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Match Charlie Brown with Smiths lyrics in the most depressing Tumblr ever
For a cartoon, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang can sometimes be really existential. In the vein of Garfield Minus Garfield, This Charming Charlie is a single-serving Tumblr that pairs Peanuts with...
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How a Tumblr post kept a family from losing their home
Danielle Walters couldn't sit back and watch her family fall apart. Her mother, Noelle Walters-Davis, had just been laid off from her job at a local bank after eight years, and her step-dad had just...
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Best GIF-bot ever spews out random scenes from HBO's "The Wire"
Automating fandom may be the future—at least according to this new robot that makes animated GIFs out of random scenes from the beloved HBO series The Wire. The TV and movie GIFs that cover Tumblr...
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Get lost in this gorgeous pixel scenery
Pixels are something designers have long endeavored to conceal from the human eye. Ideally, the thinking seems to be, we wouldn’t even see that this is the building block from which digital images are...
View ArticleA student made a bad joke on Tumblr, and now he can't blog until 2018
By MAX RIVLIN-NADLER A 20-year-old in Georgia served six months in jail. On Tuesday, he pled guilty to making terroristic threats and was sentenced to five years’ probation—including a ban from social...
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Head of U.S. intelligence joins Tumblr, forgets to add GIFs
The highest intelligence office in the U.S. knows just how to present its recently declassified trove of court opinions and memos about its spying practices. Start a Tumblr. That's what the kids do...
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Tangled Web: I'm tired of my friend's pedantic posts
Thanks to the Internet, we now have a host of new ways to offend, enrage, misinterpret, creep out, or alienate people. In the Tangled Web, we field your questions about how to be a decent human online....
View ArticleAlleged racial profiling on JetBlue exposed in viral Tumblr post
New stories about TSA misconduct come to light every day. But this one, from Tumblr user Aditya Mukerjee, is particularly horrifying. In his Tumblr post, Mukerjee, a Boston-based data scientist, said...
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How to survive a Tumblr hoax in 6 not-so-easy steps
Tumblr, despite being a warm and fuzzy land of freedom and cat GIFs, is also a confusing wasteland where true information goes to die. In a world where no one fact-checks anything, users are dead...
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GIF Hell tracks the most popular GIFs on Twitter
The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) Sunday night were the first real test of a redditor’s grand experiment to track the most popular GIFs on Twitter in real time. His site, aptly called GIF Hell (may...
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Everything wrong with 'Teen Wolf' explained in 4 charts
Once upon a time, “jumping the shark” meant introducing some ridiculous plot line or new gimmick. But for Teen Wolf fans, that was never a problem. Constant shirtlessness from all the male actors?...
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If Miley Cyrus twerked on world news, would America finally care?
Yesterday, the Onion threw a nice right hook at CNN for running an article about Miley Cyrus’s Sunday night VMA performance above breaking world news. Think pieces about Cyrus’s sexuality popped up...
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How a popular GIF artist got on Tumblr's bad side
A popular Tumblr-based GIF artist and editor has been forced by the company to change the name of his blog for violating its trademark guidelines. Despite running his blog under the name Gnumblr for...
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Teens take selfies at the most inappropriate places in the world
Selfies are tearing the Internet apart. A new study found that posting too many selfies online is ruining people’s lives, and yet teenagers’ desire to Instagram everything continues its path of...
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Tumblr's sultan of scream unveils a haunting GIF saga
Colin Raff is Tumblr's premier horror artist, a GIF virtuoso capable of keeping you up all night. Since December 2010, Raff's been producing black-and-white GIFs that are haunting pieces of art,...
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Why settle for 'social butterfly blue'?
If you thought social media had already invaded every aspect of your life, a recent photo tweeted by Bianca Bosker, the executive tech editor of the Huffington Post, may just change your mind. Thanks...
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We now have a great excuse to send astronauts to the moon
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, Tumblr, or...
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Is Foo-chan the next big Internet cat?
You’ve met Grumpy Cat. You’ve met Lil Bub. Now meet Foo-chan, a Japanese feline destined to be known far and wide across the Internet as “Disappointed Cat.” Can we get these three in one stadium rock...
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Are the Simple Pickup videos harmless fun or sexual assault?
Though the pickup artist YouTube channel Simple Pickup has been around for at least two years and has more than 1 million followers, the videos didn’t come to Tumblr’s attention until a recent upload...
View ArticleSexist troll lists the 'Worst Women of Twitter'
Plenty of people—of both genders—are unfunny or just plain uninteresting on Twitter. The normal response to this would be to unfollow the account in question, or hey, get off Twitter entirely! Or, if...
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