In memoriam
Tumblr
Born 2007. Possessed 17 December 2018.
Tumblr passed on 17 December 2018, though the body remains. Born in 2007, it offered a dashboard, a reblog, and the conviction that the web could still be weird. At its peak it claimed hundreds of millions of blogs. Apple removed it from the App Store in November 2018. The platform announced a ban on adult content. Photos, videos, and GIFs showing nudity would be removed. The algorithm flagged art. Artists left. The platform sold for a fraction of what Yahoo had paid. He is survived by the body, which still hosts blogs; by the ban, which emptied the dashboard; and by the memory of a time when the platform belonged to those who built it.
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Killed by platform
Mourned by Those who blogged in GIFs and reblogs, artists who found community, and anyone who remembers when the dashboard could still hold anything.
The body, which remains; the adult content ban, which emptied it; and the memory of a time when the platform belonged to those who built it.