Be Nice To The Redditors - Tumblr Posts

Reddit users— you are welcome here.

A few things you should know: Tumblr doesn’t care about karma or popularity or whatever. Post whatever you want. If all you care about is being seen, you’re in the wrong place. Also, curate your feed with following and somewhat with tags, but tags can also be used for conversations, quips, witty one liners, and additional commentary. Reblogging is important, calm down on the angry discourse, and… just dive in, guys, c’mon, as long as you’re not mean we’re not gonna bully you out or anything.

Tumblr users— PLAY NICE. I know we joke about how we use a hellsite, but Reddit really is a minefield. You can’t say anything without someone screaming at you about it and everything is extremely organized into subreddits, no one cares about the people or follows anyone really, and they never use their reblog-adjacent feature. They’re gonna be confused. They might mess up. They won’t understand our inside jokes yet. They probably think we’re still like we were in 2012. Give them time and kindness. Hellsite is a safe space.

Simple. Horse,

Plus plinko,

Equals horse plinko

(No, I don’t know where this came from either, it’s just… a thing. I think it might be like vanilla extract or similar things where people just kept sending this one random thing because it was funnier every time for no reason.)

Now that my mind is on it…

For those who don’t know, Tumblr Polls were introduced very recently. One of the first big polls that existed was “let’s bake a cake,” with a whole bunch of ingredients representing the percentage of the total in the cake. Vanilla extract ended up with around 50%. Needless to say, you can’t make a cake thats 50% vanilla extract. Of course, Tumblr disagreed, and many polls after that were consumed with vanilla extract. We all just… couldn’t help but click whenever we saw it. That was a large percentage of the platform for a while… heck, I’m just excited to be able to share something I actually lived through!

Another one I missed is color theory. Artistically speaking, that’s determining which colors work well together to create the most aesthetically pleasing piece. Tumblr-ly speaking… it’s the abstract red paths painted in a children’s hospital. Someone attached a color theory chart and pointed out that “red has more positive than negative meanings” and everyone immediately fired back with sure, but it still looks like blood. This argument continued for a while. I’ll attach the original image down below so you can see, it’s not just an unfair mistreatment of the color red, it really does look like blood; also, a small taste of that argument.

Anyways, that’s all I have for now. I’ll let y’all know if I remember any more.

Some helpful tumblr jargon/references for our new friends:

Blorbo is a word you might hear a lot. Idk who uses this outside of tumblr, I know some people do, so I’m just gonna leave the urban dictionary definition here and move along.

Again, I think Spiders Georg is pretty well known, but I’m leaving this here anyways because it’s referenced fairly often in the way that the “free real estate” used to be where the guy’s face would just be slapped down somewhere out of context with no words and we’d all know.

Miette is… everything. We have all agreed that cats are little Victorian children. Miette is referenced often too, so… love her.

Ea-Nasir is the weirdest one, and the one it took me the longest to figure out. This is the transcript of a 3800 year old complaint tablet in cuneiform about Ea-Nasir the terrible copper salesman. This is the oldest recorded customer complaint in the world. People quote this one often without directly stating what it is, so if you didn’t know about it, you may not even realize there’s a reference there, or you’d skate on by and ignore it. It’s much funnier when you know the context, so… you’re welcome.

If you have any tumblr questions, ask me, and I’ll answer the best I can. Don’t be scared to ask. You’re welcome here. Hellsite is for everyone.