From the outside, Tumblr looks like a mess. As a platform that has become the main hub for people who like fanart, fanfiction and talking about ships, Tumblr has gained a reputation for creators being ...

Since its inception in 2007, Tumblr has been famously (perhaps infamously) lax about its policies when it comes to NSFW posts. But in an effort to clean up its image in the name of creating “the most ...

The Tumblr community often refers to itself as the Wild West of the internet, and they’re not wrong. A text post with over 70,000 notes puts it best: “Tumblr is my favorite social media site because ...

Infighting and backlash among Heated Rivalry fans is most pronounced on X—fueled in part by censorship-driven migration from platforms like Tumblr. “I was in my early twenties, I was trying to move to ...

During its heyday from 2010 to 2015, Tumblr was its own vast universe made up of every fandom, aesthetic, and subculture imaginable. In the rearview, a singular Tumblr era has taken hold of the ...

There's being a fan of something and there's being in its fandom. Being in the fandom of any particular property means a person identifies with their love for that thing and seeks out a community of ...

Tumblr is a universe all its own. A part of and reacting to the "mainstream" world, yet simultaneously wholly separate, it basically declared itself in large sections a proud subculture right around ...