Another week, another Tuesday. Except that this Tuesday is a treat. This Tuesday on Tumblr is brought to you by @altpress, who have kindly shared some nostalgic and some never-before-seen images of Tumblr's favorite band, My Chemical Romance.
We all know how pivotal a moment 2004 was—the birth of Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. An obsession with swooped bangs and skinny jeans. The seep of emo music and aesthetics across the world.
So, please enjoy these images from the shoot of MCR's 2004 December cover debut for Alternative Press Issue 197, photographed by Chapman Baehler. For more archival content of your favorite artists from the before times, head over to tumblr.com/altpress.
But it’s not over yet, there has been heaps of other blogs who have experienced the same thing but did not have the reach or the community or the support I did in getting this issue solved.
Tumblr, although I’m grateful for being able to post again, you need to fix your spam trapper. It’s not working and causing real bots to slip through and banning and blocking real blogs.
Thank you for all the support guys, especially @amtrak-official and @humans who helped me fix and boost this issue!!
It’s that time again. It’s Tumblr’s 2022 Year in Review!
Every year, the team behind Fandometrics analyzes, categorizes, and ranks all the most discussed things on Tumblr—that’s a year’s worth of your tags, searches, posts, likes, and reblogs—and packages them up into a little thing we like to call Year in Review.
Tumblr’s Year in Review contains a full 365 days’ worth of data, but it runs from October 21, 2021, to October 20, 2022. Tragically, this means Goncharov (1973), the greatest mafia movie ever made, will not appear on the lists this year. We’re just as disappointed as you are, but that gives us all something to look forward to in 2023—especially if @vancityreynolds’ remake gets a release date.
This Year in Review has all your classics like Movies, Web Series, and Anime & Manga. It's also got last year’s new lists (because, frankly, what would a Year in Review in 2022 be without Genshin Impact Characters and Minecraft Streamers?). And we’ve added some new lists for you this year, too—a brand new Formula 1 list and a few special editorial deep dives.
Stay tuned this month. There may be a few surprises along the way. Maybe even an exciting launch next week. Who knows! We certainly don’t! Not a clue. For now, here's Tumblr’s Year in Review for you to dig into.
Top 22 of 2022
Ships
TV Shows
Movies
Celebs
Stranger Things
Tumblr Communities
Dashboard Diving
Things We Care About
Space!
Solo Artists
Music Groups
K-Pop
K-Pop Stars
Minecraft Streamers
Web Celebs
Web Series
Athletes
Formula 1
Memes
Genshin Impact Characters
Video Games
Mobile Games
Video Game Characters
Deltarune
Anime & Manga
Anime & Manga Characters
Books
Queer TV
At a certain point, it was just hard to keep up. They seemed to fall from the sky like fizzing raindrops, soaking everything in pure wildness—memes, that is. 2022 had an absolute bumper crop of memes. The fertile field of this year’s chaos was sown freely, resulting in some impressively widespread phenomena. Most of it remained pretty contained within the dashboard, but at the end of the year the biggest meme of them all broke containment…We’re getting ahead of ourselves here.
Cast your mind back to January 2022. We kicked off the year with Horse Plinko, which soon joined forces with Eeby Deeby in a frenzy of flaming gifs in which the poor horse plinko’d its way to Super Hell. Nothing has ever summed up the mildly deranged meme generation process on Tumblr so perfectly.
This era of memes merged smoothly with the Month of Blorbo. Can you believe blorbo from my shows is more or less purely a 2022 phenomenon? Granted, the original post happened in late 2021, but it was the new year by the time “blorbo” secured itself in our vocabulary. How did we even live our lives on Tumblr without the word “blorbo”? It’s impossible to even imagine at this point.
Springtime dawned with the rise of Live Slug Reaction, which dominated the dashboard as everyone rushed to plop that shocked slug in the corner of their favorite gay moments from TV and film. And in May came a very important event that would define the rest of the year on Tumblr: the launch of Dracula Daily, Affectionately dubbed “tumblr book club,” the serialized email newsletter found a hugely involved following on Tumblr and spawned an infinite variety of memes, beginning with the iconic paprika recipes.
The Summer of Morbius dominated Tumblr from June onwards, with everyone going bonkers with Morb-based puns, jokes about the film’s most ridiculous moments, and reblogging a single GIF somehow containing the entire movie that would crash your browser when it played on your dash..
The i love you x i love you y text post meme saw us to the end of the summer, and autumn came with the rise of the GOUGER. Or is it GOUGAR? Regardless, the strange but harmless creature took over everyone’s meme palette for a while, getting involved in increasingly silly scenarios.
This free-for-all was interrupted by the death of Queen Elizabeth, an event that was solemn everywhere else. . But on Tumblr, of course, users swamped the dashboard with Queen Liz-related memes and commentary. And crabs. There were quite a lot of those.
Later, in September, the Try Guys saga unfolding on Twitter and YouTube filtered over to Tumblr in the form of the “lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship” meme, with Tumblr users casting various favorite co-worker ships in the roles of the controversial real-life pairing.
And finally, closing out the year, the meme you’ve all been waiting for: the one and only Goncharov (1973). Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, Goncharov is a movie borne out of the magic combination of a misprinted shoe label and Tumblr’s fertile imagination. Thanks to a fake movie poster by user @beelzeebub, which gave names and faces to the characters, Tumblr ran absolutely wild, churning out analysis, fanart, and even fanfiction at an astounding rate. This was by far the meme to win 2022: it gained coverage all over the internet, including the freaking New York Times, and even Scorsese himself acknowledged it. You did that, Tumblr. Goncharov forever, all hail the power of the Tumblr meme!
"One of the many virtues that unites us with those great pillars of philosophy is that all of them never, never abandoned their spirit of emotion and curiosity as when we were children.
It doesn't matter if you fall and cry, if they deny you the expected caress, what you find and long for... the spirit grows and you feel that sooner or later the frustrated happiness is reversed and you will sing and laugh surrounded by new experiences and great friends.
“When you lack answers, look for them in your heart; he never cheats on you."