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John Green doesn’t use his Tumblr much anymore. If I did, I'd ask them to make video work, not to change reblogging.- John Green July 26, 2018

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I've never talked to anyone at tumblr about how to make their web site better. I don't know how that rumor started, but it isn't true. I never asked tumblr to change any of its features, including that one. It was around this time that Tumblr got rid of editing reblogs (though extensions by third-parties can implement it - useful for its innocent purposes!), and though it’s definitely not confirmed that this edited John Green post contributed to the feature’s removal, there’s a persistent and pretty harmful rumor that this was the case. The original John Green reblog is now deleted, but there’s a copy on Tyler Oakley’s blog (be warned, it’s very, very NSFW). So someone took a post by John Green and edited it to be very sexually explicit. Editing also allowed users to get rid of artist’s captions and, even worse, alter people’s words. Yes, the potential for mayhem and misinformation was high! The feature was regularly used on roleplay blogs in order to trim down posts, but most people just used it to get rid of unnecessary additions (there’s always the one person who adds “Lol this is funny” for no real reason). This was back when Tumblr allowed us to edit other people’s posts when you reblogged them. Cass Marshall John Green and the “reason” we don’t have editable reblogs anymore:īoth Hank and John Green - YouTube personalities and authors of young-adult fiction - were pretty active on Tumblr in the early 2010s, but because of the fickle nature of social media, and the certain hive-mind tendencies of particular subsections of Tumblr, a lot of users eventually turned on them around 2015. While Darling criticized the raid as a “waste of time” in an interview with a local paper, Darling was arrested and jailed in 2016. Buzzfeed covered the controversy, now known as “Boneghazi,” and authorities raided Darling’s home to find a collection of bones on an altar. Some Tumblr users defended Darling as a queer POC who was simply practicing traditional African religions. Darling offered to send the bones to users if they would cover shipping. That user, a self-described witch named Ender Darling, posted about how they would visit the ‘poor man’s graveyard’ near their house and collect the bones that washed up during heavy rains. In the most widely publicized incident, a Tumblr user was accused of stealing bones from cemeteries in Louisiana in 2016. Let us preface this with the fact that, for some inane reason, there’s not just one single instance of bone-stealing drama on Tumblr, but at least three that are widely well-known.

#NEW TUMBLR ARCHIVE#

In celebration of our favorite wacky website, we’ve decided to archive some very specific Tumblr stories that you just can’t get on the ol’ Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or Instagram. Wild Twitter exposes and threads? Yeah, that’s nothing compared to Constable Frozen, Dashcon and the Mishapocalypse. There’s just an inherent weirdness so deeply set inside of Tumblr that no other website really quite matches - a weirdness that births absolutely wild stories on the regular. But one thing’s for certain: Everyone’s talking about Tumblr on main. Whether these new policies will spell the decline of the website and a mass migration to other sites, or if they’ll be another blip on Tumblr’s vast resume, has still yet to be determined. Tumblr’s new guidelines on NSFW content loom overhead for its users, and the internet is unsure of how to process all of it.

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