Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *tūmōną
Proto-West Germanic *tumbōn
Old English tumbiander.
Middle English tumben
Middle English tumblen
English tumble
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Old Norse liggjader.?
Middle English logge
English log
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
English logbook
English log
English tumblelogder.
English Tumblr
From tumblelog, an early form of microblogs.
Meanings
A microblog on Tumblr.
Fangirling on your own behind your computer screen is fine and dandy, but once you’ve seen the most popular fan blogs and fansites, the Tumblrs with the most followers, or the message boards where everyone seems to know one another, you’re gonna want in on that excellent fandom party. 2015, Sam Maggs, “Engage! Become an Active Member of Your Fandom”, in The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books, →ISBN:
But despite its confusing themes and erratic jump cuts between unnamed personas, the sentiments expressed are quite familiar to anyone who has visited the Tumblrs of teen girls – as are the images and linguistic choices. 2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, Routledge, →ISBN:
Like Cole, Myers also cites the 2014 Allied Media Conference as a turning point, an opportunity to meet many of the people behind the Tumblrs they followed and with whom they chatted. 2021, Moya Bailey, “Alchemists in Action against Misogynoir”, in Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, New York University Press, published 2022, →ISBN, page 168:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *tūmōną
Proto-West Germanic *tumbōn
Old English tumbiander.
Middle English tumben
Middle English tumblen
English tumble
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Old Norse liggjader.?
Middle English logge
English log
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
English logbook
English log
English tumblelogder.
English Tumblr
From tumblelog, an early form of microblogs.
Meanings
A microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.
If Facebook is the social network for online identification and authentication, and Twitter is for communication, Tumblr fulfils a different role: self-expression. 2012 March, Tom Cheshire, “Tumbling on success: How Tumblr's David Karp built a £500 million empire”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:
There are other services for reporting where you’re traveling (Dopplr) or for quickly tossing online a stream of the pictures, videos or Web sites you’re looking at (Tumblr). 2008 September 5, Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
What is different about “quick blogging” tools like Twitter (which imposes a strict character count so it can be easily used on a cellphone) and Tumblr (which allows longer messages as well as photographs) is the degree to which people use them for spontaneous and almost continuous communication. 2007 November 4, Noam Cohen, “The Global Sympathetic Audience”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *tūmōną
Proto-West Germanic *tumbōn
Old English tumbiander.
Middle English tumben
Middle English tumblen
English tumble
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Old Norse liggjader.?
Middle English logge
English log
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
English logbook
English log
English tumblelogder.
English Tumblr
From tumblelog, an early form of microblogs.
Meanings
(transitive) To post (something) on Tumblr.
One element of its national campaign around the November elections was the Clipboard Project, which took photographs of roughly 200 music and entertainment stars holding HeadCount’s Register to Vote clipboard. These images were then tweeted, Facebooked, and linked to the official Web site to be pinned, Tumblr’ed, recommended on Google, StumbleUpon’ed, shared on Digg or Reddit, or otherwise circulated. 2014, Jennifer Jeanne Richardson, “HeadCount”, in Kerric Harvey, editor, Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, volume 2, Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 626: