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History of dunking culture's transformation into the alt right, the reputation of Tumblr

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  1. [4]
    Whom
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    Sorry for the awkward title, but the actual title really undersells what is honestly some of the best work out there documenting and interpreting internet history. Essential viewing if you want to...

    Sorry for the awkward title, but the actual title really undersells what is honestly some of the best work out there documenting and interpreting internet history. Essential viewing if you want to understand the development of reactionary garbage on the internet and the foundation of the myth of the wildly unreasonable "SJW" on absolute bullshit...basically memeing itself into existence.

    The beginning of this is mostly focused on a humorous look at Old Tumblr as the title implies, but this is really serious and necessary work.

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      imperialismus
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      Got a summary of what she says about "old tumblr"? Because I'm not sure I have the patience to sit through an hour of this, but I happen to be intimately familiar with the early days of tumblr.

      Got a summary of what she says about "old tumblr"? Because I'm not sure I have the patience to sit through an hour of this, but I happen to be intimately familiar with the early days of tumblr.

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      1. [2]
        Kuromantis
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        Basically, she says that Tumblr fake stories originally came to be because lots of dumb teenagers wrote lots of fake, dumb things and lots more dumb teenagers believed them and them she goes in to...

        Basically, she says that Tumblr fake stories originally came to be because lots of dumb teenagers wrote lots of fake, dumb things and lots more dumb teenagers believed them and them she goes in to talk about how this was later exploited by reactionaries that made stories that always feature fat people, non-whites to imply they're lying or Tumblr users are lying about the nature of these people.

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        1. imperialismus
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          Ok. Probably correct, and not really unique to Tumblr. When Tumblr first started out, there were far fewer teenagers, or people pretending to be teenagers, or teenagers pretending to be dumber...

          Ok. Probably correct, and not really unique to Tumblr. When Tumblr first started out, there were far fewer teenagers, or people pretending to be teenagers, or teenagers pretending to be dumber teenagers than they actually are...

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  2. moocow1452
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    Once again, my favorite video proves relevant: https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc Also, it seems like it's a short jump from fake Tumblr posts to fake news in contemporary politics, but maybe that was...

    Once again, my favorite video proves relevant:
    https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc

    Also, it seems like it's a short jump from fake Tumblr posts to fake news in contemporary politics, but maybe that was out of scope of the video or too hot of a wire to touch.

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  3. Micycle_the_Bichael
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    Sarah Z is a really interesting introductory course to tumblr and internet history. I don’t like her videos, but she serves a good purpose on the internet and I’m happy shes making videos she likes.

    Sarah Z is a really interesting introductory course to tumblr and internet history. I don’t like her videos, but she serves a good purpose on the internet and I’m happy shes making videos she likes.

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