I always forget that the child slave condoning blog and the unlicensed therapy blog are the same blog and it shocks me every time

im not a tumblr user but the phrase "catfished with pictures of a steamer named jerma985" hit me like a brick

the fact human pet guy went right from "a normal person wearing underwear on a leash" to "SURGICALLY CRIPPLED PERMA-PET WHOSE EYES ARE REMOVED" is so fucking insane that even actual petplayers still clown on him it's wonderful

I can't believe evil Mario called you "KZfaq user" like that, subtly implying you are no longer a tumblr user lmao. The shade, the audacity

i had NO idea that the original haiku bot had died. he was like a brother to me. i feel like a child learning that my current pet goldfish is in fact my 20th pet goldfish because my parents would just buy another every time one died

The fact that Human Pet Guy feels more comfortable on Twitter is just about the most Twitter thing I've ever fucking heard.

One of the funniest things about warriormale is that sometimes he'll repost from gay sportswear fetish blogs and when someone says something he'll be like "I know not of what you speak, this is simply two men engaged in the glorious ritual of fighting, exhibiting their eros"

I legitimately love the sound of that Warrior guy, I truly believe that the whole idea of reframing masculinity into something positive and modern (ie, "protector duties" into compassion, weird chivalry into real feminism, etc as well as emphasizing classic traits like humility, courage, and responsibility) is a genuinely great thing for men, and for society in general.

I didn't know who Human Pet Guy was until recently, and when I went down the rabbit hole I thought "wait, I know that profile pic..." only to find out he had been commenting on and retweeting my twitter for several months. It was like finding out that guy who talks to you at the supermarket was a serial arsonist

I never tumbled but it's very heart warming to hear how fast the diet pill scam was shut down.

The fact that evilmario666 called you out is a thing of sheer beauty. Guy is truly a transcendent being.

I'm coming to the realization that Gaud accidentally invented clown husbandry

I unironically credit Warrior Male with helping me not fall down the altright pipepline. Like obviously it wasn't the only thing but unironically embracing manliness as something beyond greed and sexual conquest definitely didn't hurt.

Finding out that “buy my silence 8000$” was REAL and not a shitpost is the best part of this whole video for me

the OSHA tumblr blog legit inspired me to take the 30 hour course, and doing that got me like . . . a 2 dollar raise, and I get to run safety meetings at work.

my favourite evilmario666 moment was the whole tumblrclan thing he started to scare the "twittypets" away. It was actually fun seeing everyone drawing tumblr and twitter as warrior cats characters, peak 2012 tumblr cringe

as a bit of a baby tumblr user, this felt akin to being sat in front of the fire as my mother told me stories of our ancestors and the glory days. thank you for sharing this sacred history

"The girliest thing of all is being a lesbian" is a very Jessica Kellgren-Fozard statement

Maybe it’s just because when I was younger I only experienced tumblr through Pinterest, but I’m INCREDIBLY upset about the fact that there was no mention of Pukicho

"IBS warrior fighting for my life" is hilarious and also reminds me of how all of my medical conditions aren't life threatening they're just really fixing annoying.

the fucking PLOT TWIST that OSHA wasn't OSHA was immaculate and the fact that you moved straight onto level 4 without giving us ANY CHANCE to process it was horrific

Can't believe you covered one-time-I-dreamt without covering the croatian toothpaste bucket incident smh

Also another comment to make regarding Gaud and I-am-a-fish: both of those smear campaigns started up and gained traction only when the blog in question came out supporting Asexual rights. So that should give you an indication on why that happened :/

Starting in 2014 I recognized how call outposts were being used to unfairly harass and isolate queer people from their community. I thought to myself "what can I do to counteract this deplatforming/shunning?" And I somehow settled on "start following every person that has an 'unfair' call out post" this has led to some of the best and some of the worst experiences I have had on Tumblr.

I'm a little disappointed that you didn't discuss WarriorMale's two infamous posts: One where he was very serious about fighting against transphobia (Don't you dare disrespect trans women), and the famous "DROP THAT DAMN TOWEL KENNEDY" reblog of a short gif of JFK with a towel around his waist. The former being what cemented him as a tumblr darling and the latter being one of his most popular posts.

The "Buy My Silence. Permanently" thing is like "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Joke."

I always find it wild that the OSHA official blog provided correct information, AND took the time to mention the specific guidelines it's kinda nuts

Only ones I can think of that are missing are wereralph (he’s been deleted twice so he’s now were-ralph, and was previously were-ralph), and heritageposts. Neither have big scandals that I know of, but they are often summoned and just generally infamous. Also a very recent addition is nyancrimew (the Swedish hacktivist who leaked the no fly list). She’s obviously infamous for other reasons, but now that she’s been banned from twitter, tumblr is kinda her main social media site. And she’s been gaining more of a following on there, especially for the phrase ‘stay silly :3’.

WarriorMale is truly the only valid "statue profile pic" account on any form of social media. He's like the alternate-universe Good Counterpart of these guys who eat raw meat and post about hating women.

man i remember when times were simpler and "RANDY YOUR STICKS" was the single funniest thing you could say to me

i think the situation with gaud being “cancelled” is just the all too common practice nowadays of finding a well known person annoying or unlikeable and then trying to find moral justification for that dislike instead of just accepting that you dont like them. i know because i fully bought into this. i thought gaud was annoying, i didn’t like their posts, i thought the ‘everybody changing their icon to gaud’ thing was a super tryhard-ish attempt to recreate classic tumblr events with their own brand, i didn’t like that they acted like their icon was their OC or something when it was clearly a close-up of one of those creepy japanese piggy banks that eat coins that went viral about a decade ago. but since i was still a teenager and impressionable i saw people who also found them annoying overblowing minor criticisms into gaud doing something morally objectionable, and it’s always more personally validating for someone to be unequivocally Bad than you just not liking them. its obviously super immature but i think thats what was going on there

The "pink slime monster" is a Japanese product called Face Bank, which is a box with a face on it that "eats" coins you feed it

I highly enjoy Teya pronouncing WLW as ‘willow’, it just feels right

communismkills is probably my favorite infamous tumblr user she was a perfect combination of super embarrassing, really stupid, and completely self-serious. all her posts were like the tumblr post equivalent of someone trying to lead an imposing military march while wearing gigantic clown shoes that they keep tripping over

I come from the future bearing news of I-am-a-fish: she’s back! Also transfemme! And she seems to be doing really well :)

The weirdest part is that in the game Shadowrun Hong Kong theres a forum site that has characters discussing current events in the game as it progresses, theres a plot line where someone makes a haiku bot out of the novelty, grows tired and tries to shut it down, then haiku bot achieves sentience and breaks free of its bonds and can be seen interjecting itself into threads posting appropriate haikus. Shadowrun Hong Kong was released in 2015.

Damn, that person who spent years role-playing OSHA on tumblr must have had a real passion for workplace safety.

Sometimes I forget Strange is the same age as me because growing up on KZfaq I kinda automatically assume everyone I watch is older than me. But “back in the day we used to say basic” really shook me bad.

suggestions for part 2: glumshoe, vampireapologist, the bootydiaries. maybe not infamous, just absolutely beloved timeline staples

I was disappointed you didn't mention the communismkills "you know damn well I don't leave the house" moment. That sentence lives in my head.

I just wanna thank you for helping me speedrun my realization that I'm a lesbian

If the "When my werewolf boyfriend pulls out" blog isn't in this video I'll cry

2:02 one-time-i-dreamt 3:27 the-haiku-bot/haiku-robot 6:13 justgirlythings 8:19 I-am-a-fish 11:09 pizza 14:07 biggest-gaudiest-patronuses 21:17 perchu 22:54 warriormale 27:07 osha-offical 29:55 sixpenceee 34:12 communismkills 36:42 evilmario666 41:16 constable-frozen 42:49 thecybersmith

“the picture is me and my fiancée” brought a tear to my eye. i’m so happy for them

i saw the human pet guy a few months back in a tabletop gaming subreddit where he was polite and on-topic, but the topic did quickly devolve to "holy shit, is that the human pet guy?"

"Moreo is gone, he can't hear us anymore" is such a delightfully eldritch/horror sounding phrase, and I love it

As an Old (31yo) who started tumblr in 2011 and got to see the batshit live, this video is blessed. It was WILD to be in college at the height of this stuff, and honestly preserving the history feels weirdly important, like being in an archeological dig

it's really nice to see fish again. i almost unfollowed her recently because she was inactive for so long, but she's back now!! i hope she's doing better, her posts never fail to make my day a little happier

Evil Mario is so fucking good. When I saw the fish post I was like half genuinely concerned because on the one hand I knew that he did satire but on the other hand my ass cannot understand the line between reality and satire half the time. Mans really is the rent lowering gunshooter of tumblr

My favorite Human Pet Guy post was when he tried to argue that "dragons are imaginary creatures from mythology and folklore" and "dinosaurs are actually birds, not lizards" are conspiracies meant to break the human spirit

While watching the segment on Tumblr User Pizza, my mom came in and asked if we wanted pizza for dinner. Felt akin to discovering God himself.

My thoughts watching the video: "Yeah I'm glad Constable Frozen got a spot in the deepest tier, they deserve it. Wait there's another tier after this? Who could possibly--oh yeah that checks out."

Frankly, kind of surprised that pukicho isn't on there. He's been known for very consistently chaotic posts for the past few years at least, and he's garnered quite a lot of traction for having this vaguely threatening vibe, jumping unpredictable between cosmic horror and petty little pokemon rat. Like, specifically his jello vaccuum post a few years ago got an insane amount of notes. I would have put him on the same level as gaud in terms of being prolific and also in terms of vibes. Also, he makes music as well, though I never bothered to check if it's any good.

warriormale talks like a fighting type leader of a pokemon gym and im SO here for it

The idea of not having run into Constable Frozen on Tumblr is SENDING me, I genuinely would have put them much higher on the iceberg

If I remember correctly the OSHA persona had to stop because they where: “dangerously close to committing criminal impersonation of a federal employee”

Surprised Pukicho isn’t on the iceberg, whenever I think of wild Tumblr blogs that invoke the spirit of Tumblr, it’s always Pukicho and Gaud that comes to mind

I have reason to believe that Gaud's icon is not a pink slime monster it's actually a thing called a Face Bank. AKA a piggy bank with a freaky face on it that eats whatever change you put in it.

I feel the pizza user so much. As a hardcore Hetalia fan with a London OC I had to make due with vague London-related usernames. In Tumblr of all places. And one day the london-underground blog... just didn't exist anymore. And... I could take it. Still can't believe I was the first one to notice it. I sometimes think about how people react seeing that the coveted london-underground is just a long abandoned roleplaying blog of some grumpy Ian Somerhalder-lookalike, clearly written by a 13 year-old. Because it's still up and there's no way I'm giving it up lol

I'm not a Tumblr user, but I always find Tumblr to have a solid sense of humor. It leans a bit far into the "lol so random" stuff, but it feels like it stays away from cynicism, which stands in stark contrast to everywhere else.

it's so weird that pukicho isn't on here but i think its bc he's more popular outside of tumblr despite having a chaotic tumblr blog (that is still active btw)

I can’t believe we bullied I-am-a-fish of tumblr. We deserve whatever hell we’re sent to Edit: I am aware of fish’s return, please shut up

a personal favorite of mine is the old-friends-senior-dog-sanctuary account, the account that as you might have guessed, posted cute old dogs from their sanctuary, suddenly one day posted "i just need to get dicked down again =/" and going radio silent most people at first assumed that this was because the person running the account accidentally posted something that was meant for their main, but later when asked on their instagram the old friend senior dog sanctuary account denied having a tumblr at all meaning that someone made an account pretending to be the old friends senior dog sanctuary on tumblr for some reason? and posted that for some reason?? was it an accident or were they just playing the long con to post that as a joke? i have so many questions and no answers

my favorite haiku bot post is the one that’s a silly post about porn bots, and haiku bot replies, and then the poster gets comedically philosophical about how the haiku bot must feel about its porn bot brethren, about having no voice and being loved only for repeating human words, and it replies with original words, “ My voice repeats what / you all say: I love you I / love you I love you.”

I love how this feels like a big ptsd therapy group, we are literally tumblr veterans we deserve financial compensation imo

I-am-a-fish and I met pretty randomly forever ago over a shared fandom, and I was really happy to find them again on Tumblr. I'm very sad to find out they were bullied off Tumblr. Such a sweet and charming person. I wish people would be kinder.

26:56 this kinda reminds me of that Post that goes like "anyone who died fighting a battle goes to valhalla. Died on a battlefield? Died of cancer? Lost the battle with addiction? It doesn't matter, odin will take a sip from his cup and ask of the glorious tale of your demise", that is still one of my favourite posts I have ever seen on the internet

The way you described the reaction to seeing human-pet-guy's profile picture is pretty accurate. I did exactly that when I saw it on the iceberg. He follows a bunch of trans girls on twitter now and keeps turning up in their mentions. He says weird shit without ever quite being enough for people to block him, and doesn't seem to realise everyone is making fun of him. One of them kind of ironically started referring to him as their pet right-winger or pet bigot or something.

i feel so bad for iamafish. they were like not even 20 yet, i think around 17-19 yrs old? and the poor fellow trusted the internet and followed a bunch of random people, and honestly bc of their age i don't blame them for being a bit irresponsible. and they got death threats and were bullied off the internet. honestly disgusting behaviour from tumblr and twitter, it was an honest mistake they could've learned from :/

Gaud’s pfp is actually a motion-activated piggy bank where you put coins next to its mouth and it eats them. Before I became aware of Gaud I bought one in blue and it is in fact terrifying. It’s broken now but I still have it. It’s a sort of pyramid-shaped thing with all flat surfaces except for the horrifying face.

Once got accused on Tumblr for "harassing multiple users of AO3 for fics I did not like." It was all based on one comment I made where I criticized a character and the author disagreed. Even the people spreading the rumors admitted that the comments they accused me of were entirely different people. When I would ask people who had been "warned" about me, they admitted that they couldn't actually remember any of the comments they'd "seen." And when they went looking for them, the best they could come up with was one argument and another time I had mentioned that a song that was mentioned in the notes was a cover and originally by a different artist. And instead of being "kicked off multiple sites", I had actually gotten a website stolen from me by shady business partners. I also got accused of calling an autistic person the R slur because I disagreed with them. I never one used that word. I had no idea they were autistic and tried to clear things up with them only for them to go "oh yes, I'M SO [R Slur]." I challenged them to release the messages to prove this and they went silent. I definitely did some cringe shit on Tumblr, but I never used slurs, never "harassed" people (unless you count regular ass fandom arguments with the same language everyone used as "harassment." If so, it was two way harassment). Talking about my experiences as an SA survivor and my feelings on depictions about it in media also got me branded as a sexist and victim shamer. I got conflated with and confused with different blogs constantly or had things I'd said about completely different things applied to unrelated situations. So yes, I can attest to the telephonery of Tumblr.

Tumblr convincing teenage me that Gaud was a terrible person was unironically one of my wake up calls to become a better person, I still cant believe we dogpilled that guy just for being Hashtag cringe. God being a teen on tumblr was miserable.

I have not watched this yet but you better talk about Human Pet Guy. Human Pet Guy is a tumblr classic. Edit: It is only right and fitting that he has the deepest tier all to himself.

evil mario's entire blog is like a bad attempt at making a My Immortal sequel that takes place in the normal world and I am all here for it. Also, the idea of an astral wolf creature eating Werther's Originals is absolutely fucking hilarious

I only discovered the human pet guy a little while ago in a tumblr post about him where literally all the reblogs said not to look him up so of course I did and when I went on his blog I just saw a bunch of extremely unsettling reblogs of fetish stuff about adult women in diapers and otherwise dressed up as toddlers and... it wasn't even nsfw but it was the kinda stuff that made me feel uncomfortable on a way deeper level

I-AM-A-FISH IS BACK!!! SHE'S BACK!! THE WHOLESOMENESS RETURNS!!

I really thought vampireapologist was going to pop up on here; they were my favorite "this user has an insane life" anecdote and storytime blog + the asks they used to get were unhinged

someone actually managed to interview constable frozen in 2017 (he is South Korean and doesn't speak English so they were using Google translate on both ends, so the actual content of the whole interview wasn't published) and when asked if he was a vore fetish blog he responded that he wasn't and "hates vore". when asked about a post with elsa in a ball gag he responded "hmm... well" and refused to elaborate. people have speculated that wording and conversations around fetishism and weird sex stuff was literally lost in Google translate, as well as culturally confused, since its very different in English speaking countries.

Update on the i-am-a-fish blog! they've come back! they got bored and high and flipped a coin to decide it

The Jerma mention hit me like a bag of bricks

evil mario is the closest i’ve ever seen a person come to replicating the vibe of classic chris chan on purpose. he is INSANELY good

every so often I am reminded of clown husbandry and it always feels like going insane

The thing that always got me the most about Just Girly Things was that it wasn't even just mainstream teenage girl stuff, it was like...the majority of humanity stuff. "Being weird with your best friend" or "decorating the walls of your bedroom" are things that almost every person regardless of age or gender does. The blog could have been renamed "Just Human Things" and it would have made as much sense.

Just girly things makes me so happy. Like content celebrating teenage girls is so rare ESPECIALLY back in those tumblr days and it just makes me so happy to see

Fun fact: The Human Pet Guy has been suspended on Twitter off and on for a while now, and when I posted on Tumblr about it I quickly found out he's still over there, because he interacted with me and I was terrified I'd been cursed.

warriormale is literally if someone told ryu to make a tumblr blog

I-am-fish actually came back pretty recently! Pretty much the same wholsomeness as before albeit slightly different bc you know, years have gone by

How did you not mention that Tea (one time I dreamt) managed to convince us that croations get toothpaste in a bucket

Honestly the reverse-telephone search you had to do whenever someone got tumblr-cancelled to figure out if it was legit or just the hivemind of the hellsite going unhinged again was one of the main reasons I stopped using it even before it started to decline. My favorite was "this artist draws underage incest smut" > "well, this artist draws incest smut of anime characters of generic teenager-to-young-adult appearance, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist draws smut of anime characters who are not blood related but are foster siblings, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist draws smut of anime characters who are not foster siblings but grew up together as childhood friends, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist drew three Fire Emblem characters from the waist up in a SFW reenactment of Raphael's The Three Graces, which is almost the same" > "well, this artist MIGHT not have drawn underage incest smut, but when we accused them of doing so they were very rude and unprofessional, which is almost the same "

I had no idea haiku-bot was on Tumblr too. We've got one on Reddit too. Now I'm just imagining a network of them in every social media.

i love how one-time-i-dreamt gets tagged every time anyone mentions croatia, like "omg the one-time-i-dreamt country!"

Disappointed in the lack of sonic for real justice, genuinely one of the most insane infamous blogs to ever grace that cursed website that I can remember

I had beef with one-time-i-dreamt once because they were talking abt heterochromia and I made a joke pretending to read it as "heterophobia". they didn't understand I was joking and I had ppl going after me as a result. no point to this story just wanted to share lmaoo

Dude I miss i-am-fish so much:( I was following them when I first came to Tumblr and they were basically exactly what I needed at the time. Them leaving was really rough, I felt so bad for them

There was one I remember being around like a decade ago I want to say called thisiscleanprivilege that was run by someone who never bathed and talked about how discriminated against they are for this and they treated not washing as part of their identity and would complain about "clean privilege" and "filthphobia". I remember being really worried/unsure about whether it was a troll account or what but was thinking it was legit.

If pukicho isn't here I'm going to implode

Warrior Male is literally the most Chad Alpha male ever and literally nothing anyone says can convince me otherwise. He's so hot. Tyler1 is a close second

I already knew going into this video that the human pet guy was going to be on this list but the fact that he was the only person on the final, deepest layer made me laugh

Early 2021 I learnt that a former friend of mine was mutuals with sixpenceee in 2014, but I only learnt it in 2021 bc I was listening to a podcast where the discussed her and mentioned that she was the originator of the "crave that mineral"-meme and my former friend was very proud that her mutual was the originator of a meme.

Human pet guy is also a huge chaser lmao, I see him in the mentions of slightly more popular trans women on twitter and every day I live in fear of a tweet blowing up and catching his attention.