Good Girls Go to Heaven, But Cool Girls Go to Tumblr: A Revival of the Blog

Sofia Sklar ‘27 

Tiktok is dead and buried. Facebook is only relevant if you’re over the age of fifty. Instagram is on thin ice (and that’s only if you’re casual about it). Twitter is run by a literal Nazi. If you even try to bring up Snapchat, I’ll laugh in your face. 

So… What is the next big social media platform? 

Well, sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but the age of social media is over, and the age of the personal blog is back. It’s time to have a personalized website layout, a DNI list, and a self-designed HTML code. 

The people yearn for Tumblr. 

Tumblr is the peak form of social media. MySpace is kind of lame now, and it’s hard to use. Believe me, I’ve tried. I don’t think I’m the only one who misses the early 2000s MySpace. I should have been working on my custom page layout in 2007, but I was a toddler. Talk about a missed opportunity. Tumblr fills that void, and it does so in an efficient, easy-to-use, and totally fun way. 

You might be wondering: why Tumblr? I’m so glad you asked! First off, Tumblr is relatively uncensored, which means you don’t have to see the “censored for higher engagement” terms like ‘le$bean’ or ‘wuhluhwuh’, so it is already a huge improvement from TikTok. However, you can block out certain tags that you do not want to see, in order to avoid certain triggers or dislikes, which comes in handy! For example, if I did not want to see anything related to the term ‘Scary’, I could block that tag, and I would not see anything tagged as ‘Scary’ on my recommended feed. 

Truly, Tumblr is the superior social media platform. Where all other platforms fall short, Tumblr rises above the rest, going above and beyond. TikTok, even before the additional censorship, has always been somewhat stressful. All I am going to say is that Tumblr has never recommended people who bullied me in middle school as “People You Might Know”, nor has it shown me that my ex’s new sneaky link is stalking my page. Also, Tumblr hides follower counts, so you don’t have to worry about seeming ‘uncool’. Really, though, nothing is ‘cool’ or ‘uncool’. But if anything were to be ‘cool’, it would be Tumblr. 

The revival of the personal blog is coming, and I know that I will be the first to welcome it. While others argue about the next ‘big thing’ in social media, I’ll be working on the color scheme and layout for my Tumblr blog, and you should do the same.