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No. 103397

Anyone here who was on Tumblr before about mid 2012 when things started to get more heavily SJW? Back when it was more fandoms, thinspo, and reaction gifs? Share your memories.

No. 103398

yeah i remember the good days when the tagged function could connect me with people with common interests before it was overrun with auto-like bots and porno bots.

i use pinterest nowadays, it's sleeker and faster for gathering art and inspiration pictures but it's pretty unsocial. i miss following personalities who have aesthetics, good taste, personal updates, original content all in one on tumblr

No. 103399

>Anyone here…
I was going to respond with a loud OF FUCKING COURSE then I remembered it's 2016 and this was 4 years ago.

I was on tumblr since 2010 but was never too active. I miss the lack of fandoms, and the actually funny non white-mocking SJW memes.

No. 103401

>>103397
I was a heavy tumblr user between 2009 - 2011. Then I went to college and only used it when I literally had nothing to do and wasn't into fandoms anymore. Then summer vacation came and I couldn't go out anywhere so began using tumblr again,only to find everyone had gone insane between 2011 and 2012.

People obsessed with subgenres, not understanding sarcasm, taking everything literally, falling in love with characters, excusing disgusting/dangerous behavior, romanticizing mental illness, Oppression Olympics…. I could go on

Then again, that whole what is air, coll story bro and me gusta memes were annoying as fuck so it's not like the former was any better

No. 103402

I remember when offensive blogging was a thing. It's shocking how much tumblr has changed.

No. 103403

early tumblr was just as annoying but in different ways. glee, superwholock, galaxy gifs and thinspo blogs aren't anything i'm nostalgic for.

harry potter tumblr fandom was the best part of that era.

No. 103406

I had a tumblr account for literally a week in 2009. Even then I couldn't stand it. I don't get what all this nostalgia for 4 years ago is about.

No. 103409

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Yes, I honestly miss it so much. I had a quality blog, that at the time was considered pretty popular (kek) and I still have the camera I used somewhere in my closet. Back when taking HD pictures of the most mundane shit and decorating your room with painted cardboard letters and christmas lights made you cool.

I still remember the first time I saw the 'do you love the color of the sky?' post and pic related - the good ol classic posts.

You guys who had a specific blog theme (quality/fandom/bandom/etc), do you have a new 'aesthetic' or an aesthetic at all? I guess most people just grew out of it, like that meladoodle girl.

No. 103421

>being nostalgic over tumblr

The rise of the sjws self-righteously overanalyzing every bit of fandom threw me off tumblr.

It was the same in 2012 as it was now, just with less BLM type shit.

No. 103425

I remember I was still kind of a weaboo and would post stuff like ''(husbando) pls rape meeee'' and nobody would say anything about it
very cringy though.

No. 103436

Tumblr is not old enough to feel any nostalgia from it.

Specially when most of the people I knew and appreciated started going to shit/being brainwashed/showing their true colors from the moment this obnoxious plataform started getting popular (yeah, I'm talking somewhere before 2012). It specialy fucks me how many fucking time everyday day I wasted browsing a never ending source of procrastination that never ended like some retard. That time is never going to get back. Where other soc networks actually promoted creativity and were focused on creating OC even if they were utter shit (deviantart and youtube) or actually enganged me in social interaction and got me to meet really interesting people and make friends I keep to this day (twitter), tumblr just symbolizes a gigantic empty void on those years where the communities that I once saw as just fine and friendly became somewhat nasty. Not to say that for posting, sharing and find sourced art at least back in the day it was a really shit place. Cannot talk about today.

Tumblr turned fandoms from somewhere nice and cool to hang out with people of similar interests into something really obnoxious and stigmatizated on the rest of the internet. For me it can go to hell.

No. 103440

On that note does anyone else have livejournal fandom nostalgia ? Kink memes, fic events and the weird roleplay blogs that people sunk a lot of time into?

No. 103442

>>103440
Yeah, it was great but I have to agree with this anon >>103436
My best friend at the time was a bitter shutin who wouldn't shut up about SJW bullshit in fandoms and it was like 2010. The only place she could've read that was tumblr. Apparently it was also a thing on LiveJournal too, but luckily it wasn't so popular back in the day that you'd see it everywhere so I still enjoyed the few months I had on tumblr before it really started gaining traction.
Then I deleted it and moved to insta.

No. 103444

I think I got it late 2011, but I only used it for roleplaying until I found out that sucked.

Then I just started reblogging food and naked girls. It worked at the time.

No. 103461

Yeah I signed up in 2010 back when it was more myspace/facebook. Harry potter, Lady gaga and triangles.

I had more friends on dumblr back then. Used to chat tons, blog cute pictures from Weheartit and I had a large following. But come 2012/13 it started getting all infested with feminists and shit. Went right off it.

No. 103469

>>103440
Yep, still do. I'm still a bit disappointed after the exodus after Strikethrough 2007. Harry Potter fandom's never been the same since that happened.

No. 103476

How did tumblr get so infested SJW crap/feminism anyway.

Nowadays I see even bloggers who used to argue SJWs have become SJWs themselves, like some sort of brainwash.

No. 103477

>>103469
What was the strikethrough? I heard but didn't experience it, wasn't it something about censoring fan work?

It's hilarious how much "problematic" stuff was left alone back in the day (obvs. Because it's fiction) it was like "don't like don't read "
Fandom is mess now

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>>103476

Agree and it's so sad and some kind of scary when I remember tumblr back in 2010? It was just full of galaxy gifs, edgy gore blogs and porn and so on.
And I don't remember that people got ~offended~ or ~triggered~ by everything.

I still use tumblr for posting art etc. but this entire SJW/BLM movement destroyed pretty much everything for me since it's just about political correctness and being super open about everything and everybody.
This side made me lately more conservative about everything than it want to be open about everybody's problems and shit.

It's a brainwashing cult these days.

No. 103479

I still enjoy tumblr, I just scroll past the SJW stuff and unfollow anyone that starts posting too much of if. I do miss the days when everyone wanted to be like starpowerrr though.

No. 103484

I remember starting to browse in 2011-2012 and the site was already full of crazy tranny bullshit. Also crazy race warrior stuff. So the tumblr I remember is a lot different.

I remember being kind of looking through the political side of tumblr and all of the crazy anarchist marxist who thought blogging was going to change the world and knew everyone by their first names.

I remember following some bisexual autistic guy named Leon who was really SJW-y and way took everything way too seriously but made good callout posts sometimes. He was someone who had gender dysphoria I guess but smartly realized that transitioning was not for him. Wonder whatever happened to him. He should be like 26-27 or so now.

>103442


LJ was definitely a place for random SJW bullshit and where I started noticing it on the internet. I had a bunch of people get mad for not being super PC at the time.

>103440


I remember kink memes. I followed the Star Trek kink meme for a really long time!

No. 103485

jamjars and felice fawn… i miss those days so much

No. 103488

Can we talk about Gaiaonline?

No. 103492

>>103440
I'm sad that we don't have kink memes anymore for newer stuff, now I have to wade through 249834584 omegaverse fics to find something I like.

No. 103498

>>103492
I miss kinkmeme journals so much. After Gundam 00 and persona 4 came out, that's basically where I went after work to read some interesting works. People were genuinely talented too.

I like archive, but sometimes people tag shit wrong or with odd tags and it's hard to find anything. Also, A LOT of tumblr has been leaking onto archive. I don't want to read any bandom fics where the male singers are trans. it's garbage.

No. 103503

>>103498
Ugh, yes. It's so annoying when you read a summary on ao3 that looks somewhat interesting and then the tags say something like genderfluid A, demisexual B, queerplatonic, etc. When will this stupid trend end?

No. 103507

>>103476
There was always an sjw/feminist side of tumblr it seems since I remember kinda being a part of it sometime in 2010-2012 (I was really into Kathleen Hanna/Riot Grrrl at that time). Though, they weren't as hostile as sjws/feminists are now iirc. They had a lot of the same ideas as sjws/feminists today, but they were never actively trying to silence anyone and they actually made their own stuff instead of took existing things and made them ~pc~. Like I remember a lot of them starting bands, doing spoken word, creating zines, making art, etc.

No. 103515

I started using tumblr in 2010 and I remember the rise of "tumblr famous" people and how everybody had huge pastel hair and galaxies and triangles were everybody's aesthetic.

No. 103525

>>103503
God, thats the fucking worst. And I'm sick of gender swapping too, it used to just be an occasionally posted kink but now it's done constantly for feminist brownie points. The irony is that for all their apparent support for women or trans ppl or w/e, they ignore actual female and trans characters/people in favor of writing cute boys just like everyone else.

No. 103526

>>103406
Four years ago it was a whole different era in internet time

No. 103528

>>103409
I used to be a lot less concerned with what I posted, because it didn't seem to matter if you offended anyone as much then. I was also in several rp groups but now you can't join those without minors getting up in arms if you're older than twenty.

No. 103530

>>103503
You literally can't escape this even when reading It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fanfic. Wtf?

No. 103532

>>103530
It's so funny how some people have latched onto IASIP and make posts about Dennis being aromantic, Charlie being asexual, and so on (I've seen it!)

It makes me wonder if they've even seen the original source material. How can people misunderstand something so much?

No. 103535

>>103477
The tl;dr: LJ deleted a bunch of journals and communities purported to support child molestation; these included fandom-related personal journals, book discussion groups, and support groups for those who were sexually abused as children (along with some legit disgusting pro-child abuse journals). Back then banned journals had their names struck through, thus "Strikethrough 2007." It sparked many discussions and debates and a ton of fanwank and led to the breaking up of many fan comms as there was a mass exodus to different platforms.

If you're really curious, here's more info: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Strikethrough_and_Boldthrough

I'm very nostalgic for pre-2007 Harry Potter fandom. I mourned.

No. 103538

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>>103528
What is up with minors on the internet too? I started using my pc when I was about 14/15 and only had access to yahoo mail/chat and maybe aol. Youtube wasn't created just yet.

I was just on IG and asked this user to politely stop asking (rather harassing) this musician's wife about 'when you are and xxx gonna have kids already??'

The couple stated they didn't want kids and suddenly this girl sends me a message like 'chill the hell out, bitch!!' and other crap. I was like 'I didn't use foul language. There's no need to be rude. Just saying sarah has stated before she doesn't like comments asking when they'll have kids'

In retrospect, i should have ignored the comment, but I had such a long day at work. It was just shocking to me because I was more than 10 years older than this child and it caught me off guard.

Little kids are online being massively disrespectful, like whoa.

No. 103540

>>103503
It's infuriating. I'm just glad all the really good writers still exist and if you were fans of their older works, you can usually still follow them.

My favorite Panic! writer is a little bit of a feminist, but other than that, she isn't on the bullshit tranny, queer, genderfluid, asexual trend that is tumblr. She's also just really good at writing, just wish she was still writing that bandom.

No. 103556

>>103503
Don't bother reading them, it's a confirmation that the fic is going to be shitty.

Livejournal produced some of the fav fic ever around 2003-7 with its HP/MWPP stuff. Most of it is still out there.

No. 103559

>>103532

>Dennis being aromantic

>Charlie being asexual

Oh god, I just reeee'd inwardly. HOW. Have they ever seen the show? Jesus christ.

No. 103561

>>103507
Apparently genderbent stories are now OMFG TRANSPHOBIC !1!! so i haven't really seen a lot of it outside people fetishising transgenderism.

No. 103562

>>103538
>Sarah
Got a feeling you might be talking about Brendon Urie and his wife, could be wrong. If so though the current fandom for Panic! At the Disco is horrible. It's all a bunch of underage kids being incredibly invasive 24/7 and commenting embarrassing shit on Ryan Ross' social media posts like "OMG MY SON PLZ DRINK WATER I HOPE UR HAPPY!!!!!" Or stuff on Brendon's shit like "OMG LIKE DID YOU SUCK RYAN'S DICK??? XD" It's quite sad.

No. 103568

>>103561
All I've been seeing lately is trans!characters, genderbends seem like a welcome change at this point

No. 103569

The only thing I miss from old tumblr is that you could say retarded without people screaming.

No. 103610

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What do you guys think of this? Do you think gay men are actually hurt by m/m fanfiction?

No. 103614

>>103610
i don't think gay men give a fuck about some teenagers' dumb fanfics. tumblr fag hags are embarassing but they're not "problematic"

No. 103616

>>103610
>this is making me uncomfortable so I want it to stop
That paired with the fact that '''he''' refers to himself as a 'boy' suggests it's a fakeboi transtrender

No. 103617

>>103610
I don't really "get" fandom, period. Like, I've never been so obsessed with something that I had an otp or write fanfics. A lot of that stuff gives me a feeling of secondhand embarrassment.

No. 103621

>>103617
it's def a personality thing. I have an inherited addictive personality and get unbelievably obsessed with things (games, tv shows, even fucking youtube channels, you name it) and it's the same way with a lot of people on tumblr. It comes down to whether or not they have enough self-awareness to not sperg about it publicly, which many of them don't.

No. 103628

>>103610
Holy fuck i hate the whole? talking? like? this??? that tumblr has, it always sound like an annoying valley girl to me.

Anyways…, so summarizing this post: "me! me! ME! pay attention to me! cater to my feelings!!!!!!!!… WHY DIDN'T YOU CATER TO MY FEELINGS I AM A GAI BOI". This shit of policing people's preferences about what to read/watch/play that the edgy pc crowd has is pretty fucking stupid, and most gay men irl don't give a shit unless yaoi fangirls start screaming murder on their faces about ukes and semes and whatever. They are basically demanding people to stop liking things because they do not like them, fucking babies. Yeah most fangirls are retarded about actual male on male relationships and some even hate real gay men, but just because "muh feelings" you aren't about to stop something that has become a quite big industry past shitty fanfics. See yaoi, bl games, so on. If it sells, it will be sold and you'll have to stick your opinion up your ass, simple.

Also, this sounds stupid by the whole sjws standars because they are basically demanding that people only write straight couples, but then crying when there are no gay couples in media lmao.

No. 103631

For me I pinpoint tumblr's turn for the worst during Summer 2012 with Korra's first season airing, the whole whitewashing fanart discourse.

I miss 2010-2011 tumblr, it was a blast and I was actually able to make friends.

No. 103632

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>>103616
Definitely a fakeboi

No. 103635

>>103610
wtf is MLM

No. 103636

>>103635
Man loving man, I think

No. 103639

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>Old favorite fics deleted because they don't fit with the current attitude of fandom
>cant look up slash without running into my husbando reimagined as a HAES tranny

Can't a fujo be a fujo anymore ? Yaoi paddle smacking fan girls were less annoying than this

On the plus side BL manga has gotten better than ever ?

No. 103641

>>103639
Who's your husbando?

No. 103642

>>103639
At least you have BL manga, anon
>tfw OTP is a side character on a popular show that got killed off and the other character only exists in the books
>other OTP is fairly popular but the show ended 3 years ago

The latter can still be milked for new meh-tier fics on AO3, the former has been pretty much abandoned. Also I'm getting tired of fucking Omegaverse fics.

No. 103643

on topic of otps i hate that every ship has to pass a PC test before you're allowed to talk about it w/o being witchhunted.

like there's always gonna be squicky/~problematic shit, it's the internet, just look away fam

No. 103648

>>103643
Problematic! and offensive! started as memes, a part of the tumblr userbase took it a bit too serious.

No. 103649

>>103639
I regret complaining about rabid yaoi fangirls. I never thought they would evolve into nonbinary trans fat acceptance headcanons who obsessively list pairings that are ~problematic~ and constantly call out people who enjoy them. Can I just have my rape fantasy borderline pedophilia BL back? That was much more bearable than this shit.

No. 103651

>>103636
why not just say gay?????????

No. 103652

>>103642
what otp? also FUCK omegaverse, its fucking infiltrating everything

No. 103654

>>103652
MorMor
As in the one interesting character in the whole show and their second banana

No. 103663

>>103610
Vast majority of gay men could give less of a shit about the shit a bunch of hormonal teenage girls write on a blogging website lmao

No. 103664

>>103651
for the same goddamn reason the word ''''queer'''' became a thing: because people think they're too fucking special to just call themselves gay or bi.

No. 103673

>>103398
It seems like there's no sense of community there for anyone that isn't part of the collective SJW hugbox.

I think I started using it in 2013. But at the time I wasn't totally aware that it was cancer.

I've given up looking for art on there. It's pretty much red nosed, fat, hairy legged tranny versions of every character you can think of. And God help you if you made their skin a fraction of a shade too light. I've seen people go nuclear over skin color when I could barely tell it was any different from official sources.

But go ahead and make as many fat, black Zeldas as you want. Diversity!

>>103610
These super sensitive babbies don't understand that you cannot stop people from fetishizing things or writing fanwank. Somewhere out there someone is fapping to rubbing buttered toast on their nipples while riding a stationary bicycle. There's a fetish for practically everyone. And you've got no right to tell people to stop it if no one's getting hurt.


I find it really funny because they are the same types of people who will blast you for kinkshaming and will make characters trannies on a whim and claim that it's canon because it's never specifically said that they are not transgendered.

No. 103674

>>103610
Nah, I can't imagine gay men caring about slash fic unless they read/write them themselves.

No. 103696

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It annoys me so much how tumblrines seem to think that every piece of fiction must have some sort of moral or good message. And they're all obsessed with boring 'cinnamon buns'.

It's almost Victorian, in a way.

No. 103699

>>103696
you mean "cinnamon rolls", like the super pure non-problematic characters? I agree it's pretty annoying when they seem to think that you're evil if you're fave character isn't completely non-offensive and ~pure~. One that comes to mind is the cesspool that is/was the Life is Strange fandom. You weren't allowed to like Nathan but everyone raved about Kate who I personally thought was a bit boring.

No. 103701

>>103699
"Cinnamon roll"s aren't even pure, non-problematic characters anymore. They're characters that you would defend to hell and back.
Adachi from Persona 4 is an example. A lot of tumblrinas defend him and call him their cinnamon roll even though he's probably the most anti-Tumblr character in the entire game.
God forbid you like Kanji or Yosuke though! They're homophobic cishet scum. UwU

No. 103707

>>103701
They think Kanji is homopobic?
I thought Kanji himself is gay.
Fucking tumblr.

No. 103715

>>103610
>bawww I'm being indirectly sexualized to 0.0001% of the extent women have been throughout history, by people who are statistically unlikely to ever harm a man as a result of their porn consumption, poor me

No. 103716

>>103610
>>103632
>roleplaying as a queer fakeboi is awwwwwright
>b-but don't yu dare to write gay slash fanfcition!! M-muh feels!

No. 103717

I never knew and still don't know what exactly gpoy means but I tagged it anyway.
I miss all the random, interesting and agendaless facts that everyone reblogged no matter if it's related to their blog or not. I miss the nice and funny quotes before all the tumblr-depressive people flooded the tags with pseudo quoting their own blogposts. I miss the acsence of hardcore fandomcancer. I miss lots of nice Art (how tf did "tumblr art style" even start?). And I miss seeing 100 animal gifs on my dash. It just seemed so innocent a few years ago. Might be nostalgia though.

No. 103730

So fucking tired of seeing OOC shit in the Overwatch fandom, going to have to unfollow a bunch of people because they keep posting Soldier 76/Reaper fanart that is just so OOC I want to strangle myself. And then they have the audacity to try and pass it as canon. I can't wait for the entire Overwatch fandom to get BTFO'd when they realise only two characters are going to be gay and the rest are probably going to be normal straight people.

No. 103731

>>103717
gpoy = gratuitous picture of yourself

No. 103739

>>103610
Just as I guessed, this "PSA" is written by a teenage fakeboi looking for attention. I've met a plethora of actual cis gay men in my time and they have never, EVER been bothered by girls liking yaoi. Some of them like it themselves, hell, I used to know a gay man who was OBSESSED over one gay anime pairing and tried to get me into it too.

And anyone saying that the fakeboi's feelings as a "man" are just as valid as any cis male's, well, no. 100% of anyone you come across thinks of you as a girl, probably a butch lesbian, but nobody fucking thinks you're male just because you cut your hair short. The society still treats you as a woman so your "m-muh gender identity" doesn't play part in the treatment you receive.

>>103716
>>103715
fucking both of these are 100% bullseye

No. 103743

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I miss when it was okay to make fun of retards on tumblr.

No. 103745

>>103743
Wait, is this what they put special needs children in? Because my ex shared this on his fb the other day. I thought it was really distasteful.

No. 103748

>>103739
This. I have a gay guy friend who LOVES bara yaoi to the point where he even has (sfw) shirts with characters from various bara yaoi doujins printed on them.
He doesn't view yaoi/gay porn as homophobic, but rather sees it as porn catering to him and other gay men.

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No. 103750

>>103745
>>103743
jfc if you need so much special equipment just so your kid can take a dump is it really worth keeping him alive

No. 103757

2009 tumblr was fucking golden, I made so many friends through my edgy blog. Everyone was sharing obscure edgy work and whilst making their own stuff, nanarapeblossom was still being a fucking nutcase because nobody found her too problematic but call out posts were still popping up now and then for other stuff which challenged perceptions etc
A bit like this anons experience >>103507 it was just a really inspiring environment for me.
I am a bit of a sjw too but it's such a slippery slope. The sweet spot between a safe space and a creative environment could never have lasted.

>>103461
>triangles
So many triangles.

No. 103763

>>103750
Maybe it's for when special needs kids have diarrhea. Just strap em in and give them some megablocks so they don't squirt all over the house.

No. 103766

>>103750

you kill me anon

No. 103767

>>103507

Same here. Back then I did kinda get into feminism, it looked quirky and cool. But now it's just cancer.

No. 103768

All I remember in the bleak of tumblr 2009/2010 was JamJars.. fucking Jamie Ryan Dee and how everyone ass licked his ass.

No. 103774

>>103757
>Nana Rapeblossom
Isn't she a model? Her Tumblr is blacked out, though. What was she like?

No. 103777

>>103750
Idk if it's because I'm having a mental breakdown or smth but I cannot stop laughing at this comment

No. 103795

>>103774
I don't remember her from tumblr, but I remember her livejournal days. She was a neo-nazi and pedophile fetishist who envied ugly women for being raped. Her livejournal was full of photos of nude little girls and nazi shit. I think EGL banned for her for doing a lolita themed suicide girls photoshoot.

No. 103946

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Before going on tumblr I used to lurk on lj to read fanfics on kink memes and follow the news about Durarara, Tiger&Bunny or Hetalia. I used to lurk some specific blogs on tumblr in 2011 after discovering Doctor Who and BBC Sherlock, and in early 2012 I made an account. It was fun, I talked to people on the website, the worst way you could offend someone was by posting some Shinee or other kpop bands in the Sherlock tag and my mutuals used to joke and post about fandoms we shared.

My mutuals and the other people I followed started posting more and more about the news, feminism and racism, which by itself isn't a bad thing, but they so into it at some point they'd start posting things like "genderbends are transphobic" or "whitewhashing is racist" while rebloging nonsensical trans headcanon instead of some that could make sense and racebending of japanese anime characters to make them black. They soon stopped posting these things and said so many times that they've seen the error of their way if someone told them about shit they posted years ago that weren't acceptable anymore. Anyway, I unfollowed a lot of mutuals some months ago, otherwise my dashboard would have been unbearable. Some of these people are so stupid they equate fatphobia to real racism or sexism.

Fandoms aren't fun anymore because of that. The communities on tumblr turned to complete shit. Although that that the website itself has more and more features it's easier to avoid the crazy ones in the search and tag pages for example. Ever since it's possible to actually block people I blocked at least a hundred of blogs, not even mostly spam bots and porn blogs. I almost want to go back to the good old days of superwholock and shit. Now I mostly stay on /v/, /vg/ and /a/.

tldr: the userbase on tumblr has turned to shit, have a shitty and forced sense of humor in order not to offend, ruine fandoms by trying to police content in fanfics and fanarts while shoving their disgusting fetishes down everyone's throat because theirs are """progressive uwuwuwuuw" and make hard to take actual real issues seriously with their [something]phobias bullshit. And yet I'm still using tumblr almost everyday.

No. 104105

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Saw this in the tags.

Why are people trying to bring real life politics into fandom?

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No. 104131

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>>104105
oh my god

No. 104138

>>104105
As a European I find the Mexican victim mentality that arose out of the indigenismo movement really odd. As an identity it's entirely manufactured.

No. 104140

>>104138
Most mexicans I know (from Mexico) aren't like that at all and don't give a fuck about cultural appropriation or muh racism or whatever. As soon as anyone sets foot in America they literally lose their shit and turn turbo-SJW, I've seen it happen myself. Must be all the fluoride in the water.

No. 104158

>>103492
Ao3 Savior can block tags and authors you don't want to see.

No. 104161

>>103652
>its fucking infiltrating everything
It's even appearing in Japanese BL games.
https://fenren.tumblr.com/post/144926716571/bl-game-omega-vampire-masterpost

No. 104162

>>104140
Maybe experiencing American racism first-hand made them that way, too.

No. 104183

>>104140
seconding this, seems like some mexicans suddenly got thin skin once they're on the other side of the river. Unless it is something really outrageous, usually we dont give a fuck.
We're more busy trying to not get our heads chopped than whinning about why there are more white people portrayed in the media hah

No. 104756

>>104739
Ironically I think it's more ~problematic~ than regular dom/sub stuff. I seriously think omegaverse stuff seems really rape-y and has some really weird undertones. Like to each their own I guess, but it's weird when people who write and read this stuff are otherwise huge SJWs.

What was wrong with regular dom/sub universe stuff?

Also I remember back in 2008 on LJ there was a huge outcry about a dom/sub AU fic in the Stargate fandom that was kind of a metaphor for sexism, instead of having everyone just be lovey dovey and fine with everything. lol

No. 104841

I remember that 5t4s garbage everyone put on their blog to show that they were there before MTV advertised the site.

No. 104854

I remember when "tumblr girls" was referred to the hot and fashionable girls who ran fashion blogs on Tumblr and always had good photos. It was nice, scrolling their blogs, wishing to be them.
Now the "tumblr girl" is a fat girl with pastel colored hair who takes naked pictures of herself because it's "empowering" and is of course demisexual, aromantic and genderfluid

No. 104855

>>104854
I haven't ever thought about it that way before anon, that's so bizarre. I also used to be jealous of 'tumblr girls' because they always had this picture perfect and curated blog life, but now it's synonymous with needed to beg for donations to afford to live, weird. Tumblr fucked itself bad.

No. 104857

>>104854
I was hoping the SJW revolution would at least curb the super edgy nudes a la 'I'm a GURL and I loove sex! I'm special, you see?' but it's made it even worse. Now the girls aren't even hot, just edgy 'sex positive' lardarses.

No. 104859

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I prefered deviant art at this period, the only thing i really used tumblr for was checking out cosplays, finding .gifs which today its still good for and occasionally to look at some 'tasteful' sexy pics like an erect guy laying in bed but with his underwear still on.

No. 104865

>>104855
They seem to have migrated to instagram instead to avoid the ever growing cesspool that is tumblr. The remaining ones have probably become transboys and fandom wagoners.

No. 104871

>>104855
Yeah, it's strange. The way we refer to 'Instagram girls' is how tumblr girls used to be seen as. Fashionable, makeup-obsessed, take lots of pictures of flowers and beaches and stuff.

No. 104940

I almost miss all the nightblogging, the shitty jokes and memes, the superwholock and other recent fandoms who thought they were hot shit and invented fanfics, fanarts and slash, and even the hipster part of tumblr. I wasn't interested by any of this but at least they were just bloggers who were having fun and weren't trying to bother anybody on purpose or whatever. The SJWs ruined tumblr because instead of staying in there blogs and friend groups they like inserting themselves and their bullshit in posts and communities that they're not even into. Like for video games for example, all the people bitching at sexism in video games (not real sexism, but female characters wearing ridiculous shit) and shit don't even play them or intend to play them. People who call themselves anti-SJWs are usually just as bad, so it makes for very vocal stupid people in one website, while sane people are really hard to notice.

Tumblr itself is changing a lot, they're trying to shove ads on people's blogs, I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't start using another website instead, like dreamwidth or twitter. It's a shame, every time there are new features that are well thought and very useful they ruin everything with updates nobody asks for and glitches.

No. 105047

Yep, I joined Tumblr in 2010 when I was in high school (20 now). I still have a Tumblr but it's just for video game stuff. Like others have said, Pinterest is more of a spot for me now.

I remember when I first joined (keep in mind I was a teenager and not into fandoms), vertical photos were big and so were hipster/nature blogs. Same with HD photos like pictures of HD food and disney stuff.

I mostly reblogged HD stuff and then started reblogging 'pink/pastel/cute' stuff before it got really big. At that time I had 5000 followers and deleted that blog when I gave up on Tumblr for a while.

Two of my girl friends had blogs too. One of them was a dancer that mostly reblogged thinspo and depressing shit while the other was a stoner that reblogged 'trip stuff'.

Anyways, it's fun being nostalgic since Tumblr is boring now. I still have one but mostly look at it for funny pictures. Pinterest is usually generic too but at least there's no SJW shit on there.

No. 105543

Are there any good blogging websites that aren't tumblr? I really wanna start a horror blog but even the non-sjw parts of tumblr irritate me.

No. 106673


No. 106788

>>105543
Blogspot is not good enough for you?

No. 106789

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>>103397
things got weird when I started seeing this<

also lots of fatties blogging like 'trying hard everyday to be positive about my body but today I just went back to bed', posts photo clutching giant stomach in the bathtub

No. 106800

>>106788
Betting she wants the laze and ease of just tagging things and automatically getting put in front of thousands of people

No. 106826

Personally I remember joining around 2012, right as the SJW sorta thing started up. I never really noticed it getting bad until around 2013 though. Must not have infected my circles until several months later.

Then after hanging out with those sort online for a bit I started to realize how they were huge (sometimes quite literally), idiotic attention whores and cut them off, deciding to laugh at them instead of consorting with that type.

Never thought I'd say this but, I really do miss when tumblr shipping wars were totally apolitical though. SJW shipping wars are a lot nastier.

No. 107038

As much as it was cancerous, I really miss the 2011-2012 days of the Homestuck fandom. There were no shipping wars (at least not as bad as today) everyone had fun making fan content together and being annoying in non-threatening ways. When I think back to the time that literal pedo incest was the biggest ship on tumblr and compare it to today it's all so mind boggling, no one ever complained about it. Every ship has to be PC now and the way tumblr hunts people who disagree is totally hypocritical, the Voltron drama about age gaps that happened recently is a prime example, everyone was doing loads of fanart and being extremely gushy about it but as soon as they revealed one of the characters was 14-15 while the other was 25 all these same people started going on crusades against each other about how much problematic it was. I've never seen something disappear so fast from my dash. Homestuck fandom was a godsend compared to stuff like this.

No. 107049

>>107038
I remember all of this. I never finished Homestuck but my mutuals mae me curious about it and I liked the first 4 acts. Now I can't bring myself to care about it anymore and my my now ex-mutuals seem to like making fun of it and its popularity like they always hated it. That said, I can't wait for the same thing to happen to Steven Universe. It's only a matter of time from what I've seen.

No. 107458

>>103440
I'm reading an old kink meme from 2009, and I miss them so much now! I also like how you could write about gender bending and such without it being about all that ~trans~ shit now.

No. 107461

Anyone else remember dumblr 2010?

back when Jamjars was a thing?

No. 107464

>>107461
Lmao yes
I actually went to a tumblr meet and people were fawning over him because he would go to them or something and everyone wanted him to be there?
I was like "why is he such a big deal" and people gasped and laughed at me. I still don't get it.

No. 107476

>>107464

Agreed… he was so… up his own arse tbh and the fucker knows it

No. 107793

>>104131
I'm so sick of BYF pages. How are they supposed to verify that stuff anyway? People can lie. That 14 year old firl you let follow you could be a creepy old man fapping to your selfies. How dumb are these tumblrinas?

The worse are the ones that say you can't post incest fanworks unless you are a survivor of incest. Why would most people even want to share that info online with strangers? Do they ever think that not everyone wants to post their life story about their abusive pasts, health/psychological problems or go into great detail about personal beliefs irrelevant to their blogs? Do they ever stop to think there might be some good reason why a person doesn't support a certain movement?

If you want to live in a soft and fluffy echo chamber, fine. But just remember how badly that's going to work for you outside of tumblr, kid. I don't tag any triggers. Fuck that. If you don't like what I posted don't look at my blog. The only thing I'd consider tagging is NSFW and rapid moving GIFs. But I wouldn't post that stuff anyway.

I'm really annoyed with otherkin/headmates ect too. I remember back when otherkin was mostly people who were a bit off but relatively alright to talk to. But it's gotten progressively worse. To the point where I actively avoid interacting with them. I used to be part of a community that had some otherkin stuff before the SJW waves hit. And it was mostly people who felt they were animals in their past lives or people that probably just really loved fairies and dragons. If you posted nonsense about being an angel growing wings you'd be asked for pics. Of course that person never posted said pics. After awhile such threads were banned because no one there actually believed they were animals or fantasy creatures. These days if you told some tumblrina otherkin that xir's phantom wings were fake you'd be descended upon by so many wolfkin for triggering the poor angelkin.

I can't remember where headmates started. Probably a weird progression from obsessing over characters to "I just don't like this character. I AM this character". These days you can barely post some art without it being tagged as "literally me" by some teenage snowflake.

I was looking up some tags for lulz and found this. It's really disturbing: http://adammultiple.tumblr.com/us

This person has gone so far and to lift pictures of people's children off of Google to use as stand ins for their headmates. That is way creepy. They give the kids mental illnesses, sexual orientations and pronouns.

One of their BYF rules states that they don't want followers who ship adults with children. Yet one of the child pics they lifted is a little girl who is described as an age slider who's sexual attraction is based on their current age. They also refer to their child headmates as littles. Which is highly disturbing if they mean it in a daddydom kind of way and they are using pics of people's kids to visualize their freaky fantasies.

More and more blogs are saying they are really autistic or professionally diagnosed with DID, BPD ect… But I'm starting to believe that quite a few of them are lying give their behavior. Either that or they are really good at getting the diagnosis they want.

I liked the internet better when most people just lied about being fat.

No. 107835

>>107793
What are the chances this adammultiple guy is so severely autistic that he doesn't see a problem in collecting stock images of kids? I'm gonna bet 3/1

No. 107881

>>107793
>I liked the internet better when most people just lied about being fat.
dude same

No. 107899

>>107793
>starting to believe
It's blatantly obvious. Those diseases are either rare or nonexistent.

I'm so glad I don't know what half of that faggotry even means.

No. 107919

>>107793
>http://adammultiple.tumblr.com/us
Lmao imagine being the parent of one of those kids and finding your child's modelling shots were used for this, or being the kid themselves and stumbling on this bullshit later when you're older.

No. 107928

go to tumblr right now and search the word 'thin'

No. 107929

>>107793
>>107919
Some of his alters have a professional diagnosis unique to them. Lol, how does that work?

No. 107938

>>103538
those fucking zelda comics, that got omocat noticed

No. 107942

>>103717
from what I've seen,I feel like the tumblr art style started when homestuck came around to popularity, thats when more western style fanart came into the picture and people wanted to get away from the anime style (the whole "anime is for baby weebs "thing) it basically spread to other fandoms and fans

No. 107944

>>107928
pro anas are beyond scum of the earth

No. 107953

>>107929
I don't know. Wouldn't a psychiatrist diagnose the whole person and not the alters individually? I don't know how it works. but I'd assume they all come under the umbrella of a larger diagnoses for the patient and not what their age shifting genderfluid headmates identifies as.

No. 108203

>>103397
one of my friends made a joke blog on tumblr right before the sjw wave hit and got shit on for it. it wasn't even an "offensive" blog or anything, it was just a bunch of pictures of him making weird faces with tags like #lips, #swag and #starbucks. he got anons saying that his blog was sexist against women because #lips and #starbucks are for womyn only.

No. 108206

I remember this post circulating around in maybe 2013 it was something like "in real life: straight untill proven gay. On tumblr: Gay untill proven straight" and everyone found funny, but if someone posted that now that be fucking ambushed bc "you should assume someones sexuality!!! uwu!!"

No. 108207

>>108206
Fucking typos. Im on mobile sorry

No. 108242

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Did any of you get so fed up with current tumblr because of shitty fandoms and/or SJWs that you deleted your accounts? I'm seriously considering it because I find less and less interesting blogs and things to post on my blog compared to when I started it in 2012. I don't know how to archive all my posts though, so it's making me hesitate.

No. 108246

>>108242
I'm getting very close at any rate.
I follow a lot of Tolkien elf/witchy/pagan blogs because I'm into nature and that kind of aesthetic, and it used to be only pretty pictures and harmless spell recipes, crystals, runes etc. (I'm not wiccan myself or anything, they just reblog a lot of stuff I like). Now it's down to like… 40% picture-only blogs, the rest is SJW bullshit, self-victimisation, identity politics, and the worst of all - Wiccan SJWs. They're all batshit, as soon as I see pronouns or their Myers-Briggs type in the description I run the other way. I like Pinterest, it's not as SJW-y thanks to American Bible thumper mums and it's kind of hard to socialise on there, but I honestly prefer Jaycee from Kansas repinning chevron curtains and pillowcases to a magical uguu FtM boy who identifies as a tree frog.

No. 108247

>>108242
Ugh, yes. I haven't deleted yet, I've been stuck on this site since about 2010. I went through a brief SJW phase cause I was a teen then, and it wasn't so hard to join them, but since stopping the SJW bullshit it's so exhausting being on there. I just wanna look at pretty pictures and fan content without having a huge screaming match about how "horrible and evil this person is!"

I started moving more towards AO3 but now every day I refresh my AO3 feed I see trans NB demisexual characters with fat ftm OCs.

No. 108255

>>108242
>someone reblogs a gif of a guy skillfully flipping pancakes
>adds caption: 'white privilege leaves time for mastering many useless activities'

No. 108267

>>108254
I'll admit it here cause I'm anonymous, I read a lot of Undertale fanfic and I swear to god the most popular fics are almost always pedo/incest between Frisk/someone and the skeleton brothers, or it's a reader/OC insert with a horrifying mutation of everything SJW-y.

I agree about the fandom thing. Yaoi fangirls and shit were annoying but at least they pretty rarely got on your back about anything. Now you cant do anything at all without being harassed.

No. 108291

>>108267
>I read a lot of Undertale fanfic
>the skeleton brothers
Ah, this is the fandom responsible for the skeleton porn I've been seeing lately. I thought people had escalated their daddy fetishes to great great great great grand daddies.

No. 108307

>>108246
i always thought there were tons of SJW Wiccans. i remember getting in a fight with a SJW who was Wiccan back in 2010. i think the religion attracts a lot of people who want to feel special and rebel against Christians, hence the SJWs

No. 108327

I guess you could say those characters are getting boned

No. 108345

>>108307
try dealing with wiccans irl lol

No. 108347

>>108345
Meh, they're okay as long as they're middle aged hippies. It's the younger tumblr generation that's the problem.

No. 108351

>>108246
Lol the emoji spells are what really gets me. I don't believe in any sort of magick but there's just something so wrong about emoji spells. Anyone's excuse to use them are usually underage kids belting, "but I'm broke and can't afford 3 red candles, a twig, and rose quartz for this spell!" and you get dubbed as an asshole if you call them out on it.
What's your tumblr if you don't mind sharing? I feel like we have similar blogs but I mostly reblog forest photos.

>>108345
I've fortunately found the older women at magick shops to be so sweet and friendly. I can see how hippies and young, alternative people are ruining it for everybody else.

No. 108352

>>108351
Nah, I don't have any personal info on there so it's fine.
>caenwen.tumblr.com

As for Wiccans/pagans, many old school goths who practise it are pretty cool, as well as older ladies. The rest are usually cancer. I'd love to visit a brick-and-mortar shop one day but I live in the middle of nowhere, right now I'm trying to find reliable online shops but most of them look shady.

No. 108360

>>108242
I deleted a few weeks ago after I saw a IRL friend self diagnosing autism and ASPD or some shit and honestly it feels so much better not to have to deal with this

No. 108373

>>108254
I don't think it's possible to make a primary blog private, it's only for secondary blogs as far as I know. But the staff is adding a lot of features so maybe it'll become possible someday, idk.

>>108267
>Yaoi fangirls and shit were annoying but at least they pretty rarely got on your back about anything.
I think it changed a bit. Most fujoshis are regular perverts and/or girls who love romance so they genuinely like BL and have fun without starting shit, but nowadays many of them seem to like yaoi because it's LGBT++++ friendly and because they can relate to the gay characters because they're gay (trans) boys themselves. I don't know how to say it, but they're like these yuri fans who seem to tell everyone they're into yuri because of LGBT rights and representation that actually have nothing to do with them.

>>108360
Damn, my rl friends are as tired of tumblr bullshit as us, I'm glad that's the case so we can complain about it together. I had to unfollow friends I made on tumblr some months ago though, but it's not the same thing since I can avoid them forever now.

No. 108389

>>108360
>>108373

Update: she apparently has BPD now too. I regret looking at her blog. Mental Illness are becoming her only trait it seems. I'm sad because I really liked her before Tumblr and I'm the one who got her into Tumblr (many years ago)

No. 108436

>>108373
>but nowadays many of them seem to like yaoi because it's LGBT++++ friendly and because they can relate to the gay characters because they're gay (trans) boys themselves.
Nah, those kinda crazies usually think yaoi is objectifying them (like >>108392 explained) and that cisgays are disgusting privileged males anyway. Nowadays people are more into yuri because uwu beautiful lesbian goddessesI am so gAY!!!!!!uwu

No. 108450

>>108392
Yes, fakebois, that's the word I meant to use but I completely forgot it.

>>108436
I noticed that yuri for the reason you said was more and more popular but I guess I haven't seen many people saying BL is offensive for a while because I'm actively avoiding tumblrs like that these days. Even in the few posts complaining about BL, it's mostly things like "BL is relatable because I'm gay and cishets shouldn't read it because they can't relate so it's appropriation" so it's more about complaining about the fandom. I still don't get why people complain about objectification in drawn porn, jfc.



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