#the Hellsite (affectionate)

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

finally finally finally

[burnt-out-eldest-daughter]

This article trying to explain this site in the wake of the hilarious trolling of the checkmark thing might be the funniest thing I’ve read in a while:

Because, heh, this tracks:

[lunadensmidnightprowl]

Every other social media site in March: hey what's up I guess it's march now

Tumblr:

[connanro]

i am On The Floor

[ariadne-mouse]

He's selling Cutco knives. Will you help him make his commission this week?

[destinyandcoins]

[you-need-not-apply]

THIS

THIS IS WHAT MAKES TUMBLR BEAUTIFUL

This is a 19K reblog post, thats less then 5K reblogs there

You can see where one person reblogged it and their mutuals then did too

The original post looks like a city, you could make maps from this

Lets add more:

YOU CAN'T ZOOM OUT ANYMORE

Only 6K here out of 19K, just the roads, the trails... you can see how people shared this post and the communities it found, wether small or large

My laptop couldn't take anymore, but here, here is 10K out of 19K...

the original post is in the bottom right hand corner

this is what makes tumblr beautiful

[redsixwing]

Who's up for crab day on the 24th?

[ironwoman359]

Guys this is it

This post, the one that you are reading right now, is my 69,420th post.

Post number 69,420.

I'll just go ahead and take that trophy for "best blogger ever" now, thank you very much.

[myboobsaresentientbeeings]

I love this stupid website so much

[jiskblr]

Tumblr Rules for Redditors

Hello, fellow redditors! Many people are trying to tell you rules about how to Tumblr properly. Many of them are wrong, or assholes, or both. I am also an asshole but I’m going to not be one for a minute to give you some advice:

“Reblog this or you’re a bad person” and any variation on that is a violation of intergalactic law. Don’t do it. Also, refuse to comply if someone else does it.

Generally, people can see what you reblog, but cannot see what you ‘like’. A like may seem like an upvote, but it is much less significant than one, since it doesn’t affect visibility in the slightest. A like will be visible both to the OP of the thread, and to the person whose reblog you put the like on. Like promiscuously! It feels good to get likes and there’s no downside. (Unless you are a space alien AKA influencer.)

Tumblr nominally has the ability to browse global tags (e.g. seeing the entire site’s posts and reblogs tagged #superwholock or #reddit exodus) and to search the site for things. No one uses them and they don’t really work.

You are probably less surprised by this than denizens of literally any other website on the internet, but there’s no algorithm here. Chronological order only. (If you’re using the search or global tags, they might have an algorithm, but if they do, it doesn’t work. We don’t know because we don’t use them.)

Anyone can have absolutely any conversation in the notes of your post that they like. This is how the website works. You are allowed to complain about it, but don’t expect anyone to humor you.

Many people have ‘DNI’ lists in their blog descriptions. This means ‘do not interact’ and indicates that they don’t want you to message them, reblog from them, reblog any posts they are OP of, or even, sometimes, ‘like’ their posts. It is good manners to respect these, if you know they exist, but in normal use you probably won’t look at blog descriptions very often so it is entirely okay to violate them by accident. (When the lists get very long, it becomes impractical to check whether you violate them. Generally, just skip it. You probably don’t want to interact with those people anyway.)

Notes on posts you start will go to you no matter how many intervening hops there are on the reblog chain. If you get a post with an enormous amount of notes, this can get overwhelming. Whatever the current incarnation of Xkit (basically RES for Tumblr except we’ve switched names and maintainers seven times) is, will have a setting to deal with this. If that’s insufficient, the suggested course of action is to reblog your OP to your own blog so that you have a copy for posterity’s sake, and then delete the OP. This silences the notes.

If you and another user both follow each other, you are ‘mutuals’. This makes it much easier to have conversations with each other, which is ordinarily sort of hard since everything is purely chronological. Frequently your mutuals are your friends; if not yet true, they may become your friends.

When you reblog things, you can write words both in the word part and in the tags, Modern tumblr norms are to write long rambling tags in full sentences rather than put words in the main body. Do not that only the first four tags in the list can be searched on. Unlike some other norms, violating this one and putting your response in the body of the reblog is not particularly rude. The worst it does is make a reblog chain long. Probably don’t reblog things and just say “This.”, though.

If you want to search your blog, consider Siikr. Don’t overuse it, it’s one guy’s project.

Be verbose! This ain’t Twitter, no character limit. (Not even the really large character limit of a reddit comment.) Write a 3000-word story in a single reblog if you want, that sounds awesome. Use ‘read more’ if you do, though. Posts can be very long, one of our oldest memes is about this.

Infinite scroll is the default, but you can turn it off. Actually, check all the settings, many of them will improve your experience.

Everybody be excellent to each other!

[anisaanisa]

Hellsite citizens! Tumblr is in the lurch, so to celebrate that, we're going to do what we do best – make a holiday out of it! Blast off in ten days! 🦀🦀🦀

When: July 29th. Or after – Crab Day is a state of mind. How: Buy your buddies or drive-by besties a crab invasion from the Tumblr shop! Why: to let @staff know we're still kicking it! Follow @crab-day-counter to mark your days!

ⓘ Tumblr Blue Hex: #35465C | Pose very much inspired Crab Champions, the game ever!

[thembo-bright]

Soooo.... this is what's happening right now right?

[itsmetheabnormalone]

If time travel isn’t real explain this

[destinyandcoins]

upon further reflection, it’s absolutely no surprise that tumblr woke up one day and collectively decided to blog about a movie that doesn’t exist. it combines three of this site’s users’ favorite things:

saying words about a media and deeply analyzing a text in a way that often finds more meaning than its creators intended (this time with the benefit of no one being able to fucking contradict you, because you can literally say whatever you want and there’s nothing to undermine you)

communally going wild about the most random and obscure things that the entire rest of the internet could not care less about (e.g. dashboard crabs, a classic novel from 120+ years ago, the fucking annual celebration of the ides of march, etc)

“yes, and”ing their way into a site-wide bit that gives people the freedom to spawn dozens of memes and revive old jokes for no particular reason

[catpriciousmarjara]

Conversation between a reddit user who migrated to tumblr and a tumblr user I saw on discord just yesterday.

Him: Why are people so obsessed with Dracula? Is it like a collective vampire fetish or....?

Her: Oh no it's not the Count we like! It's everyone else!

Him: ....like this Jonathan you go on about in #babygurl?

Her: Yeah! Our good friend Jonathan Harker who sends us the most delightful emails... Though he's been having a rough time of it recently...

Her: You should check out our cowboy too! He's wonderful!

Him: ........

Him: okay.

Him(about 20 mins later): What exactly is a Paprika Hendl?