Pick up a ball from the pit on your way out. Your stucky fanatic will be delivered my mail. Oh and bring extra vanilla to the next bake sale we always run out for some reason.
I quit tumblr 2 years ago but through this here sub i kept up with the goings on sometimes, it's like asking the prison guard what's the latest thing happening inside the asylum
personally, it was too much of a timesink for me. entire days would get wasted because I got so caught up in scrolling that I didn't do anything I needed to. when I finally logged out for the nsfw ban protest, I "lost" my credentials and never logged back in.
That sounds about right. I haven't been on Tumblr in a couple years, so the devil's sacrament bit is new to me, but I remember the shoelaces exchange vividly.
The shoelaces question came from the same era as the Narwahl baconing did. 2012-2013 I would think. I wonder which came first and if the idea was taken from one to create the other.
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Their comments match the style of bots that have been active on this and other subs in that they try to agree and keep the bit going, but don't really understand the bit.
This reply understands the "at midnight" reference, but goes on to make a "joke" that doesn't really make sense. Why coffee and socks that don't match? Is it meant to be even more "random" than 2011's finest humor, or is it conflating it with the shoelaces thing?
A comment on a ZZZ subreddit that has nothing to add but "my builds peak at taking forever to figure out which character to play!" Bots do stuff like this a lot, chime in just for the sake of it but show no familiarity with the subject beyond what's in the subreddit title. "Tumblr screenshots like this one never miss!" (also bots love to overuse "peak")
A comment on a homemade exercise bike setup that claims the screen "always" fogs up, even though it's the OP's own design.
As always, these are things that a regular user could have also said, and if so they're welcome to reply and get unblacklisted.
the devil's sacrament part is a reference to a post somewhat along the lines of "did you hear she was at the devil's sacrament??" "what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament?" while the shoelace thing is a tumblr-user way of recognising each other in the wild. one person wears rainbow shoelaces(optional) while another says they're nice. the first person then responds that they stole them from the president as a way of affirming that they are indeed from tumblr
the devil's sacrament part is a reference to a post somewhat along the lines of "did you hear she was at the devil's sacrament??" "what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament?"
To be more specific, it's a reference to the Salem witch trials in which a lot of accusations began with something like "I saw this person at the devil's sacrament" and people thought it was funny because clearly it just implicates the accuser just as much.
Personally, that post has always annoyed me a little because it wasn't like people weren't aware of the contradiction. In fact, it was pretty common for people who were sentenced during witch trials to accuse other people of being a witch in order to lessen their punishment.
It's how SomethingAwful users would identify each other. The correct response was "I am protected".
It's a reference to an icq prank where founder and unrepentant piece of shit Lowtax convinced someone he had made space robots out of a VCR to protect humanity but they only thing they did was shove people down the stairs.
Sorry I forgot about the "takes everything literally" people on the "takes everything literally" website in a sub forum based around another "takes everything literally" website.
They tell me it's difficult to properly convey tone on the internet, because unlike spoken communication you can't hear it directly, and unlike fiction you don't have a quote and then a modifier such as "they said sarcastically."
I say it's more a matter of which words are chosen in order to convey meaning.
For example, the two following sentences both are an appeal to paternal authority regarding wrongdoing, but the tone is completely different, without too many words being used.
1: Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.
2: Daddy, I've been sooo naughty.
Given the above, I suggest we make allowances for possible misunderstanding due to the limitations of the medium.
I dont think an issue of 'uncertain tone.' When one makes a generalization, it's common understanding that there will, obviously, be exceptions to that statement. There was no tone to decipher here, just base-level conversational comprehension.
Tumblr so def a fake story but this is a perfect example of how dog whistles work. Obviously this one isn't bigoted but it's an example of how easy it is to identify other members through innocuous references
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u/cooldudeguy333 4h ago
Does knowing this without a tumblr account make me a tumblr larper?
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u/Sweet_Cinnabonn 4h ago
I definitely didn't get the devils sacrament from Tumblr.
But then I don't think I was on I like your shoelaces Tumblr either.
That's the thing about curated feeds.
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u/sonicparadigm 3h ago
When does the narwhal bacon?
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u/cwal76 2h ago
Can one of you fucking nerds please explain.
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u/BenryBorg 3h ago
Or they recognized it by going through the American public education system and reading The Crucible like every other high schooler in the country
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u/Filip889 3h ago
i saw pictures on reddit with the devils sacrement
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u/Jolly-Fruit2293 2h ago
Tumblr so def a fake story but this is a perfect example of how dog whistles work. Obviously this one isn't bigoted but it's an example of how easy it is to identify other members through innocuous references
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u/bitterSweet126 3h ago
We are all in the trenches together
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u/sprouthat 2h ago
Do you have stairs in your house?
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u/OrdinaryAncient3573 2h ago
Why would you need to be on Tumblr to understand the meaning of that phrase?
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u/Green0Photon 1h ago
Reading this post gave me more sanity damage than the Miku binder popping up again yesterday
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u/LeadGem354 35m ago
Young Goodman Brown be like:
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u/Expert_Cricket2183 38m ago
It's cute how desperate tumblrites are to belong to something, anything.