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Clip art and Comic Sans ruin all the things
The best fan art is often made under seemingly pointless constraints. Want some ridiculously detailed made-to-order portraits, drawn entirely in MS Paint? No problem. How about building an entire...
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Meet "Little Witch Academia," the Internet's next favorite anime
It's been mere days since Kyoto Animation announced that the Swimming Anime, the 30-second promo spot that unexpectedly spawned an enormous Tumblr fandom, was becoming a real show. Now Kotaku is...
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The Morning GIF: Glitch artist let loose on Beatastic's "GL1TCH3S"
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
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The Morning GIF: Gorburger and Mr. GIF party down
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
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Blurring the line between "Game of Thrones" costumes and runway fashion
Game of Thrones may take place in a pseudo-medieval setting, but its costumes are surprisingly timeless. Curated by Game of Thrones fan Zana Bayne, Tumblr account GoT Runway matches real-world fashion...
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Shit Rough Drafts does "The Great Gatsby"
If you're a writer, you know that one of the hardest things about the craft is getting your ideas on paper. Fortunately, you're not alone. All the literary masters went through the same roughshod...
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The Worst Room is the best apartment guide
Anyone who's gone apartment-hunting in the last decade knows what a blessing and a curse Craigslist is to the average lodger. It's not enough that you have to stay on your web-savvy tiptoes, dodging...
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Dear websites: We don't want your f**king apps
Hey, websites asking you to download a separate mobile app, the Internet has a message for you: We don't want your f**king app. Having an app to browse a website is dumb. A well-designed website is...
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The Morning GIF: Tumblr newcomer is already a premier shock artist
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
View Article5 reasons Tumblr is doomed if Yahoo buys it
Aja Romano contributed to this report. If the sad state of Flickr, the rotting carcass of Delicious, and the ghost of GeoCities are any indication, having Yahoo add Tumblr to its smelly domain locker...
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Brace yourselves: Your Tumblr belongs to Yahoo now
It’s official: Tumblr is going to belong to Yahoo. After days of speculation, Yahoo’s board approved a deal to buy the popular blogging site for $1.1 billion in cash, according to the Wall Street...
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Tumblr CEO David Karp: "F**k yeah"
Tumblr cofounder and CEO David Karp has finally broken his silence about the $1.1 billion blockbuster deal between his blogging platform and Yahoo, and the 26-year-old multimillionaire has two words to...
View ArticleTumblr's massive porn stash—by the numbers
By purchasing Tumblr, Yahoo bought a lot of porn. Thousands upon thousands of blogs dedicated to porn. Among Tumblr's biggest 200,000 most popular domains, more than 10 percent—22,775, to be...
View ArticleWhy is Tumblr censored in Yemen?
You can't view Tumblr in Yemen. Netsweeper, the country's Canada-based Internet filtering service, thinks the whole site is porn. To be fair, the majority of Tumblr blogs—more than four out of...
View ArticleTeens really are getting sick of Facebook
There have been rumblings about Facebook's teen crisis for months—some fairly reliable, others not so much. Thanks to an exhaustive study from the Pew Research Center, we've finally got pretty solid...
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Tumblr's advertising problem summed up in 1 orange cat
Now that Yahoo has purchased Tumblr, a good deal of speculation has gone into the question of, you know, what the hell Yahoo is going to do with it. A blog post by noted media analyst John Battelle...
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Why Yahoo can't buy fandom on Tumblr
We know you're already sick of hearing about Tumblr porn and how Yahoo will keep the kids safe. Just think how actual Tumblr users feel. Still, there's one aspect of the $1.1 billion Yahoo-Tumblr deal...
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Pug Life: The triumphant return of Tumblr's Every Pug in New York
Graphic designer Courtney Andujar is New York's preeminent pug paparazzo. Only instead of capturing the short wrinkly pooches exploring the concrete jungle with a camera, Andujar uses a sketchpad and...
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High school senior quotes @Horse_ebooks in yearbook
Around nine months ago, a Tumblr user named Emily made a promise to her followers. If she received more than 500 notes on one of her posts, she pledged to use a tweet from @Horse_ebooks, Twitter's...
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AnimatedText makes pop culture phrases actually pop
Geocities nostalgia meets modern pop culture: Thanks to one popular Tumblr blog, the popular phrases of today are being given new life by the special effects of yesterday."I fell in love with animated...
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