Tumblr's trademark enforcers are not down with 'Is Tumblr Down?'
Is Tumblr down? No, but "Is Tumblr Down?", a humorous site that keeps track of the gaps in Tumblr's uptime, is. The owner of the site reports he received a letter from Tumblr earlier this week,...
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'Must Be the Honey' is the most embarrassing rebrand ever
Combine a 1990s cartoon mascot, a rapper who peaked a decade ago, and a mediocre sugary cereal, and what do you get? “Must Be the Honey,” a social media brand reboot that was almost certainly not...
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The 'Drake-ing Bad' Tumblr is as beautiful as it sounds
Sometimes citizens of the Internet hit upon a simple idea and execute it with an almost casual brilliance, causing the rest of us to wonder when we have contributed something half as important to...
View ArticleBrooklyn rappers take aim at 'Tumblr B*tches'
Brooklyn trio Hand Job Academy—comprised of emcees Ash Wednesday, Lil Thuggin’, and Clara Bizna$$—released the video for their latest jam, “Pop (Tumblr B*tches),” today. Its refrain, “Pop your bubble...
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'Sleepy Lords' Tumblr shows Parliament snoozing on the job
Sure, the American government is full of old white men, but they’re not usually so long in the tooth that passing laws is past their bedtime. But in the House of Lords, the upper brand of the U.K....
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Shibe meme jumps the corporate shark
For more than a year now, the Internet has been producing image macros and GIFs—with varying levels of wit and success—featuring Comic Sans interior monologues from that noble vulpine dog breed: the...
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Someone claiming to be Syrian Electronic Army threatens Tumblr with blackout
Someone claiming to be the Syrian Electronic Army has spammed thousands of Tumblr users with a warning. The SEA is planning some sort of "social media blackout" for October 1. Thing is, they might not...
View ArticleTumblr kicks off official book club with Rainbow Rowell's 'Fangirl'
Acclaimed Young Adult author Rainbow Rowell has been making waves across the Internet, so it’s no wonder that when Tumblr chose to start up a new book club, it did so with the most...
View ArticleThree half-brothers go West for the adventure of a lifetime
And you thought your family reunions were complicated. A man brought his two half-brothers together for the first time with a cross-country road trip—and he documented it all on Tumblr. On a Tumblr...
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Help furnish David Karp's 'mildly steampunk' apartment
T, the New York Times style magazine, followed Tumblr founder David Karp home. In a look at the millionaire microblogging guru's private domain in über-hipster Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Karp professes,...
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This hilarious Photoshop Tumblr is too surreal to explain
If you’ve ever yearned to see a romance novel called “Juggalo’s Surrender,” or look at a daguerrotype of a 19th century “black metal pioneer” named James “Diabolos” Holland, then surreal Tumblr blog...
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Tumblr GIF artist embraces old-school RPG style
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...
View ArticleFacebook keeps crushing extensions that try to make it better
Facebook, as all its company press releases maintain, is committed to continually bettering the site—in some cases, by attacking those meddling programmers who have tried to better it for themselves....
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The 'I Draw Tom Hanks' Tumblr is like a box of fanart chocolates
Are you a discerning art collector? Do you love Tom Hanks? Then a new Tumblr called I Draw Tom Hanks might just have a piece that will really tie the room together. For just $9,000, a piece of true...
View ArticleCan Tumblr help this Malaysian woman defeat sexism and go into space?
“[I]f your tampon burst while you are in space, the entire spacecraft will be spoilt.” This is just one of the many sexist comments that Malaysian would-be astronaut Roshini Muniam Rose has had to put...
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Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs Tumblr is advertising at its worst
We all have our house-hunting horror stories. A “cozy loft apartment” that turned out to be a closet with a mattress on the floor. Creepy landlords. That weird roommate who wanted you to be his...
View Article'Reblogs' is Tumblr's new anthem
Chesca Leigh spent 10 hours making a parody of Lady Gaga’s “Applause” for Tumblr, and what does the Tumblr community want? Reblogs! Leigh, who broke out on YouTube with the hilarious “Shit White Girls...
View ArticleFandom, consent, and Tumblr's Josh Macedo scandal
What do you do when a man you look up to, a man whose outspoken feminism and respect for women had enraptured an entire community of fangirls, sends you pictures of his dick? What do you do when you...
View ArticleComic book legend to sexist fan: 'You have major issues'
To call the relationship between women and comic books complicated would be putting it lightly. From the Tumblr artists who ridiculed the objectification of women in comics through the Hawkeye...
View ArticleIs ABC taking 'Once Upon a Time' fandom for granted?
The Once Upon a Time fandom is having a rough time of it—and season three of the show hasn’t even started yet. Sure, the series’ Facebook page recently reached 3 million followers, but the ABC...
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