It’s time to grab your skinny jeans and blast The Strokes: the 2014 Tumblr girl aesthetic, or Tumblrcore, is back in style. While one could argue that the indie Tumblr look never truly left, nostalgia ...

The social networking website Tumblr is a shadow of its former self now, but from about 2010 to 2016 something new was arising in it. It was generally referred to as remix culture at the time, but ...

Fifteen years ago, Tumblr changed the internet forever. Generation t examines its complex, colorful legacy. Looking back on Tumblr after all this time can feel like a fever dream. "It's that specific ...

In 2020, I wrote that “reports of Tumblr’s death have been greatly exaggerated.” An infamous ban on adult content in 2018 had sent users fleeing the platform, but it continued to be a safe haven for ...

Editor’s Note: During last Saturday’s The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium, Hyperallergic intern Arianne Wack talked to the people who attended the Brooklyn event and asked them what they thought of ...

While the other social media platforms were keeping it tidy, Tumblr was going wild. "Curated for what?!" they howled. It's often been referred to as a space where social networking and blogging meet.

Much has been written about the rise of internet art. We’ve seen URL, Twitter and Google Docs works. But until recently I hadn’t encountered Tumblr art. From its creation in 2007, Tumblr quickly ...

Off the top of my head, I couldn’t remember exactly why my fellow Tumblr users were predicting the platform’s death in November 2018. The adult-content ban, a monumental event in the site’s history ...

The dark horse social network wants to attract the users Twitter and Reddit might be losing — and to do that, it says it needs to be easier to use. The dark horse social network wants to attract the ...

If we’ve learned anything from this past year of Twitter clones, CEO fights, shitposting and bad, money-grabbing policies, it’s this: Making a social media company profitable is hard! After rolling ...