; I've been sick as balls the last two weeks and it primarily from stress and not keeping properly hydrated with water. I'll be staying with my mother sometime in March to ensure her healing after a major gastrointestinal surgery and will likely also be fairly active on here during that time. I'm also very lightly considering opening up my existing server to a small amount of those who are interested in joining, but that'll likely be in the Summer so I'm not too overwhelmed with the Springtime stuff that's about to happen in the next couple months (Baseball, Rugby, end of hockey season + potential Kraken playoffs).

Thanks to everyone who has kept up with me and this blog so far; we're surprisingly close to 20k and I have no idea how to even comprehend that. I really want to do a special thing for it and I'll have to research some stuff on how to make that happen. Ya'll have been great to me and I want to reciprocate that in any way I can.

#uhhhhhhh idk how to tag this #update on life shit lol #not aesthetic

[spymeister]

When did you start writing on Tumblr?

2012.

Originally, I did a lot of fanfiction for the Warcraft and TF fandom. Most of my stuff was done on my blog, and I carried over a lot of my love for the fandom from my disastrous time back on Livejournal (before it got bought out)- and then started it back up here on the hellsite.

I really began roleplaying on 2013 or so- and was trying to get used to it. I still did a lot of LJ style writing, which meant multi-para with heavy details. I still kind of do it, but that's generally because I like giving my partner a lot of details to pick and choose from during their responses. I try to make it interesting enough for them to find small things to look at and enjoy.

2014-2016, I was vow-of-silence, and rise-up-and-conquer- before being ran off the fandom for a while, and joined the then-burgeoning Overwatch fandom. I still have friends there- but the toxicity of the community brought me back to Transformers fandom. And I've been writing off and on since '16. I've only recently returned back to this fandom mostly full time- with other stuff being roleplayed over discord.

#ironically #the messenging system I miss the most is AIM. #I did a LOT of pre-tumblr and livejournal there on AIM #and I miss the quick call-and-response stuff we did.

[totaldramafan-lauri]

A decade on this hellsite (affectionate)

So, while I'm working on putting the finishing touches on this chapter, and am getting ready to work on other stuff as well, I...I have an announcement....

This is something I should've said yesterday, but I misremembered....

Uh...

I dunno how to say this super eloquently, but....yesterday was my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr! Wooooo!!

Yup! I joined Tumblr on November 6, 2013, and I've stayed here ever since! W-well, give or take a few hiatuses, but....I-I never LEFT, and that's what I'm celebrating....XD

When I first joined Tumblr, I did so to please a couple people I looked up to, who wanted to talk to me more. I'd been lurking on the website for quite a while beforehand, and didn't have a blog because I thought I wasn't an interesting enough person for one....and I also lowkey feared being made fun of. Yeah, I thought that Tumblr was a competition to get the biggest following, and if no one paid attention to you, you might as well not exist. That kind of mentality was pretty much drilled into me by the state of my current fandom at the time, which was ruled by a select few popular blogs and everyone else had to either conform to what they liked and hated, or get mocked.

How stupid of me, right? Tumblr is more than just the fandoms on it. Tumblr is literally whatever you make of it. You choose what to do and say, and who to engage with. Heck, even if you don't wanna talk to ANYONE, you can still use it for yourself. XD

Originally, this was purely a Total Drama fan blog. Then, over time, as I got more and more comfy with it, I talked about personal things more often, and then branched out, and just made it a me blog, in around 2015 or so. This ended up being the right choice. It became a second home, and grew with me over the years. I've gone through a lot - different special interests (many of which ended up being very important to me), a lot of personal changes, getting more comfortable with certain parts of myself - and Tumblr has captured all of that. At this point, I don't do anything for the attention. I just like putting it out there.

I've even accomplished things that 2013 me would've never tried...like, slowly embracing self-shipping culture, and all the fics I've written because of it. In 2013, I had my fictional crushes, but I was embarrassed about them and usually hid them behind OCs. And I'd never written a full fanfic. I was a former roleplayer. And now....Holy crap, I'm not saying I'm a GREAT writer, but...t-to try it, like it, and then KEEP DOING IT?? I call that an accomplishment....

I've met many people, including good friends, and....I-I like to think that....I-I've matured thanks to it. When you're in one place for a decade, it really influences you a lot, even in less obvious ways. I was a LOT more spontaneous ten years ago. I-I said some insensitive stuff that I didn't realize at the time. I stuck my nose in places it didn't belong, and I let myself get too pressed over the opinions of people I didn't even like. I don't do any of that anymore. I'm a lot more picky with what sides of my fandoms I talk to now. I'm still not perfect, but I've grown a lot, and it's cool to think....that this blog is essentially a document of my emotional journey.

(Not to mention all the Eurovision seasons, heheh....)

Does that mean my old posts from 2013 and 2014 are worth reading nowadays? HECK no, but I'm happy they exist.

I-I'm sorry that this is so word-vomit-y, but......point is, thanks for ten years. Here's hoping I'm still here in 2033. Until then.....I-I have an update:

I dunno why I didn't do this sooner, but I have a "Current Interests" page now, which I plan to update frequently. This'll make it easier to keep track of what I'm into at the present time. So that I no longer have to hide anything....just...laying it all out there for people.

I thought I needed it. I've just been lazy for waaaaay too long. XD I need to act my age and let people know what they're getting into.

#lauri talks to herself

[crescentcampbell]

Me in 2006: I am listening to this person because my little sister likes her and oh look she's on myspace and she writes her own song lyrics and isn't it cool that she's a teen country singer who BLOGS? Oh no I've gone down the youtube rabbit hole and watched every vlog she's ever made...

Me in 2011 when I joined this hellsite: I'm here to be classy and post about old hollywood.

Also me: Followed mostly Tangled blogs, reacted only with @taylorswift reactions.

me in 2014 when I finally gave in and made a personal blog: I'm going to use my name and make it quirky and put the tardis in it. Oh, and then I'm going to become obsessed with one character from a weird vampire show that is NOT Supernatural and nobody pays attention to and involves criminals and paranormal creatures and make gifsets to every 1989 lyric possible. Still mostly reacting to things with Taylor gifs. Not full on Swiftie mode yet. Does not use the term Swiftie.

me in 2023, age 33, a whole sort of adult: yeah I've changed my username so many times I don't remember and most of them have been @taylorswift lyrics. I have four specific tags for her now. Openly annoys people at work with talk about her. Has only ever seriously considered saving money once in my life and that was for Eras Tour tickets. I've embraced the Swiftiness.

#taylor swift

[everythingtaylor13]

Please stop talking about taylor and joe potentially breaking up like… do you believe everything you read on the internet??? I get that you love and care for her as we all do but give it a rest honestly, you know 0 facts and you’re getting upset over it for nothing. I don’t think I’ve ever made a negative post since I joined this hellsite in 2014 but shut upppp it’s none of your business and it’s not even real. The discourse is honestly AGING me

#stop aging me ffs #if it turns out they’ve broken up then yeah I’m gutted #but we don’t even know anything #STOP #text #taylor swift #joe alwyn

[musicboxoftime]

Ya know, with all the tumblr throwbacks, I do feel some nostalgia.

When I joined tumblr, it was a little before 2014. I joined with a few friends at the time, we passionately loves our fandoms, I loved them with my whole heart. The memes were fun and everything was light. I felt like I had a little community.

I didn’t know a few years later, I’d lose all those friends. I didn’t know that all those fun memories would gain a sting, that the fandoms and characters I adore to this day would give me a twinge of hurt to look at. I left tumblr during the porn ban. I came back after feeling lonely and wanting to have a taste of that community back.

I haven’t fully rebuilt that community again. The ache from seeing my favorite characters is still there, but there’s a joy that they’re still loved as much as little me loved them. I wasn’t ready for the joy and hurt from all the old memories, but these throwbacks are a comfort. They’re home to me.

I love this hellsite

#vent #nostaliga #throwback #fandom #tumblr is a hellsite #but i love it

[blchwaaaan]

- turned 4 today! (replacing tumblr's generic birthday cake photo with this cool gif I found)

I was going through my emails and I found out that my tumblr account turned 4 years old on March 18th. The truth is I have been on the hellsite for much longer than that, and as a matter of fact I'm still locked out of my old account @blchwaaan-blog because back in 2018 tumblr staff was practically nonexistent. No matter how many emails I sent to the support team, I got the same automatic reply "we can't help you". After 4 years of being inactive, this is what my old account looks like:

There were so many good posts in there; it feels like I've been a victim of grave robbing.

With that said, I'm happy with that @staff evolved beyond just changing the background color to a different shade of blue every once in a while. Back in 2018 I was so angry that I considered never coming back to the hellsite. But I would have to confess that of all the social media I have been on, this is the best experience, and setting aside the negativity and the hateful anons that exists in every corner, this website really has the best people.

When I first joined (2014) I was a confused kid who was trying so hard to be straight and hide my weirdness. Being on tumblr and being exposed to so many people being proud of their identities was good for me back then. I eventually came out as non-binary and pansexual and was able to support 3 of my friends when they came out as ace. Accepting myself as a "weird" person made me step up and hold the proud position within my circle of friends as "that person who is so weird but so cool and will listen to all your problems and help more than you want them to."

TL;DR, happy 4th (8th) tumblr birthday to me, cheers to more weirdness and shitposting in the years to come 🌈

#tumblr birthday #tumblr milestone #rant #pansexual #non binary #pride #🧡💛💚💙💜 #🌈

[emilyofjane]

I removed Twitter from my home screen this morning and I’ve already felt my serotonin levels go up by 8 molecules

#tumblr may be a hellsite #but twitter is a cesspool #it’s literally nothing like how it was when i joined in 2014 and i understand now why people hate it #can’t believe it took me this long to cut it off tbh

[spicysoftdrink]

Why have I returned to this hellsite...

#besides the spicy memes #and gay propoganda #and lets be honest the nonsense #i joined this hellsite in 2014 imma return to hate my work in a pandemic world #where scomo thinks that the first fleet had it worse than the first nation #which dont get me started on that

[synthetic-blanket-hairs]

WOW THIS IS MY 5000TH POST!!!

you know what they say;;; quantity over quality!!!!!!

#fun fact!! #i joined this hellsite on 4/20 blaze it of 2014 for kicks!! #now it has consumed my life!!!! #yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #post 5000 #bless up 2018

[spectralarchers]

Wow, what a ride it’s been, right? 

I can’t believe I joined tumblr on March 27th, 2011. It feels like it’s a life-time ago. I remember the day I joined very, very vividly (it’s not even a joke, it was 2 am, I had been chatting online with some friends and one of them kept mentioning Tumblr, so I decided to join!)!

But, looking back, what a ride it’s been! 

When I joined, I hadn’t finished high school yet had just turned 18 years old, and I was still unsure of what I wanted to do with my life. Today, I have a full-time job, a driver’s license, a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degrees, and I live in a whole other country.

In the time in between, I’ve met some absolutely amazing people on this website who make up such a large part of my day to day life that I don’t even know how I’d have been as a person without them - you guys know who you are, and some of you aren’t even on Tumblr anymore, but I won’t ever forget you!

It’s been a personal journey - going from being unaware of the different LGBTQIA+ orientations (and answering “straight” to those tag games) to figuring out I’m ace, to embracing it and finding a significant other (who also happens to be on Tumblr!). 

It’s been a Fandom journey - without Tumblr I wouldn’t have joined a whole bunch of fandoms and gone through developments that go with it: learning Photoshop to make gifs, perfecting written English to write fics, traveling abroad to meet friends and for Comic Cons (I’ve traveled to Australia, Poland, Sweden, Canada, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom to meet Tumblr friends and some of  you have traveled either to France or Denmark, depending on when you visited me!).

It’s been some incredible experiences - using Hailee Steinfeld as Katie Kate since 2014 only for her to be on the set of an actual Hawkeye television show all those years later still feels absolutely mind-blowing, but so was being in SDCC in 2019 and seeing Phase 4 revealed along with all of you guys who followed from home or online. 

It was all the madness that was Superwholock (and what a time to be alive!), of Bondlock and of Skyfall’s release, the 2012 Summer Olympics, CATWS, of nerding out over a tiny BBC audio show (I actually even got John Finnemore to write Fizz Buzz in his handwriting to get it as a tattoo, way back in the day!), it’s been growing and learning and becoming a more responsible person.

It’s through fandom that I’ve grown most, through the guidance of so many of you (many of you I consider my surrogate moms and aunts and parents, by the way!) and I don’t think I’ll ever let go of this hellsite, because it’s just too good to let go of. 

I love you all, and I hope we’ll all still be here in 10 years’ time <3

- Christine

#my things #my edits #tumblr decade tag #i promise i'll make more stuff for it