1. So, as you probably know, Elon Musk bought Twitter, a bunch of stuff happened, and now everyone thinks the app is going to die. And as you can see in this post, Tumblr users are assuming that Twitter users are going to come running back to Tumblr if the site does indeed get shut down.
2. Tumblr — like, the actual company — is assuming this as well, and they put out a long list of reasons to join Tumblr recently. It was hilarious and slightly shady.
Reason to Join Tumblr #10: We have an edit button (and it’s free)
3. They also tweeted this:
https://t.co/ixbAwSlMkB
4. And responded to a short outage with this:
hold up like 12 new ppl joined. we're working on it. give it a sec :) https://t.co/Upd5HEaIBq
5. But Tumblr users themselves are being a little less welcoming overall, and it's absolutely hilarious. Here's a post about how both TikTok and Twitter users are confused by Tumblr:
Spoiler: That's not really the official Firefox company's Tumblr.
6. This post is a perfect welcome to anyone unfamiliar with Tumblr, honestly:
7. This tweet is just chef's kiss dot jpeg:
8. Tumblr users have been "turning up the cringe" in order to scare off newcomers, and it appears to be working:
Yeah imma just have to go down with the ship this ain’t it.
9. Tumblr tried to get everyone to chill, but to no avail:
