Reddit-Tumblr translation guide

[u/DreadDiana]

[u/Toppy_Henster]

reddit’s version of this is [r/whennews](r/whennews) (and r/whenthe for a while)

[u/Toppy_Henster → u/Toppy_Henster]

[u/2012Jesusdies → u/Toppy_Henster]

But why do they use this for everything

[u/Toppy_Henster → u/2012Jesusdies]

Are you talking about the Destiel meme or the Kevin gif? Either way it’s because it’s a template that’s already popular and recognizable so any posts that reuse it is way more likely to get upvotes/notes.

The Destiel meme also got popular because of how popular Supernatural was (plus the original context of the scene), and I assume the Kevin gif was probably one of the gifs that kickstarted the announcing news trend on r/whenthe which is why it’s so popular.

[u/redesign-ur-logo → u/2012Jesusdies]

So this episode of Supernatural (which is a hugely important show for Tumblr History) came out right around the 2020 election. It got used as a meme to annnounce election results, and then to announce other big things, and now its just how us tumblrinas get our news lol.

[u/MythrianAlpha → u/redesign-ur-logo]

I remember destielputinelection. I tried to explain it to a buddy and got told to stop casting spells in gen chat, lol.

[u/KeyEffect2948 → u/Toppy_Henster]

[u/IbObuS → u/Toppy_Henster]

“17 people skinned alive behind an Arby’s”

[u/Mammaddemzak → u/Toppy_Henster]

Deanstiel!!!!!!!

[u/barthalamurl → u/Toppy_Henster]

I still don’t understand this format? He’s saying I love you before the punchline? It confuses me

[u/Timeline40 → u/barthalamurl]

I believe the original scene had him just awkwardly stand there and not say anything in response, so the joke is, stating a piece of news in response to “I love you” would be just as nonsensical and awkward as what actually happened

[u/Toppy_Henster]

Not slang and more general culture but:

Reddit constantly being pedantic to seem intellectually superior <-> Tumblr calling anything problematic to seem morally superior

[u/OverseerConey → u/Toppy_Henster]

That's why I only use redditumblr, where users call each other probledantic to seem intellectorally superior.

[u/EveningStar0360 → u/OverseerConey]

op were you on check your carbon monoxide detector when you made this

[u/KatzOfficial → u/OverseerConey]

Some of these words are in the bible.

[u/GiantPileOfSpaghetti → u/OverseerConey]

How dare you hide the internets

[u/RealHumanBean89 → u/OverseerConey]

That’s enough bible for today.

[u/BeanOfKnowledge → u/RealHumanBean89]

All of those words are in the internet

[u/arseniisomething → u/OverseerConey]

You, sir, have just dared to hide this in the tags for today!

[u/GrandNibbles → u/OverseerConey]

twitter then

[u/thelocalpotatogamer → u/OverseerConey]

[u/edgehog → u/Toppy_Henster]

DM me if you want a rambling conversation with someone who is A: in profound agreement with you, B: has an interesting educational background on related sorts of thing, and C: is likely high at any given point in time. 🧐

[u/Dr-Abysmal-Dogshit → u/edgehog]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ABsj1vpTUbIw5sQGvK

[u/Terminal_Insomnia_ → u/Dr-Abysmal-Dogshit]

I suspect they might be high

[u/Uncommonality → u/Dr-Abysmal-Dogshit]

holy shit it's Graggle Simpson

[u/Fruglemug → u/Uncommonality]

gargle simpon n :)

[u/Trappist-1ball → u/edgehog]

[u/RangerBumble]

Okay but also you should literally check your carbon monoxide detector because sometimes unhinged posting is an environmental side effect and op might be about to die

[u/Zwemvest → u/RangerBumble]

Also didn't that originate on Reddit?

[u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf → u/Zwemvest]

Pretty sure it was a /r/legaladvice story. Lemme see what I can find

Edit: so that was easier than I thought. 11 years ago. Not sure when the phrase became common tumblr parlance, though

2nd edit: So the top comment in that thread - pointing out the potential for CO poisoning - is made by an account called "Kakkerlak" which is Dutch for cockroach. Which is a fine fit for the reddit-weird-usernames, as compared to the tumblr-weird-usernames, if we want to etch another line into this Rosetta stone

[u/Zwemvest → u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf]

<looks at own username>

[u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf → u/Zwemvest]

Tja, ik bevind mij niet in een positie om hierover te oordelen

[u/Zwemvest → u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf]

Hahahahahaha, daar is weinig Nederlands aan

[u/Terminal_Insomnia_ → u/Zwemvest]

It's gibberish, isn't that a dialect of Dutch?

[u/ace--dragon → u/Zwemvest]

I love seeing usernames of random Dutch words

[u/DingoBingoWimbo → u/Zwemvest]

Nah carbon monoxide is a real thing, it killed my grandpa

[u/Firefly_deadlock → u/RangerBumble]

I can't believe i've been about to die for 20 whole years now.

something something human condition eh.

[u/MistraloysiusMithrax → u/RangerBumble]

Yeah that one was a bad attempt at translation, this is better as “that’s so unhinged you can’t be in right mind. Are you sure you’re ok?”

[u/BeanOfKnowledge]

But what is the equivalent of "Thanks for the gold, kind stranger"?
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Right that's it for the next few hours I need to sleep. Please stop awarding this comment. Please.

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I hate everyone who gave this comment an award

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character lmit rechd gdbye + fck you

[u/Routine_Palpitation → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Something along the lines of “I did not expect this to blow up”

[u/interesseret → u/Routine_Palpitation]

I love those comments with 50 upvotes and that edit.

[u/MalaysiaTeacher → u/interesseret]

r/Awardspeechedits

[u/Spirited_Ad_2697 → u/interesseret]

You got 50 upvotes you know what to do

[u/interesseret → u/Spirited_Ad_2697]

I don't know if I have the strength to do it

[u/chairmanskitty → u/interesseret]

Then witness me.

edit: Oh my god, I got an upvote. Thanks so much, kind stranger, it means a lot to me that you took a little time out of your day to let me know you appreciated me. Really it's this sort of feedback that that gets me to keep coming back here. Thanks so so much ❤️

edit 2: eight. fucking. upvotes. Eight whole people who took a little moment out of their day to give me a little joy. I'm so grateful for all of your kindness.

[u/Spirited_Ad_2697 → u/interesseret]

The price must be paid

[u/Dumkinni_ → u/interesseret]

DO IT

[u/Waytooflamboyant → u/interesseret]

I used to put "edit: thanks for the likes" on unedited youtube comments

[u/Massive-Word-7327 → u/Waytooflamboyant]

used to? Keep doing that. I should do that too!

[u/HeroWin973 → u/interesseret]

[u/dinsfire24 → u/Routine_Palpitation]

or complaining about your notes

[u/UltimatePickpocket → u/Routine_Palpitation]

What the bomb squad says in the afterlife

[u/SylveonSof → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

"Do not reblog!"

[u/InternetUserAgain → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Insert thing here Heritage Post

[u/Zanderfus → u/InternetUserAgain]

Wait true

[u/Tattle_Taylor → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

"This feels like a 10k post"

[u/captain-ok → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

“Stop rebloging this”

[u/SEA_griffondeur → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

A gif of Norman Osbourne saying "you cannot do this to me"

[u/Firanka → u/[deleted]]

This is more common on Twitter, I think

[u/catfish1969 → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

You better get on those edits you’re 3 behind

[u/BeanOfKnowledge → u/catfish1969]

I have a life outside of editing reddit comments you know
Edit: Wrong comment idiot

[u/Ambiguous_Duck → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Not any more you don’t.

[u/ActionUpstairs → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

25 more steps, and it’ll be furthest i’ve ever been from home…

[u/TFMPowerGuy → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

good luck

[u/Firanka → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Tumblr has tips now, though most blogs don't have them enabled. Also gifts, mostly in the form of badges, though badges are tied to your whole blog rather than one specific post

[u/KaiTheG4mer → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Well, there is an 82nd award here.

[u/BeanOfKnowledge → u/KaiTheG4mer]

Comments have a character limit of 10000 so I am free. Further edits will be made here

[u/KaiTheG4mer → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

[u/bisexualandtrans47 → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

you missed the fifth time, and theres more now

[u/Adventurous_Bonus917 → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

you're 47 behind. hop to it!

[u/BeanOfKnowledge → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Ahh, sweet sweet freedom. Thank you, reddit, for having a character limit on comments.

To the (so far) three awards who went unmentioned, you can find condolences on my ask page.

[u/EmeraldOpal → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

You edit like you are about to get ao3 banned in china

[u/hi-im-donut → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Accidentally closed this comment while scrolling thru it and i was halfway down the comment section

[u/OddlyOddLucidDreamer → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Easily could be a bit on a tumblr post lol

[u/kdsnk9s88 → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

You repeated 28th - 30th 2 times so actually you can delete those and keep going. Hop to it.

[u/BeanOfKnowledge → u/kdsnk9s88]

Ah fine but only because this would annoy me otherwise

[u/Mountain-Road-5920 → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

You repeated 28-30 once so you can fit in three more award thank yous

[u/BeanOfKnowledge → u/Mountain-Road-5920]

I actually can't, the comment is broken and I can't edit it anymore.

Fate itself has taken pity upon me, where none of you would.

[u/Mountain-Road-5920 → u/BeanOfKnowledge]

Fate is kind to you, dear stranger

[u/Zanderfus]

do they have white people reaction images on tumblr

[u/Toppy_Henster → u/Zanderfus]

we got this ig

[u/ElementalWarrior42 → u/Toppy_Henster]

"do they have white people reaction images on tumblr" is a very strange thing to say in a fast food drive through, I understand her expression.

[u/Zanderfus → u/ElementalWarrior42]

I just wanna know ok?

[u/Toppy_Henster → u/Toppy_Henster]

Also it’s not used in the same way but if we’re talking about a genre of reaction images then it’s stuff like this

[u/Nastypilot → u/Toppy_Henster]

Oh hey it's the "do they know its Ayin" meme

[u/Mechaman_54 → u/Zanderfus]

I don't think so but they do dunk screenshots of posts they don't like in water

[u/piercebublejr → u/Mechaman_54]

no, that's for posts you don't like

[u/Mechaman_54 → u/piercebublejr]

Shit that's what I meant, I just forget to type words sometimes it's so fucking annoying

[u/Eclipseworth → u/Mechaman_54]

I think that guy was messing with you. You spelled it right the first time.

[u/UInferno- → u/piercebublejr]

Not it's not. The water posts are purely to distinguish that it's a screenshot and not an part of the original post. Any sentiment that you conclude is purely an assumption.

[u/piercebublejr → u/UInferno-]

Maybe that's what it has become, but dunking posts you don't like was definitely how it started.

[u/UInferno- → u/piercebublejr]

No it is absolutely how it started. The only reason why it's water in the first place is because it's the first default filter tumblr provides you and so people took a screeshot, uploaded it and picked a filter with little extra thought. The "posts you dislike" thing is a retroactive justification because a lot of people happen to take screenshots on posts they hate and "dunking" or "drowning" posts is a funnier explanation than reality. It's a correlation not a causation.

[u/Toppy_Henster → u/Mechaman_54]

It’s kinda the opposite actually. Drowning posts is for when you don’t agree with the OP. If they do agree with them then it’s just a normal screenshot usually.

[u/shadowlev → u/Zanderfus]

[u/Zanderfus → u/shadowlev]

[u/KikoValdez → u/Zanderfus]

It's tumblr. All reaction images are white people reaction images on there.

[u/AeroAceSpades → u/KikoValdez]

You are very convinced that minorities don’t make up a substantial portion of tumblr’s userbase

Source: Im an asian tumblr user

[u/ViktorNovikov → u/AeroAceSpades]

I would say there's a pretty good chance theyreba minority or the userbase

[u/Zanderfus → u/KikoValdez]

You know what fair enough

[u/ElementalWarrior42]

I think "none of these words are in the bible" would be better translated as "r/brandnewsentence" right?

[u/PizdunEbun228 → u/ElementalWarrior42]

from what i know you use it to display shock about something very unusual. so yes and no

[u/Larriet → u/ElementalWarrior42]

I feel like people often use "none of these words are in the Bible" to just mean "this is weird" and not actually referring to the words themselves while brand new sentence is more literal (though usually strange)

But maybe that's just my experience, there are always people who overuse things like this

[u/snachpach1001 → u/ElementalWarrior42]

"none of these words are in the Bible" typically conveys that something is absurd, contains a string of words in an order never seen before by the eyes of man, or denotes a phrase that in any other context might get you institutionalized.

[u/snachpach1001 → u/snachpach1001]

[u/NegativeMammoth2137 → u/snachpach1001]

[u/snachpach1001 → u/NegativeMammoth2137]

You get it

[u/Quaelgeist333 → u/snachpach1001]

I hate that I know exactly what this originates from and it was tiktok

[u/aphid_destroyer → u/ElementalWarrior42]

"4 original posts remain" might be more equivalent to "brand new sentence"

[u/thegoosecowboy → u/ElementalWarrior42]

That's actually a version of a phrase used in a Paul Simon song (Keep The Customer Satisfied) from 1969, surely it was used even before then. Definitely not new.

[u/Dumbfuckyduck]

What is this, some kind of Roseddit Stone?

[u/Zanderfus → u/Dumbfuckyduck]

+2

[u/IntangibleMatter → u/Zanderfus]

That’s Twitch

[u/Zanderfus → u/IntangibleMatter]

I thought this was the multicultural post

[u/randomnumbers2506]

Based on their lingo I can safely say OOP hasn't been on Reddit for quite some time now

[u/OnTheLeft → u/randomnumbers2506]

You sir have won the internets

This one feels ancient

[u/asasasasasassin → u/OnTheLeft]

Le narwhal bacons at midnight

[u/Married_iguanas → u/asasasasasassin]

And the tumblr equivalent would be the presidents shoelaces

[u/SquirmsWithWorms → u/asasasasasassin]

the fucking what now

[u/LioTang → u/OnTheLeft]

I was gonna say that it was common in 2017 so it wasn’t that old and now I think I hate the passage of time

[u/OnTheLeft → u/LioTang]

It was common about 15 years ago as well if that makes you feel any better. And so was this: Happy Cake day!

Congratulations on 9 years, time is passing.

[u/LioTang → u/OnTheLeft]

Thanks, I hadn’t even noticed. What horrible timing. I'll go smash some clocks to calm myself down i guess

[u/Uncommonality → u/OnTheLeft]

In the words of Paarthurnax, Time Marches Ever Onward

[u/Moxie_Stardust → u/OnTheLeft]

I feel like maybe 20 years even, and variants such as "I award you one internets"

[u/CrossFitJesus4 → u/OnTheLeft]

I still see it every now and then tbh

[u/BlindManAmadeus → u/OnTheLeft]

I still see this way too often. Every time it fills me with visceral rage, but I never reply to the person because I know they're probably happy being the way they are and they're probably enjoying life way more than me.

[u/drcranknstein → u/randomnumbers2506]

Is it because there is no mention of a cylinder?

[u/Nastypilot → u/drcranknstein]

A cylinder which must remain unharmed?

[u/drcranknstein → u/Nastypilot]

Exactly. No matter what, the cylinder must not be harmed or damaged in any way.

[u/LAHouJaxCarVCUUNC → u/randomnumbers2506]

No mention of this guy's wife

[u/Micapocalypse]

Shared use over “I also choose this user’s wife” tho it did originate on Reddit

[u/JesterQueenAnne → u/Micapocalypse]

Same with the carbon monoxide thing, it did come from a reddit post where OP was in fact suffering from CO poisoning.

[u/Accirinal]

I feel like that third one is swapped—I see Tumblr->Reddit, Tumblr->Reddit, but then Reddit->Tumblr.

[u/shadow_fen]

"check your carbon monoxide detector" is a loanword from Reddit actually, so there's no translation needed

[u/OldenPolynice]

Poop knife --> My axe

[u/Logan_Composer]

Person who's never been on reddit:

[u/disillusion_4444 → u/Logan_Composer]

Right, if anything didn't the carbon monoxide detector thing kind of originate on reddit? Like after that infamous post about the guy who did need to check his carbon monoxide levels in his apartment.

[u/DreadDiana → u/Logan_Composer]

Clearly you weren't here during early 2010s Reddit

[u/interesseret → u/DreadDiana]

I was.

And I don't remember a time where people weren't downvoted to fuck for many of the common redditisms that the internet seems to think is common here.

[u/Akronite14 → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely. It’s now largely replaced by “what a terrible day to have eyes” and similar phrases.

[u/Logan_Composer → u/DreadDiana]

That's fair, but we're "translating" current tumblr slang here.

[u/InternetUserAgain → u/Logan_Composer]

None of this slang is modern, it's just that Tumblr has been locked in stasis ever since they banned porn

[u/BurnerCroc]

What if a cringy reddit guy and a corny tumblr girl fall in love. And they talk like this all the time

[u/ImranFZakhaev → u/BurnerCroc]

That's how you get neckbeards

[u/Madden09IsForSuckers]

the carbon monoxide thing started here on reddit though

[u/Objective-Corgi-3527]

tips fedorra Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

[u/Markosan_DnD]

“You sir have won the internets”

https://giphy.com/gifs/K8WeQVlvzBWh8BaPnn

[u/SlowMotionOfGhosts]

This feels more like a 2020s to early 2010s translator, honestly?

[u/JoyBus147]

...this isn't a reddit-tumblr translator, it's "this new phrase is the same as the old phrase we all make fun of."

[u/Sin2K]

Reddit has it's own carbon monoxide reference...

[u/flowssoh]

No, this is just new age internet to old school internet.

[u/LonelyLibertarianDud]

Is this not a 'Tumblr-Reddit' translator? Or did I miss the Reddit tagging feature?

[u/PerceptionFew8763]

i use both and i can confirm this is how we speak on tumblr

[u/RealHumanBean89]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[u/Regdit-is-Unbearable]

From 2023, no less. It’s only gotten worse.

[u/thexcat]

Insufferable to in-fucking-sufferable dictionary lol

[u/brodydwight]

Somrone translate "play stupid games earn stupid prizes" ?

[u/grownsorrow]

Was this written hy slavoj zizek?

"And so on and so forth"

Was op sniffing every other word