My roommate’s eyes fill with maternal disappointment after I tell her my weekend plans. “That is,” she struggles for the words, “that is the last thing I wanted to hear.” I see a glint of hope in her ...

If you’ve spent any time on Tumblr recently, then you’ve probably seen references to something called “Superwholock.” Basically, Superwholock is a complex crossover—a fictional creation that imagines ...

But nothing on the internet is ever completely isolated, and the joke bled out from the community it started out on, and further from its initial context. The original post ended up racking up tens of ...

Tumblr’s new guidelines on NSFW content loom overhead for its users, and the internet is unsure of how to process all of it. Whether these new policies will spell the decline of the website and a mass ...

When most were too busy preparing for the 2012 apocalypse, I spent mornings and several nights doing one thing: scrolling through the endless abyss known as Tumblr. The microblogging site seemed to ...