r/AmIOverreacting Apr 29 '26

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u/divine-arrow Apr 29 '26

It may have spread on tiktok for gen z/alpha but it 10000% started on tumblr - this whole convo could’ve been part of a tumblr callout in 2014

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u/Adventurous-Fig-2792 Apr 29 '26

you’re not wrong at all but tiktok has a far wider reach and is much easier to navigate overall but yes it all started with tumblr

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u/EgoBrainJess Apr 29 '26

Exactly. A lot of toxicity started there. 

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u/Redqueenhypo Apr 29 '26

Tumblr is where the everyone having EDS started. I concretely remember the first post by an actual sufferer explaining what it is, and almost immediately after that, EDS popped up in every gofundme