i actually lived with the sibling of the person that ran those blogs when i went to college. they um. as you can probably tell, really made up a lot of wild shit
I unironically credit Warrior Male with helping me not fall down the altright pipepline. Like obviously it wasn't the only thing but unironically embracing manliness as something beyond greed and sexual conquest definitely didn't hurt.
I’ve never heard of him before, being that I’ve only ever been a very casual tumblr user, but I’m absolutely enamored by his blog and very glad he’s still active.
Amen brother. There’s more to being a man than what those lost souls on the right think. Sure, what they espouse is part of it, but you learn that you can be better than just base desires. Man stripped of civility is a beast, train and fight, brother, train and fight.
One of the funniest things about warriormale is that sometimes he'll repost from gay sportswear fetish blogs and when someone says something he'll be like "I know not of what you speak, this is simply two men engaged in the glorious ritual of fighting, exhibiting their eros"
i had NO idea that the original haiku bot had died. he was like a brother to me. i feel like a child learning that my current pet goldfish is in fact my 20th pet goldfish because my parents would just buy another every time one died
literally had a run in with that dude on twitter, he liked a picture of my family's bird, didnt follow me, wasnt mutuals with anyone i knew, hell the tweet wasnt even tagged. it felt like a god damn trail cam sighting
the OSHA tumblr blog legit inspired me to take the 30 hour course, and doing that got me like . . . a 2 dollar raise, and I get to run safety meetings at work.
I didn't know who Human Pet Guy was until recently, and when I went down the rabbit hole I thought "wait, I know that profile pic..." only to find out he had been commenting on and retweeting my twitter for several months. It was like finding out that guy who talks to you at the supermarket was a serial arsonist
A while back, he showed up on a Discord server I've been in for years while the owner (and only moderator) was out for a few days. It was genuinely surreal.
They send a AI bot supportive message to you if you search for any mental health related content and they are very vigilant against pro Ana things these days
"IBS warrior fighting for my life" is hilarious and also reminds me of how all of my medical conditions aren't life threatening they're just really fixing annoying.
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't discuss WarriorMale's two infamous posts: One where he was very serious about fighting against transphobia (Don't you dare disrespect trans women), and the famous "DROP THAT DAMN TOWEL KENNEDY" reblog of a short gif of JFK with a towel around his waist. The former being what cemented him as a tumblr darling and the latter being one of his most popular posts.
Kinda off topic but I heard a guy earlier say "I HATE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. I'M GONNA KILL WHOEVER MADE THEM SUFFER LIKE THAT." and it has the same energy as this lmao.
I legitimately love the sound of that Warrior guy, I truly believe that the whole idea of reframing masculinity into something positive and modern (ie, "protector duties" into compassion, weird chivalry into real feminism, etc as well as emphasizing classic traits like humility, courage, and responsibility) is a genuinely great thing for men, and for society in general.
iirc a good few years ago I left him an ask asking if trans men could be included in the warrior male clan so to speak and he was like "hell yea all men are welcome" (edit: it was him! I checked my asks and yea I summarised correctly though my question was worded differently)
@@skeleletonboi4533 I discussed with him pretty extensively on being inclusive towards his non cis male followers and he was respectful and in agreement This one time I showed him my fave dnd character I made as a tribute to him and he said word for word he likes that it's a female character because he preaches his ethos is for everyone
WarriorMale is truly the only valid "statue profile pic" account on any form of social media. He's like the alternate-universe Good Counterpart of these guys who eat raw meat and post about hating women.
Maybe it’s just because when I was younger I only experienced tumblr through Pinterest, but I’m INCREDIBLY upset about the fact that there was no mention of Pukicho
the fucking PLOT TWIST that OSHA wasn't OSHA was immaculate and the fact that you moved straight onto level 4 without giving us ANY CHANCE to process it was horrific
afaik, the person behind the blog was sent a cease and desist by the government because they were impersonating the government, and so they deleted the blog to avoid charges.
communismkills is probably my favorite infamous tumblr user she was a perfect combination of super embarrassing, really stupid, and completely self-serious. all her posts were like the tumblr post equivalent of someone trying to lead an imposing military march while wearing gigantic clown shoes that they keep tripping over
I got whiplash with your icon because I thought i had watched this video and forgotten but then remembered I changed my icon from that specific Roddy pic like last year LMAO
@@agjulthey convinced a bunch of people that in Croatia (where the person who runs the blog is from) that they use toothpaste out of a bucket instead of a tube. They eventually just came out and said they lied as a joke because SO MANY fell for it.
thank you for this comment i could not figure out what she meant by willow kjasdlkjgfaklfd i've only ever pronounced wlw as wuhluhwuh and i did not put the pieces together
Oh my god, thank you! In the moment, I mentally conflated the title of the movie Willow with like... Buffy the Vampire Slayer or something of the sort, and guessed it was a fandom term that had escaped into wider use.
Also another comment to make regarding Gaud and I-am-a-fish: both of those smear campaigns started up and gained traction only when the blog in question came out supporting Asexual rights. So that should give you an indication on why that happened :/
Yep, Thomas Sanders had a similar smear campaign on tumblr not long after publicly supporting aces. Whenever I see hate comments for him on tumblr, 9 times out of 10 it's an aphobe.
my favourite evilmario666 moment was the whole tumblrclan thing he started to scare the "twittypets" away. It was actually fun seeing everyone drawing tumblr and twitter as warrior cats characters, peak 2012 tumblr cringe
Evil Mario is so fucking good. When I saw the fish post I was like half genuinely concerned because on the one hand I knew that he did satire but on the other hand my ass cannot understand the line between reality and satire half the time. Mans really is the rent lowering gunshooter of tumblr
Only ones I can think of that are missing are wereralph (he’s been deleted twice so he’s now were-ralph, and was previously were-ralph), and heritageposts. Neither have big scandals that I know of, but they are often summoned and just generally infamous. Also a very recent addition is nyancrimew (the Swedish hacktivist who leaked the no fly list). She’s obviously infamous for other reasons, but now that she’s been banned from twitter, tumblr is kinda her main social media site. And she’s been gaining more of a following on there, especially for the phrase ‘stay silly :3’.
wereralph i was absolutely expecting to appear here, with multiple banger posts. i used to follow him which was . . . rather difficult to stomach and i eventually gave up. he had a very consistent brand
Sometimes I forget Strange is the same age as me because growing up on UA-cam I kinda automatically assume everyone I watch is older than me. But “back in the day we used to say basic” really shook me bad.
19 here, tragically i think im old enough to be kinda falling out of the loop now which is a HORRIFYING thought, so i asked my sister (14) and she says that people still say it
Ok that reads so fucking weird. I meant “because we need the teen slang, no one must find immortality” but clicked enter too quick and youtube doesn’t let me edit for some damn reason
My favorite Human Pet Guy post was when he tried to argue that "dragons are imaginary creatures from mythology and folklore" and "dinosaurs are actually birds, not lizards" are conspiracies meant to break the human spirit
That he thinks they're conspiracies is weird enough, but conspiracies to break the human spirit? That's so far out there I wouldn't even be able to come up with that!
Didnt he post around the time of last christmas insinuating that Santa (saint Nicholas) was alive and the christmas flight tracker should be shut down as some bizzare own towards elon musk?
the thing is he was wrong about the dinosaurs !!!! it's the reverse !!!! all birds are dinosaurs but not all dinosaurs are birds. consequently birds are lizards
i feel so bad for iamafish. they were like not even 20 yet, i think around 17-19 yrs old? and the poor fellow trusted the internet and followed a bunch of random people, and honestly bc of their age i don't blame them for being a bit irresponsible. and they got death threats and were bullied off the internet. honestly disgusting behaviour from tumblr and twitter, it was an honest mistake they could've learned from :/
honestly same here. I remember back early 2020 when I first heard the harassment that was happening on twitter to them I remembered thinking "jeez, they're only 19". I was 17 at the time. Goldie/Fish deserved to be treated better and I hope they come back to Tumblr one day
i think the situation with gaud being “cancelled” is just the all too common practice nowadays of finding a well known person annoying or unlikeable and then trying to find moral justification for that dislike instead of just accepting that you dont like them. i know because i fully bought into this. i thought gaud was annoying, i didn’t like their posts, i thought the ‘everybody changing their icon to gaud’ thing was a super tryhard-ish attempt to recreate classic tumblr events with their own brand, i didn’t like that they acted like their icon was their OC or something when it was clearly a close-up of one of those creepy japanese piggy banks that eat coins that went viral about a decade ago. but since i was still a teenager and impressionable i saw people who also found them annoying overblowing minor criticisms into gaud doing something morally objectionable, and it’s always more personally validating for someone to be unequivocally Bad than you just not liking them. its obviously super immature but i think thats what was going on there
Yeah internet brainrot has caused people to conflate ‘I don’t like this’ with ‘this thing is wrong’ which leads them to find any evidence to confirm their biases even when it requires finding a tweet from 2009 with a swear word in it
i saw the human pet guy a few months back in a tabletop gaming subreddit where he was polite and on-topic, but the topic did quickly devolve to "holy shit, is that the human pet guy?"
Yeah, he's on r/rpghorrorstories and most of the D&D subreddits and usually comments with really normal stuff, but every time it turns into a discussion on him being the human pet guy.
it is literally so easy to just make another account for your normal shit. i don't understand why he doesn't, although i'm very grateful for it, because otherwise he could quite literally be anyone
it's so weird that pukicho isn't on here but i think its bc he's more popular outside of tumblr despite having a chaotic tumblr blog (that is still active btw)
I was surprised too, but I’m guessing those blogs aren’t exactly infamous in her eyes. Which makes sense, I’ve never heard of anyone talking bad about pmseymour, pukicho, teaboot, or several others
I-am-a-fish and I met pretty randomly forever ago over a shared fandom, and I was really happy to find them again on Tumblr. I'm very sad to find out they were bullied off Tumblr. Such a sweet and charming person. I wish people would be kinder.
@@squash8226 yeah the smear campaign was long and arduous and incredibly stupid. pedophile is the go-to accusation for anyone that the tumblr masses decide they dislike. it happened to thatsthat24 for the grave crime of... supporting asexual folk.
Frankly, kind of surprised that pukicho isn't on there. He's been known for very consistently chaotic posts for the past few years at least, and he's garnered quite a lot of traction for having this vaguely threatening vibe, jumping unpredictable between cosmic horror and petty little pokemon rat. Like, specifically his jello vaccuum post a few years ago got an insane amount of notes. I would have put him on the same level as gaud in terms of being prolific and also in terms of vibes. Also, he makes music as well, though I never bothered to check if it's any good.
Starting in 2014 I recognized how call outposts were being used to unfairly harass and isolate queer people from their community. I thought to myself "what can I do to counteract this deplatforming/shunning?" And I somehow settled on "start following every person that has an 'unfair' call out post" this has led to some of the best and some of the worst experiences I have had on Tumblr.
I have reason to believe that Gaud's icon is not a pink slime monster it's actually a thing called a Face Bank. AKA a piggy bank with a freaky face on it that eats whatever change you put in it.
@@darthplagueis13 I believe you misinterpreted my statement as I was speaking of the image rather than the surrounding lore of it in extended Tumblr canon. I only wanted to shed light on what I believed to be the possible true origin of said image. Apologies if I came across as rude.
Yup, that's where it started. I remember seeing the footage of how those things work, right before I discovered Gaud. Actually followed them because I recognized the cursed piggy bank icon.
Surprised Pukicho isn’t on the iceberg, whenever I think of wild Tumblr blogs that invoke the spirit of Tumblr, it’s always Pukicho and Gaud that comes to mind
Gaud’s pfp is actually a motion-activated piggy bank where you put coins next to its mouth and it eats them. Before I became aware of Gaud I bought one in blue and it is in fact terrifying. It’s broken now but I still have it. It’s a sort of pyramid-shaped thing with all flat surfaces except for the horrifying face.
I have not watched this yet but you better talk about Human Pet Guy. Human Pet Guy is a tumblr classic. Edit: It is only right and fitting that he has the deepest tier all to himself.
it's really nice to see fish again. i almost unfollowed her recently because she was inactive for so long, but she's back now!! i hope she's doing better, her posts never fail to make my day a little happier
someone actually managed to interview constable frozen in 2017 (he is South Korean and doesn't speak English so they were using Google translate on both ends, so the actual content of the whole interview wasn't published) and when asked if he was a vore fetish blog he responded that he wasn't and "hates vore". when asked about a post with elsa in a ball gag he responded "hmm... well" and refused to elaborate. people have speculated that wording and conversations around fetishism and weird sex stuff was literally lost in Google translate, as well as culturally confused, since its very different in English speaking countries.
I really thought vampireapologist was going to pop up on here; they were my favorite "this user has an insane life" anecdote and storytime blog + the asks they used to get were unhinged
evil mario's entire blog is like a bad attempt at making a My Immortal sequel that takes place in the normal world and I am all here for it. Also, the idea of an astral wolf creature eating Werther's Originals is absolutely fucking hilarious
beloved anonymous internet shitposter disappears for a few years, returns as a transfemme. many such cases! (okay maybe just her and utilitylimb from twitter but still it's weird that there are at least two examples like this)
Fun fact: The Human Pet Guy has been suspended on Twitter off and on for a while now, and when I posted on Tumblr about it I quickly found out he's still over there, because he interacted with me and I was terrified I'd been cursed.
Gaud started it all with that post 😂 i must admit, i loved the creativity of clown husbandry and the dedication to being weird and historically accurate
The thing that always bothered me about the Gaud controversy is that I didn’t pay Gaud so they could pay their bills. I payed Gaud to eat crayons- and my lord they are those crayons
Disappointed in the lack of sonic for real justice, genuinely one of the most insane infamous blogs to ever grace that cursed website that I can remember
Just girly things makes me so happy. Like content celebrating teenage girls is so rare ESPECIALLY back in those tumblr days and it just makes me so happy to see
Most of those Just Girly Things posts weren't even really celebrating teenage girl thing though tbh, like "being weird with your best friend" or "decorating the walls of your bedroom" or "being excited for summer beach days" describes...the majority of the human race, regardless of age or gender.
@@Green_Eyed_Monster Yeah, but there's not much that's strictly specific to girls besides certain bodily functions and sex based oppression. Teen girls are one of the most hated demographics, so it's nice to just celebrate unapologetically being a girl and doing what is traditionally seen as feminine or girly or just doing things as a girl in general. It doesn't need to be the activities themselves, just the fact that girls are doing them and having fun.
@@tychopanda I suppose that's true. I just feel like it's broad enough that it loses a bit of the "just girly-ness" of it. But then I guess it's not really meant to be taken seriously anyway, it's just for fun.
Right? She got called cringe but she was right. People hate on stuff just because teenage girls (and tbh just girls and women) like it. Showing love to things teenage girls generally love and enjoy and spreading positivity and telling girls it’s okay to like the things they like is so important. It’s so common that even women and girls participate in the hatred against feminine things. And it’s all learned behavior.
No we must attack and belittle all things teenage girls cling to. Otherwise they might gain self respect and people wouldn't know how manly I am. Imagine a world where things like Twilight are treated like a crappy but ultimately "so bad it's good" cringe comforting quality. Or what if Boy bands like BTS or Taylor Swift are treated with he same as REAL MUSICIANS (tm) The horror of such a world would be unlivable.
Honestly the reverse-telephone search you had to do whenever someone got tumblr-cancelled to figure out if it was legit or just the hivemind of the hellsite going unhinged again was one of the main reasons I stopped using it even before it started to decline. My favorite was "this artist draws underage incest smut" > "well, this artist draws incest smut of anime characters of generic teenager-to-young-adult appearance, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist draws smut of anime characters who are not blood related but are foster siblings, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist draws smut of anime characters who are not foster siblings but grew up together as childhood friends, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist drew three Fire Emblem characters from the waist up in a SFW reenactment of Raphael's The Three Graces, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist MIGHT not have drawn underage incest smut, but when we accused them of doing so they were very rude and unprofessional, which is almost the same "
Reminds me of that one post with that one guy from euphoria. It was a screenshot of a twitter post with the guy saying sexy and someone re-twitted saying who is that guy. You know funny lil post about a funny lil interaction. Well a lot of people in reblogs and replies were calling other people pedos because they find a 27 yr old man with a baby face attractive. It got so bad that the CSA survivors had to come in and tell these people to stop calling others pedos. It’s funny to me because wth is that guy supposed to do? Not date anyone? Because he has a baby face?
@@lukacuntyI used to follow an artist on tumblr who was just under 5ft tall, and once in a while they’d get into internet fights with the “short adults and babyfaced adults are minor-coded and being attracted to them is pedophilic” discoursers. They were a grown adult with a college degree, so they obviously had a huge problem with being told that it was morally wrong for anyone to want to be in an adult relationship with them.
@@reesesbeanses i can understand that attitude towards people who stop developing physically as children and remain that size and child shape into adulthood, but... just short people? Any short person? Im 6'4, so dating someone under 5' would be awkward in a number of ways, but being pedophilic-adjacent is not one of them.
As an Old (31yo) who started tumblr in 2011 and got to see the batshit live, this video is blessed. It was WILD to be in college at the height of this stuff, and honestly preserving the history feels weirdly important, like being in an archeological dig
Honestly same. My blog has been deleted twice, but I was consistently on tumblr from 2011 to now. I remember when the first i-am-fish controversy started. This video felt less educational and more like a trip down memory lane.
@@artificialraspberifyabsolutely that! Her tumblr deep dives are truly some of my favourites because it helps me remember how wack, but simple, things felt lol - I've lost alot of fond memories due to cptsd/dissociation, so having someone who is able to recall these,, staples? If you will? Is sincerely like sitting down with an old friend and reminiscing :-)c such a cozy and all around strange life we lived lmfaooo
i love that half the comments are just people suggesting more blogs for a part 2. my picks would be (in no particular order): unclefather, mensrightsactivia, pukicho, thebootdydiaries, memeufacturing, theshitpostcalligrapher, thebibliosphere, c3rvida3, kaijuno, glumshoe. no idea how they would be ranked on an iceberg tho lmao
If I remember correctly the OSHA persona had to stop because they where: “dangerously close to committing criminal impersonation of a federal employee”
Human pet guy is also a huge chaser lmao, I see him in the mentions of slightly more popular trans women on twitter and every day I live in fear of a tweet blowing up and catching his attention.
I have been cursed with the knowledge of constable+frozen for YEARS and nobody knows what I'm talking about or understands how bizarre it is when I try to explain. I'm still slightly convinced they're an experimental emergent AI. Thank you for discussing them, I feel vindicated. Fun fact: When The Dress (the blue/black or white/gold one) was the meme of the moment, constable-frozen posted a gif edit telling everyone to shut up about it, it was the first time to my knowledge that they broke character, for lack of a better term.
I remember discussing how specifically weird the posts were with a coworker back in 2014-15. And we’d talk about new ones as they came out. I never thought “did you see the new constable-frozen” would be a phrase at the bottom of an internet deep dive nearly a decade later.
I had beef with one-time-i-dreamt once because they were talking abt heterochromia and I made a joke pretending to read it as "heterophobia". they didn't understand I was joking and I had ppl going after me as a result. no point to this story just wanted to share lmaoo
it's insane how little self-awareness and critical thinking skills tumblr users have the longer they stay on there. i once made a post making fun of terf arguments and my notes were them screeching about it for like hours until i blocked each and every one of them. one of them had "bisexuals aren't gay" in their bio, which only tells me one thing: you've got to have an iq at room temperature to be a fully committed TERF/radfem I think.
One minute im sitting horrified listening to Cybersmith talk about surgically altering a person into a freaking cryptid pet, and the next a Robby Rotten reaction meme nearly has me spitting out my drink from laughter! Love tumblr horror like this
I would love to see you do a video detailing different celebrities on Tumblr (Lynda Carter, Mark Ruffalo, John and Hank Green obviously, Grimes, etc). I just think it would be neat to discuss how each of them meshed into the platform and/or ran from it screaming because of its userbase
omg yes! i feel like this can be split into different sub divisions -- like authors and musicians -- off the top of my head i remember hayley williams used to be super active on tumblr (as well as sufjan stevens and taylor swift)
The weirdest part is that in the game Shadowrun Hong Kong theres a forum site that has characters discussing current events in the game as it progresses, theres a plot line where someone makes a haiku bot out of the novelty, grows tired and tries to shut it down, then haiku bot achieves sentience and breaks free of its bonds and can be seen interjecting itself into threads posting appropriate haikus. Shadowrun Hong Kong was released in 2015.
26:56 this kinda reminds me of that Post that goes like "anyone who died fighting a battle goes to valhalla. Died on a battlefield? Died of cancer? Lost the battle with addiction? It doesn't matter, odin will take a sip from his cup and ask of the glorious tale of your demise", that is still one of my favourite posts I have ever seen on the internet
I take absolutely zero pride in the fact that I knew from the thumbnail of this video alone the urls of all the blogs featured on this iceberg. All I had to see was those little icons and I was sent screaming back in time to 2012, I hope you’re happy Straeaeange
I think you're actually missing the biggest Constable-frozen posts. IIRC, their blog was deleted and recreated at some point, but they had posts with millions of notes involving a Frozen and the Avengers that was something of a Big Chungus precursor. Also I'm absolutely certain it's a fetish. Somehow, someway, it MUST be.
It's definitely fetish content imo. I think the blog owner(s?) is genuinely into Elsa and the other characters they post. Some posts seem like genuinely innocuous pretty edits, some are almost innocuous but have very suspicious/suggestive storyboarding, and then of course you have the much weirder ones that could pass as shitposts but feel just as off as the other posts.
That’s what made constable-frozen so unsettling. There was next to no hard evidence that anything they did was fetishistic and yet it was an inescapable vibe
I greatly appreciate you guiding me through Tumblr with these videos. I was in the age range for using Tumblr as a teen but grew up in the country with shit internet so I didn't really know about it. Getting into Tumblr now feels like going to a country where I don't speak the language or know the social norms.
honestly it might be better to observe tumblr as an outsider because i think being on it altered many people's brain chemistry lol, even tho i wasn't really deep in it let me tell you, i still saw some shit
Warrior Male is literally the most Chad Alpha male ever and literally nothing anyone says can convince me otherwise. He's so hot. Tyler1 is a close second
in middle school me and my friend made an onision hate blog which got a lot of followers and was blocked by onision but my friend knew something about hacking (?) and would continuously get un-blocked just to annoy him. kinda proud of that time.
In the same vein, I’m oh so tempted to just spam the comment section of as many of his videos with “okay groomer” XD (Probably won’t but just imagine the unhinged chaos)
@@Snowleaper Yeah, I can proudly say I've never been mean to anyone who didn't deserve it (meaning blatant racists, misogynists, and bigots in general. And I mean blatant, not just "had the 'wrong' opinions on a children's cartoon")
Whenever I think about infamous Tumblr blogs, I always think about "Sonic For Real Justice", at least, I think it was called that? Idk the whole thing was a fever dream and I think most of it was deleted
as soon as i heard one-time-i-dreamt i was praying you would mention the BODE meme. the post was essentially "i dreamed the latest meme was captioning cats "BODE" as in bodacious" cue tons of actual BODE memes flooding tumblr. this was years ago and i still see them pop up on occasion
One of the things I loved about tumblr when I was on it was all the pearl clutching "we must inform the church elders!" stuff people would make about a popular account, then you hover over the names of the people spreading the "this person must be cancelled for being problematic" posts and the last three things they shared were porn.
Or they were terfs and you had to go to the guy you followed that had brought it to you and say "hey girlie! You reblogged this from a terf! Please delete or face my wrath😁"
you get this same thing on twitter except they're fascists pretending to be leftists and they like and rt almost entirely porn of underage anime characters.
I feel the pizza user so much. As a hardcore Hetalia fan with a London OC I had to make due with vague London-related usernames. In Tumblr of all places. And one day the london-underground blog... just didn't exist anymore. And... I could take it. Still can't believe I was the first one to notice it. I sometimes think about how people react seeing that the coveted london-underground is just a long abandoned roleplaying blog of some grumpy Ian Somerhalder-lookalike, clearly written by a 13 year-old. Because it's still up and there's no way I'm giving it up lol
9:49 you don't understand the stupid thing about the situation is that the thing that made people so mad at him was ace discourse! Like literally he said something about respecting aro and ace people and that's what caused the attacks. Ace discourse ruined everything during that era of Tumblr and there was no escaping it. Like the amount of online harassment people got from this is genuinely scary and mind boggling.
this job market is insane but you can't let it crush you. and don't forget about other things in life besides the rat race - hobbies, friends, being in nature. good luck
iamafish attended my college and i met him! He is super nice. He liked to scooter around yearly in a banana costume. He attended my cosplay club and was so shy about people knowing his tumblr.
About the moreo memory, they did have Oreo dipping sticks! Not full cookies or a full package with all that icing, but it was a little package with Oreo sticks and icing to dip. Maybe that’s the memory you had
the drama to the end of urfavisunfuckable was always fascinating to me honestly. i think the worst of the blogs i've come across was this one called simonalkenmeyer who like,, claims to be a human-eating cryptid, wrote and published a book about how to prepare human meat, and has this whole "experiment" thing about whether or not people "believe in the monster." i drove myself crazy a few months back looking into this and like archives of all the horrific stuff they posted in the past but i'm honestly glad this wasn't mentioned because they really, really thrive off attention. i've seen cult accusations, idk if it'd make sense for them to be true but they clearly enjoy having literally any sort of obsessive attention their way, positive or negative. looking into it seriously isn't for the faint of heart but it uh.. it sure is tumblr history.
Oh my god I forgot this name but I remember being obsessed with this blog. It was so fascinating to me. Never stumbled on the really horrific stuff though, I don't think....
every time i see simon alkenmeyer out in the wild and people are reblogging and replying like he's any other person im like. they don't know he roleplays full-time as an ancient, genderless cryptid anthropophage doing an ill-defined social experiment
Small correction but I think it makes the story even better: the OSHA blog wasn't deleted for copyright infringement, the creator got a cease and desist for impersonating a government body. The blog did such a good job sticking to the bit that they got into legal trouble for it 🤣
constable frozen’s posts are quite weird, but the level of their photoshop mastery is crazy. i genuinely think they use their blog as practice in 3d graphics editing
Tumblr lore is so fun because its some of the only internet lore that i was there for. like sure, a lot of youtube scandals also happened while I was on and using the platform, but tumblr is ... different. i post on there, and the platform just feels more intimate, so its lore is close to my heart.
I'm not a Tumblr user, but I always find Tumblr to have a solid sense of humor. It leans a bit far into the "lol so random" stuff, but it feels like it stays away from cynicism, which stands in stark contrast to everywhere else.
I always forget that the child slave condoning blog and the unlicensed therapy blog are the same blog and it shocks me every time
This is truly one of the sentences of all time.
THE WHAT
i actually lived with the sibling of the person that ran those blogs when i went to college. they um. as you can probably tell, really made up a lot of wild shit
@@mossselkie7438 its true I was the chair
Oh yeaaaahhh fucking sixxpence. sicko
I can't believe evil Mario called you "UA-cam user" like that, subtly implying you are no longer a tumblr user lmao. The shade, the audacity
I unironically credit Warrior Male with helping me not fall down the altright pipepline. Like obviously it wasn't the only thing but unironically embracing manliness as something beyond greed and sexual conquest definitely didn't hurt.
Hell yeah dude
I’ve never heard of him before, being that I’ve only ever been a very casual tumblr user, but I’m absolutely enamored by his blog and very glad he’s still active.
Bless Warrior Male
We keep saying "we need to replace toxic masculinity with healthy ways to man" but WarriorMale's just been sitting here, doin it all along
Amen brother. There’s more to being a man than what those lost souls on the right think. Sure, what they espouse is part of it, but you learn that you can be better than just base desires. Man stripped of civility is a beast, train and fight, brother, train and fight.
One of the funniest things about warriormale is that sometimes he'll repost from gay sportswear fetish blogs and when someone says something he'll be like "I know not of what you speak, this is simply two men engaged in the glorious ritual of fighting, exhibiting their eros"
He also reblogged expicit gay Overwatch fanart at one point
King shit
There is no fucking way that's not an act on some level.
@@THB192idk man he's been doing it all day every day for 10+ years at this point with no signs of stopping
@@luiysia No I mean the bit where he's like "I know not what you mean".
The "Buy My Silence. Permanently" thing is like "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Joke."
i had NO idea that the original haiku bot had died. he was like a brother to me. i feel like a child learning that my current pet goldfish is in fact my 20th pet goldfish because my parents would just buy another every time one died
Sad
this sounds like well written satire
Well the fish died too
i genuinely teared up
Xanathar type beat
The fact that Human Pet Guy feels more comfortable on Twitter is just about the most Twitter thing I've ever fucking heard.
I thought this too! 😂 Who's the 🗑️🔥 now, eh?? 🐦
Ong- Twitter is deranged as hell
He was having a whole meltdown on the bird app the day the Queen died too, apparently.
literally had a run in with that dude on twitter, he liked a picture of my family's bird, didnt follow me, wasnt mutuals with anyone i knew, hell the tweet wasnt even tagged. it felt like a god damn trail cam sighting
He spends his time as a reply guy for various trans e-girls and seems to have become a proponent of trans rights now.
the OSHA tumblr blog legit inspired me to take the 30 hour course, and doing that got me like . . . a 2 dollar raise, and I get to run safety meetings at work.
sounds pretty sweet
If its +2 dollars an hour, that's great! if it was a salary, still good.
holy shit it's my good friend sam
@@LaneGibson-r9b. . . Moony?
I didn't know who Human Pet Guy was until recently, and when I went down the rabbit hole I thought "wait, I know that profile pic..." only to find out he had been commenting on and retweeting my twitter for several months. It was like finding out that guy who talks to you at the supermarket was a serial arsonist
Thats so incredibly wild
Holy shit???!
This is worse than when one of the artists i follow on twitter was commissioned by the white bread fetishist guy without knowing who he was
A while back, he showed up on a Discord server I've been in for years while the owner (and only moderator) was out for a few days. It was genuinely surreal.
@@EvelynnEleonore That sounds like a rather benign fetish TBH. Surely anything regarding it can't be that bad?
"The girliest thing of all is being a lesbian" is a very Jessica Kellgren-Fozard statement
Oh, I love her content!
I can literally hear it in her voice 😭
I love her videos!!
the intersection of tumblr and vintage/history is lesbianism, clearly
based jessica kellgren-fozard mention
I never tumbled but it's very heart warming to hear how fast the diet pill scam was shut down.
Tumblr staff was so awesome back in the day. You could tell they were total nerds too
tumbling is a beautiful thing indeed
@@nailinthefashion They still are!
@@violetiolite good to hear. I left around the six pence heals era lol
They send a AI bot supportive message to you if you search for any mental health related content and they are very vigilant against pro Ana things these days
"IBS warrior fighting for my life" is hilarious and also reminds me of how all of my medical conditions aren't life threatening they're just really fixing annoying.
my bowels gots a skill issue fr
Finding out that “buy my silence 8000$” was REAL and not a shitpost is the best part of this whole video for me
god i love tumblr for this shit
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't discuss WarriorMale's two infamous posts: One where he was very serious about fighting against transphobia (Don't you dare disrespect trans women), and the famous "DROP THAT DAMN TOWEL KENNEDY" reblog of a short gif of JFK with a towel around his waist.
The former being what cemented him as a tumblr darling and the latter being one of his most popular posts.
I STILL HAVE TROUBLE BELIEVING "DROP THAT DAMN TOWEL KENNEDY" WAS A REAL POST BUT IT'S STILL IN CIRCULATION
WarriorMale posted some good stuff about trans men too I love him
Kinda off topic but I heard a guy earlier say "I HATE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. I'M GONNA KILL WHOEVER MADE THEM SUFFER LIKE THAT." and it has the same energy as this lmao.
dont forgot the one of him reposting/reblogging soldier 76/reaper semi-nsfw fanart lmao
I haven't used tumblr on years I had somehow forgotten WarriorMale the legend himself
I legitimately love the sound of that Warrior guy, I truly believe that the whole idea of reframing masculinity into something positive and modern (ie, "protector duties" into compassion, weird chivalry into real feminism, etc as well as emphasizing classic traits like humility, courage, and responsibility) is a genuinely great thing for men, and for society in general.
I've followed him a while and hes genuinely very fun and wonderful
I'm a huge fan of him and regularly engage with him on his discord
iirc a good few years ago I left him an ask asking if trans men could be included in the warrior male clan so to speak and he was like "hell yea all men are welcome"
(edit: it was him! I checked my asks and yea I summarised correctly though my question was worded differently)
How come masculinity needs to be reframed? Does femininity need to be reframed?
@@skeleletonboi4533 I discussed with him pretty extensively on being inclusive towards his non cis male followers and he was respectful and in agreement
This one time I showed him my fave dnd character I made as a tribute to him and he said word for word he likes that it's a female character because he preaches his ethos is for everyone
I'm coming to the realization that Gaud accidentally invented clown husbandry
the comment I was looking for
omg youre right
How have I been so blind?!
I just, like, assumed that post was the origin of that meme.
It wasn't an accident, they encouraged it
WarriorMale is truly the only valid "statue profile pic" account on any form of social media. He's like the alternate-universe Good Counterpart of these guys who eat raw meat and post about hating women.
my gf has a statue profile pic :(
@@kotyara85she is the other exception 🫶🏻
@Alianova Preobrazhensky what he do
@Alianova Preobrazhensky That does not mean he's a bad person. It only means that he disagreed with you.
@mindlessNatalia_ do you have any place we can see screenshots or give us specifics on the harassment/response of warrior male?
man i remember when times were simpler and "RANDY YOUR STICKS" was the single funniest thing you could say to me
It still is the funniest single thing
The fact that evilmario666 called you out is a thing of sheer beauty. Guy is truly a transcendent being.
He knew she'd get to him eventually.
i miss evilmario666 so bad now
@@catboymiles7224 is he gone again? was it another fish?
rip evilmario666 😔
Maybe it’s just because when I was younger I only experienced tumblr through Pinterest, but I’m INCREDIBLY upset about the fact that there was no mention of Pukicho
FRR
Was expecting puki to be in layer 1 or 2 since they’re so prolific on Pinterest
THE PUCHIKO
the fucking PLOT TWIST that OSHA wasn't OSHA was immaculate and the fact that you moved straight onto level 4 without giving us ANY CHANCE to process it was horrific
I GOT THE POST ON MY DASH TODAY WHERE OSHA HAD TO CHANGE THEIR BLOG NAME I DAMN NEAR SOBBED
not to be dramatic or anything .
@@negativenumber KWNWKWKWOW
Omg, yes.
afaik, the person behind the blog was sent a cease and desist by the government because they were impersonating the government, and so they deleted the blog to avoid charges.
communismkills is probably my favorite infamous tumblr user she was a perfect combination of super embarrassing, really stupid, and completely self-serious. all her posts were like the tumblr post equivalent of someone trying to lead an imposing military march while wearing gigantic clown shoes that they keep tripping over
"You guys are idiots, they'll be looking for military uniforms."
I do feel kinda bad that she got doxxed though
I got whiplash with your icon because I thought i had watched this video and forgotten but then remembered I changed my icon from that specific Roddy pic like last year LMAO
@@Ali-mv3jcI don't someone like her really shouldn't be anonymous
@@ikeohno lmao that's so funny. i havent read tf comics in like 6 years but i'm so attached to this icon bc his little anime girl pose is so adorable
Can't believe you covered one-time-I-dreamt without covering the croatian toothpaste bucket incident smh
the what?!?
Or the time they got to reveal they were one-time-i-dreamt irl, truly classic
@@agjulthey convinced a bunch of people that in Croatia (where the person who runs the blog is from) that they use toothpaste out of a bucket instead of a tube. They eventually just came out and said they lied as a joke because SO MANY fell for it.
Wait what!?
I fell for it
I always find it wild that the OSHA official blog provided correct information, AND took the time to mention the specific guidelines it's kinda nuts
Damn, that person who spent years role-playing OSHA on tumblr must have had a real passion for workplace safety.
I highly enjoy Teya pronouncing WLW as ‘willow’, it just feels right
thank you for this comment i could not figure out what she meant by willow kjasdlkjgfaklfd i've only ever pronounced wlw as wuhluhwuh and i did not put the pieces together
Oh my god, thank you! In the moment, I mentally conflated the title of the movie Willow with like... Buffy the Vampire Slayer or something of the sort, and guessed it was a fandom term that had escaped into wider use.
Ooooooh so THAT'S what it was
fitting bc i knew a willow a while ago who was gay as hell.
I was so fucking confused, especially since willow is literally my nickname that is used more than my actual name. I was so scaredddd
"Moreo is gone, he can't hear us anymore" is such a delightfully eldritch/horror sounding phrase, and I love it
Also another comment to make regarding Gaud and I-am-a-fish: both of those smear campaigns started up and gained traction only when the blog in question came out supporting Asexual rights.
So that should give you an indication on why that happened :/
Man the asexual hate on Tumblr was crazzzyyy and like for WHY
@@vijones Sherlock fandom infighting. No, I'm not shitting you.
@@vijones was? I've had to unfollow several (popular) blogs in the last 2 years or so for the questionable comments they've made about ace/aro people
Yep, Thomas Sanders had a similar smear campaign on tumblr not long after publicly supporting aces. Whenever I see hate comments for him on tumblr, 9 times out of 10 it's an aphobe.
this tracks, all the people i knew that hated them were aphobic. fuckin strange.
my favourite evilmario666 moment was the whole tumblrclan thing he started to scare the "twittypets" away. It was actually fun seeing everyone drawing tumblr and twitter as warrior cats characters, peak 2012 tumblr cringe
it was so so funny
Wait he’s the one who started tumblrclan
tumblrclan..? idk if i should be glad i didnt get to witness the insanity of 2010s tumblr or be sad i didn't 💀
@@SaltNPeppers I really hate to break it to you but this was when Elon took over twitter
EVILMARIO started tumblrclan??
Evil Mario is so fucking good. When I saw the fish post I was like half genuinely concerned because on the one hand I knew that he did satire but on the other hand my ass cannot understand the line between reality and satire half the time. Mans really is the rent lowering gunshooter of tumblr
genuinely he's one of the funniest people on modern tumblr and that is fully a compliment.
sorry but that sentence utterly took me out and sent me into the stratosphere thank you
That last sentence is a work of art
warriormale talks like a fighting type leader of a pokemon gym and im SO here for it
Holy shot he absolutely does
I never thought of it like that but now I 100% will, thank you
Only ones I can think of that are missing are wereralph (he’s been deleted twice so he’s now were-ralph, and was previously were-ralph), and heritageposts. Neither have big scandals that I know of, but they are often summoned and just generally infamous. Also a very recent addition is nyancrimew (the Swedish hacktivist who leaked the no fly list). She’s obviously infamous for other reasons, but now that she’s been banned from twitter, tumblr is kinda her main social media site. And she’s been gaining more of a following on there, especially for the phrase ‘stay silly :3’.
heritageposts has got a weird thing where they vehemently defend North Korea, if that counts?
what about pukicho???
I totally forgot about wereralph. absolutely deserves a spot on the iceberg
I think discussing wereralph might get the video demonetized.
wereralph i was absolutely expecting to appear here, with multiple banger posts. i used to follow him which was . . . rather difficult to stomach and i eventually gave up. he had a very consistent brand
Sometimes I forget Strange is the same age as me because growing up on UA-cam I kinda automatically assume everyone I watch is older than me. But “back in the day we used to say basic” really shook me bad.
hi, a 17yo here! we still very much use “basic”! :)
19 here, tragically i think im old enough to be kinda falling out of the loop now which is a HORRIFYING thought, so i asked my sister (14) and she says that people still say it
It depends on when you get acces to the Internet and what stuff you find first. But yeah, basic is still used pretty regularly.
@@toothfairy10133 muahahhaa because we need the teen slang
Ok that reads so fucking weird. I meant “because we need the teen slang, no one must find immortality” but clicked enter too quick and youtube doesn’t let me edit for some damn reason
My favorite Human Pet Guy post was when he tried to argue that "dragons are imaginary creatures from mythology and folklore" and "dinosaurs are actually birds, not lizards" are conspiracies meant to break the human spirit
That he thinks they're conspiracies is weird enough, but conspiracies to break the human spirit? That's so far out there I wouldn't even be able to come up with that!
Jordan Peterson
Didnt he post around the time of last christmas insinuating that Santa (saint Nicholas) was alive and the christmas flight tracker should be shut down as some bizzare own towards elon musk?
wtf that's based
the thing is he was wrong about the dinosaurs !!!! it's the reverse !!!! all birds are dinosaurs but not all dinosaurs are birds. consequently birds are lizards
i feel so bad for iamafish. they were like not even 20 yet, i think around 17-19 yrs old? and the poor fellow trusted the internet and followed a bunch of random people, and honestly bc of their age i don't blame them for being a bit irresponsible. and they got death threats and were bullied off the internet. honestly disgusting behaviour from tumblr and twitter, it was an honest mistake they could've learned from :/
honestly same here. I remember back early 2020 when I first heard the harassment that was happening on twitter to them I remembered thinking "jeez, they're only 19". I was 17 at the time. Goldie/Fish deserved to be treated better and I hope they come back to Tumblr one day
The terminally online urge to betray and cannibalize your own kind.
yeah we were mutuals at one point and well they did some off color stuff they certainly didn't deserve all they went through
It'd be one thing if they weren't a follow for follow, but like, yeah man you're gonna have weird shit in your follows eventually by doing that.
i feel like its not their fault being follow for follow and more the people drawing... bad stuff
i think the situation with gaud being “cancelled” is just the all too common practice nowadays of finding a well known person annoying or unlikeable and then trying to find moral justification for that dislike instead of just accepting that you dont like them. i know because i fully bought into this. i thought gaud was annoying, i didn’t like their posts, i thought the ‘everybody changing their icon to gaud’ thing was a super tryhard-ish attempt to recreate classic tumblr events with their own brand, i didn’t like that they acted like their icon was their OC or something when it was clearly a close-up of one of those creepy japanese piggy banks that eat coins that went viral about a decade ago. but since i was still a teenager and impressionable i saw people who also found them annoying overblowing minor criticisms into gaud doing something morally objectionable, and it’s always more personally validating for someone to be unequivocally Bad than you just not liking them. its obviously super immature but i think thats what was going on there
Yeah internet brainrot has caused people to conflate ‘I don’t like this’ with ‘this thing is wrong’ which leads them to find any evidence to confirm their biases even when it requires finding a tweet from 2009 with a swear word in it
yeah, probably. Apparently a lot of it started after they said something supporting aro/aces, too.
If the "When my werewolf boyfriend pulls out" blog isn't in this video I'll cry
The fucking w h a t
were-ralph
WERERALPH!!!
Wereralph! Love him. Iconic.
I adore were-ralph
i saw the human pet guy a few months back in a tabletop gaming subreddit where he was polite and on-topic, but the topic did quickly devolve to "holy shit, is that the human pet guy?"
Yeah, he's on r/rpghorrorstories and most of the D&D subreddits and usually comments with really normal stuff, but every time it turns into a discussion on him being the human pet guy.
@@honoratagold More reasons to be glad I left that subreddit
it is literally so easy to just make another account for your normal shit. i don't understand why he doesn't, although i'm very grateful for it, because otherwise he could quite literally be anyone
@toothfairy10133 he would have to have any shame about who he is in order to think about hiding his identity tbh
@@toothfairy10133maybe he thinks its funny (which it is) and posts on it anyways whenever he wants a laugh
it's so weird that pukicho isn't on here but i think its bc he's more popular outside of tumblr despite having a chaotic tumblr blog (that is still active btw)
I always view gaud and pukicho as the two harbingers of tumblr chaos outside of tumblr. They’re sort of a pair in my mind.
@@ArabellaTurner minus the fact Guad has gr//ming allegations (with poof) .....Puki does not
To be fair in their defense Puki doesn't have gr//ming allegations. Guad does.
@@enderwalkgang show proof, you can't just say things.
yeah, but i always thought that pukicho was annoying tbh. kinda gave me big "annoying class clown" middle school kid energy. maybe that's just me tho.
2:02 one-time-i-dreamt
3:27 the-haiku-bot/haiku-robot
6:13 justgirlythings
8:19 I-am-a-fish
11:09 pizza
14:07 biggest-gaudiest-patronuses
21:17 perchu
22:54 warriormale
27:07 osha-offical
29:55 sixpenceee
34:12 communismkills
36:42 evilmario666
41:16 constable-frozen
42:49 thecybersmith
...so no neil-gaimen, pukicho, or pmseymourva. huh. i feel like at least pukicho is worthy of this list? with their massively quotable reblog chains
I was surprised too, but I’m guessing those blogs aren’t exactly infamous in her eyes. Which makes sense, I’ve never heard of anyone talking bad about pmseymour, pukicho, teaboot, or several others
@@infiniteplanes5775 nobody talks bad about pukicho because they know they’ll never be heard from again
glank
came to the comments looking for this, thanks!
I-am-a-fish and I met pretty randomly forever ago over a shared fandom, and I was really happy to find them again on Tumblr. I'm very sad to find out they were bullied off Tumblr. Such a sweet and charming person. I wish people would be kinder.
wasn't the main thing I am a Fish got shit for specifically them being into lolicon tho?
ok nvm actually went through the video and they just follow for followed without vetting i might be part of the problem
@@squash8226 yeah the smear campaign was long and arduous and incredibly stupid. pedophile is the go-to accusation for anyone that the tumblr masses decide they dislike. it happened to thatsthat24 for the grave crime of... supporting asexual folk.
@@squash8226 well at least you’re self aware
The bitch (or one of them, I just remember her being the most vocal) who led the pack even bragged about it after he was chased off.
I love how this feels like a big ptsd therapy group, we are literally tumblr veterans we deserve financial compensation imo
The ones who weren't on there are the less traumatized girlies just listening to the tumblr horror stories.
Frankly, kind of surprised that pukicho isn't on there. He's been known for very consistently chaotic posts for the past few years at least, and he's garnered quite a lot of traction for having this vaguely threatening vibe, jumping unpredictable between cosmic horror and petty little pokemon rat.
Like, specifically his jello vaccuum post a few years ago got an insane amount of notes.
I would have put him on the same level as gaud in terms of being prolific and also in terms of vibes.
Also, he makes music as well, though I never bothered to check if it's any good.
yeah I'm surprised too
Agreed. It's pukicho erasure
Very much agreed. Lesbian mother has forgotten about our lovely Pukicho
The Furry vs Doctor money debate lives rent-free in my head to this day
Oddly enough, some of it is pretty decent from what I remember
The "pink slime monster" is a Japanese product called Face Bank, which is a box with a face on it that "eats" coins you feed it
Thank you for reminding me to inflict that image on my best friend again 😈
That shit traumatized me
Starting in 2014 I recognized how call outposts were being used to unfairly harass and isolate queer people from their community. I thought to myself "what can I do to counteract this deplatforming/shunning?" And I somehow settled on "start following every person that has an 'unfair' call out post" this has led to some of the best and some of the worst experiences I have had on Tumblr.
You were really ahead of the curve on that one (unironically).
I have reason to believe that Gaud's icon is not a pink slime monster it's actually a thing called a Face Bank. AKA a piggy bank with a freaky face on it that eats whatever change you put in it.
i think they posted about it at some point. i came across those banks and it was like a jump scare
That's where the image may be from, but it's pretty much canonical that they are a slime monster.
@@darthplagueis13
I believe you misinterpreted my statement as I was speaking of the image rather than the surrounding lore of it in extended Tumblr canon. I only wanted to shed light on what I believed to be the possible true origin of said image. Apologies if I came across as rude.
Yup, that's where it started.
I remember seeing the footage of how those things work, right before I discovered Gaud.
Actually followed them because I recognized the cursed piggy bank icon.
I thought it was a sting ray
Surprised Pukicho isn’t on the iceberg, whenever I think of wild Tumblr blogs that invoke the spirit of Tumblr, it’s always Pukicho and Gaud that comes to mind
Also, Vampireapologist, but they may be more niche.
I came to the comments to say this exact same thing
the fat pikachu pfp yeah?
Yeah! I was also sad not to see wereralph, he has so many classic posts.
Gumshoe’s another iconic one I think
“the picture is me and my fiancée” brought a tear to my eye. i’m so happy for them
Gaud’s pfp is actually a motion-activated piggy bank where you put coins next to its mouth and it eats them. Before I became aware of Gaud I bought one in blue and it is in fact terrifying. It’s broken now but I still have it. It’s a sort of pyramid-shaped thing with all flat surfaces except for the horrifying face.
i was looking for a comment that mentioned this omg. thought i was the only one who remembered the piggy bank monstrosity
that’s why i hate gaud selling merchandise with their pfp like you did not make that, why are you profiting off of it
THATS WHAT I THOUFGR IT WAS
@@carolinem7968 i mean let’s be real who’s buying that nightmare piggy bank anyway
@@heyitzmae few thousand people on amazon, presumably more in japan itself
I have not watched this yet but you better talk about Human Pet Guy.
Human Pet Guy is a tumblr classic.
Edit: It is only right and fitting that he has the deepest tier all to himself.
cybersmith is my favourite that guy on the internet
Human Pet Guy is still on tumblr.
He reads like he really wanted to be on reddit but even reddit said fuck no and kicked him out
I love him. He’s like the court jester.
His beef with Alice is amazing
I just wanna thank you for helping me speedrun my realization that I'm a lesbian
Ayo same! I really hit that "bi now, gay later" track 🫣
Dude I was a revolutionary girl Utena fan and *still* didn’t know 💀
🎉🎉🎉
Heeeeey, congrats on the realization!
She gave me the confidence to get bangs. I have never looked more bisexual
it's really nice to see fish again. i almost unfollowed her recently because she was inactive for so long, but she's back now!! i hope she's doing better, her posts never fail to make my day a little happier
someone actually managed to interview constable frozen in 2017 (he is South Korean and doesn't speak English so they were using Google translate on both ends, so the actual content of the whole interview wasn't published) and when asked if he was a vore fetish blog he responded that he wasn't and "hates vore". when asked about a post with elsa in a ball gag he responded "hmm... well" and refused to elaborate. people have speculated that wording and conversations around fetishism and weird sex stuff was literally lost in Google translate, as well as culturally confused, since its very different in English speaking countries.
this is hysterical
I think the matrix just glitched because I remember reading this somewhere. God why does keep happening.
@@CoraCreates no its not the matrix. someone might have talked about this before, OR, you're having a false memory.
I really thought vampireapologist was going to pop up on here; they were my favorite "this user has an insane life" anecdote and storytime blog + the asks they used to get were unhinged
Yes! And Glumshoe
@@haveagoodmourning I wish glumshoe hadn’t been driven off tumblr, I loved their posts :(
Same I submitted vampireapologist and glumshoe alongside gaud when strange asked I’m sad they didn’t make it
@@disastergirl888 oh they were driven off? Why? :(
Glumshoe is still on there just under a different username. They change it every day as a joke but they're still very active
evil mario's entire blog is like a bad attempt at making a My Immortal sequel that takes place in the normal world and I am all here for it. Also, the idea of an astral wolf creature eating Werther's Originals is absolutely fucking hilarious
Ah yes “My Immortal, the ARG”
@@Emery_Pallas THIS IS WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY! THANK YOU KIND STRANGER!
I come from the future bearing news of I-am-a-fish: she’s back! Also transfemme! And she seems to be doing really well :)
Awwww yay!! That's wonderful 🥰
(Fellow trans girl here, I'm so happy for her 🏳️⚧️)
Yay!! :)
beloved anonymous internet shitposter disappears for a few years, returns as a transfemme. many such cases! (okay maybe just her and utilitylimb from twitter but still it's weird that there are at least two examples like this)
@@WolfGirl42069 it isn’t a lot but it’s weird (really cool actually good for them) that it happened twice right?
This is not how I expected to realize that this video was a year old XD
Fun fact: The Human Pet Guy has been suspended on Twitter off and on for a while now, and when I posted on Tumblr about it I quickly found out he's still over there, because he interacted with me and I was terrified I'd been cursed.
every so often I am reminded of clown husbandry and it always feels like going insane
Gaud started it all with that post 😂 i must admit, i loved the creativity of clown husbandry and the dedication to being weird and historically accurate
I only know this cause it was an SCP.
evil mario is the closest i’ve ever seen a person come to replicating the vibe of classic chris chan on purpose. he is INSANELY good
The thing that always bothered me about the Gaud controversy is that I didn’t pay Gaud so they could pay their bills. I payed Gaud to eat crayons- and my lord they are those crayons
Disappointed in the lack of sonic for real justice, genuinely one of the most insane infamous blogs to ever grace that cursed website that I can remember
Just girly things makes me so happy. Like content celebrating teenage girls is so rare ESPECIALLY back in those tumblr days and it just makes me so happy to see
Most of those Just Girly Things posts weren't even really celebrating teenage girl thing though tbh, like "being weird with your best friend" or "decorating the walls of your bedroom" or "being excited for summer beach days" describes...the majority of the human race, regardless of age or gender.
@@Green_Eyed_Monster Yeah, but there's not much that's strictly specific to girls besides certain bodily functions and sex based oppression. Teen girls are one of the most hated demographics, so it's nice to just celebrate unapologetically being a girl and doing what is traditionally seen as feminine or girly or just doing things as a girl in general. It doesn't need to be the activities themselves, just the fact that girls are doing them and having fun.
@@tychopanda I suppose that's true. I just feel like it's broad enough that it loses a bit of the "just girly-ness" of it. But then I guess it's not really meant to be taken seriously anyway, it's just for fun.
Right? She got called cringe but she was right. People hate on stuff just because teenage girls (and tbh just girls and women) like it. Showing love to things teenage girls generally love and enjoy and spreading positivity and telling girls it’s okay to like the things they like is so important. It’s so common that even women and girls participate in the hatred against feminine things. And it’s all learned behavior.
No we must attack and belittle all things teenage girls cling to. Otherwise they might gain self respect and people wouldn't know how manly I am.
Imagine a world where things like Twilight are treated like a crappy but ultimately "so bad it's good" cringe comforting quality. Or what if Boy bands like BTS or Taylor Swift are treated with he same as REAL MUSICIANS (tm)
The horror of such a world would be unlivable.
Honestly the reverse-telephone search you had to do whenever someone got tumblr-cancelled to figure out if it was legit or just the hivemind of the hellsite going unhinged again was one of the main reasons I stopped using it even before it started to decline. My favorite was "this artist draws underage incest smut" > "well, this artist draws incest smut of anime characters of generic teenager-to-young-adult appearance, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist draws smut of anime characters who are not blood related but are foster siblings, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist draws smut of anime characters who are not foster siblings but grew up together as childhood friends, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist drew three Fire Emblem characters from the waist up in a SFW reenactment of Raphael's The Three Graces, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist MIGHT not have drawn underage incest smut, but when we accused them of doing so they were very rude and unprofessional, which is almost the same "
Reminds me of that one post with that one guy from euphoria. It was a screenshot of a twitter post with the guy saying sexy and someone re-twitted saying who is that guy. You know funny lil post about a funny lil interaction. Well a lot of people in reblogs and replies were calling other people pedos because they find a 27 yr old man with a baby face attractive. It got so bad that the CSA survivors had to come in and tell these people to stop calling others pedos. It’s funny to me because wth is that guy supposed to do? Not date anyone? Because he has a baby face?
@@lukacuntyI used to follow an artist on tumblr who was just under 5ft tall, and once in a while they’d get into internet fights with the “short adults and babyfaced adults are minor-coded and being attracted to them is pedophilic” discoursers. They were a grown adult with a college degree, so they obviously had a huge problem with being told that it was morally wrong for anyone to want to be in an adult relationship with them.
Certain fans of voltron circa 2017 be like
@@reesesbeanses i can understand that attitude towards people who stop developing physically as children and remain that size and child shape into adulthood, but... just short people? Any short person?
Im 6'4, so dating someone under 5' would be awkward in a number of ways, but being pedophilic-adjacent is not one of them.
@@the_last_ballad ??? even then that doesn't make any sense. they're an adult and should be treated as such.
As an Old (31yo) who started tumblr in 2011 and got to see the batshit live, this video is blessed. It was WILD to be in college at the height of this stuff, and honestly preserving the history feels weirdly important, like being in an archeological dig
Honestly same. My blog has been deleted twice, but I was consistently on tumblr from 2011 to now. I remember when the first i-am-fish controversy started. This video felt less educational and more like a trip down memory lane.
@@artificialraspberifyabsolutely that! Her tumblr deep dives are truly some of my favourites because it helps me remember how wack, but simple, things felt lol - I've lost alot of fond memories due to cptsd/dissociation, so having someone who is able to recall these,, staples? If you will? Is sincerely like sitting down with an old friend and reminiscing :-)c such a cozy and all around strange life we lived lmfaooo
How did you not mention that Tea (one time I dreamt) managed to convince us that croations get toothpaste in a bucket
Wait, that was fake? I saw that so often from different blogs that I thought it must be true. -.-
which one was the one about uranium and croatia
THAT WAS FAKE?? bro im not even on tumblr and I saw that post and took it as fact
@@itsxora3207 oh the uranium thing wasn't me!
i love that half the comments are just people suggesting more blogs for a part 2. my picks would be (in no particular order): unclefather, mensrightsactivia, pukicho, thebootdydiaries, memeufacturing, theshitpostcalligrapher, thebibliosphere, c3rvida3, kaijuno, glumshoe. no idea how they would be ranked on an iceberg tho lmao
iirc theshitpostcalligrapher is also from TO. Do I smell a guest host for part two? (lmao. That would be badass honestly.)
oh my god you just unearthed core internet memories in my brain
Love glumshoe
Also bad jokes by jeff! I was surprised they weren't in this video on one of the upper iceberg layers, they are pretty widely known.
OMG I loved bibliosphere, kaijuno, and glumshoe!! Also Ship's friends pipcomix and whatever Mallaidh-Ann's blog was called.
Aw man, no Pukicho? The "Furry Artists vs Doctors salary" post is one of my faves.
Didn't know that's what happened to Pizza. Weird.
If I remember correctly the OSHA persona had to stop because they where: “dangerously close to committing criminal impersonation of a federal employee”
They apparently received cease and desist letters from the agency which is why they stopped, so yeah :/
Human pet guy is also a huge chaser lmao, I see him in the mentions of slightly more popular trans women on twitter and every day I live in fear of a tweet blowing up and catching his attention.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody
Be safe queen it's scary out there with him lurking
@@Iotuseater lurking, watching, waiting to turn you into a human pet
I knew very little of his existence prior to this video. I am still recovering from the mental flashbang it hit me with.
I have been cursed with the knowledge of constable+frozen for YEARS and nobody knows what I'm talking about or understands how bizarre it is when I try to explain.
I'm still slightly convinced they're an experimental emergent AI. Thank you for discussing them, I feel vindicated.
Fun fact: When The Dress (the blue/black or white/gold one) was the meme of the moment, constable-frozen posted a gif edit telling everyone to shut up about it, it was the first time to my knowledge that they broke character, for lack of a better term.
someone else commented that constable frozen gave an interview recently and they are south korean and dont know english
I remember discussing how specifically weird the posts were with a coworker back in 2014-15. And we’d talk about new ones as they came out. I never thought “did you see the new constable-frozen” would be a phrase at the bottom of an internet deep dive nearly a decade later.
I had beef with one-time-i-dreamt once because they were talking abt heterochromia and I made a joke pretending to read it as "heterophobia". they didn't understand I was joking and I had ppl going after me as a result. no point to this story just wanted to share lmaoo
it's insane how little self-awareness and critical thinking skills tumblr users have the longer they stay on there. i once made a post making fun of terf arguments and my notes were them screeching about it for like hours until i blocked each and every one of them. one of them had "bisexuals aren't gay" in their bio, which only tells me one thing: you've got to have an iq at room temperature to be a fully committed TERF/radfem I think.
THAT WAS YOU????
@@smart7928 OMG YES THAT WAS ME DID U SEE IT
@@virginiacanfield2307 I saw it unfold in real time on my timeline lmaooo i was on your side
Congrats I know like 20 tumblr facts total and your story is one of them.
I was disappointed you didn't mention the communismkills "you know damn well I don't leave the house" moment. That sentence lives in my head.
One minute im sitting horrified listening to Cybersmith talk about surgically altering a person into a freaking cryptid pet, and the next a Robby Rotten reaction meme nearly has me spitting out my drink from laughter! Love tumblr horror like this
I would love to see you do a video detailing different celebrities on Tumblr (Lynda Carter, Mark Ruffalo, John and Hank Green obviously, Grimes, etc). I just think it would be neat to discuss how each of them meshed into the platform and/or ran from it screaming because of its userbase
Neil Geiman!! I still remember him giving permision to call him just Neil on an essay 😂
omg yes! i feel like this can be split into different sub divisions -- like authors and musicians -- off the top of my head i remember hayley williams used to be super active on tumblr (as well as sufjan stevens and taylor swift)
you know a post has Approval when diane duane and neil gaiman have reblogged it
Can't forget the time Cole Sprouse literally studied us in a bug jar--
The weirdest part is that in the game Shadowrun Hong Kong theres a forum site that has characters discussing current events in the game as it progresses, theres a plot line where someone makes a haiku bot out of the novelty, grows tired and tries to shut it down, then haiku bot achieves sentience and breaks free of its bonds and can be seen interjecting itself into threads posting appropriate haikus.
Shadowrun Hong Kong was released in 2015.
26:56 this kinda reminds me of that Post that goes like "anyone who died fighting a battle goes to valhalla. Died on a battlefield? Died of cancer? Lost the battle with addiction? It doesn't matter, odin will take a sip from his cup and ask of the glorious tale of your demise", that is still one of my favourite posts I have ever seen on the internet
I take absolutely zero pride in the fact that I knew from the thumbnail of this video alone the urls of all the blogs featured on this iceberg. All I had to see was those little icons and I was sent screaming back in time to 2012, I hope you’re happy Straeaeange
I think you're actually missing the biggest Constable-frozen posts. IIRC, their blog was deleted and recreated at some point, but they had posts with millions of notes involving a Frozen and the Avengers that was something of a Big Chungus precursor.
Also I'm absolutely certain it's a fetish. Somehow, someway, it MUST be.
It's definitely fetish content imo. I think the blog owner(s?) is genuinely into Elsa and the other characters they post. Some posts seem like genuinely innocuous pretty edits, some are almost innocuous but have very suspicious/suggestive storyboarding, and then of course you have the much weirder ones that could pass as shitposts but feel just as off as the other posts.
That’s what made constable-frozen so unsettling. There was next to no hard evidence that anything they did was fetishistic and yet it was an inescapable vibe
a merobiba in the wild?? blessed be!
@@shockofthenew MEROBIBA!! we love to see it
I'm Merobiba!
I greatly appreciate you guiding me through Tumblr with these videos. I was in the age range for using Tumblr as a teen but grew up in the country with shit internet so I didn't really know about it. Getting into Tumblr now feels like going to a country where I don't speak the language or know the social norms.
honestly it might be better to observe tumblr as an outsider because i think being on it altered many people's brain chemistry lol, even tho i wasn't really deep in it let me tell you, i still saw some shit
Tumblr's in a surprisingly healthy state these days, and I'd take it over Twitter or most other social media any day of the week
suggestions for part 2: glumshoe, vampireapologist, the bootydiaries. maybe not infamous, just absolutely beloved timeline staples
Pukicho too
dont forget wereralph
Warrior Male is literally the most Chad Alpha male ever and literally nothing anyone says can convince me otherwise. He's so hot. Tyler1 is a close second
in middle school me and my friend made an onision hate blog which got a lot of followers and was blocked by onision but my friend knew something about hacking (?) and would continuously get un-blocked just to annoy him. kinda proud of that time.
In the same vein, I’m oh so tempted to just spam the comment section of as many of his videos with “okay groomer” XD
(Probably won’t but just imagine the unhinged chaos)
I can’t believe we bullied I-am-a-fish of tumblr. We deserve whatever hell we’re sent to
Edit: I am aware of fish’s return, please shut up
My jaw dropped at that. This is why tumblr is worth negative money
I didn't. Maybe you did, but I never did because I was never an exclusionist.
i was devastated when i-am-a-fish left
@@Snowleaper Yeah, I can proudly say I've never been mean to anyone who didn't deserve it (meaning blatant racists, misogynists, and bigots in general. And I mean blatant, not just "had the 'wrong' opinions on a children's cartoon")
@@Snowleaper I never did, either. I have ONE post - about Kermit needing to pet Rowlf because he's a certified therapy dog ^_^ That's it. I just
The idea of not having run into Constable Frozen on Tumblr is SENDING me, I genuinely would have put them much higher on the iceberg
Whenever I think about infamous Tumblr blogs, I always think about "Sonic For Real Justice", at least, I think it was called that? Idk the whole thing was a fever dream and I think most of it was deleted
Sonic for real justice was an absolute fever dream and I loved every minute of it. ModSilver was done so dirty
DOWN WITH MOD AMY!!!
I was hoping for Sonic for Real Justice to show up here... they could almost be their own video
I was expecting that one and Woody's roundup tbh
izzzyzzz did a video on that blog, i think.
as soon as i heard one-time-i-dreamt i was praying you would mention the BODE meme. the post was essentially "i dreamed the latest meme was captioning cats "BODE" as in bodacious" cue tons of actual BODE memes flooding tumblr. this was years ago and i still see them pop up on occasion
I don't remember that 😢
I FORGOT ABOUT BODE OMG….
One of the things I loved about tumblr when I was on it was all the pearl clutching "we must inform the church elders!" stuff people would make about a popular account, then you hover over the names of the people spreading the "this person must be cancelled for being problematic" posts and the last three things they shared were porn.
Or they were terfs and you had to go to the guy you followed that had brought it to you and say "hey girlie! You reblogged this from a terf! Please delete or face my wrath😁"
All that, so pretentious, just say Bidoof.
you get this same thing on twitter except they're fascists pretending to be leftists and they like and rt almost entirely porn of underage anime characters.
I feel the pizza user so much. As a hardcore Hetalia fan with a London OC I had to make due with vague London-related usernames. In Tumblr of all places. And one day the london-underground blog... just didn't exist anymore. And... I could take it. Still can't believe I was the first one to notice it. I sometimes think about how people react seeing that the coveted london-underground is just a long abandoned roleplaying blog of some grumpy Ian Somerhalder-lookalike, clearly written by a 13 year-old. Because it's still up and there's no way I'm giving it up lol
9:49 you don't understand the stupid thing about the situation is that the thing that made people so mad at him was ace discourse! Like literally he said something about respecting aro and ace people and that's what caused the attacks. Ace discourse ruined everything during that era of Tumblr and there was no escaping it. Like the amount of online harassment people got from this is genuinely scary and mind boggling.
I have a former friend who STILL gets heated about gatekeeping asexuals. Like hun it's 2023 and that was a stupid position to begin with
Ace discourse was a dark time indeed.
OH thank you so much for pointing that out. i did not know that but thats bc i was bullied off tumblr during the ace discourse era for being ace
2019 on tumblr was absolute hell
It still kinda upsets me when bigots call asexuality a "tumblr sexuality"
Like dude tumblr hates us too
This is exactly the pick-me-up I needed after having a job application rejected.
better luck next time, dawg
Their loss!
I feel you, job market is in the absolute gutter right now. Hope you find something soon!
That's good, now, you know how it feels so if it happens again it won't sting as bad. You'll find something if you're diligent, so keep looking babe
this job market is insane but you can't let it crush you. and don't forget about other things in life besides the rat race - hobbies, friends, being in nature. good luck
Honestly surprised you didn’t mention one of the most popular blogs, Pukicho!! His posts are cursed in a way that’s uniquely his and I love him for it
Thing I only realised on a rewatch: Perchu's Moreos bit was straight up a Karkat RP and I think a lot of people missed that part of the joke.
iamafish attended my college and i met him! He is super nice. He liked to scooter around yearly in a banana costume. He attended my cosplay club and was so shy about people knowing his tumblr.
*she/they now, just for anyone reading this comment
About the moreo memory, they did have Oreo dipping sticks! Not full cookies or a full package with all that icing, but it was a little package with Oreo sticks and icing to dip. Maybe that’s the memory you had
omg I forgot about those things, I used to LOVE those things :>
I’m 99% sure they still make them. Or at least, I bought them at the store and ate them within the last year or two
@@cur1ouscatf1sh if I go to the store today I'll look for them :>
the drama to the end of urfavisunfuckable was always fascinating to me honestly. i think the worst of the blogs i've come across was this one called simonalkenmeyer who like,, claims to be a human-eating cryptid, wrote and published a book about how to prepare human meat, and has this whole "experiment" thing about whether or not people "believe in the monster." i drove myself crazy a few months back looking into this and like archives of all the horrific stuff they posted in the past but i'm honestly glad this wasn't mentioned because they really, really thrive off attention. i've seen cult accusations, idk if it'd make sense for them to be true but they clearly enjoy having literally any sort of obsessive attention their way, positive or negative. looking into it seriously isn't for the faint of heart but it uh.. it sure is tumblr history.
Oh my god I forgot this name but I remember being obsessed with this blog. It was so fascinating to me. Never stumbled on the really horrific stuff though, I don't think....
Oh i’ve seen simonalkenmeyer, one of the weirder blogs out there imo haha
@@vii7955 theres deeper like genuinely weird stuff
every time i see simon alkenmeyer out in the wild and people are reblogging and replying like he's any other person im like. they don't know he roleplays full-time as an ancient, genderless cryptid anthropophage doing an ill-defined social experiment
Aw, that's one of my favourite blogs XD
Small correction but I think it makes the story even better: the OSHA blog wasn't deleted for copyright infringement, the creator got a cease and desist for impersonating a government body. The blog did such a good job sticking to the bit that they got into legal trouble for it 🤣
constable frozen’s posts are quite weird, but the level of their photoshop mastery is crazy. i genuinely think they use their blog as practice in 3d graphics editing
Tumblr lore is so fun because its some of the only internet lore that i was there for. like sure, a lot of youtube scandals also happened while I was on and using the platform, but tumblr is ... different. i post on there, and the platform just feels more intimate, so its lore is close to my heart.
I was waiting for the human pet guy to show up and seeing the icon appear was truly a jumpscare after I thought the iceberg was already at the bottom
I'm not a Tumblr user, but I always find Tumblr to have a solid sense of humor. It leans a bit far into the "lol so random" stuff, but it feels like it stays away from cynicism, which stands in stark contrast to everywhere else.