Crikeycore: what is it and should Australians cringe at it?
Why are young Americans nostalgic for non-existent childhoods filled with fairy bread, pass the parcel and venomous snakes? Doosie Morris explains it to Alyx Gorman
December 2022
Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network
Elon Musk admits banning links to Twitter rival was a mistake
October 2022
Young LGBTQ+ people more than twice as likely to experience hate speech online
TechScape newsletter
TechScape: Tumblr and why ‘the porn-friendly era of the internet is over’
February 2021
If you're in Australia and Facebook has eaten your newsfeed, where do you go now?
Whether you’re after news, community engagement or both, there are workarounds
November 2019
The decade in music
New rules: the destruction of the female pop role model
Somewhere between Britney and Billie Eilish, liberated by social media and their direct relationship with fans, millennial and Gen Z women claimed the right to be complicated pop auteurs
August 2019
Verizon sells Tumblr just two years after acquiring social network
Web services company Automattic, best known for running Wordpress.com, acquired Tumblr. Sale price was not disclosed, but reports have put it at under $3m
July 2019
What Love Island tells us about the value of kindness
Stephanie Boland
Behaviour doesn’t have to be actually abusive to be make others feel bad – as human beings, we should aim to be kind, says Stephanie Boland, head of digital at Prospect magazine
May 2019
Tumblr transformed me but now it's just another place for people already protected by the mainstream
Jonno Revanche
The aspects which separated Tumblr from Facebook have been lost
January 2019
The Guardian view on mental health online: protect the vulnerable
Editorial: The giant social media companies cannot escape responsibility when depressed teens are led to damaging material online
December 2018
Tumblr’s ‘porn ban’ will leave its marginalised users with no safe haven
Roisin Agnew
The heteronormative values of Silicon Valley are being used to police what we can do in our sex lives, says journalist Roisin Agnew
The Week in Patriarchy
Social media sites should focus less on nipples and more on Nazis
Arwa Mahdawi
Tumblr, long known as a safe space for sexual subcultures, has a new policy on ‘female-presenting nipples’. Maybe it should rethink its priorities
Images of Jesus and superheroes caught up in Tumblr porn ban
Tumblr's adult content ban dismays some users: 'It was a safe space'
Tumblr to ban all adult content
March 2018
Tumblr says Russia used it for fake news during 2016 election
Site unmasks 84 accounts used by 13 people linked to Russia’s ‘troll farm’, the Internet Research Agency, and says law enforcement has been notified
February 2018
Can chickpeas prolong orgasm? Yes – but only in LiarTown
It’s the satirical powerhouse for the fake news era. LiarTown’s creator Sean Tejaratchi tells us how he dreamt up cooking with tears, angry cow stamps – and that old Smiths classic Lovely Gary
April 2017
The state has let millennials down. That’s why we crowdfund basic needs
Jonno Revanche
The trend for millennials to support each other through crowdfund schemes shows how community conscious we are, as well as the anxieties we live with
November 2016
Verse goes viral: how young feminist writers are reclaiming poetry for the digital age
Book clubs rebooted: Emma Watson, Florence Welch and the best new online reading groups
