I joined Tumblr 12 years ago, back in 2013. At the time it had just been bought out by Yahoo so there was a lot of excitement around the platform. It was "the future" of blogging. I was just about 17. I had a Livejournal and a Blogger blog, but the only social media I had was Facebook, and mainly just to play Pet Society (does anyone even remember Pet Society?). I had interacted with Tumblr before in order to view Phineas and Ferb fanart, but found it's structure a little confusing. Still, I decided to give it a shot. I almost instantly became hooked. I was a lonely akward teenager, and getting a few notes on a post was the closest thing I had to "social interaction with my peers". I spent the two paltry hours I had free after homework on Tumblr, sometimes staying up too late for a little extra time. I don't need to explain to you what Tumblr culture was like in it's heyday, there are tons of videos romanticizing those "simpler times". Dashcon...
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