This was back when Tumblr allowed us to edit other people’s posts when you reblogged them. Cass Marshall John Green and the “reason” we don’t have editable reblogs anymore:īoth Hank and John Green - YouTube personalities and authors of young-adult fiction - were pretty active on Tumblr in the early 2010s, but because of the fickle nature of social media, and the certain hive-mind tendencies of particular subsections of Tumblr, a lot of users eventually turned on them around 2015. While Darling criticized the raid as a “waste of time” in an interview with a local paper, Darling was arrested and jailed in 2016.
Buzzfeed covered the controversy, now known as “Boneghazi,” and authorities raided Darling’s home to find a collection of bones on an altar. Some Tumblr users defended Darling as a queer POC who was simply practicing traditional African religions. Darling offered to send the bones to users if they would cover shipping. That user, a self-described witch named Ender Darling, posted about how they would visit the ‘poor man’s graveyard’ near their house and collect the bones that washed up during heavy rains. In the most widely publicized incident, a Tumblr user was accused of stealing bones from cemeteries in Louisiana in 2016. Let us preface this with the fact that, for some inane reason, there’s not just one single instance of bone-stealing drama on Tumblr, but at least three that are widely well-known. In celebration of our favorite wacky website, we’ve decided to archive some very specific Tumblr stories that you just can’t get on the ol’ Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or Instagram. Wild Twitter exposes and threads? Yeah, that’s nothing compared to Constable Frozen, Dashcon and the Mishapocalypse. There’s just an inherent weirdness so deeply set inside of Tumblr that no other website really quite matches - a weirdness that births absolutely wild stories on the regular. But one thing’s for certain: Everyone’s talking about Tumblr on main. Whether these new policies will spell the decline of the website and a mass migration to other sites, or if they’ll be another blip on Tumblr’s vast resume, has still yet to be determined. Tumblr’s new guidelines on NSFW content loom overhead for its users, and the internet is unsure of how to process all of it.
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