It’s time to grab your skinny jeans and blast The Strokes: the 2014 Tumblr girl aesthetic, or Tumblrcore, is back in style. While one could argue that the indie Tumblr look never truly left, nostalgia ...
With the 2020 election coming up and growing concerns about bad actors using social media sites to spread misinformation, Tumblr is launching an internet literacy campaign to help young users spot ...
Fifteen years ago, Tumblr changed the internet forever. Generation t examines its complex, colorful legacy. Tumblr users have always affectionately called the blogging platform their "favorite ...
is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. It’s been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. It ...
There's being a fan of something and there's being in its fandom. Being in the fandom of any particular property means a person identifies with their love for that thing and seeks out a community of ...
Rumors of a Tumblr comeback have been bubbling for a couple of years—think a pair of Doc Martens here, a splash of pastel hair dye there. Now, Gen Z is embracing the platform as a refuge from an ...
The moody days of early 2010s Tumblr reblogging are immortalised by memories of Arctic Monkeys’ album covers, scrappy handwritten poems, American Apparel tennis skirts, and the more-than-occasional ...
There are two stories about what Tumblr was like in 2019, its first year after officially prohibiting sex acts, nudity, and “female-presenting nipples.” The first is that it barely survived. From 2018 ...
Off the top of my head, I couldn’t remember exactly why my fellow Tumblr users were predicting the platform’s death in November 2018. The adult-content ban, a monumental event in the site’s history ...