Many users were not born yet when the online portal was formed in 1994, and they feared it would ruin the online service that speaks to their generation. At the time, Tumblr users reacted with dismay.

It’s a more charitable response to the aging crowd of Yahoos than when the deal was first announced. “The stereotype of Tumblr as a place populated primarily by shrieking One Direction tweens doesn’t seem to be accurate in the bigger picture-although One Direction is one of the most talked-about subjects on the site,” she concluded.

So Romano decided to embrace the invasion of the “mumblrs” with a primer on deciphering Tumblr’s culture and its lingo. “It’s called A Life of Pie, and the photos will make you yearn for home,” Romano wrote. Romano notes that the mother of Cooper Fleishman, an assigning editor at Daily Dot, recently started a Tumblr blog about pies.īut rather than be horrified, she was drawn in. “You mentioned it once,” she responded casually, as if she hadn’t just joined Facebook last year. Visions of NSFW fanart and endless GIFs of porn stars who look like Inception characters went off like land mines in my head. “‘How did you know I had a Tumblr?’ I gasped.

It was as if I was still a teenager and she had burst into my bedroom unannounced. “When I found out my mom was reading my Tumblr, I had a moment of sheer panic. “How I Taught My Mom to Love Tumblr” is one of the many blog posts documenting the flood of older folks on Tumblr.

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