the funniest part of people talking about tumblr is that they act like it doesn’t exist anymore but it very much still has a large active user base in 2022
I knew that people still used tumblr even after I bounced circa 2017, and I tried getting back into tumblr two years ago. It's just all the things I liked, those communities were dead and hadn't posted in years. Even when I try to find stuff that I currently like, it's not really the same as when I was a Junior in high school and everyone I was friends with was on it. I feel like I'm 75 when i ask this, but how do you find active people on tumblr? Where are they hiding? Or at least which communities are popping off?
currently have a post sitting at almost 2000 notes and that shit feel good. especially the 99+ notification thing. 10/10. i wouldnt say im tumblr famous or anything but fuck i FEEL like i am lmao my shit doesnt get nearly as much traction anywhere else (artist)
“the tumblr era to me is what the 80s era is to my parents” is such a perfect way of phrasing it, like the intense emotions I feel when remembering this era is insane
@greatexplosionmurdergoddynamight Ye all are sad and alone and lonely? - then bother to take a look into BIBLE (KJV) AND into my playlist, to make sure, that nowhere ye find any useful information and that ye lives are truly meaningless. Who the in their right minds shall believe the last one?
Another reason why people love tumblr is that you didn’t even had to be good at writing or photography cause u were able to just reblog and express yourself with other people’s art and poetry…
i feel like after the tumblr era a lot of people also had a wattpad era? like i had a wattpad phase. and i think it was verrrryyy comparable to the tumblr phases
I think tumblr was also a very lawless land and very VERY big. When people talk about tumblr they mostly talk about the aesthetic girlie days etc. but I was on a COMPLETLY different side of tumblr. I was on the fandom side of tumblr (one direction, anime, superwholock lol). It really interests me that tumblr was SO big that people had different experiences for YEARS
THIS. To be completely honest, I had zero clue this side of Tumblr ever existed because I was convinced it was just for fandom, so its weird to see that it's like a completely different experience all together depending on what side you were on. It was the time of my life for me.
The only reason I think Tumblr was as big as it was was because it was the place people left live journal for and in some cases it got on the integrations bandwagon pretty early. I vaguely remember comments sections of other pages having a tumblr-esque setup, much like Discus seems to have these days.. That and their way of stealing EVERYTHING from web pages in a way even Pinterest hadn't at the time and it's web optimization with a less robust google algorithm meant that if something got "shared" (stolen) from another site and was reblogged like crazy, one of those Tumblr pages invariably came up in your top 5 search results, which meant you were likely to dive down a rabbit hole.
honestly same. people often talk about aesthetic girlies and indie bands and deep quotes and i used to go weeks without seeing a single human face there. the closest thing to non-fandom blog was some fanfic writer(?) i started following who slowly turned into a blog with useful life tips and recipes when she got a kid because i never had the heart to unfollow her. not so much later on because a lot of blogs branched out and changed interests over the years, so my experience nowadays is much different and more diverse than ever
Same!! And the emo side was big too, like the “holy emo trinity/quartet” The great thing about that is MCR is back, and FOB are going back to the their old style apparently
The thing about tumblr is a lot of us never left and it’s mostly really nice place now because of it. It’s all people in their late 20s just chilling. I just hope no one else comes back and ruins that
let's hope it won't turn like another Instagram ,because that was one good aspect of Tumblr the safety and coziness of it . No pressure for personal photos and gaining followers ,just vibes and anonymity when needed
WHAT?? People 18+ never left? You seem to forget that people who are 18-25 right now, RULED Tumblr back then when they were 10-17. And we aren't like 12!
I'm 26 so the peak Tumblr years occurred in late high school/early college for me. I was neck deep in fandom Tumblr at the time. Everything about this made me feel ancient.
Right?! I'm 28, and the fact that she needed to explain what Tumblr is at the beginning of the video got me like "oh man... there are actually people who don't know it nowadays"
as someone who didn't look like the tumblr girls and who DESPERATELY wanted to, i really appreciated you talking about this. that shit created Years worth of insecurities that i am Still Working Through as a 23 year old
I'm 24, and even tho my Tumblr was full of aesthetic pictures of abandoned buildings and photography in general, ProAna blogs were ALWAYS at least one of the recommended blogs 😭
Absolutely THIS except I'm 30 and I'm still not over it. I was desperate to be the 'skinny legs in thigh high socks, big side fringe and aesthetic joint rolled from a page of a book' gal but it was not to be. And I may well never be over it.
my favourite thing to come out of tumblr was HALSEY, who started as a one direction stan account and posted a song about hating taylor swift because she was dating him at the time
i was obsessed w this pale filter w blue/purple undertones and cropping my photos on ig to these tiny squares against a plain white background. anyone else did that?
nahhh bc except the plain white background tho, the pale filter w blue/purple undertones was me from the entirety of 2016-2018 💀💀💀 i specifically used the clarendon filter a LOT
I was 15-19 years old during peak tumblr era and I feel so nostalgic for that time! I still feel nostalgic for it despite struggling with an eating disorder and being depression during that time (that I have since overcame). I guess I felt like myself and it was the only time I felt “cool”. Now I am 27 and have conformed to all social norms including style and dress from being in the conservative medical profession. 15-19 year old me would be so disappointed 😢 Still listen to all the same music though ❤ that indie girl is still inside me.
As someone who has been casually to not so casually been on tumblr since 2013, tumblr is now a super calm app to be on. any social pressure/curation that is on other forms of social media like instagram, just doesn't exist (at least on my side of the website). Other aesthetics like cottagecore have taken over, but you can also just be on there for memes or fandom stuff. For me, its a nice blend where I don't really have to attach my identity to it and I can turn my brain off
exactly! for example, I am in the will wood fandom (if you count tell by my yt channel and pfp) and there are so many fun posts about will wood on there. all the fandoms on there are just so much fun
I remember being 16/17 and going to London with my best friend because that's where all the cool things were at the time, seeing the 1975 in concert, getting my first tattoos. I'm 25 now and I feel incredibly old but I look back at those years with so much fondness.
Lmao the bot, but came to say as a fellow 25yo don’t let the teens make u think ur old. This is something I struggle with but also remind myself tf I’m literally in my twenties I AM young and if we waste these years feeling old whenever we actually become old we’ll regret it
Fellow OCD girlie, I absolutely get that severe nostalgia feeling. I look at videos of me hanging out with my friends and just cry and feel sick immense longing for whatever time that was
I feel like a reason behind this is because a lot of people who wished they were a "tumblr girly" have come to an age where they can wear whatever they want, spend their money on clothes that they want, so we are seeing more people dressing how they always wanted to? idk my perception (: nice video too!
Proana and thinso isn't exclusive to tumblr and tiktok, it has been active on twitter for years. Same with self harm and romanticizing mental illness. I think the only way to avoid seeing content like that is to block and make effort to avoid it, because there are people who will always find a way to post it- different hashtags, photos or videos.
It’s all over Instagram and WhatsApp/snaps. I remember having an account there were like supporting each other like you had a budy. I was around 14-15 I obviously knew better and new that it was bad but I joined in. I’m really grateful I was able to get out of it. I would’ve thought we would be better at protecting and blocking that type of content by now. I don’t know what the solution to the problem is but it’s really sad to hear that it’s continuing.
pros of tumblr coming back: i'm an adult and i have the resources to fulfill my biggest tumblr fantasies cons: the reason i'm nostalgic for it is because it's from a time in my life when i didn't have real responsibilities so it won't feel the same 😢
i learned so much about race, gender, s*x, and the world on tumblr. it truly shaped my childhood, politics, and sense of humor. As much of a shitshow as it was, it felt like community, and it was my escape every day from the stress of high school. I even learned how to code and ended up creating a successful theme blog which gave me some self confidence. As I grew out of my 'this tv show is my identity' era, I drifted away from tumblr, and when i went to college I became fed up with the hyper vigillant cancelling on tumblr in fandom blogs. I also got busy with life though lol. I would love to have some of these aspects come back to online culture but parts of it I hope we can leave in 2014 😅
so much good and bad themes in my life in 2013-2015 came from tumblr, what a weird time and i only recently realized the impact it had on me and omg i wish more people would talk about it
the amount of pain it brings me to remember that I wore ironic graphic tee shirts and was deep into fandom to the point of being plugged into my computer. I was having the most fun being cringy and having crazy emotions while also wallowing in a weird sadness that had no place being there. Being 13 was weird but honestly wish I could relive how much I felt.
Honestly same. Even though I’m on the middle spectrum in gen z, being 13 was a very sad yet thrilling experience. I could obsess over fictional guys and explore my fashion (was very into the 80s), as well as just have fun on the internet and explore my wild imagination.
What’s really messed up is that when I was desperate to be a tumblr girl in 2013-2014 I was too broke to afford the clothes and experiences and now when it’s coming back in style… I’m once again not financially ready to be spending money on clothes and experiences
The fact that I just very recently got tumblr for the first time in my life and I dress/live my life like an emo boy in the early 2000's because I was a small child at that time and now you upload this video. I always loved the whole emo scene culture and so it's now my life as a senior in high school.
I used it for the first time around 3 years ago...I am in my late 20s. But to be fair I'm using it to follow a Marie Antoinette blog, a fanfic smut blog, to post pics of food and Halloween costumes I've made. And last but not least to vent my issues in peace.
Oh my god same. I was too young to participate in the emo subculture the 1st time so now I am able to actually dress and live like the scene girl i always wanted to be at the age of 17, almost 18 in a few days 😭😭
I've been watching you for years, and just want to say that I am so impressed with the way you mix humor, vulnerability, and insight together so naturally and seamlessly!! Your content has been so creative and great lately, keep it up :)
I was too young. 13 probably. And I have a box of notebook full to the brim of whatever quote I could find on tumblr. It is so funny to read such serious quotes in my child handwriting...but also kind of sad.
i once made this whole video essay about the “downtown girl” aesthetic and what it represents. In this video i said that the reason to why the 00s and the 2010’s are coming back is because the people who were young at that time came back home bcs of covid and revived the nostalgia of being a teenager; growing up is hard and the internet wants to come back to the “simpler times”. Idk thats my take, thats probably more to this
another big cause that has affected the revival of “aesthetic” Tumblr is also the economic crisis we are experiencing which is very similar to the 2010s.
I just recently got a ton of face piercings and gave myself the emo fringe that covers one of my eyes. And honestly? The 12 year old me that still lives inside my brain is SO HAPPY about it
i’ve been on tumblr since 2014 and i still use it. i miss the old tumblr era (for nostalgia), but i’m glad it’s over. i was on fandom tumblr (superwholock had a chokehold on me) so i wasn’t super involved in the romanticization of illnesses and ED, but even then, it was so toxic and i didn’t realize it until much later. now i run a semi-successful wholesome study blog now and don’t have tiktok, so ig its alright.
I remember back in the old tumblr days I was part of the Bones fandom and we had to create a whole new tag for ourselves to not see the thinspo blogs. Tiktok to me is so scary because you can't do what we used to do, there is no "oh we'll create another tag for this."
I feel like tagging as a whole with specific attention to tagging triggers has been ruined by newer algorithms censoring language. rather than "TW: anorexia" for that sort of stuff, you'd now see something like "TW: @n0r3x1@" and a million other versions which are impossible to filter out even if tiktok let you block tags
wow i had a different tumblr memory in 2013-2015. I was on the kawaii side, beatlemania, X-Men and studio ghibli side of tumblr, it's really random mix I know haha but it was a good time. I loved tumblr so much because my friends and classmates at that time weren't sharing any of those interests but I found it online. Super thankful tho that i dodged some of the toxic sides of tumblr
Your outfit looks lovely💜 The romanticisation of mental illness is definitely not a good part of tumblr, but the punk/indie style that was popularised is pretty nice (in my opinion). Not to mention people who were kids/teenagers during that 'era' but young adults now, can try this style out without being restricted by parents, a school's dress code etc
tumblr holds so much nostalgia for me and really influenced who i am today (and i still lowkey use it lmao). it did expose me to things when i was definitely too young but unfortunately that's the internet and i'm seeing that happen SO MUCH with tiktok. i'm all for the tumblr aesthetic resurgerence though because i can also finally access the fashion and see my favorite bands from those eras :')
you're whole thing about being too attached to nostalgia made me realize that i really never have had a truly unique experience in my life. seriously though this video describes that era of wanting to go back to the prime tumblr days -because we loved experiencing it or we had to watch it from the sidelines because we weren't old enough to experience it- perfectly
The scent thing is so funny and relatable omg. I did not grow up in a good environment and Tumblr was my escape and the way my room smelled during those times.. I still smell it and feel nostalgia for it
I once had Tumblr but was locked out of the account in 2016. It was my safe space and made me take my mental health a lot more seriously, I didn't feel as alone because there were community of people who went through the same struggle as I did and we helped each other in terms of mental health awareness. Tumblr was beneficial for me.
I had the same experience !! went through messy family times at 12-13 and I don't even know how I stumbled upon the good side of tumblr. having no support at home, literal strangers on the internet helped me with my mental health when things started to get serious. ofcourse it didn't give me the proper (offline) help I needed but this was a start of my mental health journey and the reason why I'm now a huge advocate for mental care/wellness at 22. (annnd as an eastern european I basically learned english on tumblr and was introduced to a whole new world of western/american culture which is also a plus haha)
I've never heard a better explanation of what it feels like to be nostalgic of so many things (good and bad) of the past I literally gasped because I didn't know other people felt that way. I'd love to hear you talk about it more in a future video (or anywhere really) and give your opinion/ how you deal with it because it's so overwhelming at times. Thanks for validating my feelings!!
it's so interesting learning how people spent their years on tumblr, because there are so many different sides to the website. you seem to have been part of Aesthetic Tumblr/Music Tumblr, whereas i was very much in Fandom Tumblr and Photography Tumblr. and all of these had a different community, a different feeling to them. my tumblr years were 2011-2016 (i still use tumblr now but that's when i would spend like hours upon hours on there) and tbh being in fandoms there is the most fun i've ever had as a Fan Of Things. tumblr is perfect for fandoms because of its interface and its tagging system. posting art/graphics/gifsets is the most comfortable on tumblr out of all the social media i've used. and finding things on there like fanart/fanfics is also very convenient thanks to the tagging system. i drew so much inspiration from fanartists, gifmakers etc. that i started making gifs as well, and to this day i really enjoy it!! it helped me with my photography and photoshop skills, it's a great creative outlet for me. the other thing i love about tumblr is that you really CAN curate your dashboard (although you do get ads and recommendations now which is annoying). twitter feels like everyone is packed in a room, screaming at all times, whereas tumblr is just like... separate little forts of people, and i love that. i know this will sound horrible, but i was first introduced to feminism/social justice on tumblr lmao HEAR ME OUT, it obviously wasn't the best place to get that info from and it was very flawed, but there were so many discussions on social justice happening there that it propelled me to try and learn more, and be more self-aware of my own internal bias!! so if we're bringing tumblr back, i only want the good stuff. i want the fandom experience and the photos, the moodboards, but for the love of HELL we need to get rid of the bad parts. ps: i am THE EXACT SAME when it comes to nostalgia, i do the same thing with early 00s music. it's my favourite era in music as a whole, along with late 90s, and one of the reasons why is because those were my pre-teen years. also because the music fucking SLAPS
I also have serious nostalgia issues 😅 i am genuinely shaking with excitement over the fact that the tumblr era is coming back because I missed the chance to take part of it because of being a teenager and now I can partake
Haven't watched the full video yet, but I've been on tumblr since 2010 and it's been a pretty nice experience overall in my little corner of it with my mutuals and the other people whose blogs I've chosen to follow... then again I was 18 in 2010 and the site wasn't much of an influence on me in my teens.
No because that mature content ban was more than necessary. At one point I saw some children (under 7) doing things se-ually they shouldn’t even KNOW about and I felt sick to my stomach at like 15-16 not knowing what to do about what I saw. I remember reporting some but I didn’t use the app for a while after. What’s funny is I had a feed for sims, books and this one couple that did really aesthetic like bedroom photography. Never even got the Ana stuff but i think self harm would pop up sometimes? Idk it was a lot. I just don’t think tumbler had a strong enough algorithm to keep CP out of the app. It was a big change but I felt it was def needed to keep some people safe
I remember when I was introduced to Tumblr by one of my seniors in highschool. I was also super into the sad depressed aesthetic which really was a bad influence. All those blogs that glorified the mental illness and all that really messed with my head. I now go to therapy and all that but definitely shouldve started a long time ago. The drip is still lit tho.
Tumblr era is definitely one of the most nostalgic points in my life. Used it when I was way too young though. It practically influenced a small portion of who I am today ( in terms of fashion and music ).
tumblr is a GREAT example of websites presenting very very very differently depending on how you interact with them. for example, while a lot of people were reblogging soft grunge and arctic monkeys, i was DEEP in the 2012 dreamworks rise of the guardians tumblr fandom. when frozen came out a year later so many people thought jack frost and elsa should kiss
Honestly, I never was on Tumblr, but I was late grunge girlie, and I know and hate the era for me personally, because I definitely was introduced to stuff I shouldn't have known way too early. The reason I think the era is coming back so early, is because we're in another economic crisis, similarly to early 2010's, and as you said, we're returning more quickly to that comfort of our childhoods, because many of us know that after the pandemic and now house and energy bills stacking higher than before, we cannot afford the luxury and messiness of 2000's, it's just not possible. The Tumlbr aesthetics all were about the simplicity of the aesthetics, and could be easily adapted, in terms of fashion, in terms of music, anyone can make a band in a garage, and sing about their struggles, and more... But at the same time I hope new things come out of this era, I really hope it's accompanied with the black Punk resurgence (rico nasty, Wilow, etc..).
The tumblr era for me as someone who experienced all of it was pretty bad for like feeling like you needed a label, an a aesthetic and rlly didn’t help me with my traumas at the time especially ed stuff 😭😭😭
as someone who was the exact right age for tumblr, but grew up hyper-sheltered with few friends and no internet/pop culture only to find out about tumblr in 2018 and realize that i was not, in fact, the only person being Like That in 2012... i am so fucking happy to get a second shot at just. ROLLING in the trash fire that is fandomblr
The way you talk about tumblr and your experience with it being a 14 year old and listening to songs while scrolling and reblogging is EXACTLY my experience in Pinterest. Pinterest definitely has a whole community for fashion and memes. I made so many friends on there. Especially related to the part where you would cry over a heartbreak you never experience.History repeats I guess
Glamorizing drug use... Yup, been there. Done that. I'd actually fantasize about becoming addicted to "pills" (cause coke and heroin were not aesthetic) and my crush being so concerned and heartbroken 💀
oml the nostalgia problem got me!!! I smelled a specific face wash that I used to wash my masks freshman year of college during covid and I got nostalgic even though I cried all the time and pretty much relapsed with all my mental health problems. But for some reason the smell of that face wash made me want to go back to being stuck in my prison cell dorm room all the time crying over chemistry.
You are literally me 20 years ago. Even down to the Smiths t shirt. I just saw Moz, btw, like 2 weeks ago! I love your vids, Nikki! I’m home from work today and I’ve had your vids on play all day. You are such a conscientious young lady, and YOU ARE FUNNY! Just wanted to throw some love your way. ❤️
It's always funny hearing people talk about their time on tumblr because its just so wildly different depending on the person. Despite using it daily for like over half a decade I never went through the whole 'tumblr-girl" phase because I was stuck up to my neck in the Homestuck fandom. What a site.
This was the peak of my life I was in high school/college during the Tumblr Era and I was THRIVING. I’m kinda turning back into that aesthetic because I’m trying to appeal my inner child after growing up severely traumatized. Trying to allow myself to be young at heart again.
i feel very alone in that i never truly understood tumblr or how to use it, even after having it explained multiple times over the years & attempting to use it almost as many times. it’s probably something to do with my severe ND but i understand the culture around it for the most part, just not the platform itself. i always related heavily but i also didn’t, in a way. i don’t know if that made any sense, i ultimately just feel like i never know what’s going on when the concept of tumblr as this incredible thing gets brought up.
tumblr has a really steep learning curve. it will suck for quite a while because there isn't the same degree of algorithm curation that you see on other platforms. you basically just have to watch who is posting stuff that you find interesting by following a few accounts then following some people they reblog from. tumblr has massive ND spaces so you could always start with following a tag like #actuallyautistic or something similar
Nicole! Your videos have been helping me through a really tough time (and I just finished watching essentially all of them!). Thank you for doing what you are doing!
Personally I don’t even just listen to those songs for comfort, as I’ve aged I’ve gained a much greater perspective on it all and my opinion of songs and concepts has changed a lot! I love seeing the growth! And also many of the artists are FANTASTIC and have continued to make great work, blue bannisters is actually my fav lana album now!
Honestly, same for everything you said. I literally have such weird nostalgia about this time period, but other teenage moments in general-- and it's bizarre since I'm in my 20s still and I had a lot of not so great things happen during these time periods as well. lmao But as soon as I see the outfits and the hair and music, I feel this intense pull to go back. I'm not sure if it's because I'm an adult and the world is kind of sucky right now and so I'm seeking comfort in wherever I can get it-- but that feeling is definitely there. Also like, the aesthetic was genuinely very cool? Like it was a cool mixup of vintage and the departing scene/emo styles. It was my first introduction to more timeless music, art, and books. It was super creative fashion-wise and it was around the time when I first started thrifting and diying clothing and I think all those things were good for a teen me to experience. The overall feeling I got from being on Tumblr at that time was this sort of opening to the world-- new friends, new fashion ideas, new art to explore. I don't really have that feeling anymore. ((also should note that I was on the fandom side mostly, seeing the fashion styles sort of trickle down into my dashboard and luckily didn't experience the worst of pro-ana culture at the time, so my experience might be different from other people's lol))
It is really wild having been not old enough to like publicly/outwardly have a 2013 tumblr phase . But I was on the site and I was there for all of this , but like you said at 13 I could not afford to participate . Which maybe was good .
While I'm loving the whole tumblr comeback because of mainly the fashion (music doesn't go out ouf style anways!!) I mainly connect it do eating disorders, self harm and mental illness but the super toxic communities revolving around these issues kinda also were my safe spaces at the time idk and I feel like I'm not the only one
Tumblr Era makes me so nostalgic, I think about it often and all the people I used to follow lol I'm thinking of going back just to see if anyone is still active
i only got to be on tumblr for about a year before it lost its popularity ig but some of the things i saw on there still stick with me. seeing aesthetics i wanted for myself only being represented by pale white girls kinda made me think i needed to stay inside and away from the sun to achieve it. i also couldn’t look up latina on tumblr because it was like a p0rn category😭🙄 whereas on tiktok it’s been much easier to find woc that have the same aesthetic and interests as me. i’m definitely in a better place now but it makes me worried for younger girls and women if the tumblr era comes back.
The fandom side of tumblr is honestly the best possible place to be part of a fandom, there's nowhere you'll get the same kind of community like there, even in 2022
I recently talked with my boyfriend about the indie genre not really having this consistent sub culture like metal or goth does, at least in our area it's was hard to find clubs after the first indie surge died down in like 2008 ish before then in tumblr era coming back a bit more commercialized. As you mentioned for yourself as well, this genre and era brings lots of nostalgia and comfort so I am all up for it hoping the newer releases in October can hold up with the feeling.
I go on Tumblr at least once a year. I am hoping to god that tumblr comes back but in a healthier way. It seems they're starting to make more frequent changes on the app to attract people to come back to it.
For as long as I've been on tumblr, I was never "in the area" of what you chatted about in the video. I've stuck with people who talk about specific movies and tv shows I'm into. I will forever love that Tumblr allows people to remain anonymous (because you can block people if need be) and there's no algorithm. You curate the experience you want.
Holy shit I DEEPLY relate to having a nostalgia problem! Like exactly how you're describing it thats me!! I find such weird comfort in when I was going through such hard times like 10 years ago lol😅
okay..I had no idea she was posting today.. and I literally bragg about how nicole is my favorite youtuber to a group of people. I love myself (and Nicole duh 😏😌)
the funniest part of people talking about tumblr is that they act like it doesn’t exist anymore but it very much still has a large active user base in 2022
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Right? Like I'm still there and so are a Lot of other people haha
I think they mean the uncensored era, tumblr is a very different environment now
@@midnightfield eww, stay there.
I knew that people still used tumblr even after I bounced circa 2017, and I tried getting back into tumblr two years ago. It's just all the things I liked, those communities were dead and hadn't posted in years. Even when I try to find stuff that I currently like, it's not really the same as when I was a Junior in high school and everyone I was friends with was on it.
I feel like I'm 75 when i ask this, but how do you find active people on tumblr? Where are they hiding? Or at least which communities are popping off?
as an ex-slightly-tumblr-famous-girl i can tell you no amount of retweets or instagram likes hit quite the same as tumblr notes did
So true
Ily ally idk how I found u here 😂
200 notes meant something! By 200 I felt fucking famous lol
this is so real
currently have a post sitting at almost 2000 notes and that shit feel good. especially the 99+ notification thing. 10/10. i wouldnt say im tumblr famous or anything but fuck i FEEL like i am lmao my shit doesnt get nearly as much traction anywhere else (artist)
i think the tumblr resurgence is because the teens of 2014 tumblr (me) are adults now and have money to live out our tumblr dreams
Yeah :,)
hella true
Agreed hehe
What money ???!!!??😂😂
Wait you're getting money?
“the tumblr era to me is what the 80s era is to my parents” is such a perfect way of phrasing it, like the intense emotions I feel when remembering this era is insane
@greatexplosionmurdergoddynamight Ye all are sad and alone and lonely? - then bother to take a look into BIBLE (KJV) AND into my playlist, to make sure, that nowhere ye find any useful information and that ye lives are truly meaningless. Who the in their right minds shall believe the last one?
yes and it’s so dark idk how to explain it :// feels like a big dark hole that could suck me back in at any moment
Yeah same. I hear sweater weather and I'm back in 2014 🥲
In the 2010s I was a twee quirky vintage Tumblr older sister with an aesthetic boho hipster Tumblr younger sister, and together we’re unstoppable.
amazing
despite this happening in the 2010s I love how you use we're, implying that you are still these things and are still unstoppable
@@justjulie1113 we’re still unstoppable!
all of those words belong together very harmoniously
I read twee as wee 💀
Another reason why people love tumblr is that you didn’t even had to be good at writing or photography cause u were able to just reblog and express yourself with other people’s art and poetry…
Yes , I still love that you can do that with Tumblr 💓
Yes! And the text posts were like the best of Twitter without the bullshit of Twitter!
>Gives one of the reasons why Tumblr users where hate.
Do you see the reason why now?
i feel like after the tumblr era a lot of people also had a wattpad era? like i had a wattpad phase. and i think it was verrrryyy comparable to the tumblr phases
mine were very much concurrent phases
LITERALLY. I have never used tumblr but I definitely had a wattpad phase in 2016-2018 ish
Let’s hear more abt THIS
I was actually Wattpad then Tumblr
lets not talk abt this
(social spirit ruined my childhood, iykyk)
I think tumblr was also a very lawless land and very VERY big. When people talk about tumblr they mostly talk about the aesthetic girlie days etc. but I was on a COMPLETLY different side of tumblr. I was on the fandom side of tumblr (one direction, anime, superwholock lol). It really interests me that tumblr was SO big that people had different experiences for YEARS
THIS. To be completely honest, I had zero clue this side of Tumblr ever existed because I was convinced it was just for fandom, so its weird to see that it's like a completely different experience all together depending on what side you were on. It was the time of my life for me.
The only reason I think Tumblr was as big as it was was because it was the place people left live journal for and in some cases it got on the integrations bandwagon pretty early. I vaguely remember comments sections of other pages having a tumblr-esque setup, much like Discus seems to have these days..
That and their way of stealing EVERYTHING from web pages in a way even Pinterest hadn't at the time and it's web optimization with a less robust google algorithm meant that if something got "shared" (stolen) from another site and was reblogged like crazy, one of those Tumblr pages invariably came up in your top 5 search results, which meant you were likely to dive down a rabbit hole.
honestly same. people often talk about aesthetic girlies and indie bands and deep quotes and i used to go weeks without seeing a single human face there. the closest thing to non-fandom blog was some fanfic writer(?) i started following who slowly turned into a blog with useful life tips and recipes when she got a kid because i never had the heart to unfollow her. not so much later on because a lot of blogs branched out and changed interests over the years, so my experience nowadays is much different and more diverse than ever
Same!! And the emo side was big too, like the “holy emo trinity/quartet”
The great thing about that is MCR is back, and FOB are going back to the their old style apparently
i had a normal account, a one direction stan account, and an ana ed account lmao it was a massive user experience
The thing about tumblr is a lot of us never left and it’s mostly really nice place now because of it. It’s all people in their late 20s just chilling. I just hope no one else comes back and ruins that
Yesss exactly that , now for me it's a peaceful place corner on the digital world that I find my artistic buddies or wannabe poets 💫❣️
it’s where the chill fandom people are now. twitter is SCARY compared to it. that’s why i joined in 2020 😭
Yesss
let's hope it won't turn like another Instagram ,because that was one good aspect of Tumblr the safety and coziness of it . No pressure for personal photos and gaining followers ,just vibes and anonymity when needed
WHAT?? People 18+ never left? You seem to forget that people who are 18-25 right now, RULED Tumblr back then when they were 10-17. And we aren't like 12!
I'm 26 so the peak Tumblr years occurred in late high school/early college for me. I was neck deep in fandom Tumblr at the time. Everything about this made me feel ancient.
Me
Same
same
Right?! I'm 28, and the fact that she needed to explain what Tumblr is at the beginning of the video got me like "oh man... there are actually people who don't know it nowadays"
We’re legitimately not old why are ppl always trying to make us feel old 😭😭😭
I wanted to be a Tumblr girl so bad when I was 13-14. I'm gonna do it though as an adult to appease the teenage goblin.
please do it
Same here!! Reclaiming what my 14/15 year old self always wanted to be
as someone who didn't look like the tumblr girls and who DESPERATELY wanted to, i really appreciated you talking about this. that shit created Years worth of insecurities that i am Still Working Through as a 23 year old
I'm 24, and even tho my Tumblr was full of aesthetic pictures of abandoned buildings and photography in general, ProAna blogs were ALWAYS at least one of the recommended blogs 😭
Absolutely THIS except I'm 30 and I'm still not over it. I was desperate to be the 'skinny legs in thigh high socks, big side fringe and aesthetic joint rolled from a page of a book' gal but it was not to be. And I may well never be over it.
girl same, i wasn't even on tumblr, but you didn't need to be there to see shit from there back then
Oof yes. I never fit the tumblr aesthetic, partially due to race, and it ate away at me in high school.
Me but with my 7th grade scene phase that I was too broke to ever fully live out
my favourite thing to come out of tumblr was HALSEY, who started as a one direction stan account and posted a song about hating taylor swift because she was dating him at the time
And the fact that she is one of Taylor’s best friend now lmao.
ALLY
I was today years old when I found this out 💀
i was obsessed w this pale filter w blue/purple undertones and cropping my photos on ig to these tiny squares against a plain white background. anyone else did that?
Yes!
100% i feel like all the pretty girls did that in all the highschools around me
nahhh bc except the plain white background tho, the pale filter w blue/purple undertones was me from the entirety of 2016-2018 💀💀💀 i specifically used the clarendon filter a LOT
I was 15-19 years old during peak tumblr era and I feel so nostalgic for that time! I still feel nostalgic for it despite struggling with an eating disorder and being depression during that time (that I have since overcame). I guess I felt like myself and it was the only time I felt “cool”. Now I am 27 and have conformed to all social norms including style and dress from being in the conservative medical profession. 15-19 year old me would be so disappointed 😢 Still listen to all the same music though ❤ that indie girl is still inside me.
I just wanna say that tumblr now is still a very fun place that I very much recommend, I created a fresh blog a couple weeks ago and I’m thriving
Omg that’s great!! I’m trying to get back lol
yes! tumblr is the one social media platform i use that doesn't give me burnout lmao
The only reason i ditched it back then was the loading times but it’s been pretty good recently so its been really fun!
it’s such a chill place now
@@patiencekillz it is it’s the best
As someone who has been casually to not so casually been on tumblr since 2013, tumblr is now a super calm app to be on. any social pressure/curation that is on other forms of social media like instagram, just doesn't exist (at least on my side of the website). Other aesthetics like cottagecore have taken over, but you can also just be on there for memes or fandom stuff. For me, its a nice blend where I don't really have to attach my identity to it and I can turn my brain off
i love it for its (relative) lack of algorithm and the chill fandom now
exactly! for example, I am in the will wood fandom (if you count tell by my yt channel and pfp) and there are so many fun posts about will wood on there. all the fandoms on there are just so much fun
I remember being 16/17 and going to London with my best friend because that's where all the cool things were at the time, seeing the 1975 in concert, getting my first tattoos. I'm 25 now and I feel incredibly old but I look back at those years with so much fondness.
THE MIDDLE FINGER IN THE BOT MESSAGE HELP
Lmao the bot, but came to say as a fellow 25yo don’t let the teens make u think ur old. This is something I struggle with but also remind myself tf I’m literally in my twenties I AM young and if we waste these years feeling old whenever we actually become old we’ll regret it
@@speranzai that helps a lot thank you. I feel old going to the 1975 now because of the new fan base. Wish pits were 25+ lol
Fellow OCD girlie, I absolutely get that severe nostalgia feeling. I look at videos of me hanging out with my friends and just cry and feel sick immense longing for whatever time that was
i’m the same way and i am diagnosed with OCD
okay but baddie nicole is what the world needs
Definitely!👁️👄👁️🤌
I feel like a reason behind this is because a lot of people who wished they were a "tumblr girly" have come to an age where they can wear whatever they want, spend their money on clothes that they want, so we are seeing more people dressing how they always wanted to? idk my perception (: nice video too!
Proana and thinso isn't exclusive to tumblr and tiktok, it has been active on twitter for years. Same with self harm and romanticizing mental illness. I think the only way to avoid seeing content like that is to block and make effort to avoid it, because there are people who will always find a way to post it- different hashtags, photos or videos.
yeah, there's even proana youtube, pintrest and instagram stuff
It’s all over Instagram and WhatsApp/snaps. I remember having an account there were like supporting each other like you had a budy. I was around 14-15 I obviously knew better and new that it was bad but I joined in. I’m really grateful I was able to get out of it. I would’ve thought we would be better at protecting and blocking that type of content by now. I don’t know what the solution to the problem is but it’s really sad to hear that it’s continuing.
Its worse on twitter than any other platform.
Hell, proana has existed before all those platform existed. I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon.
Proana forums were very popular, I can remember even as far back as 2006
pros of tumblr coming back: i'm an adult and i have the resources to fulfill my biggest tumblr fantasies
cons: the reason i'm nostalgic for it is because it's from a time in my life when i didn't have real responsibilities so it won't feel the same 😢
i learned so much about race, gender, s*x, and the world on tumblr. it truly shaped my childhood, politics, and sense of humor. As much of a shitshow as it was, it felt like community, and it was my escape every day from the stress of high school. I even learned how to code and ended up creating a successful theme blog which gave me some self confidence. As I grew out of my 'this tv show is my identity' era, I drifted away from tumblr, and when i went to college I became fed up with the hyper vigillant cancelling on tumblr in fandom blogs. I also got busy with life though lol. I would love to have some of these aspects come back to online culture but parts of it I hope we can leave in 2014 😅
so much good and bad themes in my life in 2013-2015 came from tumblr, what a weird time and i only recently realized the impact it had on me and omg i wish more people would talk about it
the amount of pain it brings me to remember that I wore ironic graphic tee shirts and was deep into fandom to the point of being plugged into my computer. I was having the most fun being cringy and having crazy emotions while also wallowing in a weird sadness that had no place being there. Being 13 was weird but honestly wish I could relive how much I felt.
Honestly same. Even though I’m on the middle spectrum in gen z, being 13 was a very sad yet thrilling experience. I could obsess over fictional guys and explore my fashion (was very into the 80s), as well as just have fun on the internet and explore my wild imagination.
I had pretty bad nostalgia addiction since Covid. Think I’m finally starting to get over it now, but I can definitely relate to the feeling.
What’s really messed up is that when I was desperate to be a tumblr girl in 2013-2014 I was too broke to afford the clothes and experiences and now when it’s coming back in style… I’m once again not financially ready to be spending money on clothes and experiences
Today I realized that I still can't afford drop dead's clothes 12-13 years later
The fact that I just very recently got tumblr for the first time in my life and I dress/live my life like an emo boy in the early 2000's because I was a small child at that time and now you upload this video. I always loved the whole emo scene culture and so it's now my life as a senior in high school.
You just called me old in every language 🫠🥲
I used it for the first time around 3 years ago...I am in my late 20s. But to be fair I'm using it to follow a Marie Antoinette blog, a fanfic smut blog, to post pics of food and Halloween costumes I've made. And last but not least to vent my issues in peace.
Oh my god same. I was too young to participate in the emo subculture the 1st time so now I am able to actually dress and live like the scene girl i always wanted to be at the age of 17, almost 18 in a few days 😭😭
@@ObeyLucifer happy I'm not the only one lol and happy early birthday! :D I'll be 18 in like less than 5 months
Omg that’s wild, I was a little young then too but damn! That’s so wild y’all are doing what we did
I've been watching you for years, and just want to say that I am so impressed with the way you mix humor, vulnerability, and insight together so naturally and seamlessly!! Your content has been so creative and great lately, keep it up :)
thank you so so much!!!
I was too young. 13 probably. And I have a box of notebook full to the brim of whatever quote I could find on tumblr. It is so funny to read such serious quotes in my child handwriting...but also kind of sad.
i once made this whole video essay about the “downtown girl” aesthetic and what it represents. In this video i said that the reason to why the 00s and the 2010’s are coming back is because the people who were young at that time came back home bcs of covid and revived the nostalgia of being a teenager; growing up is hard and the internet wants to come back to the “simpler times”. Idk thats my take, thats probably more to this
another big cause that has affected the revival of “aesthetic” Tumblr is also the economic crisis we are experiencing which is very similar to the 2010s.
I just recently got a ton of face piercings and gave myself the emo fringe that covers one of my eyes. And honestly? The 12 year old me that still lives inside my brain is SO HAPPY about it
i’ve been on tumblr since 2014 and i still use it. i miss the old tumblr era (for nostalgia), but i’m glad it’s over. i was on fandom tumblr (superwholock had a chokehold on me) so i wasn’t super involved in the romanticization of illnesses and ED, but even then, it was so toxic and i didn’t realize it until much later.
now i run a semi-successful wholesome study blog now and don’t have tiktok, so ig its alright.
what’s the name of ur blog if you don’t mind sharing?
@@richardpapenapologist1703 lupusmaxima (lupus for wolf in latin, not the sickness... i made that connection a little late lol)
I remember back in the old tumblr days I was part of the Bones fandom and we had to create a whole new tag for ourselves to not see the thinspo blogs. Tiktok to me is so scary because you can't do what we used to do, there is no "oh we'll create another tag for this."
I feel like tagging as a whole with specific attention to tagging triggers has been ruined by newer algorithms censoring language. rather than "TW: anorexia" for that sort of stuff, you'd now see something like "TW: @n0r3x1@" and a million other versions which are impossible to filter out even if tiktok let you block tags
the funny part is that the comeback is happening everywhere except Tumblr
tumblr is too busy inflicting "verification" check marks at eachother
(you can buy checkmarks for your friends, and they come in rainbow colors)
wow i had a different tumblr memory in 2013-2015. I was on the kawaii side, beatlemania, X-Men and studio ghibli side of tumblr, it's really random mix I know haha but it was a good time. I loved tumblr so much because my friends and classmates at that time weren't sharing any of those interests but I found it online. Super thankful tho that i dodged some of the toxic sides of tumblr
Your outfit looks lovely💜 The romanticisation of mental illness is definitely not a good part of tumblr, but the punk/indie style that was popularised is pretty nice (in my opinion). Not to mention people who were kids/teenagers during that 'era' but young adults now, can try this style out without being restricted by parents, a school's dress code etc
Obsessed with the vibe of you regaling us with tales of Tumblr Past from the shadows of your room like some kind of old-internet witch 🔮✨
tumblr holds so much nostalgia for me and really influenced who i am today (and i still lowkey use it lmao). it did expose me to things when i was definitely too young but unfortunately that's the internet and i'm seeing that happen SO MUCH with tiktok. i'm all for the tumblr aesthetic resurgerence though because i can also finally access the fashion and see my favorite bands from those eras :')
you're whole thing about being too attached to nostalgia made me realize that i really never have had a truly unique experience in my life. seriously though this video describes that era of wanting to go back to the prime tumblr days -because we loved experiencing it or we had to watch it from the sidelines because we weren't old enough to experience it- perfectly
The scent thing is so funny and relatable omg. I did not grow up in a good environment and Tumblr was my escape and the way my room smelled during those times.. I still smell it and feel nostalgia for it
I once had Tumblr but was locked out of the account in 2016. It was my safe space and made me take my mental health a lot more seriously, I didn't feel as alone because there were community of people who went through the same struggle as I did and we helped each other in terms of mental health awareness. Tumblr was beneficial for me.
I had the same experience !! went through messy family times at 12-13 and I don't even know how I stumbled upon the good side of tumblr. having no support at home, literal strangers on the internet helped me with my mental health when things started to get serious. ofcourse it didn't give me the proper (offline) help I needed but this was a start of my mental health journey and the reason why I'm now a huge advocate for mental care/wellness at 22. (annnd as an eastern european I basically learned english on tumblr and was introduced to a whole new world of western/american culture which is also a plus haha)
when you said ‘thinspo’ my fight or flight activated
I've never heard a better explanation of what it feels like to be nostalgic of so many things (good and bad) of the past I literally gasped because I didn't know other people felt that way. I'd love to hear you talk about it more in a future video (or anywhere really) and give your opinion/ how you deal with it because it's so overwhelming at times. Thanks for validating my feelings!!
literally just got myself back on tumblr…the internets a rollercoaster
it's so interesting learning how people spent their years on tumblr, because there are so many different sides to the website. you seem to have been part of Aesthetic Tumblr/Music Tumblr, whereas i was very much in Fandom Tumblr and Photography Tumblr. and all of these had a different community, a different feeling to them. my tumblr years were 2011-2016 (i still use tumblr now but that's when i would spend like hours upon hours on there) and tbh being in fandoms there is the most fun i've ever had as a Fan Of Things. tumblr is perfect for fandoms because of its interface and its tagging system. posting art/graphics/gifsets is the most comfortable on tumblr out of all the social media i've used. and finding things on there like fanart/fanfics is also very convenient thanks to the tagging system. i drew so much inspiration from fanartists, gifmakers etc. that i started making gifs as well, and to this day i really enjoy it!! it helped me with my photography and photoshop skills, it's a great creative outlet for me. the other thing i love about tumblr is that you really CAN curate your dashboard (although you do get ads and recommendations now which is annoying). twitter feels like everyone is packed in a room, screaming at all times, whereas tumblr is just like... separate little forts of people, and i love that. i know this will sound horrible, but i was first introduced to feminism/social justice on tumblr lmao HEAR ME OUT, it obviously wasn't the best place to get that info from and it was very flawed, but there were so many discussions on social justice happening there that it propelled me to try and learn more, and be more self-aware of my own internal bias!! so if we're bringing tumblr back, i only want the good stuff. i want the fandom experience and the photos, the moodboards, but for the love of HELL we need to get rid of the bad parts.
ps: i am THE EXACT SAME when it comes to nostalgia, i do the same thing with early 00s music. it's my favourite era in music as a whole, along with late 90s, and one of the reasons why is because those were my pre-teen years. also because the music fucking SLAPS
bruh all the bands/artists she's naming absolutely slap and i very much do still listen to them
You know tumblr era is back when everyone is simping over evan peters again right now
And for the wrong reasons 😨
I also have serious nostalgia issues 😅 i am genuinely shaking with excitement over the fact that the tumblr era is coming back because I missed the chance to take part of it because of being a teenager and now I can partake
Haven't watched the full video yet, but I've been on tumblr since 2010 and it's been a pretty nice experience overall in my little corner of it with my mutuals and the other people whose blogs I've chosen to follow... then again I was 18 in 2010 and the site wasn't much of an influence on me in my teens.
No because that mature content ban was more than necessary. At one point I saw some children (under 7) doing things se-ually they shouldn’t even KNOW about and I felt sick to my stomach at like 15-16 not knowing what to do about what I saw. I remember reporting some but I didn’t use the app for a while after. What’s funny is I had a feed for sims, books and this one couple that did really aesthetic like bedroom photography. Never even got the Ana stuff but i think self harm would pop up sometimes? Idk it was a lot. I just don’t think tumbler had a strong enough algorithm to keep CP out of the app. It was a big change but I felt it was def needed to keep some people safe
I remember when I was introduced to Tumblr by one of my seniors in highschool. I was also super into the sad depressed aesthetic which really was a bad influence. All those blogs that glorified the mental illness and all that really messed with my head. I now go to therapy and all that but definitely shouldve started a long time ago. The drip is still lit tho.
My tumblr era was just reblogging tv shows gifs in my room. I'm still in that era but I reblog memes and dracula daily now
Tumblr era is definitely one of the most nostalgic points in my life. Used it when I was way too young though. It practically influenced a small portion of who I am today ( in terms of fashion and music ).
The beginning of this was flawless. The music. I'm dead.
thank god i just finished binge watching your content and needed more ty nicole
I'm okay we tumbler being back as long as we get a new vine era in a couple of years. Thanks for the vid and adressing those issues ❤️
the neighbourhood is and will always be my favorite band, made me feel so happy when you said you're still listen to tumblr music too, it's unmatched
nicole starting her video singing flouresecent adolescent made me love her even more
tumblr is a GREAT example of websites presenting very very very differently depending on how you interact with them. for example, while a lot of people were reblogging soft grunge and arctic monkeys, i was DEEP in the 2012 dreamworks rise of the guardians tumblr fandom. when frozen came out a year later so many people thought jack frost and elsa should kiss
lol back then I was in crowd who shipped jack frost and rapunzel, I watched that movie constantly
HELP NOT RISE OF THE GAURDIANS
Honestly, I never was on Tumblr, but I was late grunge girlie, and I know and hate the era for me personally, because I definitely was introduced to stuff I shouldn't have known way too early.
The reason I think the era is coming back so early, is because we're in another economic crisis, similarly to early 2010's, and as you said, we're returning more quickly to that comfort of our childhoods, because many of us know that after the pandemic and now house and energy bills stacking higher than before, we cannot afford the luxury and messiness of 2000's, it's just not possible.
The Tumlbr aesthetics all were about the simplicity of the aesthetics, and could be easily adapted, in terms of fashion, in terms of music, anyone can make a band in a garage, and sing about their struggles, and more...
But at the same time I hope new things come out of this era, I really hope it's accompanied with the black Punk resurgence (rico nasty, Wilow, etc..).
niki is back, god bless
Not me IMMEDIATELY foaming at the mouth thinking about curating the perfect pastel goth blog again
The music at the beginning omg 💀 every song punched me in the face
The tumblr era for me as someone who experienced all of it was pretty bad for like feeling like you needed a label, an a aesthetic and rlly didn’t help me with my traumas at the time especially ed stuff 😭😭😭
as someone who was the exact right age for tumblr, but grew up hyper-sheltered with few friends and no internet/pop culture only to find out about tumblr in 2018 and realize that i was not, in fact, the only person being Like That in 2012... i am so fucking happy to get a second shot at just. ROLLING in the trash fire that is fandomblr
I am and will always be a Tumblr user ,not for the aesthetic but for those small spaces or creativity photography poetry and artistic expression 💫💫💫
Man I’m from Australia and there was one (1) American Apparel in my city and it permanently closed in 2016 when I was 13/14 sooooo tragic
The way you talk about tumblr and your experience with it being a 14 year old and listening to songs while scrolling and reblogging is EXACTLY my experience in Pinterest. Pinterest definitely has a whole community for fashion and memes. I made so many friends on there. Especially related to the part where you would cry over a heartbreak you never experience.History repeats I guess
to be honest Pinterest was just a mirror of tumblr. Things got big on tumblr first and then people started spreading it on pinterest.
Glamorizing drug use... Yup, been there. Done that. I'd actually fantasize about becoming addicted to "pills" (cause coke and heroin were not aesthetic) and my crush being so concerned and heartbroken 💀
oml the nostalgia problem got me!!! I smelled a specific face wash that I used to wash my masks freshman year of college during covid and I got nostalgic even though I cried all the time and pretty much relapsed with all my mental health problems. But for some reason the smell of that face wash made me want to go back to being stuck in my prison cell dorm room all the time crying over chemistry.
You are literally me 20 years ago. Even down to the Smiths t shirt. I just saw Moz, btw, like 2 weeks ago! I love your vids, Nikki! I’m home from work today and I’ve had your vids on play all day. You are such a conscientious young lady, and YOU ARE FUNNY! Just wanted to throw some love your way. ❤️
Idk what's making me feel weird more: The fact that we have to explain to people what it is or that people pretend it doesn't exist anymore 💀
It's always funny hearing people talk about their time on tumblr because its just so wildly different depending on the person. Despite using it daily for like over half a decade I never went through the whole 'tumblr-girl" phase because I was stuck up to my neck in the Homestuck fandom. What a site.
This was the peak of my life I was in high school/college during the Tumblr Era and I was THRIVING. I’m kinda turning back into that aesthetic because I’m trying to appeal my inner child after growing up severely traumatized. Trying to allow myself to be young at heart again.
i feel very alone in that i never truly understood tumblr or how to use it, even after having it explained multiple times over the years & attempting to use it almost as many times. it’s probably something to do with my severe ND but i understand the culture around it for the most part, just not the platform itself. i always related heavily but i also didn’t, in a way. i don’t know if that made any sense, i ultimately just feel like i never know what’s going on when the concept of tumblr as this incredible thing gets brought up.
tumblr has a really steep learning curve. it will suck for quite a while because there isn't the same degree of algorithm curation that you see on other platforms. you basically just have to watch who is posting stuff that you find interesting by following a few accounts then following some people they reblog from. tumblr has massive ND spaces so you could always start with following a tag like #actuallyautistic or something similar
Seeing the strokes and arctic monkeys all in the same month makes me wanna revert to my tumbler era
Nicole! Your videos have been helping me through a really tough time (and I just finished watching essentially all of them!). Thank you for doing what you are doing!
i cut my bangs a month ago preparing for this moment.
yass i got my bangs a month ago too
Personally I don’t even just listen to those songs for comfort, as I’ve aged I’ve gained a much greater perspective on it all and my opinion of songs and concepts has changed a lot! I love seeing the growth! And also many of the artists are FANTASTIC and have continued to make great work, blue bannisters is actually my fav lana album now!
Honestly, same for everything you said. I literally have such weird nostalgia about this time period, but other teenage moments in general-- and it's bizarre since I'm in my 20s still and I had a lot of not so great things happen during these time periods as well. lmao But as soon as I see the outfits and the hair and music, I feel this intense pull to go back. I'm not sure if it's because I'm an adult and the world is kind of sucky right now and so I'm seeking comfort in wherever I can get it-- but that feeling is definitely there.
Also like, the aesthetic was genuinely very cool? Like it was a cool mixup of vintage and the departing scene/emo styles. It was my first introduction to more timeless music, art, and books. It was super creative fashion-wise and it was around the time when I first started thrifting and diying clothing and I think all those things were good for a teen me to experience. The overall feeling I got from being on Tumblr at that time was this sort of opening to the world-- new friends, new fashion ideas, new art to explore. I don't really have that feeling anymore.
((also should note that I was on the fandom side mostly, seeing the fashion styles sort of trickle down into my dashboard and luckily didn't experience the worst of pro-ana culture at the time, so my experience might be different from other people's lol))
It is really wild having been not old enough to like publicly/outwardly have a 2013 tumblr phase . But I was on the site and I was there for all of this , but like you said at 13 I could not afford to participate . Which maybe was good .
While I'm loving the whole tumblr comeback because of mainly the fashion (music doesn't go out ouf style anways!!) I mainly connect it do eating disorders, self harm and mental illness but the super toxic communities revolving around these issues kinda also were my safe spaces at the time idk and I feel like I'm not the only one
Tumblr Era makes me so nostalgic, I think about it often and all the people I used to follow lol I'm thinking of going back just to see if anyone is still active
i only got to be on tumblr for about a year before it lost its popularity ig but some of the things i saw on there still stick with me. seeing aesthetics i wanted for myself only being represented by pale white girls kinda made me think i needed to stay inside and away from the sun to achieve it. i also couldn’t look up latina on tumblr because it was like a p0rn category😭🙄 whereas on tiktok it’s been much easier to find woc that have the same aesthetic and interests as me. i’m definitely in a better place now but it makes me worried for younger girls and women if the tumblr era comes back.
Yes! I sometimes feel an intense longing to go back to the tumblr era. Other times it feels like I never left.
The fandom side of tumblr is honestly the best possible place to be part of a fandom, there's nowhere you'll get the same kind of community like there, even in 2022
my favorite tumblr memory is being mutuals with phoebe bridgers pre-stranger in the alps
so glad you are back
I recently talked with my boyfriend about the indie genre not really having this consistent sub culture like metal or goth does, at least in our area it's was hard to find clubs after the first indie surge died down in like 2008 ish before then in tumblr era coming back a bit more commercialized. As you mentioned for yourself as well, this genre and era brings lots of nostalgia and comfort so I am all up for it hoping the newer releases in October can hold up with the feeling.
i was like 10 in the tumblr era and i will never forget taking flash photos of a Swissmiss hot chocolate box
Okay I LOVE your smiths top and I LOVE the fact you have a strokes album in the back- you’re the coolest person I’ve ever seen omfg
I go on Tumblr at least once a year. I am hoping to god that tumblr comes back but in a healthier way. It seems they're starting to make more frequent changes on the app to attract people to come back to it.
For as long as I've been on tumblr, I was never "in the area" of what you chatted about in the video. I've stuck with people who talk about specific movies and tv shows I'm into. I will forever love that Tumblr allows people to remain anonymous (because you can block people if need be) and there's no algorithm. You curate the experience you want.
love the outfit nicole!!!
Holy shit I DEEPLY relate to having a nostalgia problem! Like exactly how you're describing it thats me!! I find such weird comfort in when I was going through such hard times like 10 years ago lol😅
okay..I had no idea she was posting today.. and I literally bragg about how nicole is my favorite youtuber to a group of people. I love myself (and Nicole duh 😏😌)
“i suffer with severe nostalgia problems” i felt that.
miss nikki nasty is back yuhh 🫶🫶
I can say with my whole chest that at 25 yrs old I still have not phased out of my “tumblr era” music, clothes and all