The Tumblr Files - Official Thread - An exposé on the media and people that destroyed the Internet

[Outer Space Traveller]

Even though The Tumblr Files is complete, a few of the threads I hope to do in the future will also be deep dives into the Internet's past, and would follow a similar format.

We have officially made it to 1000 posts and 50 pages. The reception to The Tumblr Files definitely went beyond any exceptions I had when I started this project over a year ago. Again, I can't thank you all enough for your support.

I want to thank you again (saaaar) for (doing the snedful) on this research.

In all seriousness, the amount of time spent is incredible, and it shines light on a bunch of people who I am really fucking sure want to have their past rewritten. Not gonna fucking happen, if KiwiFarms is anything to go by!

 

[The_Gam3]

We have officially made it to 1000 posts and 50 pages. The reception to The Tumblr Files definitely went beyond any exceptions I had when I started this project over a year ago. Again, I can't thank you all enough for your support.

This is the shit I pay internet for buddy, ironically.

 

[Newcomer 42]

I know you guys believe a bunch of retarded power-hungry morons are behind the fall of Internet, but there's more to it. It's clear that the elites don't like how much freedom the net gave to the masses so they have been tirelessly working to make it a centralized hellhole, especially in Yurop. The NPCs of Metroid Prime 4, for example, which have the same flaws of EVERY MCU movie, and how these writers caused a project to crash and simply moved somewhere else to do the same, and how there's the same stereotype everywhere in the West in the showbiz industry, is suspicious and couldn't have happened naturally. I wouldn't be surprised if certain parties were ensuring this kind of people got to positions they didn't deserve.

 

[Enig]

I know you guys believe a bunch of retarded power-hungry morons are behind the fall of Internet, but there's more to it. It's clear that the elites don't like how much freedom the net gave to the masses so they have been tirelessly working to make it a centralized hellhole, especially in Yurop. The NPCs of Metroid Prime 4, for example, which have the same flaws of EVERY MCU movie, and how these writers caused a project to crash and simply moved somewhere else to do the same, and how there's the same stereotype everywhere in the West in the showbiz industry, is suspicious and couldn't have happened naturally. I wouldn't be surprised if certain parties were ensuring this kind of people got to positions they didn't deserve.

I honestly feel the same way about how “social justice warriors” within a few months went from SoCal weirdos with a /cow/ thread to a sudden force nationwide, nothing about that was natural and if anything it felt like a plan to humiliate the OWS crowd further that got turned into an attempt at local scale color revolution activity in cities.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

I know you guys believe a bunch of retarded power-hungry morons are behind the fall of Internet, but there's more to it. It's clear that the elites don't like how much freedom the net gave to the masses so they have been tirelessly working to make it a centralized hellhole, especially in Yurop. The NPCs of Metroid Prime 4, for example, which have the same flaws of EVERY MCU movie, and how these writers caused a project to crash and simply moved somewhere else to do the same, and how there's the same stereotype everywhere in the West in the showbiz industry, is suspicious and couldn't have happened naturally. I wouldn't be surprised if certain parties were ensuring this kind of people got to positions they didn't deserve.

I'm kind of torn on the idea of there being a group of elites at the top that are "behind everything." From what I know and researched, it's not that simple. What led up to the Internet/pop culture we have now was a collaborative effort from people at both the top and bottom. Plenty of people, especially culture warriors, have documented what goes on at the top (I.E. massive media conglomerates like Disney, Comcast, WBD, etc.), but not enough documentation exists of what went on at "the bottom".

Like I said when discussing all the divisive media from 2016; there was no one singular, encompassing reason that all of it ended up the way it did. It just so happened that it all released so close to each other, building up this pile that led to what many perceived as a downward spiral.

In regards to changes that have taken place at the top recently, the dismantling of USAID was definitely a big one, and quite a few of the going-ons at USPG2 apparently signify changes taking place at a governmental level. Since you could make the argument that the "Millennial-led, deconstruction/post-modernist" media we have now could be considered a product of the Obama era, I'm curious if we'll ever get to see "Trump era" media actually come to fruition or not, since a lot of the media that had released, or entered development, during the 2016 election clearly felt like it was being made with a hypothetical "Hilary era" in mind. Female Star Wars, Female Ghostbusters, Female Dr. Who, Female President.

Heck, an entire season of South Park had to apparently be redone because it was made with Hilary's victory in mind.

 

[Newcomer 42]

'm kind of torn on the idea of there being a group of elites at the top that are "behind everything." From what I know and researched, it's not that simple. What led up to the Internet/pop culture we have now was a collaborative effort from people at both the top and bottom. Plenty of people, especially culture warriors, have documented what goes on at the top (I.E. massive media conglomerates like Disney, Comcast, WBD, etc.), but not enough documentation exists of what went on at "the bottom".

I'm sure there's some people behind this to some extent. Due to the fall of Hollywood and how terrible American media has become, normies turned somewhere else, especially Japan. The wokes' answer was to intensify the infiltration of the usual types into Japan to corrupt them as well, and it shows: Compare Squeenix from say 2010s to today. These days they have become as censoring and pro-homo as anywhere else.
Hell, even the Sonic comic was infected by troons even though they had no business here. The way how these people got everywhere almost overnight doesn't seem natural.

In regards to changes that have taken place at the top recently, the dismantling of USAID was definitely a big one, and quite a few of the going-ons at USPG2 apparently signify changes taking place at a governmental level. Since you could make the argument that the "Millennial-led, deconstruction/post-modernist" media we have now could be considered a product of the Obama era, I'm curious if we'll ever get to see "Trump era" media actually come to fruition or not, since a lot of the media that had released, or entered development, during the 2016 election clearly felt like it was being made with a hypothetical "Hilary era" in mind. Female Star Wars, Female Ghostbusters, Female Dr. Who, Female President.

I know that since 2016, there's been a relentless attack against DRUMPF and later Musk from Western media, every other day, even today, and it's annoying and exhausting. They still attacked Trump during Biden's days.

I hope future media is less aggravating, but I'm not holding my breath.

Heck, an entire season of South Park had to apparently be redone because it was made with Hilary's victory in mind.

Case in point: SP fell silent during Happy Biden's years, and they reappear once more mostly to attack Trump, when they used to not pick sides.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

I'm sure there's some people behind this to some extent. Due to the fall of Hollywood and how terrible American media has become, normies turned somewhere else, especially Japan. The wokes' answer was to intensify the infiltration of the usual types into Japan to corrupt them as well, and it shows: Compare Squeenix from say 2010s to today. These days they have become as censoring and pro-homo as anywhere else.

Like I said before, there was this era in the late 2000s/early 2010s where Japan actually tried pretty hard to pander to the west. Squenix, for example, did this by buying out Crystal Dynamics and Eidos and publishing the Life is Strange series, and it eventually blew up in their faces once Forspoken bombed. Then they had to sell Crystal Dynamics, Eidos, and most of their IPs, to Embracer Group.

These days they have become as censoring and pro-homo as anywhere else.

It was technically under Squenix's watch that Lara Croft became less sexualized and more "grungy" and the like. I really can't speak for what they are these days because the entire industry, on both sides of the pond, is imploding due to a combination of factors, wokeness included, and they're in the midst of all trying to pivot or course-correct.

Hell, even the Sonic comic was infected by troons even though they had no business here. The way how these people got everywhere almost overnight doesn't seem natural.

What happened with IDW Sonic is a whole can of worms I'm gonna have to do a deep dive into some other day, but the bottom line, based on what I know, is that it's a lesson of what happens when one political slant (be it right-wing or center) leaves the other side unchecked in a fandom/franchise. When the Gen X people who hated Adventure/Modern Sonic gave up and moved on, they pretty much let the Millenial leftists run roughshod, and that's what led to people like Evan Stanley, Bobby Schroder, SpeepsHighway and Windii becoming major shepherds of the fanbase, and why people like Jhett eventually became political soapboxers.

Case in point: SP fell silent during Happy Biden's years, and they reappear once more mostly to attack Trump, when they used to not pick sides.

Did you ever watch the special they did where they mocked woke Disney/woke Hollywood?

 

[Newcomer 42]

It was technically under Squenix's watch that Lara Croft became less sexualized and more "grungy" and the like. I really can't speak for what they are these days because the entire industry, on both sides of the pond, is imploding due to a combination of factors, wokeness included, and they're in the midst of all trying to pivot or course-correct.

Not Squeenix, it seems. They keep censoring the FF7 "remake" in odd ways, or their MMORPG one, and they haven't had any new game for a while because they have no-one directing them at the moment.
Capcom is also quite woke at times.

Did you ever watch the special they did where they mocked woke Disney/woke Hollywood?

I do. These specials were BEFORE Trump's return, moment in which a new season began and they quickly began jabbing against the president, while no mention was made of Biden. I'm not American so I don't have a horse in this race, but it's obvious what they're doing.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

I do. These specials were BEFORE Trump's return, moment in which a new season began and they quickly began jabbing against the president, while no mention was made of Biden. I'm not American so I don't have a horse in this race, but it's obvious what they're doing.

From my lamen's understanding, South Park is a show that had always tried to be bi-partisan, or make fun of both sides. So if they make fun of wokeness one day, then make fun of Trump the next, I'm not really too surprised, but the people who saw the "Into the Panderverse" special and only that get it in their minds that, "Oh, South Park is on our side!" when that never truly was the case.

 

[Wherethereisawhip]

I'm kind of torn on the idea of there being a group of elites at the top that are "behind everything." From what I know and researched, it's not that simple. What led up to the Internet/pop culture we have now was a collaborative effort from people at both the top and bottom. Plenty of people, especially culture warriors, have documented what goes on at the top (I.E. massive media conglomerates like Disney, Comcast, WBD, etc.), but not enough documentation exists of what went on at "the bottom".

I myself have been as stated before, more of the opinion that this is something the elites exploited. After all if there was nothing they couldn't tap into no matter how small there just wouldn't be anything for them to push into the limelight whether it was on legacy media or one of the bigger social media sites they used to control.

I can sorta see Trannies and the like still being able to do something given their success on taking over smaller forums before the big shift the gay case did. But it would've been at least harder if there was at least a neutral opinion from those various institutions.

Makes me a little curious though what would've happen if instead they tried promoting those Eunuch fetishist that pushed bogus stats for them instead.

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

It's not exactly "elites," no, but neither is it organic or coincidental. It's a combination of factors, both conspiratorial and mundane.

It cannot be overstated that an actual, literal communist conspiracy is at work and has been for a hundred years. The ideology percolated from Marcuse and Gramsci in the Frankfurt School into Paulo Freire and his Pedagogy of the Oppressed - a framework called "Critical Pedagogy" that aims to unify Marxist indoctrination into mainstream education through "generative themes" (the logic being that, because communism is the natural state of humans, people's desire to learn will be sparked by lessons that give them the tools to understand their own oppression. Thus, if you make every lesson have to do with Current Year gay race communism, students will naturally be more engaged.)

Freire and his associate, Donaldo Macedo, worked to get fellow Marxists tenured positions in American colleges of education, 100 of them by some accounts. You'll see this, for instance, in Isaac Gottesman's "The Critical Turn in Education" (a book from 2016 that is not some Con Inc. 'schools are woke!' slop, but a victory lap by the communists gloating about their accomplishments and how to replicate it). The communist radicals of the sixties and seventies didn't disappear - they went into academia. Rudi Dutschke called it "The Long March Through the Institutions."

The project to make American public education a communist indoctrination program was more or less completed in the nineties. The younger millennials were all brought up in an education system that was designed to get them to realize the inherent, intersectional oppression of western cis-white hetero-capitalist patriarchy. Some of them really took to this, and became what we called SJWs. When they grew up, there were entire networks of communist agitators ready to take them in. Conservatives were shocked when communists would riot and burn shit and then immediately get bailed out of jail and have excellent lawyers - they have bail and legal defense funds they've been building since Vietnam.

These indoctrinated children-come-adults are one faction (debatably two - the awakened elite who know that communism is the solution to the riddle of history, and the useful idiots who know that a ban on ninth trimester abortion is fascism but can't tell you why). Entrenched Democratic party operatives who will do anything to win - such as importing infinity browns - are another. Corporate interests who know that diversity impedes the social cohesion needed for effective (effective, not performative) labor organizing are another. Chinese interests who know that this shit is destabilizing and so promote it in their greatest geopolitical rival are another.

They're all different groups, they just incidentally are incentivized to operate in the same way, so it looks top-down yet without being able to identify a specific source. In reality, it's multiple distributed actors with similar goals and tactics.

 

[harmy.kook]

From my lamen's understanding, South Park is a show that had always tried to be bi-partisan, or make fun of both sides

Bruce, I love ya man... But I have seen it laid out very thoroughly in the South Park thread that the "they make fun of both sides" line is the biggest chunks of Copium ever made.

The main example being that one of their good friends/lawyer is the Bidens' lawyer.
Or how they swore they were done with politics... Right before spending almost the entire current season screeching at Trump and his administration.

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

Bruce, I love ya man... But I have seen it laid out very thoroughly in the South Park thread that the "they make fun of both sides" line is the biggest chunks of Copium ever made.

The main example being that one of their good friends/lawyer is the Bidens' lawyer.
Or how they swore they were done with politics... Right before spending almost the entire current season screeching at Trump and his administration.

Or they went through four years with a president that was actively shitting in his pants and made literally zero jokes about him the entire time.

 

[harmy.kook]

Or they went through four years with a president that was actively shitting in his pants and made literally zero jokes about him the entire time.

Again, Matt and Trey are literally friends with the Biden family lawyer.

That adds waaaay more context

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

Bruce, I love ya man... But I have seen it laid out very thoroughly in the South Park thread that the "they make fun of both sides" line is the biggest chunks of Copium ever made.

The main example being that one of their good friends/lawyer is the Bidens' lawyer.
Or how they swore they were done with politics... Right before spending almost the entire current season screeching at Trump and his administration.

Or they went through four years with a president that was actively shitting in his pants and made literally zero jokes about him the entire time.

Again, Matt and Trey are literally friends with the Biden family lawyer.

That adds waaaay more context

That's why I said, "From my lamen's understanding." There seems to be a lot of context/info I'm missing or don't know about.

 

[harmy.kook]

That's why I said, "From my lamen's understanding." There seems to be a lot of context/info I'm missing or don't know about.

You're good man, I started believing it as well with the Panderverse special...

Well until I looked further...

Also the unprecedented amount seething-induced gay sex involving Trump, along with Satan being M-Pregged.

It's just too much

 

[GoodWinSon]

I very much enjoyed reading the "Why We Should Kill All Millennials" essay! I'm looking forward to the next thread.

 

[Senior Frogmin]

I am a bit sad that I could not contribute to the case 4 research due to internet problems but, I'm glad I was able to see it through when act three was around, and talked a little bit about gay swimming. Good work solider. I liked the omnious video timeline too.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

I am a bit sad that I could not contribute to the case 4 research due to internet problems but, I'm glad I was able to see it through when act three was around, and talked a little bit about gay swimming. Good work solider. I liked the omnious video timeline too.

Part of the reason I even made a dedicated Tumblr Files thread is so that you and others in here can continue to build on the foundation that I started with my four cases. By no means does the research or info-gathering end with me. If you or anyone else have any other stories to share like the one about Free!, or the stuff Coolio and I uncovered about Paul M. Kohberger a few months back, by all means, share them.

One of the things I want to do in the future is further research into Tumblr's effects on the retro gaming community, and document it a bit. If anyone could help me out with that (looking at you, @worldend_dominator and @Kasuga Ayumu), I would appriciate it.

 

[FK009]

Did you ever watch the special they did where they mocked woke Disney/woke Hollywood?

You're good man, I started believing it as well with the Panderverse special...

Since we’re on the topic, I hated the panderverse special when it came out. In fact, that special pissed me off when I watched it a second time, but I couldn’t name why. It wasn’t until I re-watched the China Problem, that I realized what it was. It’s because they treated KK with kid gloves. They showed Lucas and Spielberg raping Indiana Jones three separate times and raping a storm trooper for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but for modern Star Wars they gave it a catch phrase, one memorable line in special, but that’s it. Watch the special again, what did KK actually get in terms of mockery? She got a sit down discussion with Eric fucking Cartman, the kid with an actual body count, where they say. ‘You know, maybe we’re both wrong and right in this, Maybe you could tamper down the pandering, and maybe I need to be more understanding.’ They come to an understanding.

Sure, a major side quest was Black Cartwoman getting a PC to play BG3, but it was such a nothing burger, I can’t even remember the plot or how it’s resolved.

People say that they got their hopes up that SP mocks everyone because of this, but all this did was prove to me, that, no they don’t. If they like you, they either ignore you, or treat you with kids glove. It did not go as hard as this season of SP is going against Trump now. I think it’s just because Stone and Parker actually agree with KK and all the woke BS. No more, no less. They changed Token’s name. They literally got rid of a joke. They sucked Al Gore off and apologized for one of the best episodes of SP ever made. Tweak and Craig, need I say more? These are not actions of middle of the road dudes. They clearly have a side. It just depends on if the shift in culture forced them to change, or if the shift in culture allowed them to take the masks off.

Good write ups, BTW. I was there for most of the ground 0 as it was happening, but damn, you did well encapsulating everything.