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wait as a former tumblr gif maker who graduated from the 2014 class of tumblr graphic design... the reason those gifs were so grainy and compressed was because... for the longest time, tumblr had a 500kb limit for gifs so we had to ruin the quality to capture a full scene and then we color graded it to shit so that the graininess could look *aesthetic* and purposeful
OMG MINA!!!! Did not expect to see you here
ngl i miss the weird color grading..... in a nostalgic way T_T
MINA LE?!
Please you just described my early aughts selfies 😂😭
that unlocked a core memory for me I forgot I had
The Marauders fandom being so influential that every single fancast actor of the main characters knows about it is just iconic
omg no way😭😭
Can we get some Doom fans in the chat please?
I am pretty sure that multiple times as a middle schooler I genuinely complimented someone’s shoelaces and they said, “thanks I stole them from the president” and I just laughed and didn’t know the context until like five years later
oh NO
omg
I worked and Journeys shoes (the not like other girls of shoe stores) in my late teens and the amount of times people said “I like your shoe laces” AND I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THEY MEANT UNTIL TODAY. I’ve never been on tumblr so… oops lol
ok and also is anyone else still on tumblr (probably not) but they have a store with tumblr merch and they have branded shoelaces like the way i lost my absolute shit
Can you explain the context lol?
i was H E A V Y in the sherlock fandom back in 2012-2015ish. just hearing superwholock said out loud sent me into a full body cringe. no regrets but holy shit that was such a time
I felt the same way hearing that😭😭💀
superwholock is culture
@@uncarley always gonna be a part of me whether I like it or not
the flashbacks I just got while hearing this word are unbelievable
I felt like I was forced into watching Sherlock, and even though I did like watching it at the time, I’ll never forget how I went on Tumblr and was bombarded with Sherlock S2 finale spoilers (biggest mistake of my life. I think that was how I got into the show, but when I got to that finale, it didn’t have the same impact like if I watched it for the first time. And this is why I take spoilers very seriously). Also, I absolutely HATED how the Superwholock fandom wanted a crossover with all 3 shows, and even at one point it became Superwholockavengers!
I still use Tumblr and I refuse to get over how we all faked a movie with fanfiction, and fan art.
Wow so you haven't seen Goncharov?
This was truly our finest moment. The fact that there were legit articles written about it and all the twitter users confused as to whether it was real or not.
what are you talking about? Goncharov (1973) is the greatest movie of all time.
@@CaseyTyler357 I was fucking confused and I was watching it unfold.
@@jordanmarshall6628
All of us descended on this video like "Goncharov"
queen carley was so real for moving the marauders fandom to god-tier. also died at the john green part. what was that-
i have to put respect on remus lupins name
I didnt have headphones on for the john green part 😭😭😭 i guess its my bad tho carley did say its a tumblr video
The way u said "are you following" when talking about the marauders fandom.... I laughed for like five minutes straight we NEED you to do a full video on that if youre up to it. Im not even in the fandom i just want to hear what you have to say about it
the mauraders fandom is something else i salute them
@@uncarley i would love a video on the marauders fandom
ME TOO😭THE MFANDOM IS FUCKING CRAZY
@@uncarley carley pls...ive never read a harry potter book and I've barely watched the movie. I don't plan on ever needing this information but when i tell you i want that marauders video soo bad it sounds funny af because nothing makes me laugh more than Tumblr ships because they are truly pure undiluted delusion. Just like the made-up Martin Scorsese movie like ???? wow
@@uncarley PLEASE WE NEED A VIDEO ABOUT THE MARAUDERS
she really is blessing us with a 30min video on this sunday. everybody say thank you mommy
you're welcome baby
the amount of power i felt when i told all of my middle school friends i liked their shoelaces was crazy.
you were playing god
this brought back vividly skin crawling memories, i was in the arctic monkeys fandom being an outcast of 1975 and 1D stans because one could simply not be like other girls.
a mood
the marauders being in god tier is so valid
thank you
25:35 my favorite fact about the art used here is that it’s actually debimbofication fetish art :)
also one of my favorite tumblr moments was the hamilton fic author who faked having hiv and being a sex trafficking victim (plus like a bunch of other things)
so glad we earn college credit in tumblr history directly from dr. carley 🤩
thank you for being in my class
I can’t believe you forgot to include the fallout of someone allegedly peeing in the tumblr ballpit
you just brought back a memory i didn't know existed
An extra hour in the pit
Every time I see those One Direction imagines, I simply lose consciousness. That Niall one is so fucking funny 💀😭
Girl I love it. I feel like if we’re ranking tumblr movements, hipster v. fandom blogs should’ve been on there
Bless you for taking the time to hilariously explain the context behind every one of these I had blacked out of my memory
so happy to remind you
im still on tumblr to this day and i joined in 2012 because of klaine/glee. i thank it for introducing me to so many fandom and shows and movies and im so grateful. i was a huuuuuge supernatural and doctor who girl. i was there when mishapocalypse happened and it was so fun. i love the chaos! also im guilty that i shipped phan for some years but now i dont, im so proud of them both.
also all the young dudes is sooo good, i read it two years ago!
This video was too much for me. It took me back to places I never wanted to go back, but also made me laugh to tears. The way us (ex) tumblr users developed such a specific type of brain rot is sending me.
The reason so many ships were m/m is because the (mainly female) shippers were attracted to both of the characters and didn’t want a woman to be involved, since it was easier to imagine a fictional character you like being gay than in love with another woman. essentially “wish you were gay” by billie eilish. But in the process they ended up objectifying gay relationships as you pointed out
still happens to this day, a great example is grace van dien who played chrissy in s4 of stranger things being attacked by steddie (steve/eddie) shippers for simply shipping her own character with eddie, which was literally implied in the show, so yeah, basically, misogyny
There is actually a video essay on youtube of why we were obsessed with gay ships. I remember the internalized misogeny, but there were many factors
oooo ill check this out
Please tell us what it is, i wanna watch it!
Oo share please
that and fetishizing/dehumanizing gay men
Sarah Z has a video on this topic called Gay Fanfiction!
There is a book called textual poachers by Henry Jenkins about fandom culture (written pre-internet, but still VERY GOOD) that has a chapter on slash fanfic. His main thesis there is that women, especially lesbians, are interested by m/m slash because it represents two people who are considered equals by society in an equal and supportive relationship. whereas m/f or f/f ships are less common because society doesn't consider women equal to men, and often have to carry emotional and household labor w/o being valued or supported, nor have the support of a society (less pay, less job opportunities, general misogny etc). but m/m is the fantasy of an equal partnership.
I still LOVE Tyler Oakley. I’ve been listening to his podcast for like 7 years now and he truly is a gem ❤
i am begging you to make a video about the marauders as a marauder fan of like 5+ years, especially since i reread all the young dudes recently. its insane how much its affected my life as something with so little source material
i read atyd two years ago and it goes so hard
my bones are shaking... tumblr has opened a part of my brain that i closed so many years ago. love you carly
Greatest intro edit of all, which is saying something because they are all amazing
As a black person whose last name is jefferson, seeing the hamilton fanart made me feel emotions i didnt know existed.
A crossover of Darren Criss and Tyler Oakley tumblr moments was when like 300 pictures of Darren doing a shirtless beach photo shoot were leaked…truly an iconic day
Bless your heart for this incredible content. Just for future reference/suffering, Mischa Barton was Marissa on the OC, old mate from Supernatural is Misha Collins
brother the way i still read johnlock fanfics today at the ripe age of 26. they scratch an itch, what can i say!! there are some literery masters in fanfic writing lmao
some of the best minds in literature are on ao3
this is the first video of you I ever clicked, 10 seconds in and I know I'm gonna love it here
I never was on tumblr (was too young and not alowed) but if queen girlboss Carley is going to talk about it i will sit, listen and take notes
💖💖💖
I just found your page from the one direction timeline video, and when I found out you’re Canadian as well, I started to like you even more lmfao. Taylor Swift fan too? subscribed. Also, it feels good to hear ur unhinged thoughts bc me too
pls the fact that we could change the whole post was SOO much power. I'm surprised it took us so long to abuse it 😭
the marauders resurgence that came with dracotok was such a full circle moment for me
i have ap tests tomorrow and i’m so stressed my immune system isn’t working so thank u so much for posting u ate and left no crumbs
I have an AP gov exam tomorrow too 😭
Good luck :)
good luck bestie youve got this!!
@@uncarley thank u so much😭
as soon as you mentioned 'post editing' I knew where this was gonna go dgkjdhg
I... good God. I was 16 during Mishapocalypse and like... good God the war memories this video brings back. Lemme say, as a Gay man? Those gay ships? Did NOTHING for me, just terrifying. Just FEAR and horror. Like, explore fiction and narrative however you want. But like. Tumblr gay ships are the Ken dolls of gay guys? I feel? Like... it's so niche. And it's not there for me, I get that. It just definitely caused me growing up to be like "oh I'm a... nerdy fat gay kid? I am not... ship worthy? Idk. What a brainrot this tumblr has done
i just moved into my grad school apartment as a real adult and found a panic at the disco candy heart wallpaper PRINTED OUT in my box of photos. it hurt me
As a lifelong Doctor Who fan I can verify that I have nary a braincell
I think one very important moment you missed was November 5th 2020. You need to make a whole video just about the events and horrors tumblr faced on that day because it was truly something else
Was literally writing Marauders fanfiction as I watched this and when she brought it up I felt like she was Talking To Me
I identify as an annoying person then , ran over here as fast as I saw the notification…😅
congratulations on being annoying bestie!
@@uncarley well , people often call girls ‘ too loud ‘ and whatnot, so we gotta stick together 💅
I can’t believe witches stealing bones wasn’t part of this list but top tier content regardless
I used to be a relatively "hardcore" Larry Stylinson shipper when I was a middle schooler but grew out of it after a year or two when my interest in 1D completely vanished. And it's crazy because I remember that era of mine fondly, but then I look up the ship on Twitter out of curiosity and see these accounts that sound like middle aged white women talking about flat earth and 5G towers conspiracies, but instead of that they're talking about a completely dead ship in fucking 2023. The way they cling to old ass 2012 pictures of Harry and Louis and repost them over and over again with Facebook-tier captions genuinely blows my mind. IN 2023. Anyway great video
And this is an unnecessary addendum but I do believe there is a chance something between them MAY have happened back in the day. Waaaaaay back in the day. The idea of analyzing pictures under a microscope to prove they're still shagging IN 2023 is something I cannot process and I thank the heavens for not making me end up like that.
no discussion of the rise and fall of tumblr user pizza???
there's too much culture for one video
omg please do a video on the marauders fandom!! ❤️ it is INSANE. for example the entire existence of jegulus, babygirlification of death eaters, all the young dudes, the impact of zeppazariel (bizzarestars), the fandom’s unfortunate obsession with mlm ships and ignoring all the nonmen and wlw ships, the creation of backstories of characters barely mentioned or not at all (grant, mary, marlene, evan, dorcas, barty, etc), wolfstar obviously, the FANCASTS omg, regulus taking over peter’s place as the fourth marauder, the detachment from jkr pretty much completely, how insane the AU fanfics are (jurassic park au, hunger games au, etc), the jily vs jegulus debate, the discourse in the fandom between (as a generalisation) all the young dudes-jily-wolfstar loving millennials and gen z’s who prefer jegulus-dorlene-rosekiller and who don’t like atyd, just to name a few things !!! sorry for rambling there’s alot to cover😭!!
oh and the theory that taylor swift wrote all the young dudes
tumblr shaped me as person and idk what that says about me tbh??? but thanks for dredging up these memories from the dark places in my brain i thought they were lost to
I can't believe that noone of us spoke proper english at that time but we still managed to be in the epicentre of all this crazy tumblr shit🤣 I swear i remember it all sooo well but i had no idea 2012-15 girlies were the same around the world. Thanks, you brought so much joy to my boring adult days with this
I’m in bits at misha Collins coming up in the search bar and you’re like I guess we’ll never know 😭😭😭
As someone who was not allowed to be on the internet during this era, I thank you 😂 I’m a relatively new sub so I’m late to the mf party here but jesus CHRIST I laughed so fucking much, truly a service to the people 😂🙏🏼
Lmao and ur voice isnt even annoying😭😭😭
Also clicked on this vid just cus of sher in the thumbnail so slay
please do a video souly about the marauders fandom bcs that shit is WILD
this brought back a lot of repressed memories
i remember that one gif of a dude like pointing at the screen and then pointing down that tumblr just??? collectively thirsted after????? oh AND the colour of the sky post.
as a somewhat somewhat somewhat tumblr famous person at one point in my life, i’m scared
omg we have a tumblr celeb in our midst
funny story, the picture of peter pan is my friends older brother 😂 I think she was in a Disney movie as well. but oh my, great video, god these were the days.
The fact you didn't put SuperWhoLock or the Mishacolypse in the God Tier categories PAINED me lol those were Pinnacle to the culture lol
I personally think women go hard for men loving men ships because then you feel like it isn’t misogynistic or dehumanizing women as only viewing them as a sex object. However it’s then doing the same thing society does to women to men loving men.
That’s so ridiculous to me bc I just found your channel and I subscribed immediately bc I found your voice so calming
This brought me so many memories I've forgotten but why did I never wonder why we were always obsessed with gay men 😭
I’m a month late but honestly please do a full deep dive into the Marauder fandom I’d eat that shit up
This is my first video of yours and 30 seconds in I knew you were for me 😂
Coming here a year after this was posted, idk when this happened but someone changed the I like your shoelaces post. I kid you not I came across it two days ago and it said something that I certainly won't repeat, but you get the gist
halsey was so real for her poetry bc if i was hooking up with matty healy i would've been unbearable online too
As a former hard core member of the marauders fandom-it is the only thing I miss about the HP fandom. They were iconic times.
As a 1D fan and sane person, the Larry ship always ANGERED me to no end. Because let's say it was even real, who are these people to try and OUT 2 men, and also at what point, do you stop obsessing over a theory about someone else's private life without any real proof???? I never understood the logic. Just leave people alone???
tumblr 2012-2015 was like my early internet education i remember so many of those moments
please carley PLEASE do an entire video on the marauders fandom. i need it like i need oxygen
No wait cause now I need a whole entire video on each of these subjects hahahahahaha this video was god tier
my junior year of high school there was an attempted stabbing by a sophomore (april 2014) and IMMEDIATELY tumblr true crime girls were all over him and i wanted to vomit
the shoelaces one is iconic. and of course, the cherry on top is that it has a supernatural gif. truly representative of tumblr culture
I also never got into supernatural, doctor who, or sherlock and i always felt so left out because of it. I was more into anime but even the anime people were superwholock fans ✋😭
That’s a Pomeranian babe killed me. Girl you are so funny 😭
i only listen to people whos voices i enjoy and u are one of the few help
oh this just made me realize i was on a completely different side of tumblr during this time…
One of my favorite Tumblr moments is the one where the girl said her mom would buy her a fluffy chicken if she get a certain about of reblogs or something. It just kept popping up constantly.
loved this vid but cannot believe the electra heart era isn’t here like what
i was chronically on tumblr at this time but never saw ANY of these cus i was just on ed tumblr
This is the sprite to strange aeons coke
how dare you forget Alexandria's Genius, the color of the sky, and the shoving breadsticks in your purse smh
ok but James acaster would’ve been so good as doctor who
I may have been on superwholock tumblr but at least I was NEVER a true crime girlie
omg so many memories!!! amazing video, almost died laughing at the john green one
I really wonder what this obsession with gay white man ships (by mostly women I think) was though, a friend I had back then would go from ship to ship and I just didn't understand... was it fetishizing?? or even just exploring homosexuality from a very far safe distance?? or just shipping men who were nontoxic to women?? someone please write some essays on this!
im just copy and pasting this comment i found on it: Andrew Searle: There’s actually a huge amount of academic study on why women like to interact with gay slash relationships, it’s mainly to do with being able to work through desires whilst detaching from misogyny and experiencing what they can’t actually have in real life due to the patriarchy. Henry Jenkins is probably the biggest writer on this currently
@@susannahh2573 that’s actually crazy, society fucked us up so much lmao
@@susannahh2573 Oooo interesting!!! That's great to read, since I had somewhat of an assumption of it being toxic to (gay) men (which it is in the harry/louis situation I guess), but then it actually has a very positive side as well. thank you for telling me!!
hi just came to say ythat i made that 5sos collage and i also made the really famous marina one
calling me out with the "you have mental illness lets be real"
missed out on the post-yahoo-acquisition tumblr. watching this as someone who was not there has put me into a permanent state of derealization i think.
LMAO KLAINE. my url was klaineproposal......... BUT i was a glee fan and starkid fan so it was a natural progression for following darren criss hahahahah. i did love them so much tho 😅
he WAS iconic & he WAS slay!! thank you for your kindness then & your kindness now
Yes you are an absolute SLAY!
omg slay former king of youtube
Hope to see you in Simmers Among Us again soon!! So fun 🖤
omg ... u r iconique to this day hi
tylerrrrrr !! 😂❤️
As a former Phan proofer I fully believe that teenagers should not be allowed on the internet. I am so sorry to those men
the way people hypothesized that they had a real apartment and a set apartment before they even revealed that...teenagers are terrifying and have too much time on their hands
as someone who was in the phandom, i still can't believe how these men didn't lose their shit. so many ppl were being extremely invasive. it seems like they're living their best life rn tho, so good for them!
@@luciana4075Yep. I'm very happy for them that they're living their best life right now.
i literally remember at one point thinking to myself “why don’t the people who meet them just corner them and ask them if they’re dating?” not realizing how invasive and creepy that would be. i’m glad i’m over that fucked up phase
@@heyitsamyjaywait they did??
just as a testament to how dedicated the mauraders girlies are: i found out about “all the young dudes” bc i was on a plane and someone next to me had gotten it printed and bound as a paperback book for themself and i happened to be curious & look up what it was. it’s not a published book in print, this person just had it made for themself so they could have it as a physical book
i have it printed it out too.. just so you know i also havent touched the maruders fandom in years i kinda wanna go back but dracotok was scarring
my brother did that with a bella/alice fanfiction for a camping trip. icons
i did the same thing too with the book from twilight but from Edward's perspective back when it was leaked, still have it to this day 😂
Carley reading the forbidden John Green tumblr post word for word wasn’t on my 2023 bingo card
im unpredictable
We all won, and lost.
The way I stopped chewing my cereal and stared off into space when I realized what was happening. I’ve never seen that post in my life but I’m now permanently traumatized thank you🫡
I’ve genuinely never seen the full post. I feel enlightened.
Watching this in 2024 imagine my gd surprise
As a marauders stan i truly need a deep dive into this fandom because the amount of content that came from literal crumbs is insane.
like actual movie trailers and the fact that there is a set casting that is NOT disputed is truly amazing
NEED IT
you missed marina's electra heart era. she was THE tumblr girlie and all the iconic lore to this iconic album was posted there
all she ever wanted was the world 😔✊
YES
THIS
GOD YES MARINAAAAA
i love her sm
it is criminal that the oncler fandom is not on this list, because that whole thing was one of the most wildest things i’ve ever seen come out of tumblr
oh my god i completely forgot about the onceler fandom
and the "Tumblr sexy men" in general
Literally was just about to say this like that was a cultural shift for sure
To be fair, “Biggering” fucking slaps
@@fredhasopinionsYES PEOPLE FORGET IT HUT ITS A MASTERPIECE
There’s actually a huge amount of academic study on why women like to interact with gay slash relationships, it’s mainly to do with being able to work through desires whilst detaching from misogyny and experiencing what they can’t actually have in real life due to the patriarchy. Henry Jenkins is probably the biggest writer on this currently
can i have a source? asking for a friend...
so secretly every woman wants to marry her gay best friend?
There’s a book called Gil’s Who Like Boys Who Like Boys about this!
@@kekeshomevideos so i just threw henry jenkins' name on google scholar and he has a book called "fans, bloggers and gamers" and i suppose he may talk about that subject somewhere in the book but i'm not sure
Or they can’t handle the jealousy of men being with other women
As someone who is still actively in the marauders fandom, you can't even imagine how much deeper the fandom goes like its insane. The babygirlification of barty crouch jr needs to be studied asap and characters who's names are only mentioned once across the whole seven books have been given the most intricate lore ever. I highly recommend looking into it if you're interested because whether for good or for bad it will change your life 😅
Every so often I come back to the Marauders fandom, and you're so exactly right. I think the Jegulus branch of it weirds me out the most because like... somehow it works? I'm personally not a fan of it, but it amazes me how the fandom can still make a (totally fanon and zero canon) compelling relationship between them work. How? Fandom is amazing and kind of terrifying.
I will never forget when I saw someone on Tumblr say their favourite Harry Potter character was Dorcas Meadows. Like, WHO?
@@chloe.imogen BAHAHAH i love the internet
Did that stem from him being played by David Tennant. He was(is) a real crowd favorite on Tumblr
@@danielacervantes5487 Honestly I don't think so. In the 4th book, Crouch is painted in a much more sympathetic light than the movie as he is very young when he is arrested in the pensieve memory (after the Longbottoms' torture) and Harry/ the narrator assumes he's innocent and just got mixed up with the wrong crowd, and then at the end it's revealed that he obviously was involved and maybe just acting innocent. If you combine that with what you learn about his pressured relationship with his father and the description of young his appearance then you get a perfect recipe for babygirlification. E.g. "He committed atrocities because he couldn't get enough of daddy's attention 🥺 He was probably friends with Regulus Black (who the fandom have collectively decided was jealous of Sirius' friends and freedom from the Black family and bravery in a kind of sad pathetic and inevitably tragic way) so he's a cute pathetic uwu baby who is totally evil and manipulative
I think I was on a different side of tumblr lol. my iconic moments would be obama's "then perish" eyes, "surprise bitch, I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me", "they crave that mineral", and the pastel goth bruises and cigarettes aesthetic.
I LOVE the "then perish" meme. And can't believe she didn't mention the "do you see the color of the sky" text post
THEY CRAVE THAT MINERAL WAS SO GOOD
With Klaine you also have to remember that Darren Criss originally hit the tumblr scene when A Very Potter Musical went viral. As a Starkid alum, he had a special place in the heart of tumblr nerds and I think there were folks who went hard for Klaine out of pride.
i legit started watching Glee because I was a massive AVPM fan and found out Darren was going to be in the next episode so I bingewatched all previous episodes