Looking back at Tumblr History and my Favorite Posts

Dash Cons lone, perhaps pee-stained ball pit

Being an gorging Tumblr user from my first year of middle school to current twenty-four hours (senior year), I have to appoint Tumblr every bit my personal favorite social media. Since I take been on the app for roughly 8 years, I have seen quite a few posts, nigh smile and chuckle-worthy, but some… some are merely downright hilarious in the cringiest manner possible. Luckily, due to the 16 million bloggers on the app, there are umpteen iconic and horribly astonishing posts that have been made throughout the years. Recently, I have come beyond a user named "Tumblr Heritage Posts" who re-blogs celebrated Tumblr posts to dig up memories of historic Tumblr relics. The YouTube channel "Strange Aeons" has multiple videos relaying the stories of Tumblr fads throughout the years and has been my inspiration for my love of internet history.

In that location are actually qualifications to exist considered a "Tumblr heritage post." From the blog itself, the mail must predate 2017 and must be sufficiently cursed/evoke some kind of negative emotion. So permit's take a trip down memory lane and look at some of the most cursed Tumblr posts throughout the 2000s. Here are some of my favorite genres of posts.

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Photo courtesy of Umbronydraws

To me, Tumblr is the home of where fans of shows, books, and movies, and such would come to rejoice in their favorite show, share art, stories, and discussion. Only it was so much more than and and so much worse. I was never a fan of such popular shows such as "Supernatural" or "Sherlock" that were massive in the Tumblr community, merely I am a fan of all the hilarious and stupid posts that came out of information technology. If you don't desire to hear the words "The Minions from Despicable Me" and "Sherlock" together, turn dorsum now. Ane of my personal favorites is the "Miku Binder Thomas Jeffereson" post that characterizes Hamilton's (The Muscial) Thomas Jefferson and made him part of the LBGTQ+ community for some reason? He owned quite a lot of slaves so… not a great idea. At that place is too ane of Hamilton, John Lawrence, and Philip Hamilton for some reason. The artist, Inquire-crammaster-ham or Umbronydraws, has obviously received backlash considering of the odd nature of their art. There are plenty of cursed fandom posts only I accept to say that Miku folder T.J. is the worst and hence my favorite. The mail gets better and amend every bit you read the descriptions of this… character.

2. Greetings from Dash- Con!

Photo courtesy of The Verge

What comes to mind when you think of a ball pit? Cheerful children playing maybe? Colorful, plastic in a box? No. What comes to mind is the infamous "Nuance Con" of 2014; a fan-run Tumblr convention gone terribly incorrect. The best thing to come up out of it was a solitary motion picture of a ball pit in the eye of an empty convention middle. The phrase "one more hour in the ball pit," became a popular phrase due to the eerie ball pit. A postcard-esque movie was taken of the ball pit with the title "Greeting from Dashcon!" in sprightly letters coining another iconic term from the convention. Another popular mail service was made warning attendees of Dashcon not to play in the brawl pit due to urine existence found among the balls. Lackluster management acquired confusion amongst attendees and staff that made DashCon the meme information technology is today.

3. And then anybody clapped!

One of the virtually annoying posts that tin exist made on the internet are blatantly faux stories. The story unremarkably includes the writer continuing up for someone being bullied and ends with "so everyone clapped." The "corking" or aggressor in the story has high school movie level dialogue and the person writing the story is incredibly cocky serving in their writing. The instance Youtuber Foreign Aeons used was "Oppa-Homeless Mode." If you want to read it, watch her video or read information technology for yourself.

Courtesy of Andthewholebusclapped.tumblr.com

Although I have not been on Tumblr as long equally millennial users similar Strange Aeons has, it is even so somewhat cornball to look dorsum at these posts. The rise of the cyberspace has created so many opportunities for people to be weird, abrasive, and stupid, yet it seems Tumblr attracts it all at the same fourth dimension.