#weareattitudr

[thatshirleylee]

That Time When I Tried To Join A Tumblr Competition

I started using Tumblr probably around 2013-2014 when Superwholock was a thing. And I was part of the thing. Let's... not talk about it. Then came 2015, the year where Yahoo! just bought Tumblr. After spending $1B on this hellsite, yahoo immediately decided to try make Tumblr "the trendy social media site amongst The Youths" and held a competition called TumblrU asking university students in Hong Kong to start a Tumblr blog. "If your blog got picked by us, you'd be granted a free trip to Tumblr's New York headquarters!"

(The event's instagram is still around. The Hong Kong Tumblr team was handing out free popsicles and drinks if you're willing to take a picture with their signs and post on Instagram. #WeAreAttitudr I guess.)

I immediately grabbed three other friends who also uses Tumblr and signed up. We set up a tumblr called @shiningwhales-blog and reblogged whale gifs and terrible whale puns.

The corporate organized a grand opening event with a slightly famous Hong Kong singer-songwriter Phil Lam and gave us free T-shirts.

(that's me under the blue arrow)

It then became clear that what yahoo wants is people making mood boards out of their daily lives / original illustrations instead of reblogged content of their original US userbase. (See the tumblr blog that Phil Lam set up for this)

And that's the story of how I got a free tumblr T-shirt and learnt that yahoo is going to lose all of its money on this site way back in 2015.

Bonus: I met Chef Martin Yan in 2016 while wearing the T-shirt. My family was at a hotel in Malaysia; somehow there's a quite decent library in the hotel and of course I went in there to avoid my relatives. That's when I bumped into him discussing a milk tea ad campaign with someone:

[gwaigwaider-blog]

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Four different ways for honey

Like... Honey protein mask, honey cola, honey fired and kill zombie with honey 

hohoho

介紹番

其實蜜糖都可以有好多用法

蜜糖蛋白面膜啦~蜜糖可樂啦~蜜糖薯條啦~蜜糖殺殭屍啦~YEAH!!

[hiwegotoschoolbybus-blog]

Friend : Your mother must be very clever.

Me : Why?

Friend : Because you dun have a brain. She must kept yours inside her tummy. I am sure she is very clever with two brains.

Thx Bro.

朋友 : 你媽一定很聰明

我: 何解

朋友 : 因為你出生時你媽沒有生埋你個腦出黎啊，兩個腦的人唔會很聰明嗎?

多謝你朋友。

[badbirdboss]

Max: Are you ready? Let’s party!

Our team is ready to roll out!

熱烈地彈琴熱烈地唱!

[unplughk-blog]

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

Jonathan Cain

[ohseed-blog]

有種香港叫「佚名」

不一定披著盔甲，穿上紅紅的斗蓬，手中持著盾牌的才稱得上是英雄。

真正的英雄，不甚發聲，不求掌聲，默默地付出，擔起社會上不容易的工作。

他們做的事情可能很微小，但正因為這一點一滴，成就這種香港。

築山路者

近年愈來愈多年青人喜歡行山，「每逢佳節上高登」的習慣漸漸變成「每逢佳節想登高」，但我們走的山路是怎樣築成的？日前翡翠台播出的東張西望中，就正好攝錄了在香港替登山人士築山路的漁農署職員的工作情況。過後，更啟發了有種四小編思考香港還有哪些無名英雄。

仵作

他們的工作是撿屍。別想歪，他們不是在蘭桂坊工作的。擔任這份工作，首先你要有膽量，因為你有可能遇上剛從五十樓一躍而下的屍體，也可能是在水底打撈起來的⋯⋯ 看多點恐怖電影或許有幫助。

外牆海報工人

你有試過自行黏螢幕保護貼嗎？有的話，你肯定會佩服他們的專業。把海報弄得貼貼服服，可能比把另一半馴服得貼貼服服更難。

殮容師

他們與一般的化妝師無異，只是服務對象及工作地點有點特別。 靠他們的一雙巧手，把冰冷的遺體化成安祥的面貌。這是對亡者最終的尊重，也帶給家屬一點點慰藉。

車禍現場-拖車司機

工種跟救護員一樣，可是服務的對象不是傷者，而是車。 香港是交通最繁忙的城市之一，為了保持路面暢通，他們來去如風。

清潔工人

他們是城市美容師，無懼日曬雨淋， 盡忠職守地把每個角落打掃得乾乾淨淨。 全靠他們，骯髒的街道也化成整潔的城市。

郵差

「郵差叔叔送信純熟迅速送出」，說出來不是朗朗上口，做出來也不是容易事。真實世界沒有瞬間轉移，信箱也(暫時)沒有GPS把信件帶到信箱裏，有賴郵差，一封一封的把信都放進信箱去。

圖片來源: 蘋果日報, 東方日報

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嘩塞，好多人喔 終於到了今天了喔 People mountain people sea ar loooool

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Walk through the past. 80s Pottinger Street VS. now 

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 Another interesting place that in Hong kong. 

 Come and follow our step!!!

[hiwegotoschoolbybus-blog]

Old post is so exciting

唔空肚食早餐唔知身體好

So…we cant eat lettuce and egg both at breakfast?

[gwaigwaider-blog]

[GwaiGwai Production]

Captain America: I’m the Justice of American!

Hitler: This is  Germany..lol

Captain America: OK..sorry my bad

[gwaigwaider-blog]

[GwaiGwai Production]

I think..

Wolverine wants to join the musical 

Wolverine :  Doe, a deer, a female deer ~~ 

Don’t get mad and the claw will not come out

lol...

[hiwegotoschoolbybus-blog]

Perhaps the best utilization of gif…?

來跟我們說hello

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HiWeGoToSchoolByBus Presents…

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No food no talk.

iamheunggongyan

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Bye Bitch.

Hui Felix , Founder of hiwegotoschoolbybus and Father of Annoying Orange

[hiwegotoschoolbybus-blog]

我地日日空肚食早餐 We GO TO SCHOOL BY BUS

你好 我地日日空肚食早餐 我地很認真的 

HI GUYS WE GO TO SCHOOL BY BUS. WE REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE ARE DOING.