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'''Tumblr''' is a site that allows for photo or art blogs. In practice, it's somewhat similar to Livejournal and DeviantArt, and wouldn't really warrant any interest from the *chans or /tg/ in general if it weren't for the fact that there's a number of artists on tumblr catering to [[PROMOTIONS|some]] [[Warhammer 40,000|of]] [[Hot Chicks|/tg/'s]] [[Monstergirls|many]] [[Slaanesh|interests]], and that it is home to what is, unequivocally, one of the most hostile, toxic, rancid userbases ever encountered on any sub-section of the tubernets ''ever''. [[AnonTalk]] may have been an over-glorified pedophile haven that put out enough spam to shut down multiple chans for days at a time, and sites like [[Evony]] may be infamous for spamming their shitty advertisements to the point of essentially requiring Adblock to avoid them, but Tumblr is somehow, remarkably, ''more hated than most of the above.'' During its fairly brief history with the *chans, Tumblr has successfully managed to piss off every single community on ''all of them'', which is a hell of an accomplishment considering that many boards will have absolutely nothing to do with one another under normal circumstances.
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'''Tumblr''' is a free microblogging platform owned and operated by Verizon. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private, if desired. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. This enables, in theory, a stream of content even if a given blogger is not able to actively update that often. In practice, Tumblr's ability to reblog individual blogs tends to lead to a lot of flat-out cropped content from other blogs, but that's not what brought it to [[/tg/]]'s notice. The site wouldn't really warrant any interest from the *chans or /tg/ in general if it weren't for the fact that there were a number of artists on tumblr [[/d/|catering]] [[/aco/|to]] [[PROMOTIONS|some]] [[Warhammer 40,000|of]] [[Hot Chicks|/tg/'s]] [[Monstergirls|many]] [[Slaanesh|interests]], and its often stormy relationship with the chans for reasons too complex to describe in depth within the scope of this article. If you really care [https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Tumblr go ask ED.]


==What is Tumblr?==
==Notoriety==
Tumblr is a microblogging platform owned and operated by Yahoo! Incorporated. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private, if desired. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. This enables, in theory, a stream of content even if a given blogger is not able to actively update that often. In practice, Tumblr's ability to reblog individual blogs tends to lead to a lot of flat-out cropped content from other blogs, but that's not what brought it to /tg/'s notice.
To make an increasingly long and irritating story short, Tumblr's heavy association as a gathering place for the [[SJW|terminally offended]] and their crusade against all things fun and entertaining clashes with *chan's atmosphere of no-holds-barred, obnoxious irreverence. Additionally, microblogs, specifically the emphasis on every user having his own name and writing about himself, tends to cause friction with a userbase of ([[tripfag|mostly]]) anonymous masses that shun all notions of identity.  For what it is worth both groups have more crossover than they would generally care to admit, as evidenced by the "/co/umblr" phenomenon.


==Tumblr and the War Against Everyone==
Of course, Tumblr isn't ''all'' leftist whackjobs circlejerking from their college's Starbucks. Much like how neo-Nazis and paleoconservatives drown out the ancaps and libertarians on [[/pol/]], the filter-bubbling, popularity-contest atmosphere of Tumblr means that of the varied political opinions found on the site only the whackos ever make their way out. Most of the site is memes and porn, artists [[/d/|putting dicks on things that should never have dicks]], and some hobby-related complaining mixed with batshit insane wackos trying to ship fictional characters with the seriousness of an elderly grandparent who wants grandchildren. Bear in mind that, thanks to algorithms trying to determine what content to suggest to you on the site, clicking mostly on things that offend you will eventually result in only seeing things that will piss you off and enforce a confirmation bias that the site is full of your political opposite.
What has become one of the most hated, bitterly-resented communities on the entire internet has emerged from Tumblr in the last few years: the now-notorious ''Social Justice Warrior''.  


It ''must'' be noted: This moniker is something of a misnomer, and many have argued it has lost all meaning (more on that below). At a glance, Social Justice is a ''good'' thing, after all; you'd be hard-pressed to find people who ''don't'' think that basic things like equality, helping the less fortunate, and the right of a fa/tg/uy or ca/tg/irl to [[Jim|to choose the waifu/husbandu of his/her choice]] is a fucking good thing. The tragedy is that this is not what the so-called SJW community actually accomplishes.
Our suggestion: ''Come for the art, stay for the porn, leave when people start talking about their opinions.''


Much how a very similar movement on the flip-side of the equation has been largely hijacked by assholes, the SJW movement succumbed to a [[Chaos|cancer from within]]. As time went on, they revealed ''not'' a group of passionate people that want to effect actual change, but rather, a member of good-intentioned but misguided individuals who use social advocacy as a crutch to vent frustration through the Internet. Let's, for example, say someone does something stupid on Facebook (a stretch, I'm aware), and posts something ignorant, but doesn't realize it's offensive. For our example in this little bubble, let's say that someone posted a picture of the Black Baron from [[Anarchy Reigns|Madworld]] as an example of an antagonist that wasn't your average white dude in a [[/v/|video game]], only to realize, after the fact, that [[Salamanders|the Black Baron is actually a white dude in Blackface]], something easily missed because of the Grindhouse art style. It's an honest mistake, even if it's a stupid one, but for the sake of this argument, let's say that it's latched onto by Tumblr - [[derp|nothing is ever the same]]. The so-called SJWs, as the post goes viral, leap to the attack for the offensiveness of the post. The original poster, realizing his mistake, takes the post down and apologizes - but it's too late - the SJWs continue the assault long past any point of rationality, and vow to hound anyone who helps the poster again, for that person is a racist. And the cycle then repeats.
==Later history==
Or rather, that's how it used to be. In late November 2018 Tumblr found its app removed from the Apple store because of all the spambots. Spambots advertising porn, that have been doing so for years with no action to actually do anything about it until their money was threatened. Rather than crack down on spambots, Tumblr staff told their algorithm to start banning porn accounts with a lot of search-engine prominence. Naturally this only banned the actually good artists and didn't solve any of the problems, causing a massive backlash as artists scrambled to get unbanned. On December 3rd, Tumblr's corporate overlords announced they had learned exactly the wrong lesson and issued an ultimatum: Tumblr would be forever SFW, and the remaining porn artists had two weeks to GTFO. Following this, many NSFW content creators have taken Tumblr's advice, and have made a mad dash for greener pastures. The social justice bloggers will most likely return to Livejournal from whence they originally came, whereas the artists have spread to a wide variety of websites, vast majority going to Twitter, though in a strange turn of events has caused Newgrounds of all sites to regain popularity after over a decade of irrelevancy.


Keep in mind that the attackers, almost without exception, have ''no actual stake in the matter whatsoever'', beyond the need to see oppression where it does not exist and a general disregard for the opinions of the minority groups that they supposedly champion.
The aftermath of the Tumblr Exodus was massive and was felt throughout the site. As it turned out those NSFW artists didn't always make NSFW content, so when they left, the people who followed those blogs for SFW content also left, causing a ripple effect of mass leaving. Entire communities up and vanished from the site, leaving abandoned and deactivated blogs to the winds. In a macabre twist of fate, even after the supposed ban that was supposed to get rid of the pornbots, those bot accounts are still out and active. In fact, they are arguably worse now than before, now absentmindedly adding hearts to comment sections to try and pump their numbers. The algorithm in place to monitor for porn was and still is notoriously terrible, with things that are in no way related to porn getting flagged. Meanwhile, several [[Furry]] artists have figured out that if you drew porn that didn't necessarily involve genitals, or made the proportions so ridiculously exaggerated that they barely resembled any semblance of human anatomy, you could totally get away with posting porn. In other words, all their huffing and puffing about "females presenting nipples" only served to [[Fail| kill any interest in it being used as a platform for creators.]] Tumblr would eventually be sold to Wordpress for a paltry 3 million dollars, which is a sliver compared to the 1.1 billion Verizon bought it for. Having become all but defunct, Tumblr's remains stand as a testament to the failure of a bunch of short-sighted, greedy executives who did not understand their viewer base.


The problem with this, obviously is that even though these people may have a point on some level, they don't care about context, cause-and-effect, or balance. When they attack someone and the subject of the attack backs off and/or apologizes, it ''never'' ends there. This completely undercuts any positive argument they'd be trying to make, since, as most on /tg/ learned the first time they cracked a copy of [[Rogue Trader]], nobody is born with knowledge. You have to learn how a game is played before able to play it properly, and you have to do something stupid before doing something ''not'' stupid. That's how human learning via causality ''fucking works''.
==Art Blogs and Shit /tg/ Actually Care(d)s About==
Many blogs contain mixed SFW and [[Promotions|NSFW]], in varying degrees. Several are dead due to the Exodus and related events.


The so-called SJWs are a cancer for genuine social advocacy, because they don't actually advocate anything apart from attention-whoring - it's a politically-convenient excuse for them to succumb to mob mentality and dogpile individuals and organizations they do not like very much while avoiding any blame for their own actions. By hijacking the banner of Social Justice, they have robbed ''millions'' of people of bonafide advocates, who are now grouped under the so-called SJW umbrella, their honest-to-god ''useful'' opinions silenced by a group of assholes whose only interest in social justice is derived from a desire to seem "sensitive", a desire for the sympathy and attention of others, and the need to blame other people for their own problems. In this practice, many have taken to ''not'' calling such users SJWs, and using the much more accurate term ''[[Fags of 4chan|Tumblrfag]]'' and the even-more-accurate ''Fake Justice Warrior''.
===General===
* [http://tgweaver.tumblr.com/ tg weavers trash heap]; monster girls, you love them, I love them, we love them. A casualty of the Exodus.
* [http://tenebrascastle.tumblr.com/ Cuteanon], another /tg/ monster lewd and request artist. Another casualty of the Exodus.
* [http://guoh-art.tumblr.com/ The artist Guoh], known for taking /tg/ art requests as well as providing [[Towergirls|Kobold porn]].
* [http://bolloxtothat.tumblr.com/ bolloxtothat], another artist who also does /tg/ art requests... and [[Kobold]] porn.


It's worth noting, the Fake Justice Warriors are one slice of a bigger and uglier Tumblr [[Shit Twinkie]]. There are similar groups, only interested in mobbing and dogpiling people and dragging legitimate discourse into a sewer all across Tumblr; there are groups just as toxic and loathsome that openly espouse racism, homophobia, totalitarianism, and worse, but use ''the exact same tactics'', marking them forever as part of the same community of [[Furry|retard]]s. A similar (and possibly even more toxic) community exists on Reddit in the form of the infamous board "Shit Reddit Says"; although it was originally founded as a way of making fun of such extreme "Social Justice" advocates, it slowly but inevitably metamorphosed into the very thing it was trying to mock.
===''[[Pathfinder]]''===
* [https://thecreaturecodex.tumblr.com/ Creature Codex], a blog that gives [[Pathfinder]] stats for [[monsters]] from various sources, such as other games or [[mythology]].


==Tumblr Invades 4chan==
===''[[Shadowrun]]''===
Many have wondered what relevance Tumblr and its toxic communities have to do with /tg/.  
* [http://shadowrun.tumblr.com/ ''Shadowrun''], the official Tumblr account for ''Shadowrun''.
* [http://intothesadows.tumblr.com/ Into the Shadows], a ''Shadowrun'' and general [[Cyberpunk]] art blog.
* [http://shadowruninsp.tumblr.com/ Shadowrun Inspiration], a more generalized Cyberpunk art blog, with emphasis on ''Shadowrun''.


The answer is that they've attacked it in the past.
===Comics===
* [http://elfquest-wolfriders.tumblr.com/ Elfquest], the Elfquest main Tumblr.


''Incompetently.''
===''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''===
* [http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/ Blog of Mark Rosewater], head designer of [[Magic the Gathering|''MtG'']]. Primarily a Q&A page, with occasional links to [[fluff]] pieces or other ''Magic'' related nonsense.
* [http://whymtgcardsmith.tumblr.com/ Why MTGCardsmith?], an unofficial page that mockingly illustrates why custom ''Magic'' cards are a bad idea. Abandoned.


Apparently, in some cave someplace, a shadowy cabal of motherfuckers from [[4chan|/pol/]] decided that it had had enough of Tumblr's shit, and of constant assaults, by dickbags, on people who either didn't know any better or really weren't worthwhile targets. Having finally been pushed past the point of no return, /pol/ sent agents provocateur to incite several of the larger communities to try to attack 4chan. Anyone familiar with previous attempts to attack 4chan (such as [[AnonTalk]]'s) know full well how [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|this tends to end]], but it didn't stop /pol/ from rather brilliantly orchestrating a destruction of something it hated in a fashion that would have made [[Horus]] smile approvingly.
[[Category:Meme]]
 
[[Category:Not related]]
Things began rather simply that morning: [[/tg/]] was doing its time-honored tradition of [[/tg/ gets shit done|getting shit done]], [[/d/]] was hosting its [[Daemonette|usual fare]], being /tg/'s secret waifu, [[/v/]] was finding new ways to hate ''fucking everything'', but especially [[video games]], and [[/b/]] was having a fine time in its accursed demesne. And then, like the [[Truly Immovable Rod|Universal Stillpoint Rod]], there it was, smashing into the chans and doing no real damage, but leaving everyone else wondering [[CLANG!|what the fuck just happened]]. Veterans of internet war know that trying to fight any *chan in general is like trying to piss into its [[moot|ocean of piss]] - the denizens of each message board will rally to their homeland's defenses, and there will be a price to pay in digital blood. And though the initial attacks were largely localized to /b/, things got weird - and hilarious - when Tumblr's denizens attempted to bring the fight to /tg/ and then /d/.
[[Category:Social Media]]
 
It is worth noting that whilst /v/ had already been a victim of similar events in the past, this was for reasons not directly relevant to this article.
 
Suddenly, there was posts on /tg/ claiming that the entire board was racist and misogynist. This ended about as well as [[Rape|sending a squad of Tau Fire Warriors to fist-fight Kharn]], as /tg/'s platoon of anons/namefags/tripfags manned the defenses and returned fire with open mockery and ridicule. The most potent attack in the arsenal of the Tumblrfag - its ability to ostracize and dog-pile - proved worthless against [[Vindicare|faceless servants of /tg/]], and for the very first time, they met an enemy that, rather than drown them out with numbers, as /b/ had, would meet them head-on, impervious to their bullshit. The forces of Tumblr quickly abandoned the offensive, and discussions resumed over how faggish attempts to [[Stat me|stat]] [[Ribbon]] may or may not have been.
 
Meanwhile, on /d/, a landing craft of Tumblr's arrived, and began spamming Fake Justice Warrior talking points in /d/. Unlike /tg/, which relied on its well-worded rebuttals and take-downs, /d/ responded by saying that unless the respondants were posting more dickgirls/monstergirls/farts/etc, then there was nothing to talk about. As one tripfag put it: ''"It's really hard to argue misogyny in threads where people are posting squid-girls with dicks fucking their husbands up the ass, apparently."'' Attempts by Tumblr to continue the assault persisted for several days, after which threads dedicated to shit like [[Brundlepenis]] scared off the invaders.
 
/v/ responded the same way it does to virtually everything: with an incoherent outburst of violent [[RAGE|rage]]. To this very day even a passing mention of subjects such as feminism or Tumblr can set off a slightly-larger-than-usual firestorm of shitposting, which is, in and of itself, inevitably exacerbated by its resident troll population provoking Tumblrfags and /v/irgins alike.
 
And meanwhile, on /pol/, master manipulators sipped at their [[Martini]]s and whispered "''[[Just as Planned]]''" in between periods of complaining about how [[Racial Holy War|Jews are taking over the world]]. This later backfired when their involvement in provoking Tumblr was exposed, and as of this writing they are one of the most despised boards on 4chan.
 
The invasion ended without further incident. To this day, periodic incursions from Tumblr's forces occur (as well as the occasional troll imitating them to get a reaction from people), but like outbreaks of [[Ork|Feral Ork]]s and certain [[Necron]] awakenings, these are minor affairs that are largely ignored and periodically used for target practice by the locals.
 
==Art Blogs and Shit /tg/ Actually Cares About==
[http://tgweaver.tumblr.com/ tg weavers trash heap]: monster girls, you love them, I love them, we love them
''To Be Filled In.''

Latest revision as of 10:36, 23 June 2023

Tumblr is a free microblogging platform owned and operated by Verizon. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private, if desired. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. This enables, in theory, a stream of content even if a given blogger is not able to actively update that often. In practice, Tumblr's ability to reblog individual blogs tends to lead to a lot of flat-out cropped content from other blogs, but that's not what brought it to /tg/'s notice. The site wouldn't really warrant any interest from the *chans or /tg/ in general if it weren't for the fact that there were a number of artists on tumblr catering to some of /tg/'s many interests, and its often stormy relationship with the chans for reasons too complex to describe in depth within the scope of this article. If you really care go ask ED.

Notoriety[edit]

To make an increasingly long and irritating story short, Tumblr's heavy association as a gathering place for the terminally offended and their crusade against all things fun and entertaining clashes with *chan's atmosphere of no-holds-barred, obnoxious irreverence. Additionally, microblogs, specifically the emphasis on every user having his own name and writing about himself, tends to cause friction with a userbase of (mostly) anonymous masses that shun all notions of identity. For what it is worth both groups have more crossover than they would generally care to admit, as evidenced by the "/co/umblr" phenomenon.

Of course, Tumblr isn't all leftist whackjobs circlejerking from their college's Starbucks. Much like how neo-Nazis and paleoconservatives drown out the ancaps and libertarians on /pol/, the filter-bubbling, popularity-contest atmosphere of Tumblr means that of the varied political opinions found on the site only the whackos ever make their way out. Most of the site is memes and porn, artists putting dicks on things that should never have dicks, and some hobby-related complaining mixed with batshit insane wackos trying to ship fictional characters with the seriousness of an elderly grandparent who wants grandchildren. Bear in mind that, thanks to algorithms trying to determine what content to suggest to you on the site, clicking mostly on things that offend you will eventually result in only seeing things that will piss you off and enforce a confirmation bias that the site is full of your political opposite.

Our suggestion: Come for the art, stay for the porn, leave when people start talking about their opinions.

Later history[edit]

Or rather, that's how it used to be. In late November 2018 Tumblr found its app removed from the Apple store because of all the spambots. Spambots advertising porn, that have been doing so for years with no action to actually do anything about it until their money was threatened. Rather than crack down on spambots, Tumblr staff told their algorithm to start banning porn accounts with a lot of search-engine prominence. Naturally this only banned the actually good artists and didn't solve any of the problems, causing a massive backlash as artists scrambled to get unbanned. On December 3rd, Tumblr's corporate overlords announced they had learned exactly the wrong lesson and issued an ultimatum: Tumblr would be forever SFW, and the remaining porn artists had two weeks to GTFO. Following this, many NSFW content creators have taken Tumblr's advice, and have made a mad dash for greener pastures. The social justice bloggers will most likely return to Livejournal from whence they originally came, whereas the artists have spread to a wide variety of websites, vast majority going to Twitter, though in a strange turn of events has caused Newgrounds of all sites to regain popularity after over a decade of irrelevancy.

The aftermath of the Tumblr Exodus was massive and was felt throughout the site. As it turned out those NSFW artists didn't always make NSFW content, so when they left, the people who followed those blogs for SFW content also left, causing a ripple effect of mass leaving. Entire communities up and vanished from the site, leaving abandoned and deactivated blogs to the winds. In a macabre twist of fate, even after the supposed ban that was supposed to get rid of the pornbots, those bot accounts are still out and active. In fact, they are arguably worse now than before, now absentmindedly adding hearts to comment sections to try and pump their numbers. The algorithm in place to monitor for porn was and still is notoriously terrible, with things that are in no way related to porn getting flagged. Meanwhile, several Furry artists have figured out that if you drew porn that didn't necessarily involve genitals, or made the proportions so ridiculously exaggerated that they barely resembled any semblance of human anatomy, you could totally get away with posting porn. In other words, all their huffing and puffing about "females presenting nipples" only served to kill any interest in it being used as a platform for creators. Tumblr would eventually be sold to Wordpress for a paltry 3 million dollars, which is a sliver compared to the 1.1 billion Verizon bought it for. Having become all but defunct, Tumblr's remains stand as a testament to the failure of a bunch of short-sighted, greedy executives who did not understand their viewer base.

Art Blogs and Shit /tg/ Actually Care(d)s About[edit]

Many blogs contain mixed SFW and NSFW, in varying degrees. Several are dead due to the Exodus and related events.

General[edit]

Pathfinder[edit]

Shadowrun[edit]

Comics[edit]

Magic: The Gathering[edit]

  • Blog of Mark Rosewater, head designer of MtG. Primarily a Q&A page, with occasional links to fluff pieces or other Magic related nonsense.
  • Why MTGCardsmith?, an unofficial page that mockingly illustrates why custom Magic cards are a bad idea. Abandoned.
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