“I just know what we all should know by now: that no one who has lived publicly, online or off, has a spotless record.”— Liat Kaplan, nytimes.com
“The real scandal of Tumblr isn’t that it’s now worth a fraction of its former selling price. The scandal is that Tumblr was ever valued so highly at all.”— Christopher Mims, wsj.com
“Ever since Tumblr's puritanical overhaul, the site has now seen about a 30 percent decline in traffic. That number is likely not just users looking for a well-developed porn platform either.”— Justin Kirkland, esquire.com
“I would like to give people another perspective on events like Tumblr banning female-presenting nipples or Patreon dropping right-wing YouTubers or Twitter constantly introducing new algorithms that misfire and ban random groups of people. These companies aren’t inherently censorious. They’re just a…”— Scott Alexander, slatestarcodex.com
“Just as black Twitter gave voice and audience to black writers, Tumblr created the space for sexually nonnormative people to see and be seen in ways they weren’t elsewhere.”— Steven W. Thrasher, theatlantic.com
“Porn on Tumblr wasn’t treated as disposable, something just to be immediately purged from your browser history, but an aesthetic, artistic component of your page and your life, alongside your complementary colours of sunsets and song lyrics and personal posts.”— Vex Ashley, medium.com
“If anything, it proves just the opposite, smashing the theory that women don’t enjoy porn. In reality, many do—we just might not be as into the content being offered by the mainstream industry.”— Alana Hope Levinson, glamour.com
“Snail mail might never make a comeback, but the pleasures of one-on-one communication are evergreen.”— Jeremy Gordon, theoutline.com
“Tumblr was something I REALLY wanted that nobody else was making. ‘Tumblr’ was based on the word ‘tumblelog’ which was coined to describe this type of blog.”— David Karp, davidslog.com
“I’m so tired of the ‘If you’re a communist why do you use a phone and the internet’ argument. Literally who the fuck thinks they’re being clever with this? If I could abstain from technology and it would ensure no one would starve or be homeless, and no harm would be done to the environment I would…”— anarchyisfunandfre, anarchyisfunandfree.tumblr.com
“If you think communism threatens your individuality, it’s because your individuality is so commodified under capitalism you literally can’t envision constructing an identity around anything but participation in capitalism (material possessions, purchases, property, etc.).”— anarchyisfunandfree, 122mg.tumblr.com
“Sometimes you think you’re giving a person the world but you’re not. Sometimes your world is not their world.”— Sue Zhao, blossomfully.tumblr.com
“I’m the person who leaves every single event without saying bye don’t even question it I hate saying goodbye I don’t want to hug you just let me disappear into the night like I’m batman.”— Unknown, vangoghmg.tumblr.com
“this is mean and terrible but it exhausts me to be around people who haven’t finished going through their pretentious asshole phase like okay holden caulfield I know we’re all helplessly suckling at the teat of modern media but can you shut up and play some goddamn mario kart for like five minutes.”— exeggcute, exeggcute.tumblr.com
“I never make the same mistake twice. I make it like five or six times, just to be sure.”— bitchycode, bitchycode.tumblr.com
“me at a party, casually: Yeah just cried in the bathroom, love the lighting”— caradelrey, caradelrey.tumblr.com
“i love just being alone.. doing a facemask.. dealing with emotional trauma alone.. LOVE it.”— theteenytinygirl, theteenytinygirl.tumblr.com
“Imma start charging people for hurting my feelings $3 a minute.”— feelingsfeeler, feelingsfeeler.tumblr.com