Remembering Tumblr’s wildest community drama - Polygon

https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/5/18127351/tumblr-ban-content-memes-community

​

Tumblr’s new guidelines on NSFW content loom overhead for its users, and the internet is unsure of how to process all of it. Whether these new policies will spell the decline of the website and a mass migration to other sites, or if they’ll be another blip on Tumblr’s vast resume, has still yet to be determined. But one thing’s for certain: Everyone’s talking about Tumblr on main.

There’s just an inherent weirdness so deeply set inside of Tumblr that no other website really quite matches — a weirdness that births absolutely wild stories on the regular. Wild Twitter exposes and threads? Yeah, that’s nothing compared to Constable Frozen, Dashcon and the Mishapocalypse.

In celebration of our favorite wacky website, we’ve decided to archive some very specific Tumblr stories that you just can’t get on the ol’ Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or Instagram.

​

​

Don't miss this one from the comments

My personal favorite Tumblr drama was all the stuff that happened in the Homestuck fandom? Outside of the usual "death threats for shipping something," there was the person who tried to dye themselves grey using Sharpies in a bathtub. There was also a Homestuck con horror story about somebody stabbing a disabled wheelchair-user in the leg with a fork to see if they "were really disabled," but I can’t find the original post on that one.

I also can openly admit that I went to a Homestuck-themed prom, or a "promstuck," if you will. They played that one My Little Pony remix song that everyone associated with Homestuck. What a wild ride. Thanks a lot, Tumblr.

​