The Tumblr Revival Is Real - and Gen Z Is Leading the Charge

Monday, April 07, 2025

As TikTok teeters and Facebook alienates, Gen Z is rediscovering Tumblr -- a chaotic, cozy corner of the internet untouched by algorithmic gloss and influencer overload.

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... Rumors of a Tumblr comeback have been bubbling for a couple of years"think a pair of Doc Martens here, a splash of pastel hair dye there. Now, Gen Z is embracing the platform as a refuge from an internet saturated with influencers and algorithm fatigue.

Launched in 2007, just ahead of Instagram's 2010 debut, Tumblr, with its blog-style format, encouraged users to craft personal aesthetics and immerse themselves in niche communities -- where American Apparel tennis skirts, oversize flannels, and black wire chokers once reigned supreme.

At its peak in early 2014, the platform had more than 100 million users and was often mentioned in the same breath as Facebook and other rising social media giants. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-07 03:22 PM | Reply

Trump should buy it (with other people's money)... and rename it Dumblr.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-07 03:29 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

Why not just have open discussion and news sites where speech was free and spam and porn and gross hate is verboten. Kind of like we once had in the many news media outlets from local newspapers to NPR and prior to pay wall and public opinion and comments banned and replaced so as to keep the public politicized and uninformed.

#3 | Posted by Robson at 2025-04-07 07:48 PM | Reply

"#3 | Posted by Robson"

You make the mistake of assuming Democrats desire free speech. They don't. They desire controlled speech.

#4 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-07 09:45 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You make the mistake of assuming Republicans desire free speech. They don't. They desire controlled speech.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-07 09:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"You make the mistake of assuming Republicans desire free speech. They don't. They desire controlled speech.
#5 | Posted by ClownShack"

Which platform is the GOP trying to shut down for allowing too much free speech? You need a time machine to answer that question to go back to the time when the parties' positions on free speech were reversed back in the early 2000s. Since then, the Dems have been the party of policing speech - with your left wing equivalents in the UK jailing people over memes.

#6 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-07 09:55 PM | Reply

Which platform is the GOP trying to shut down for allowing too much free speech?
#6 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

Just listing what the Trump Administration has erased, silenced, altered, threatened, sued, shut down and destroyed would take more effort than I care to expend.

There's a reason you're a deplorable Trumping MAGAt troll.

All you got is ignorance, anger and hate.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-07 10:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Which platform is the GOP trying to shut down for allowing too much free speech?"

Every Federal Government web page is being censored directly by the Trump administration.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-07 10:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

""Which platform is the GOP trying to shut down for allowing too much free speech?"
Every Federal Government web page is being censored directly by the Trump administration.
#8 | Posted by snoofy"

The government choosing not tonpromote nonsense ideas on their websites is not a violation of freedom of speech -------.

#9 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-07 10:49 PM | Reply

The government choosing not tonpromote nonsense ideas...

Like that women and black people were army air force pilots in WW2?

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-07 11:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"The government choosing not tonpromote nonsense ideas on their websites is not a violation of freedom of speech -------."

Regardless of any legal violations, you asked which sites is the government shutting down for allowing too much free speech.
The answer is still government sites.

One "platform" the GOP is trying to shut down for allowing too much free speech is a thing called "Science":

More than 1,900 scientists and engineers have signed a letter saying they "see real danger in this moment" as the Trump administration slashes federal support for scientific research.

"The quest for truth " the mission of science " requires that scientists freely explore new questions and report their findings honestly, independent of special interests," the letter says. "The administration is engaging in censorship, destroying this independence."

"A climate of fear has descended on the research community," National Academies members write in the letter. "We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation's scientific enterprise is being decimated."
www.theverge.com

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-07 11:36 PM | Reply

"#11 | Posted by snoofy"

We all saw the 'science' you -------- were running with USAID money. Sorry, your ------- liberal NGOs will need to convince the free market to fund them - not the taxpayer.

#12 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-08 12:09 AM | Reply

#12 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

You really do a wonderful job of demonstrating how utterly stupid Trump supporters are.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-08 12:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"#13 | Posted by ClownShack"

You do a wonderful job of playing the part of the 'deadender' - the guy that has utterly failed at everything in his life but it is never his fault. Plus, despite never generating any wealth in their personal life, they are an expert on all things economics. Keep in mind, their economic expertise is only their hobby as their true calling is as a vaccine and climate change expert.

Always uninformed - but always 100% self-confident in repeating whatever talking points they are fed.

#14 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-08 12:50 AM | Reply

"We all saw the 'science' you -------- were running with USAID money."

So.
Are you gonna explain WHY you want the United States to cede global leadership in science?
Don't you think there's ROI on science?
???

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-08 01:00 AM | Reply

You do a wonderful job of
#14 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

Gotta tell you, I don't really care what the rest of this strawman tirade says.

You're trying too hard to troll.

It's sad.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-08 01:04 AM | Reply

"Are you gonna explain WHY you want the United States to cede global leadership in science?
Don't you think there's ROI on science?
#15 | Posted by snoofy"

Please define 'science'. If you are talking about climate science - yes, I 100% want to cede 'leadership'.

But more importantly, who exactly are we ceding leadership to? I don't even think you can name 5 European tech companies without Google or ChatGPT helping you.

To China? Nope - China is imploding.

To Japan/Korea? Yeah...same story as China but a little nicer.

So, which science and which country are we ceding leadership to?

#17 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-08 05:17 AM | Reply

You can parse and quibble all you want--HATE screech is not, in any comparable way, FREE speech.

#18 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-04-08 06:26 AM | Reply

"HATE screech is not, in any comparable way, FREE speech.
#18 | Posted by dutch46"

Hate speech is an OPINION and the exact reason why the freedom of speech exists. popular speech doesn't need protection.

#19 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-08 08:37 AM | Reply

"Hate speech is an OPINION and the exact reason why the freedom of speech exists"

Aw...isn't that cute?

Arguing FOR the Constitution on one thread, and AGAINST it on another!

Now tell us why Due Process exists.

#20 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-08 09:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in humanity is a "nonsense idea" not worthy of free speech, but Nazism is cool. Scotts isn't just dumb, he's a loathsome piece of $#!+

#21 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-08 10:05 AM | Reply