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'Vogue' Latest to Get on This Tumblr Thing

by Choire Sicha Good golly, even Vogue has a Tumblr now. Maybe there'll be cat pictures from the office! We're still waiting to see if the latest media companies to jump on Tumblr will do anything...

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"Rappers Looking Like Magicians"

by Choire Sicha A website devoted to pictures of rappers when they are looking like they are magicians! 1 Comments

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The New Digital Currency: Tumblr Gives Good Brand Feelings

by Choire Sicha Tumblr's business model revealed to be "good feelings." Sounds like someone's been reading Lovemarks. (You remember: "Take a brand away and people will find a replacement. Take a...

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What Do You Do if You're Tumblr and You Just Got $25 Million+?

by Choire Sicha If you owned Tumblr, what would you do with the $25 to $30 million you just got pumped into your company (on top of the first $10 million)? (Or thereabouts—numbers are reportedly...

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What If Tumblr Is Gone FOREVER???

by Choire Sicha .bbpBox{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/18178524/coffeebeans.jpg) #8b592b;padding:20px;} Tumblr has been down a long time. Hipsters should meet at...

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How To Save Your Super Important Tumblr Files

by Alex Balk Here are instructions on how to back up your Tumblr in the event of another calamitous outage. Because, you know, God forbid all that preciousness and whimsy be lost to the world. 6 Comments

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The Tumblr at the End of the World

by Sady Doyle The planet Earth, source-point of the human race, ended in fire and flood and catastrophic nuclear-weapons automation mishap in 2012. Strangely, the entire human race appears to have...

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Where You Ladies Get Your Thinspiration

by Choire Sicha So here is a look at the pro-ana and "thinspo" Tumblr communities! This is a thing to know about, the young ladies who in varying ways crave being tiny, but please note our official...

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"Pretty Colors" Tumblr to Run out of Material in the Year 5012

by Choire Sicha There are only 16,777,216 colors that can be represented on the web (under our current system). The Tumblr that celebrates them, Pretty Colors, has posted 1077 of those colors since...

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It's "Everyone Hates Tumblr" Day :(

by Choire Sicha Rough day in new-media-land too: Tumblr's getting it from all sides, for pretty much extorting a developer—threatening to shut down his personal sites because they don't like a popular...

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How Long Does Tumblr's $85 Million Last?

by Choire Sicha $85 million sounds like a lot of money! That's what Tumblr just raised, on top of the $30 million they raised ten months ago, bringing their investment dollars to a bit north of $120...

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"Animals In Places They Shouldn't Be"

by Choire Sicha From the Internet that brought you Barely Feral Dot Tumblr Dot Com and Animals In Casts and Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses Dot Tumblr Dot Com, please welcome Animals In Places They...

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"Halloween? Or Williamsburg?"

by Choire Sicha From the very same Internet that brought you everything else comes Halloween or Williamsburg Dot Tumblr Dot Com. 7 Comments

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Beers In The Pants Dot Tumblr Dot Com

by Choire Sicha From the Internet that brought you Bros Icing Bros, it's…. Beers In The Pants Dot Tumblr Dot Com. (via, via) 14 Comments

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Tumblr Invents Yet Another Business Model

by Choire Sicha For a dollar, Tumblr will let you "highlight" your own Tumblr posts, which then… puts a sticker on the post that lets people know it's extra-important. Among the more negative (and not...

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Tumblr to Shut Down Pro-Anorexia Blogs

by Choire Sicha "For example, joking that you need to starve yourself after Thanksgiving or that you wanted to kill yourself after a humiliating date is fine, but recommending techniques for...

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Tweet On Yo Face Enables You To Do Just That

by Emily Gould This adorable hack takes people's tweets and puts them onto their pics, so they look cuter when you post them on your Tumblr. 2 Comments

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Hillary's Rebranding

by Choire Sicha So yeah, this really happened that the guys who run the Texts from Hillary Tumblr were called to a meeting with Hillary Clinton. Where there were posed hilarious photos! Very...

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To Enjoy: That Purple Sound

by Choire Sicha Would you like to follow a music Tumblr devoted to the 80s, the "Minneapolis sound," and Prince-adjacent pop-funk? If the answer is "yes," then do enjoy. (If the answer is no, then...

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Tumblr Monetizes! Troll Away!

by Choire Sicha A wonderful new feature on Tumblr means that you can destroy peoples' lives! For just $5, you can "pin" something to people's "dashboard," and these "pinned posts" don't go away until...

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