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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The internet is no stranger to making up its own language. You’ve probably scrolled through Twitter and TikTok before only to fine yourself scratching your head at the latest confusing slang. Of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2013, when Jennifer Forward-Hayter was fourteen, she would log onto the social network Tumblr from the desktop computer in her family’s working farmhouse in Dorset, England. The machine sat on a ...
Hide your “Tony the Tiger”/”Eugene Levy” fan fiction — those phrases, along with hundreds of others, are now banned from Tumblr’s iOS app. Now, any personal blog that flags itself as “mature” is not ...