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Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired: The app that turned green chat bubbles blue has been acquired by Automattic ...
wired.com/story/beeper-acquired-by-automattic/
Cindy Crawford Is On Board With the Boho Chic Revival: The supermodel wore an outfit that would’ve done numbers on Tumblr.
vogue.com/article/cindy-crawford-boho-chic-revival
The owner of WordPress has bought Beeper, the app that flipped the bird to Apple's iMessage supremacy
engadget.com/the-owner-of-wordpress-has-bought-beeper-the-app-that-flipped-the-bird-to-apples-imessage-supremacy-170033314.html
Finding My Style In the Post-Tumblr Era: I tried three TikTok aesthetics; here's what I learned about the racialized experience of finding my tried style in ...
fashionmagazine.com/style/finding-my-style/
Elon Musk's X tests 'adult content' label for X-rated Communities: But what does it mean for the little-used X groups feature?
mashable.com/article/twitter-x-communities-adult-content-label
Anthony Cudahy Aims to Be as Eclectic as a Tumblr Feed: Anthony Cudahy’s lush, figurative works are inspired, in equal parts, by news footage ...
nytimes.com/2024/03/12/t-magazine/anthony-cudahy-ogunquit-museum.html
“Miller’s Girl” with Jenna Ortega: What happens when an erotic thriller looks like satire?
glamour.de/artikel/millers-girl-jenna-ortega-kritik
The Year the Millennial Internet Died: From Tumblr to Gawker, the sites and voices that defined the 2010s are gone or changed. There is no happy ending to this ...
wired.com/story/end-of-the-millennial-internet/
The 2023 music scene is 2013 all over again: Today, Tumblr-era artists like The 1975 and Lana Del Rey are as popular as ever. We've seen a revival of decade-old ...
businessinsider.com/this-year-music-2013-revival-tumblr-aesthetic-2023-12
How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete: Kyle Chayka writes about a resurgence in the popularity of the social-media platform Tumblr.
newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-tumblr-became-popular-for-being-obsolete
Tumblr+ kills Post+, its ill-fated subscription offering for creators: Tumblr’s ill-fated Post+ subscription service is shutting down, the company announced late ...
techcrunch.com/2023/11/28/tumblr-kills-post-its-ill-fated-subscription-offering-for-creators/
Tumblr is betting big on going small: Social network Tumblr will downscale as its owner Automattic, which also runs WordPress.com, acknowledges it failed to hit ...
theverge.com/2023/11/17/23964580/tumblr-downscaling-smaller-social-media-site
Tumblr Is Always Dying: The mainstream narrative has declared Tumblr dead for years. Last week, a leaked memo finally revealed the site’s plans to scale down its ...
wired.com/story/end-of-the-tumblr-era/
Tumblr Tests Semi-Private Groups 'Communities' — Here's Everything You Need to Know
techtimes.com/articles/299546/20231208/tumblr-tests-semi-private-groups-communities.htm
Don’t call it anti-feminist: the return of ‘girly’ fashion is all about having fun
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/10/girly-fashion-feminist-fun-feminine
WordPress.com owner buys all-in-one messaging app Texts.com for $50M: WordPress.com and Tumblr owner Automattic is adding another company to its portfolio with ...
techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/wordpress-com-owner-buys-all-in-one-messaging-app-texts-com-for-50m/
Fearing AI, fan fiction writers lock their accounts: Kinktober. Whumptober. Kisstober. Flufftober. Goretober. October is a bacchanal of fan fiction ...
techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/ao3-ai-fears-lock-account-kinktober-fanfiction/
Meta’s Twitter clone, Threads, ranks near the bottom of the most popular social apps, ahead of only Tumblr, as measured by the number of U.S. users ... Show more cnb.cx/3Ppootu
How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom: How an 1897 vampire novel is finding new fans on Substack
slate.com/podcasts/icymi/2023/10/dracula-daily-and-the-future-of-substack-book-clubs
POSSE: a better way to post on social networks: Instead of posting individually to X, Threads, TikTok, Instagram, and everywhere else, a few internet believers ...
theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon
Lorde's 'Ribs' Might be the Most Resonant Song from 'Pure Heroine': "Royals" was the smash hit from Lorde's debut 'Pure Heroine ...
rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lorde-ribs-pure-heroine-tumblr-1234830823/
The U.S. Government Is Still in Its Tumblr Era: The “IC on the Record” Tumblr was created after the biggest leak in intelligence history.
slate.com/technology/2023/10/united-states-government-tumblr-era-classified-intelligence-snowden-leaks.html
Julia Allison Was the First Online Influencer and Was Vilified for It: In her book 'Extremely Online,' journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia ...
rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/julia-allison-first-online-influencer-vilified-1234823324/
Artists on Tumblr created adorable avatars for new users: Pick one of these cute new PFPs.
mashable.com/article/tumblr-artists-avatars-profile-pictures
Twitter/X alternatives explained: From Threads and Bluesky to Spill and Hive: Free yourself.
mashable.com/article/twitter-x-alternatives-bluesky-threads-tiktok-tumblr
Tumblr's building a TikTok inspired feed in bid to grow its user base: Tumblr is planning a major revamp of its platform that will bring algorithmic ...
engadget.com/tumblrs-building-a-tiktok-inspired-feed-in-bid-to-grow-its-user-base-220929704.html
Doechii Can Act, Too: A taste test Q&A with rapper, singer, and now actor Doechii of Top Dawg Entertainment about her new film, ‘Earth Mama ...
thecut.com/2023/07/doechii-earth-mama-interview.html
The 1975's Matty Healy thinks no one cares about his offensive performance art. He's wrong.
mashable.com/article/the-1975-tumblr-matty-healy
Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer admits spending $4B for Netflix—now worth over $140B—would’ve been a better ‘transformative acquisition’ than Tumblr
fortune.com/2023/05/06/netflix-marissa-mayer-yahoo-ceo-tumblr/
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5 fanfiction sites that aren't Archive of Our Own: Not replacements, just suggestions.
mashable.com/article/ao3-archive-of-our-own-fanfiction-where-to-read
How a failed Tumblr convention became one of the most important social media lessons of the 2010s
cnn.com/2023/06/18/us/tumblr-dashcon-social-media-2010s-cec/
The 1975's Matty Healy thinks no one cares about his offensive performance art. He's wrong.
mashable.com/article/the-1975-tumblr-matty-healy
Twitter competitor Spill launches in beta on iOS: From a team of ex-Twitter employees, the new social platform Spill aims to center underserved culture drivers.
techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/twitter-competitor-spill-launches-in-beta-on-ios/
Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer admits spending $4B for Netflix—now worth over $140B—would’ve been a better ‘transformative acquisition’ than Tumblr
fortune.com/2023/05/06/netflix-marissa-mayer-yahoo-ceo-tumblr/
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Fandom, purity culture, and the rise of the anti-fan: Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet.
vox.com/culture/23733213/fandom-purity-culture-what-is-proship-antiship-antifandom
The Babadook is a gay icon because of a Netflix clerical error: Pride Month is a reason to celebrate one of internet culture’s favorite queer in-jokes — The ...
polygon.com/2017/6/8/15762144/babadook-gay-icon
Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer admits spending $4B for Netflix—now worth over $140B—would’ve been a better ‘transformative acquisition’ than Tumblr
fortune.com/2023/05/06/netflix-marissa-mayer-yahoo-ceo-tumblr/
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End of an Era: Apple plans to kill off original 12-inch MacBook: Apple has officially tossed the 12-inch Macbook in the bin. RIP.
techradar.com/news/end-of-an-era-apple-plans-to-kill-off-original-12-inch-macbook
Marissa Mayer figures Yahoo could’ve done better buying Netflix instead of Tumblr
theverge.com/2023/5/5/23712973/yahoo-tumblr-netflix-hulu-ceo-marissa-mayer
The 'Ted Lasso' Fandom’s Push for Polyamory Just Makes Sense: Admit it: There’s something satisfying and titillating about the idea of Roy, Keeley ...
wired.com/story/ted-lasso-polyamory-throuple-fanfic-fandom/
The 'Ted Lasso' Fandom’s Push for Polyamory Just Makes Sense: Admit it: There’s something satisfying and titillating about the idea of Roy, Keeley ...
wired.com/story/ted-lasso-polyamory-throuple-fanfic-fandom/
Dracula Daily is Tumblr’s hottest new book club: Dracula Daily is a newsletter bringing Dracula to email inboxes everywhere. Tumblr users have made a ton of ...
polygon.com/23063882/dracula-daily-tumblr-memes
Hosting site Imgur will remove explicit and anonymous content next month: Older content without account ties also subject to removal, leading to potential link ...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/hosting-site-imgur-will-remove-explicit-and-anonymous-content-next-month/
The GIF Is on Its Deathbed: The internet’s file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/using-reaction-gifs-over-tumblr-giphy/671680/
The best Twitter alternatives of 2023: Twitter certainly isn't the same as it used to be. Check out the best Twitter alternatives--like Mastodon, Clubhouse ...
zdnet.com/article/best-twitter-alternatives/
The art of the porn GIF, and the best places to find them now: Here's why porn GIFs are better than regular, full-length porn videos.
mashable.com/article/best-porn-gifs-nsfw-tumblr-art
The End of an Internet Era: Life online is losing chaos, unpredictability, and delight—all of the things that made it fun.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/04/buzzfeed-news-internet-era/673822/
The Hunger Games books were so much smarter than the movie: You don’t really know The Hunger Games unless you’ve read the books — the series has smarter ...
polygon.com/23632809/hunger-games-books-movies-tesserae-reaping-explained
There’s No Such Thing as a One-Size-Fits-All Web: Need a cure for widespread platform malaise? For inspiration, look to the trusty spreadsheet.
wired.com/story/platforms-design-ux-affordances/
How the Internet Turned a Boomer TV Cop Into an Unlikely Sex Symbol: A bumbling detective provides a surprising kind of comfort.
slate.com/culture/2023/01/columbo-tumblr-queer-fandom-poker-face.html
Even Scorsese is in on it: The fake movie phenomenon Goncharov - Golem.de: In the pre-Internet days, Goncharov would never have received the attention it has now ...
golem.de/news/selbst-scorsese-macht-mit-das-fake-film-phaenomen-goncharov-2303-172350.html
Seth Meyers Reveals 'Class Act' Move By Lizzo After They Got Sloppy Drunk On His Show
huffpost.com/entry/seth-meyers-lizzo-flowers-dad_n_63b84b28e4b0d6f0b9fa9824
Quick Glance: Lizzo Responds to Body Critics in the Best Way
- Lizzo acknowledges that she can't please everyone.
- In a new video on her Twitter account, the superstar expresses her desire to exist without being constantly bombarded with comments about her body.
- Without mentioning anyone specifically, she refers to those who focus on her body as 'delusional.'
- "Do you see the delusion? Do we realize that artists are not here to fit into your beauty standards? Artists are here to make art."
Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh: As Twitter crumbles, Tumblr is welcoming back the internet’s weirdos.
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/elon-musk-twitter-tumblr-blue-check-marks/672165/
How a social network falls apart: LiveJournal and Tumblr fell apart under new ownership that didn’t understand their communities. Elon Musk’s Twitter could face ...
theverge.com/2023/3/9/23629372/twitter-tumblr-livejournal-social-network
Tumblr iOS revenue increased 125% since launching its parody of paid verification
techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/tumblr-ios-revenue-increased-125-since-launching-its-parody-of-paid-verification/
What do Lyft and Krispy Kreme have in common? This—and consumers hate it: A new study shows that consumers are less likely to choose brands with misspelled names ...
fastcompany.com/90863710/brand-names-misspelled-words-consumer-study
Tumblr Revived the Welcome to Night Vale Fandom: A poll to find the top “Tumblr Sexyman” reminded users how much they loved narrator Cecil Palmer.
link.chtbl.com/VgebmfdY
Tumblr's Twitter-parody blue checks have actually boosted its revenue: Mocking Elon Musk's verification scheme seems to have worked out in Tumblr's favor.
mashable.com/article/tumblr-twitter-blue-tick-revenue
Crikeycore: what is it and should Australians cringe at it?: Why are young Americans nostalgic for non-existent childhoods filled with fairy bread ...
theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/22/crikeycore-what-is-it-and-should-australians-cringe-at-it
Where does Tumblr go from here?: And how it can find itself again for a new generation.
mashable.com/article/how-tumblr-lost-its-way
‘Goncharov’: How Tumblr Invented a Martin Scorsese Movie That Doesn't Exist: We talked to the Tumblr fans who created “the greatest Mafia movie ever made” ...
vice.com/en/article/wxnyxn/goncharov-scorsese-film-tumblr-meme
There’s never been a better time stop tweeting: There's never been a better time to explore alternative "micro blogging" websites..
engadget.com/theres-never-been-a-better-time-stop-tweeting-150020412.html
Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network: Elon Musk admits banning links to Twitter rival was a mistake
theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/21/firefox-and-tumblr-join-rush-to-support-mastodon-social-network
The GIF Is on Its Deathbed: The internet’s file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/using-reaction-gifs-over-tumblr-giphy/671680/
Explaining corecore, TikTok's newest aesthetic: Nothing hurts a trend more than being popular.
mashable.com/article/explaining-corecore-tiktok
A fan boycott forced a Kpop label to reconsider its album release plans: Blockberry Creative has delayed girl group LOONA's new album release amid a dive in ...
qz.com/koop-loona-blockberry-creative-orbits-boycott-1849937595
Twitter chaos too much? There are plenty of other options: Lesser-known sites such as Mastodon and even Tumblr are emerging as new or renewed alternatives ...
detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/12/17/twitter-alternatives-mastodon-post-clubhouse-substack-medium-tumblr/69736496007/
Tumblr Goes After Livestreaming Market With 'Tumblr Live': Powered by video platform Livebox, Tumblr Live is rolling out to US users on iOS and Android.
pcmag.com/news/tumblr-goes-after-livestreaming-market-with-tumblr-live
Anonymity Online Is In: Gen Z would rather be anonymous online.
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/gen-z-internet-anonymity-instagram-tumblr/661316/
Who are ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's parents and what do they do?: Caroline Ellison's father once worked with SEC chairman Gary Gensler ...
businessinsider.com/who-are-caroline-ellisons-parents-alameda-research-fraud-ftx-sbf-2022-12
Paid articlePaid Tumblr Gets Cheeky On Twitter Over New Policy About Social Media Competitors: Tumblr tweeted up a storm after Elon Musk's company banned tweets promoting rival ...
huffpost.com/entry/tumblr-twitter-ban-social-media_n_639f9ee2e4b0e2fa1a45ecde
Tumblr is launching a livestreaming feature: Tumblr is launching a livestreaming feature called Tumblr Live on iOS and Android in the US ...
theverge.com/2022/12/19/23517656/tumblr-live-livestreaming-livebox-meet-group-feature-ios-android
Twitter sells blue checks, Tumblr allows nudes: 2022’s biggest Big-Tech U-turns: Gmail stops filtering political spam, Meta allows some death threats, and more.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-sells-blue-checks-tumblr-allows-nudes-2022s-biggest-big-tech-u-turns/
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