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hellsite-yano · 1 month

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ummm, autistbros?? this can't be fucking happening

#4chan april fools

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mihai-florescu · 4 months

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how long have u been running this blog (i love ur txts RAHHHHH thanks for spilling wtv is on ur brain)

Aw thank you! Ive had the same blog since 2014 when i was in middle school ^_^

#ask #anon #hashtag tumblr veteran #i remember the fan mail feature. i rember when they introduced dms for the first time. you had to be infected like a parasite with them #dont worry about it #what else...the ace exclusionist debates. sherlock before season 4 aired. Leelah Alcorn's death. mishapocalypse #the lizard april fools presidential elections. the fear of 4chan attacks. that feature that let you write dialogues i dont even know when #they removed it #the john cena memes and shoving breadsticks into my purse i have to go and goats craving the mineral #ive seen...ive seen a lot...the birth and downfall of countless fandoms. the resilience of the supernatural fandom to not die out tho #i was here when we made be more chill popular. the first wave of fans who only had an audio recording. joe tracz still follows me on insta #in the grand scheme of things me just saying whatever and having people engage with my posts is a recent development #like. from the last 3 or so years #ive always just been doing my thing. i wonder if theres anyone here from my bare a pop opera or falsettos or dirk gently days

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lovotomii · 1 month

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oh wait actually i wonder what 4chan is doing for april fools this year

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thesinglesjukebox · 29 days

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PORTER ROBINSON - "CHEERLEADER"

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April Fool's Day is over, now time for some SINCERITY...

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Taylor Alatorre: This song sounds embarrassing. It sounds excessive. It sounds like something you might regret putting into the world five seconds after hitting "publish." It sounds, in other words, like high school. Porter Robinson's post-brostep career has been an extended treatise on escapism -- from the appealingly plaintive paracosms of 2014's Worlds to the soothing self-inventory of 2021's Nurture, with his Virtual Self side project managing to be both esoteric and stupidly self-explanatory. He's crafted a series of immersive alternatives to analog messiness, allowing the listener to check out of the everyday and place themselves for a moment in a softer-edged realm, with more explicable rules and a more poetic set of problems. "Cheerleader," though, offers the listener no assistance in either sidestepping or reconfiguring the uncomfortable reality into which they were born; music video aside, it's not really a song about fanbases gone wild either. Instead it's about the girl in your school's Anime Club who gave out her deviantART username before her phone number and taught you against your will what the word yaoi meant. The fujoshi representation, besides filling a glaring gap in the TSJ search index, makes it clear that this is about a real person and not an avatar, and it's that awkward flesh-and-blood realness which is precisely at issue here. Maybe she's as real as him, and maybe he couldn't live with that. The perspective of a boy who is unused to being the object of obsession is an under-explored one in music, probably because it's very hard to land it within the narrow range of acceptable loserdom. But Porter sticks the landing by enveloping us fully within the loser's headspace, where both his emo-inflected chagrin and his fragmented memories of the girl's "cheering" are enshrouded by a waterfall of blown-out Obama-era detritus. If you ever wondered what a big room house remix of Two Door Cinema Club might've sounded like, or Oracular Spectacular if it had debuted on Beatport, here's your answer. Other seemingly out-of-place additions -- the bitpop cowbell, the Punk Goes Acoustic bridge, the hilariously overwrought drumroll that becomes less so the second time around -- fit right into this 1080p capture of late adolescent bag-fumbling. Taken together, they convey a mismatch in interests and hobbies that may have seemed like a deal breaker at the time, but in hindsight was just another excuse to avoid vulnerability. Perhaps I only arrived at this gonzo interpretation because the 4chan-core single artwork serves as a kind of shibboleth for these things. If that's the case, then I plead guilty: I ate the apple. [10]

Oliver Maier: "We have Anamanaguchi at home." [6]

Hannah Jocelyn: I loved Porter Robinson's Nurture for its unapologetic sincerity, a balm when emerging back into the world post-lockdown. I miss that early hopefulness as the years have gone on; even now, it's hard for me to hear "Unfold" without being close to tears. "Cheerleader" is a frustrating detour, with inane lyrics about yandere fujoshis fetishizing Robinson -- you know you're doing nothing new when the Nostalgia Critic beat you to it, and Robinson hardly sells the can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em message better. Nurture, for better or worse, incorporated the pitch-shifting vocals of hyperpop into EDM (to the point where a trans woman musician I know grew frustrated with Nurture's acclaim for doing what acts like Katie Dey had done for years, regardless of how Robinson himself identifies.) That's worth acknowledging, especially as this attempts to go right to the source: 3OH!3 and Metro Station come to mind. Except there’s none of the polish that makes those songs work despite themselves -- What's with that tinny hi-hat? Where's the low end on the guitar? Listen to "Shake It"; that song from 2007 sounds better than this one from 2024. It's not enough to replicate the aesthetics; for some ungodly reason, Robinson decided it must sound like it's coming from a Hot Topic speaker too. [4]

Claire Biddles: We have "Shake It" by Metro Station at home. [4]

Tim de Reuse: I admire the chutzpah to take a stylistic hairpin turn like this. And I appreciate the ability to do that while retaining the crystal-clear boom-bap production chops that made you a breakout sensation in the first place. And I appreciate how it makes its power-pop references clear without sticking to them too desperately. And I appreciate the sheer craft; birds fly, rocks sink, Porter Robinson writes synth hooks that wrap around your mind and squeeze tight. And I appreciate the line about getting drawn kissing other guys. But there's a clean and edgeless quality here, a sterile expression of his EDM roots, that directly contradicts his attempts at a heartbreaking singalong. Nowhere does his voice crack with raw emotion; nowhere does it seem even possible that his voice might crack with raw emotion. [5]

Kayla Beardslee: Porter Robinson’s doing anime OSTs now? Good for him. [7]

Leah Isobel: I see this fitting into a whole universe of PS1/Nintendo DS aesthetic indie games, YouTube video essays about old anime, trans girls with Neocities websites, indie pop sung by vocaloids. I could call it hyperpop -- not in the sense of overdriven chaos, but in the sense of the hyperlink. (HTML revival would be more accurate.) As such, it feels a little too precise, its scruffiness deployed too purposefully; I feel like this stuff works best when the self is obscured, and Porter is too big of a star to let that happen. But that also means the chorus is fucking massive, so I can't complain too much. [7]

Nortey Dowuona: The soft, limply placed drums in the song for once are not the sabotaging element in this song. The lithe, acoustic guitar bridge is even nicely played. The guitar riff, doubled by the synth, is the true arrow to the heart of this song. Porter is processed to hell and back, refusing to give over his composition to a more present, entertaining vocalist, but that riff is so grating and stiff that when it first arrives, sliding up as the culmination of the slowly hopping pre-chorus, it stops the song from progressing any further, simply pushing Porter into the background and leaving his Melodyned voice slack below it, struggling to be heard. Now, does this stop me from screaming that chorus in my head? Of course not. It's not fair I have to keep hearing this grating riff every time, though. [6]

Ian Mathers: God, I love that recurring, overdriven synth sound that kicks in on the chorus. If anything I wish it was more all-enveloping when it hits (yes, like shoegaze, yes, I'm predicable). There's lots of other interesting things going on here, but I can't quite get over that visceral rush enough to figure out my response to it all. Hit the whoosh button again, Porter! [8]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Not nearly dumb enough for me to enjoy its shtick. [3]

Isabel Cole: This sounds like a One Direction album track in a universe where after they got kicked off The X Factor, Simon Cowell realized he could save so much money by replacing everyone but Liam with robots, only when they got into the studio there was some kind of malfunction and Zayn-bot started screeching uncontrollably and Niall-bot fell on his side crackling horribly with static while Harry-bot and Louis-bot took turns punching each other until they were dented beyond recognition, and that's why it sounds like how it sounds. (Liam didn't notice anything amiss, obviously; have you met him?) [4]

Will Adams: At the heart of Nurture was its... well, heart. On that record, Porter Robinson wore his on his sleeve, crooning lines like "I'll be alive next year / I can make something good" without a hint of irony. On "Cheerleader," he surprisingly lets a bit of cynicism slip in. It's not a leap to see how producing such earnest, sincere art would naturally invite fans to form parasocial relationships, to draw fan art but not know where to "draw the line," to develop a near-fatalistic expectation of commitment. But between each of those details is a generous counterpoint, where Porter wonders if he benefits just as much from these feelings. It creates a fascinating tension, expressed best by the chorus: "IT'S NOT FAAAAIIIRRRRRR!", stretched over a fizzy, tightly-wound power-pop arrangement complete with a skyscraping synth line. Porter just can't help himself. We've all got feelings; why not scream them to the rafters? [8]

Katherine St. Asaph: Porter Robinson's brand of earnestness makes my heart feel burnt or dead. [5]

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#porter robinson #music #music writing #music reviews #music criticism #the singles jukebox #Youtube

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yattarosb · 30 days

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I like April's fools as someone from a country outside of the joke because every site has their own mini game that reflects on its users, like Tumblr being this

...while 4chan has its own stock market crisis all day like this

#April's fools #I lost all my savings in anime

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sreegs · 2 years

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Hm... I'm not sure if this was asked before, or if you had said something about it, but what is it like to work at tumblr? And what's the problem with automattic?

(Sorry if it was asked before!! I'm kinda new around here)

I've posted a few things about what it was like to work at Tumblr but never really an over-arching description of Tumblr over the years. Here's a post about the vibes of the NYC Tumblr Office, one of the weird things we did there, one of the weird things that was a regular occurrence with advertisers, the kind of shenannigans the interns got into, an anecdote that highlighted the creativity of the engineers there, and the best April fools: Decision 2016 (twice).

By contrast, this post about OneID is like, the perfect example of what it was like working under Yahoo. Every week it felt like the mood swung from just having a blast working on Tumblr with great and intelligent people, to shit hell bad decisions you had to wrestle with.

This was the mood for most of the time under Yahoo and a little bit under Verizon. Once Verizon sold the original Tumblr office, morale took a turn for the worse. Then the porn ban just killed any spirit left.

Automattic swooped in with $3 million dollarydoos, and it seemed like it was OK at first. But within the first year it became very apparent they didn't know what they purchased. This was the highest rate of departures I had ever seen, even worse than Yahoo or Verizon (of all companies, worse than Verizon, lol).

Automattic lacks any sort of coherent vision for what to do with Tumblr. Moreover, their CEO acts like a cult leader and those who drink the proverbial Koolaid are just as bad. Absolutely bizarre decisions, 180 degree flips on direction just because the CEO had a whim. Plus a very very toxic culture that thinks swearing is bad, but allowing the employees to have an anonymous board (like 4chan) where they can vent is perfectly fine (you can say dogwhistle racist things, just don't swear on that board, that's bad). Bad culture to the bone.

Plus it's a company that prides itself on cutting costs wherever possible, and underpays their engineers with this roundabout logic by being fully remote (you can work anywhere! so we're not paying you a competitive wage if you live anywhere that has a moderate to high cost of living).

#tumblr

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iduckfilms · 1 year

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The Complete Official Pibby Timeline (So Far)

Hey guys, this is iDuckFilms. If you're in the Pibby fandom, you may know me from Twitter, but I decided to explore some backup options in case Twitter really does crash and burn like people are fearing. Plus I've been toying around with the idea of experimenting with other types of posts for a while. So I might as well start by creating a master list of everything that's canon to Pibby so far. There are a lot of things that are commonly mistaken for canon but aren't, but I figured it would be easier to list what is canon to make it easier to keep track.

October 30th 2021 - Come and Learn with Pibby Trailer/Pilot

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The one that started it all. This was dropped onto Adult Swim's YouTube channel purposefully without any sort of promotion, though creator Dodge Greenley promoted it on his Instagram as "the trailer for [his] show", indicating that he intended it to be the trailer/pilot for a series. It immediately gets viral attention, first from the cartoon community and then snowballing out into the mainstream.

October 30th 2021 (actual date circa 2020) - The Casting Call

Soon, an anonymous 4chan user would leak several pages of a casting call for Pibby, revealing additional information about the characters. The user revealed that they auditioned for a role in the pilot, and that they left out several pages to make it harder for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim to track the leaker down.

October 30th 2021 (actual date circa 2020) - The Demo Reel

Soon, fans uncovered a demo reel originally posted on Soundcloud in 2020 by an actor who read for Bun Bun and Beta Kid. It used the same artwork as the leaked casting call, revealing the lines for Bun Bun and Beta Kid in the casting call and confirming both leaks to be real.

(To this date, no records of Pibby or Melira's lines from the casting call have surfaced)

November 5, 2021 - The Official Credits

Dodge Greenley would soon reveal the official credits of the Pibby pilot on his Instagram. This would confirm Melira's name, therefore confirming both leaks once again, but also reveal that Beta Kid's name had been changed to Alloy Boy during production.

April 1, 2022 - The April Fools Broadcast

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After 6 months of no news, Adult Swim surprised fans with a two hour long broadcast consisting of episodes of other Adult Swim shows with Pibby, Bun Bun, and various glitches edited into them. Almost all the animation of them created for this broadcast was new, and it featured slight redesigns of the characters and the Darkness, including different palettes and a more Atari-like glitch. This was accompanied by a "Lost Bunny" poster of Bun Bun and several billboards in Los Angeles and Atlanta featuring Pibby and Bun Bun.

After this, there would be no major Pibby news. However, there is still one surprisingly major thing left to cover

November 15, 2022 - Pibby wins a CLIO Award

This is the latest official Pibby update. For those who don't know, the CLIO Awards are a prestigious award ceremony dedicated to celebrating the best ad campaigns. Shockingly, Pibby won several of these awards, including a Grand Prize. As their submission for the CLIO Awards, Adult Swim created a video going over the history of Pibby so far and, surprisingly, featuring many posts from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and r/Pibby, including posts from my Twitter account and for some reason various Elsagate videos created by the infamous YouTube Kids channel Among Us Stop Motion. This shows that Adult Swim has been keeping tabs on the Pibby fandom, and that support from Pibby fans matters in getting the show greenlit. The video also ends with acknowledgement that Pibby fans want more content, and the cryptic line "The legend of Pibby continues". Only time will tell if this means anything.

#learning with pibby #pibby #pibby adult swim #pibby apocalypse #Youtube #SoundCloud

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mezmer · 10 months

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My fiancé: so on April fools one year they mixed up the MLP board with another board on 4chan and after hours of bickering they reached an understanding and one of the guys asked, who would hitler’s favorite my little pony be?

Me: probbaly rainbow dash

Him: is that her name? Rainbow dash?

Me: yes, do you not know who rainbow dash is?

Him: no I don’t know who rainbow dash is I don’t know any MLPs

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peoplegettingreallymadatcomix · 4 years

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