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Adrian Smith discovered a photo of him taken when he was eight years old had a life of its own.

In a year of chaos, a series of internet tropes has sought to offer escape from the turmoil.

The best way to find someone on Tumblr is to search for their blog on the mobile app but be prepared to do some scrolling.

To add links to your Tumblr bio, you'll need to use a simple HTML code, which you can copy and paste in quickly.

You can delete your entire Tumblr account, or just a specific blog, through your account's "Edit appearance" menu.

The move to remove re-blogged content containing hate speech marks an escalation in Tumblr's efforts to clean its platform. Previously only original posts were removed while re-blogs remained active.

Social media platforms toppled the reign of the album. The 2010s were all about singles--rewriting how we metabolize music and the culture that surrounds it.

Read more about Social media use linked to disordered eating behaviours in teens on Business Standard. Compared to teens without any social media accounts, boys and girls on social media were more likely to report disordered eating behaviours

Tumblr is launching a new group messaging feature that will allow different fandoms on the site to chat more easily with each other instead of replying on re-blogs. These aren't private conversations, and anyone can request to join a group.

The VSCO girls who rise to the top of my feed are a new version of an enduring image of piousness and demureness as the ultimate ambition.

Emerging tech platforms and overwhelmed law enforcement agencies have contributed to a boom in digital abuse imagery, a Times investigation found. Here are some key takeaways.

After months of rumors, Verizon finally sold off Tumblr for a reported $3 million -- a fraction of what Yahoo paid for the once mighty blogging service back in 2013. The media conglomerate (which also owns TechCrunch) was clearly never quite sure what to do with the property after gobbling it up as part of [...]

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Ticketing startup SeatGeek has a new CTO. Brian Murphy previously held the same position at Tumblr (which, like TechCrunch, is owned by Verizon Media) and has also served as vice president of engineering at The New York Times and senior director of technology at Condé Nast. "Brian is an incredible leader and team-builder who has [...]

The social network has returned to Apple's app store after revealing plans to ban adult content.

Pornographic content, which had a large female viewer base on the site, will no longer be allowed.

From 17 December, posts with "real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples" will be banned.

Insights from Tumblr and others suggest that people really are obsessed with astrology (again) -- and not just the memes.