Today’s scholarly reaction to the Tumblrpocalypse comes from Emily Roach. “One of my big concerns is where fan communities will actually migrate to if Tumblr does end up driving huge parts of fandom away and/or deleting blogs. Dr Casey Fiesler
Tumblrpocalypse Special, Part 5
We continue with our countdown to the Tumblrpocalypse, today with Elise Vist, PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. Tumblr’s recent “no female-presenting nipples” rule, which bans NSFW content from its platform, is yet another sign that it is no
Tumblrpocalypse Special, Part 4
We continue to collect reactions from fan studies scholars and Tumblr researchers to the unfolding Tumblrpocalypse. Here are some thoughts from Casey Fiesler, originally published on Twitter and reproduced with permission and minor edits. (Do check out the original Twitter
Tumblrpocalypse Special, Part 3
[It occurred to me this morning that I missed a trick in not calling this series “I will go down with this ship…” Ah well.] Anyway, here’s another instalment in our current special series featuring Tumblr and fan studies researchers’
Supernatural, hands down, from the time I started working with this type of data, has just continued to be so huge, not only with the show, but we see the characters trend, and we see the actors around the show
Participatory fans on Tumblr adopt specialized fandom tags, which are unlikely to be used by Tumblr members who do not identify with a particular fandom or subsection of fandom. Such tags are not merely composed of the name the fandom
Morimoto: The Yuri!!! on Ice thing … Brennan: Yeah, it’s wild. People love anime with sports. Haikyu!, the volleyball anime, is also huge, and Free, when that happened, also was such a cultural phenomenon. When the first trailer came out
However, just because new blood has arrived in the fandom doesn’t mean the old behavior patterns have vanished. In this, the structure of a microblogging platform plays a role. Tumblr and Twitter aggregate all content made by all users with
Morimoto: I’m going to move on and ask each of you, how do you see Tumblr changing fandom? Brennan: I think Tumblr has made fandom way more accessible, and it feels less niche. It’s not like other social networking, where
The two things I think Tumblr really changed are, I think before Tumblr the primary language of fandom was text-based, and it was very much fic and filk—very text-oriented. I think Tumblr changed it so that the culture of memes