Is Tumblr still a thing?

[sodathecoda]

A while ago I watched a video Duchess Celestia where she claimed that artists are massively leaving Twitter (or X) for... Tumblr? I used Tumblr in the 10's quite a long time before I burned out and abandoned my blog. I really loved how Tumblr offered so many tools to customize your blog and the community was mostly fine (at least while I was in MLP fandom).

After numerous scandals Tumblr lost its popularity and it seems quite dead... But is it worth to make a blog there?

[LunarScyphozoa]

nope, still very alive, they just pretend it’s dead like opossums do to scare off the people who won’t use it like it’s tumblr and try to become influencers lol

[llobucervallince]

Sing up on tumblr in 2017, hasn't leave since then.

[NickRowler]

I never had much luck with posting original art and such. But when it comes to fanart and fandom stuff, Tumblr is still very active.

Maybe it's the fandoms I was involved with but I never encountered any of the "Tumblr Drama" and I have been on the site since 2012. I think a lot of it has to do with who you follow and just not being an asshole to people. I think like every site, you can cherrypick the worse of the worse and make a blanket statement that everyone on the site is like that, when in reality, you are only talking about a very small group of people.

[BlairFujin]

I guess it depends on your community but from my observation, some artists who left tumblr for twitter did come back to it but are still way more active on twitter, also I've seen way more people moving over to bluesky than tumblr. Just a note, my experience may be heavily biased by me following mostly nsfw artists who are still not fully welcomed back on tumblr.
My timeline is mostly one person's current hyperfixation and some random memes/funny pictures from my irl friends (while following over 300 blogs)

[AmysGames]

I've been on Tumblr since 2012, and I've been getting noticeably more traffic on fandom-tagged posts over there recently. I get the feeling it's in a weird in-between state where it's not as active as it used to be, but people are coming back so there's more people interacting with posts, haha.

[Stargazer31]

Definitely! I can only hope that it doesn't turn into another twitter

[Mallory]

I went back to Tumblr because it's the only one I think I can probably trust not to do a bait and switch with their ToS to use artists' work to train AI (and if they do, I trust that they would also fumble actually committing the IP infringement). I've been told you get a lot more engagement relative to how much engagement you do - so like, if you go out and comment on people's stuff, other people come and comment and interact with you vs. some algorithm occasionally deciding to show your post to tons of people. I haven't really tried it, but I can see how it could be true, because people are really chatty. Any time I draw fanart, I get tons of engagement for months after (compared to other social media where your window is a couple days) so that's nice.

[Innocynce]

I assume it is: I periodically go back and never really see anything except for a few kinda stale blogs... Maybe I'm just not on enough, but it seems like a place just for fan theories and/or random pictures of household objects

[abigaillmartin]

I use Tumblr to post my Art sometimes and read fanfiction so there’s that. I find pretty neat stuff on there besides the spam p**n accounts. They’re annoying.

[RedLenai]

Tumblrina here.

Tumblr is pretty active even to this day, most of people there tho belong to fandoms so most of the content there thrives if it's targeted to either a very invested franchise (Superwholock aka Supernatural, Doctor Who, Sherlock or anything similar to that) or a currently airing series and whose fandom will die once it finishes.

Original art doesn't do very well if you're not constantly pumping artwork, making memes, having the pages accessible within the site or a very organized blog where you can get the lore quickly, many people that thrive with their original content usually used the strategy or making fancharacters and eventually separating them from the original franchise it was inspired on.

I personally like it quite a lot, I feel is a bit more organized and easy to customize, most of the art stuff and resources that I drop in the Tapas Art Master Library is found from there

[llobucervallince]

this reminds me, we have to follow the hastag of "supernatural" or "destiel" because that's how we break international news in this website.

[Shanny8]

I tried going back to Tumblr a couple times through November/December of last year but kind of just gave up around January...my account is still there but I'm pretty sure there are more bots than actual people there...

[KevinReijnders]

Tumblr had a massive exodus towards twitter, but when people discovered twitter was just as shit, tumblr had a resurgence. I doubt it's as big as it used to be, but it's still kicking.

[alexwells]

I've been on Tumblr since 2010 and I take a break now and then, but I like coming back to it, and my dashboard is still very much alive. I follow a bit over 600 blogs (but don't know how many of them are active). I even used to make Transformers gif sets. I'm also into interactive fiction and lots of IF authors post on Tumblr. But I don't know about art, as I'm afraid I don't pay that much attention to it.

[llobucervallince]

okay so here's the thing, some people of tumblr doesn't want twitter refugees, at least not the bad ones, we can all agree that tumblr is that room with the wall written and painted in different ways, with one functional light in the corner. is an habitable room, but not your first choice. and many people like to keep it that way.

keep our bullshit on which we can say things like, "I hope your brain is eaten by worms" (affectionaly). without someone worrying that they might get cancel for it. also, I've been threaten by this (↑) before, it is not an exageration.

[llobucervallince]

here's an example of what you can find on tumblr

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[RedLenai]

Boy (gn) you could have attached all that in a single post and they would have still got the message

You know what? I'm sending you to Super Hell for spamming and commiting gay crimes