There's something funny about Tumblr... When we first started using it, I felt it was doing a lot of things RIGHT. And I know it's popular. However, over the months I can't escape this feeling that there is ZERO community happening on Tumblr. It's like a place where you just dump something, and it gets liked or reblogged, but there is rarely any verbal interaction and you never really pay attention to who is watching you.

On Facebook, I keep up with friends from childhood and college, as well as friends from here on NG.

On Twitter, I keep up with people in the games industry as well as friends from here on NG.

On NG I met most of my non-childhood / college friends.

On Tumblr... Nothing. I follow people from NG and their stuff shows in my feed, but it's like a silent movie. Doesn't feel like any meaningful interaction is happening. Does that basically sum up your experience?

Tumblr is used mostly for sharing dick pics and pushing agendas. At most, you'll find some hidden artists and musicians.

Tumblr isn't really a site that promotes community as much as it promotes "culture." I suppose it is possible to have a community, but it's more for mindlessly reblogging content you usually didn't make yourself in a vain hope that you'll be "internet famous" for a bit.

I'm pretty harsh on Tumblr because of the negative things that come out of it, such as misandry, but as a site itself it can be entertaining in a brainless sort of way. The lack of feeling of community on Tumblr isn't all that surprising as most post aren't really set in a community setting such as a forum.

I never really seen the point of tumblr, most of the time i was on there it seemed to be filled with girls either venting about breakups sharing ridiculous quotes or girls pining over guys that couldnt have

There's always a few circlejerking groups around there who all know each other and reblog everything they post. There's no sense of community other than getting together so they can get famous easier or push ideas further. Most of tumblr's community is absolute garbage anyway, the only way you can actually enjoy it is if you scroll past anything political or with any kind of ideology and just reblog and look at cool pictures of cats and mountains and tits.

At 1/22/15 03:26 PM, FoAngel wrote: I never really seen the point of tumblr, most of the time i was on there it seemed to be filled with girls either venting about breakups sharing ridiculous quotes or girls pining over guys that couldnt have

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At 1/22/15 03:38 PM, Riech wrote: German bullshit

Thank you for your kind words, however i dont have a daughter

Tumblr is pretty much for displaying art and sharing GIFs of BBC shows

The only good thing Tumblr is good for is porn.
Other than that it's a hive of feminazi scum.

I use Tumblr as I way to quickly and casually catch up on things I'm interested in.
Twitter I use more professionally, and Facebook for personal interaction, but Tumblr acts as a middle ground for me, and it's actually quite useful.

I agree that you're not going to get the same kind of quality conversations there as elsewhere (though I've seen some), mainly imho because Tumblr is not structured for meaningful conversations, it's structured for pushing and receiving content.

Tumblr has community like a rock has public speaking ability.

I've never used Tumblr so I guess that sums it up

The sites like facebook, twitter and tumblr are just fads that will pass
so to me they mean nothing and they should go away into the depths of forgotten memory
better sooner than later it's going to happen eventually anyways

I think of Tumblr as being the JRPG of Facebook. Users of both sites love to statwhore, but on Facebook you can count on a greater percentage of your friends being people you actually know. Since Tumblr has a more specific focus on content, views, and reblogs, it's less about the people and more about the numbers, and when you don't know the people that are reblogging your content, those people are really nothing more than numbers.

I have a friend that had something go half viral on Tumblr - an image that gave her a boost from several dozen followers to several hundred. When all you're seeing is an image, and you follow someone based on that, you don't really get an idea of who you're following, other than knowing what their general interests are. A few posts can go viral on Facebook, but it's not nearly as common.

To do another quick comparison, Twitter has much more focus toward text, which makes it more of a shorthand blogging site. While you can hypothetically do the same on Tumblr, it's just not what makes up the majority of the content. Usually when I find a lengthy article on Tumblr, it's some preachy bullshit from some self-righteous internet activist that may have been reblogged but is seldom talked about. Perhaps it has to do with people reblogging in an attempt to "collect" content that they like rather than engaging with the content creator.

As for Newgrounds, we have a lot of stuff here, but the userbase is too small to be considered a service the way YouTube or Tumblr is, and that makes it a community almost by default. There are small circles of programmers, animators, artists, and musicians here that know each other, and the circle is small enough that you can find your way into it if you want to.

I'm curious what Instagram is like, since it sounds very similar to Tumblr. I've never been a frequent visitor of either, but I'd like to hear someone compare the two.

Of all the social networking sites, Tumblr is the one where I have the least amount of understanding. It feels like people on that site prefer to express their identity not through their own words or content, but through an amalgamation of things other people have made, which is cool I guess. Kind of reminds me of those people who used to have the decked out Myspace pages, or the kids with posters of bands covering every inch of their walls, even though they don't make music themselves.

I guess it's just another form of expressing yourself that most people aren't used to. I don't really have an issue with it.

Well I've seen the community of tumblr rally together for various causes. There was the Teen Wolf fandom who raised money for a wolf sanctuary. Random people over tumblr giving money to users in dire need, faced with eviction or a severely ill pet. The users appear quite generous too. I see a lot of tumblr users getting involved however they can with Ferguson, with users including phone numbers, addresses, emails of the council members or whoever who users urge to contact with their disgust. You don't even know how shit hit the fan on tumblr about Leelah Alcorn.

Sure, its the same as people do via twitter and facebook, but its not like tumblr don't get involved because they do. Its all there. Its just a different kind of community. One with the greatest respect to you Tom I don't think fits your goals for Newgrounds, because tumblr if you strip it down is a blogging site. People go on there to post (or reblog) their thoughts, eve if they're someone elses first. I don't know how that kind of site can benefit NG, unless you hope to catch the odd randomer who has found one of NGs posts through the tagging system. Are you using tags when you post stuff on tumblr? If not, its worth an idea.

Scratch that, I just went onto your tumblr page and saw tags but who is running that thing? Still pictures? Make the most of the unlimited file sizes. Get some clips of the movies/games you want people to look at. One still images tells users nothing. Tell them how awesome your movies and games are, show them in fact with more then just a link. Gifs and videos are the language of tumblr, use that to NGs advantage. They ain't clicking that link till their interest is well and truly peaked and I don't think Newgrounds tumblr is getting that right at the moment.

Give me the reins Tom.

I have to agree. Initially I perused it looking for art that I enjoy... (which btw, I fav and reblog every time I see the NG Tumblr post something, so I'm one of the few, but I get on there infrequently nowadays.)

Hell, I wanted to even share some of my art on there, and try out this whole tagging system that I'm still trying to get used to on Twitter...But in time, I find myself in a similar disconnect with it. I mindlessly hit the middle mouse button and scroll down the never-ending feed...and there's no real way to stop it. Its a mesmerizing conveyor belt of interesting things...a mechanical time-killer that literally requires no thought. Your brain kinda flatlines when you use Tumblr...and before you know it, you've spent an hour on the journey scrolling down and you have to convince yourself to do something else.

There's nothing personable about it. There are one or three people I follow on that site that at least exude some sort of personality, something that resembles an actual post where they use their own words to fucking tell somebody something...and I don't fully understand how to communicate with that site. I don't get PM's, when I ask people things it doesn't get a reply... Tumblr is like an art gallery or a museum, in deafening silence. Like a tomb of quips, quotes, visuals, and causes...some of which aren't even with accurate information...

There's a tension in the serious side of Tumblr, and there's a mindlessness on the other.

Where their own running gag is just repeating the punchline in bolder text.

REPEATING THE PUNCHLINE IN BOLDER TEXT.

I can't even.
dying.
I'm screaming!

This too shall pass. Tumblr is the social network for the anti-social.

At 1/23/15 04:32 AM, yurgenburgen wrote: I don't know much about Tumblr but it has a lot of negative connotations, e.g. it is associated with extreme ideologies and so on

Not true. Check out mine. I post funny and cool things I find in my feed.

These replies make me cringe.

Tumblr is void of any kind of humanity

It's true. I have been there only to check out tits pics and cool artists, but never really liked the place because it gives no motive to join if you don't have anything to promote. It's a stone cold place and wouldn't really join there.

At 1/23/15 04:25 AM, Phobotech wrote: .... Tumblr is the social network for the anti-social.

Hehehe. As someone who's moderately anti-social, that hit the spot, though I don't know if your assessment is universally true.

I made an account and never actually went back...

I've never personally understood the riff raff and appeal behind tumblr. I think honestly tumblr isn't really marketed towards artists, in fact I think it's simplified to appeal mostly to teen girls/LBGTQ weirdos.

I always pictured tumblr as like a pinterest. Where its just kind of a collage tool, its got no real community behind it. I guess kind of like stumbleupon, where you are consumer content people find but not really interacting at all with whomever found/shares it.

I kind of feel the same about instagram. I'll upload stuff and ill get likes (usually from spambots) and dont really find much value or immersion from it.

At 1/23/15 04:25 AM, Phobotech wrote: I don't fully understand how to communicate with that site. I don't get PM's, when I ask people things it doesn't get a reply...

Try saying something like this:

"The wage gap is a myth!", "Feminism isn't about equality, it's about giving women more rights!", "Sherlock/Dr Who/Homestuck/MLP is terribly overrated!"

And i grantee you'll get replies.

At 1/22/15 03:42 PM, FoAngel wrote:

At 1/22/15 03:38 PM, Riech wrote: German bullshit

Thank you for your kind words, however i dont have a daughter

I hate you!!!

Well, I don't have a Tumblr account. That about sums it up.

It really only seems remotely handy as a sort of casual portfolio for artists and photographers. Pretty piss poor as far as anything else goes.

At 1/23/15 04:17 AM, Gagsy wrote: Give me the reins Tom.

You can take hold of my reigns.

You're better off staying away from it, and plus we really don't need any of those fat feminazi harpies coming on here complaining about MUH SOJINY.

At 6/2/15 07:17 PM, Ragnarokia wrote:

At 1/23/15 04:17 AM, Gagsy wrote: Give me the reins Tom.

You can take hold of my reigns.

How do I hold rain?