#I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT

[drrobobitch]

Chat Im literally gonna kms over this but IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Currently my mommy is going on vaycay for abt 3 weeks or so 😽 so I have to stay with my great Aunt who has NO WI-FI NO INTERNET AND I DONT HAVE A HOTSPOT CUZ MY SIM CARD AINT WORKING😿😭😭💀💀 I LITERALLY AM SO READY TO KMS IM GONNA MISS THE MAJORITY OF ARTFIGHT AND ONLY HAVE A WEEK LEFT TO DO JACK. I CANT EVEN BACK OUT I HAVE TO STAY HERR BRUH

Ngl I have a small plan thats lowk not gonna work 😽 especially not daily so I may go dead silent or post every once in a while or so cuz Im literally in the country country like damn yehaw or whatever…Im only to post this cuz my little cousin has enough grace to let me use his hotspot 💀💀…so yea 💔😞

[darcyolsson]

in loving memory of tumblr's april fools' pranks 💐 2014 - 2024

icymi, tumblr used to do an elaborate april fool's prank every year, but this year they suddenly stopped. here's a somewhat detailed recap of everything they did over the decade:

2013 - mishapocalypse (honourable mention): tumblr staff didn’t start doing april fools until 2014, but the mishapocalypse happened on tumblr in 2013 and i feel like this list would be incomplete without it

2014 - tumblrpro: upon opening your dash you were greeted by an “inspirational” video, that ended with the option to get “tumblrpro (for free)”. all it did was put a top hat on your icon.

2015 - tumblr executivesuite/coppy: a copying machine appeared in the corner of your dash. it would offer tips on how to use tumblr, like clippy the paperclip used to do in microsoft word. as the day went on, it slowly broke down and died right in front of your eyes. many people hated him (but not me). you could also make a (small) spreadsheet. @executivesuite2016 is the official blog.

2016 - this is decision/lizard election/tumblrdecides: a parody of the 2016 US elections. there were 4 lizards (well, one of them turned out to be a salamander in a scandal) to vote for. the dash looked different and there was a live news report with election updates, as well as an election blog for each lizard. they all had their own slogans and you would get an "i voted" button after you voted that would get slapped next to your icon. there were built-in functions to make an election poster for your favourite lizard and to create a text post that supported your lizard of choice that autogenerated a statement for all your followers to read. imo tumblr’s april fools peak. @thisisdecision2016-blog is the official blog, @mop-2016-blog @wretchedtooth @timefordeborah-blog were candidates. rick also had a blog (rick-official) but that now seems to have vanished because he ended up dropping out of the election. mop won, if you're curious. by far the most elaborate prank tumblr ever did.

2017 - horse friend: a tamagotchi-inspired game where you had to take care of a little horse in the corner of your screen. it came with a randomly generated name, and you had to feed and clean up after it. if you didnt take good care of it, it died. you could then hatch (yes, hatch) a new one. there was also an option to look at the names of all your dead horses. this is now available to buy in the tumblr shop. @horse-friends is the official blog.

2018 - tumblcoin: a parody of cryptocurrency (this was the year bitcoin took off). you could ‘invest’ in tumblcoin, with which you could in turn buy things with to spice up your dash, including last year’s horse friend, coppy from 2015, and a frame for around your icon. you could share the amount of tumblcoin you owned in an automatically generated gif post which would be tagged #tbc2018 and #tumblcoin. @tumblcoin is the official blog.

2019 - @memories: this blog still functions the way it did on april fools itself! it's like mad libs, where it takes post templates and then adds in tags you use a lot and users you frequently interact with on your main blog. like a personalized shitpost bot.

2020 - group chat prank/@storybot: it was so hard to find info on this because it was contained entirely in the now-defunct group chat function, which no one used. i had to go through the notes of this post for information because no one cared enough to actually write anything explaining it. turns out, you could write a story with your mutuals by adding storybot to your group chat. it also kept working after april fools (well, up until the group chats were deleted) just like memories. many people missed out on it entirely because they did not use the group chat function.

2021 - tumblcryptids: tumblr allowed you to adopt “non-fungible tumblcryptids”, a parody of NFTs. clicking a button that said "Summon thy Tumblrcryptid" would spawn an image of a little blob-shaped creature with a short description, which would always read "Hi! My name is [randomly generated name]. I love [thing most people like]. I hate [thing most people dislike]. Like my parent, I can't get enough of #[tag from your main blog]." you could share them in a post, which would automatically add the tag #NFTumblcryptids to your post. and yes, people on the piss on the poor website freaked out about it because they thought they were real NFTs harming the environment. @tumblcryptidadoptioncenter is the official blog.

2022 - click-a-thon: when you clicked a light switch on your dashboard, a bunch of colourful things showed up, like a sponge you could move around, an "engagament meter", clickable buttons, and a “Summon Crab!” button, which would summon a crab when you clicked it. you could. the crabs, like horse friend, are still available in the tumblr store as of 2025. here's some screenshots. there were various ways to share your crab activities, which would all get tagged #april fools 2022. the prank was presented as a marketing technique created by Brick Whartley, a fictional businessman character created by tumblr, who (afaik) originated in a post on the official blog of the 2018 april fools prank, albeit originally in a different role. around this time he also started functioning as the mascot for tumblr's shop ( @emporium )

2023 - abstract reactions (emoji reacts): buttons were added to every post that allowed you to add emoji reactions, many of them based on tumblr inside jokes (horse as a reference to horse plinko/horse friend, vanilla for the vanilla extract meme, pikaman, bug for bug race, and brick whartley, who wasn't a meme but staff really wanted him to be). if one specific emoji was used a certain amount of times it would add an effect to the post, eg many cheese emoji reacts would cover the post in cheese. this was also attributed to Brick Whartley ("his" blog @brickwhartley also documented the day)

2024 - boop-o-meter: allowed you to “boop” other users who had opted in to the booping, like facebook’s poke feature back in the day. depending on how long you held the button, you would either boop, super boop, or evil boop. on the dashboard there was a counter for both how many times you had booped others and how many times others had booped you, as well as how many boops were given side-wide. when booping someone, an image of a cat paw appeared. you would get badges (which can still be used) for booping 1, 100 and 1000 times. if you gave/received more than 999 boops, the counter would switch to showing a three-letter word (see this post for specifics). this was brought back for halloween 2024 (as BOOp-o-meter. get it), with a ghost, skeleton and mummy paw. no official blog, but here's an official recap for april first from staff. i believe this was the only april fools prank that was mobile user friendly.

2025 - @fandom is running some polls, i guess

[unpretty]

today was the day we finalized the migration of essential software at work from some old and busted shit that was ready to die at any time, to the new cloud version of the same software that we are no longer responsible for maintaining. which is good because no one was actually maintaining ours. it's just been slowly crufting into unusability for a decade. so anyway they set aside an hour for a teams meeting where they'd walk us through the different interface and how to go through normal processes.

"it's not that big a change," they said. "it's all the same stuff, it just looks a little different," they said.

they did not account for the fact that the primary user of this software is someone who doesn't actually know how it works or what it's doing. they learned how to do their job entirely through rote memorization. they know which buttons they are supposed to press in which order, and that is the full extent of what they know. they also did not account for the fact that this person's processes were learned thirdhand from other people who were not using this software normally to begin with.

it's like. imagine if someone had only ever used tumblr in the app. and you try to get them to use it in a desktop browser, but they cannot figure out how to post. and you go through explaining where the button is and how to format text and add tags, even though you could have sworn it was all the same in the app. but then they're like, "okay, but what's the phone number" and you're like "what" and they're like "the phone number to call to make a post?" and it turns out somehow they still had the ability to post by calling a phone number, and every time they posted on the app they called the post in first and then edited the audio post to transcribe it into text before screenshotting the text for a photo post. and nothing you can say to them will make them understand that none of that is necessary or correct. they shouldn't have even been able to do some of that. they can just type into the post box now, like a civilized person. "okay," they say, "but what is the phone number, though? because when i made my account my friend gave me this checklist and the first thing on it is to call the number."

so anyway we were on that teams call for almost three hours and they still don't have a handle on the new software

[abandoned-quiche]

I LOVE ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS BTW. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOUR HATE FOR THEM ON MY POST

[labannori]

Touch

[ace-dodo]

Realizing I probably won't have a prom party cuz most of my friends don't want to go. But prom is the only thing I've dreamt of since I was 11

[hivemindscape]

pov: you're mentoring a normal teenager with normal teenage problems

[eff-exor]

suck the dick that pisses on you or whatever the saying is

[egophiliac]

YO TREY CLOVER IS HERE !!!

TREY NOOOO you weren't supposed to look so cool, I was supposed to be able to save my keys for all the upcoming birthdays, how could you do this to me --

also hey. hey Trey. what's in that bowl.

[currentlyonstandbi]

the way mickey 18's attitude whenever mickey 17 was in trouble started out as 'what an idiot' but by the end it was 100% 'hey wait that's OUR idiot'

[anbaisai]

"(Sigh) We'll continue this another ti- mmf?!"

With a guy like Jamil, you really gotta pick up the slack sometimes. No tie to pull on though, so I guess we'll just have to use that hoodie!

(Inspired by this artwork by オレコ on Pixiv!)

Bonus Jamil for the rest of the day:

[thebigqueer]

no mourners no funerals my ass. i’m mourning and i’m funeraling

[dilfsisko]

i feel like people often equate spice tolerance with spice enjoyment. Like not being able to exactly handle spicy foods does NOT mean i won't continue to seek them out. I will simply suffer for my enjoyment of food.

[redbeantofu]

comes back from tumblr hiatus just to share this klapollo shitpost

original:

[sleepysebris]

felix exuberating theater-kid energy nonstop this season just makes me imagine his pv chat noir design being a parody of adrien's chat noir

[jubileeeeee]

Alrightyyyy soft launching my tf one au !! (Long post ahead)

Ive been dying to share this for a while so im deciding to just get it out there even if things change in the future. im still working on it a lot !

Im starting with drift bc hes the most developed thus far, in fact this started because I had an idea about drift as a scavenger on the surface and ran with it. Here he is !!

I reaaaally wanna go on a long ramble about how I designed each of these because i love doing that, but im gonna save it for a seperate post. In the meantime, some things about drift’s three major designs/life stages

- Yup transmasc drift . Just cus ! It doesnt matter in any real way I just thought it was fun

- Drift is a cogless miner who’s sector is well known for its cruel and brutal supervisor. Its been nicknamed “the dead end”. Miners reassigned there know they wont get any higher.

- He’s pessimistic and prone to arguments. He knows something’s wrong. All of this is wrong. He hates his supervisor, his work, the cogged bots, their society, he doesnt think any of it is right, but he cant do anything about it

- He feels powerless

- The only hope is Gasket. Optimistic, friendly, endlessly kind, Gasket does his best to keep morale up. He makes the sector a community, keeps everyone together and close and looking out for each other

- Drift and him are very close, Drift cant understand his optimism but chases his light and the hope it gives him

- Take a guess what happens to Gasket

- <3

- Drift joins the cons at the end of the movie. He needs change and trusts Megatron’s actions more than a new prime

- As deadlock, he gains status, reputation, authority. Hes devoted to the cause and cant deny the rush of battle. He likes to feel deadly and in control.

- Hes on a power trip

- And is starting to remind himself of his previous supervisor.

- He becomes disillusioned. This isnt resistance, this is warmongering. megatron isnt as great of a leader as he thought. hes inexperienced, naive, fueled by hate and fury. He doesnt know what the end goal is, he just wants destruction. Ratchet was right.

- He becomes anxious, unsure, withdrawn. He intimidates and threatens others to keep their eyes off of him.

- He is. Deathly afraid of other bots perceiving him as weak.

- He doesnt know what to do anymore

- Brooding brooding brooding

- After defecting from the decepticons, Deadlock, after a long journey, makes his way back to Iacon and is accepted into the autobots.

- He has a lot of regrets, mainly he feels that he didnt appreciate Gasket or Wing enough before they died. Now he makes sure not to take anything for granted

- Hes devoted to those who gave him another chance

- Terrified that hes going to let them down

- optimistic, hes taking everything he’s been taught and moving forward

- Hes building his own future now

This is just an introduction ! Actual story stuff will be shared via comics and drawings and rambles :)