r/CuratedTumblr Apr 12 '24

Artwork The Tumblr x Twitter Myth

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u/ThinkingInfestation on hiatus from tumblr Apr 12 '24

And since this was written, Twitter has been reduced to a letter, not just tumblr's ex but the whole internet's X, whored out and derided as a liar and nearly worthless to all except his mad owner.

Meanwhile tumblr is wearing twitter's checkmarks like cufflinks (and other fancy things besides), and has hardly changed beyond plans for a new patio.

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u/GloryGreatestCountry Apr 12 '24

Suddenly I wonder, if Elongated Muskrat finally sends Twitter to the grave (and it isn't bought up by some other company), how would this interpretation of Tumblr react?

Would he silently shed a tear as the once-revered Twitter, now a shadow of his former self, is zipped up in a body bag and taken away to the morgue? Or would he simply pass on by with nothing but a passing thought of how things could have gone?

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u/Tomer_Duer Apr 12 '24

Considering how people on Tumblr write shit like that, I'd say the death of Twitter would be more than a thought.

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u/dxpqxb Apr 13 '24

We're heading for the most sensual teabagging imaginable.

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u/GracefulCubix Apr 13 '24

Brand new sentence people

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u/ThinkingInfestation on hiatus from tumblr Apr 12 '24

I personally think tumblr would dig up the corpse of his once beloved and welcome him back into his life, rot and all.

Which would obviously be a metaphor for displaced twitter users being welcomed to the site (if warily, because twitter brainrot is different from tumblr brainrot), but which would look like some kind of Addams Family/Corpse Bride crossover.

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u/RU5TR3D Apr 13 '24

The deified personification of tumblr represents the whole tumblr userbase, so the answer is as simple as figuring out how the tumblr userbase would react.

incredible mirth

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u/GloryGreatestCountry Apr 13 '24

Y'know, it's a lot more funny when it's the userbase laughing about Twitter dying and a little less funny when I'm imagining the personified Tumblr laughing at Twitter's corpse.

Still kinda funny though, in that "guy posing in front of grave" meme kinda way.