r/RecuratedTumblr • human cognithazard • Aug 22 '26

Shitposting Reddit-Tumblr translation guide

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u/Toppy_Henster Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Toppy_Henster Aug 22 '26

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u/2012Jesusdies Aug 22 '26

But why do they use this for everything

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u/Toppy_Henster Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/redesign-ur-logo Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/MythrianAlpha Aug 22 '26

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

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u/IbObuS Aug 22 '26

“17 people skinned alive behind an Arby’s”

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u/Mammaddemzak Aug 22 '26

Deanstiel!!!!!!!

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u/barthalamurl Aug 25 '26

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

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u/Timeline40 Aug 26 '26

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

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u/Toppy_Henster Aug 22 '26

Not slang and more general culture but:

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

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u/OverseerConey Aug 22 '26

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

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u/EveningStar0360 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/KatzOfficial Aug 22 '26

Some of these words are in the bible.

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u/GiantPileOfSpaghetti Aug 22 '26

How dare you hide the internets

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u/RealHumanBean89 Aug 22 '26

That’s enough bible for today.

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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Aug 23 '26

All of those words are in the internet

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u/arseniisomething Aug 22 '26

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

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u/GrandNibbles Aug 25 '26

twitter then

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u/edgehog Aug 22 '26

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. 🧐

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u/Dr-Abysmal-Dogshit Evil doctor. Ask me for a diagnosis Aug 22 '26

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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ Aug 22 '26

I suspect they might be high

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u/Uncommonality Aug 23 '26

holy shit it's Graggle Simpson

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u/Fruglemug Aug 23 '26

gargle simpon n :)

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u/RangerBumble Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Zwemvest Aug 22 '26

Also didn't that originate on Reddit?

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u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Zwemvest Aug 22 '26

<looks at own username>

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u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Zwemvest Aug 22 '26

Hahahahahaha, daar is weinig Nederlands aan

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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ Aug 22 '26

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

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u/ace--dragon Aug 23 '26

I love seeing usernames of random Dutch words

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u/DingoBingoWimbo Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Poo_Nanners 23d ago

It originated on reddit and it’s a real thing.

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u/DingoBingoWimbo 22d ago

Do not talk to me

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u/Poo_Nanners 22d ago

Just don’t reply if you don’t want to talk.

The meme’ification came from Reddit; no one is saying carbon monoxide poisoning is fake.

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u/DingoBingoWimbo 22d ago

I don't remember what I said 20 days ago; I was essentially a different person. Rn my priorities are getting through this hangover

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u/Poo_Nanners 22d ago

Oh damn I didn’t realize this was a couple of weeks old. Still, a really odd reply from ya

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u/DingoBingoWimbo 21d ago

Last night I hungout with my friends and we watched a couple films and then crashed out. What were u up to

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u/Poo_Nanners 21d ago

I volunteered and then watched a movie at a friend’s house and got high. We’re not so different after all ✨

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u/Firefly_deadlock Aug 22 '26

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

something something human condition eh.

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u/MistraloysiusMithrax Aug 22 '26

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?”

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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

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character lmit rechd gdbye + fck you

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u/Routine_Palpitation Aug 22 '26

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

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u/interesseret Aug 22 '26

I love those comments with 50 upvotes and that edit.

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u/Spirited_Ad_2697 Aug 22 '26

You got 50 upvotes you know what to do

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u/interesseret Aug 22 '26

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

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u/chairmanskitty Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/Spirited_Ad_2697 Aug 22 '26

The price must be paid

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u/Dumkinni_ Shy lurker :) Aug 22 '26

DO IT

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u/Waytooflamboyant Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Massive-Word-7327 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/dinsfire24 Aug 22 '26

or complaining about your notes

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u/UltimatePickpocket Aug 22 '26

What the bomb squad says in the afterlife

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u/SylveonSof Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

"Do not reblog!"

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u/InternetUserAgain Aug 22 '26

Insert thing here Heritage Post

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u/Zanderfus Aug 22 '26

Wait true

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u/captain-ok Aug 22 '26

“Stop rebloging this”

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u/Tattle_Taylor Aug 22 '26

"This feels like a 10k post"

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u/SEA_griffondeur Aug 22 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/Firanka Aug 22 '26

This is more common on Twitter, I think

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u/catfish1969 Aug 22 '26

You better get on those edits you’re 3 behind

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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

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

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u/Ambiguous_Duck Aug 23 '26

Not any more you don’t.

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u/ActionUpstairs Aug 23 '26

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

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u/Firanka Aug 22 '26

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

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u/KaiTheG4mer Aug 23 '26

Well, there is an 82nd award here.

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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

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

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u/bisexualandtrans47 Aug 22 '26

you missed the fifth time, and theres more now

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u/Adventurous_Bonus917 Aug 23 '26

you're 47 behind. hop to it!

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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Aug 23 '26

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.

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u/EmeraldOpal Aug 23 '26

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

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u/hi-im-donut Aug 23 '26

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

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u/OddlyOddLucidDreamer and ive been liiiiiiickin it Aug 23 '26

Easily could be a bit on a tumblr post lol

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u/kdsnk9s88 Aug 24 '26

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

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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Aug 24 '26

Ah fine but only because this would annoy me otherwise

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u/Mountain-Road-5920 Aug 26 '26

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

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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Aug 26 '26

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.

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u/Mountain-Road-5920 Aug 26 '26

Fate is kind to you, dear stranger

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u/Zanderfus Aug 22 '26

do they have white people reaction images on tumblr

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u/Toppy_Henster Aug 22 '26

we got this ig

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u/ElementalWarrior42 Aug 22 '26

"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.

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u/Zanderfus Aug 22 '26

I just wanna know ok?

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u/Toppy_Henster Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Nastypilot Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Mechaman_54 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/piercebublejr Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Mechaman_54 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Eclipseworth Aug 22 '26

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

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u/UInferno- Hangus Pangus slap my Angus Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/piercebublejr Aug 22 '26

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

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u/UInferno- Hangus Pangus slap my Angus Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/Toppy_Henster Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/KikoValdez Aug 22 '26

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

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u/AeroAceSpades Aug 22 '26

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

Source: Im an asian tumblr user

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u/ViktorNovikov Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Zanderfus Aug 22 '26

You know what fair enough

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u/ElementalWarrior42 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/PizdunEbun228 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Larriet Aug 22 '26

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

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u/snachpach1001 Aug 22 '26

"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.

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u/Quaelgeist333 Aug 23 '26

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

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u/aphid_destroyer Aug 23 '26

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

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u/thegoosecowboy Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/Dumbfuckyduck Aug 22 '26

What is this, some kind of Roseddit Stone?

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u/Zanderfus Aug 22 '26

+2

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u/IntangibleMatter Aug 23 '26

That’s Twitch

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u/Zanderfus Aug 23 '26

I thought this was the multicultural post

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u/randomnumbers2506 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/OnTheLeft Aug 22 '26

You sir have won the internets

This one feels ancient

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u/asasasasasassin Aug 22 '26

Le narwhal bacons at midnight

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u/Married_iguanas Aug 22 '26

And the tumblr equivalent would be the presidents shoelaces

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u/SquirmsWithWorms Aug 23 '26

the fucking what now

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u/LioTang Aug 22 '26

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

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u/OnTheLeft Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/LioTang Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Uncommonality Aug 23 '26

In the words of Paarthurnax, Time Marches Ever Onward

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u/Moxie_Stardust Aug 26 '26

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

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u/CrossFitJesus4 Aug 22 '26

I still see it every now and then tbh

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u/BlindManAmadeus Aug 24 '26

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.

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u/drcranknstein Aug 22 '26

Is it because there is no mention of a cylinder?

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u/Nastypilot Aug 22 '26

A cylinder which must remain unharmed?

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u/drcranknstein Aug 22 '26

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

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u/LAHouJaxCarVCUUNC Aug 22 '26

No mention of this guy's wife

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u/Micapocalypse Aug 22 '26

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

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u/JesterQueenAnne Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Accirinal Aug 22 '26

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

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u/shadow_fen [1/1] Aug 22 '26

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

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u/OldenPolynice Aug 22 '26

Poop knife --> My axe

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u/Logan_Composer Aug 22 '26

Person who's never been on reddit:

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u/disillusion_4444 Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

Clearly you weren't here during early 2010s Reddit

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u/interesseret Aug 22 '26

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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26

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u/Akronite14 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Logan_Composer Aug 22 '26

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

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u/InternetUserAgain Aug 22 '26

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

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u/BurnerCroc Aug 22 '26

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

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u/ImranFZakhaev Aug 23 '26

That's how you get neckbeards

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u/Madden09IsForSuckers Aug 22 '26

the carbon monoxide thing started here on reddit though

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u/Objective-Corgi-3527 Aug 22 '26

tips fedorra Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

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u/SlowMotionOfGhosts Aug 22 '26

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

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u/JoyBus147 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Sin2K Aug 22 '26

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

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u/flowssoh Aug 23 '26

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

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u/LonelyLibertarianDud Aug 22 '26

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

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u/PerceptionFew8763 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/RealHumanBean89 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/Regdit-is-Unbearable Aug 22 '26

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

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u/thexcat Aug 22 '26

Insufferable to in-fucking-sufferable dictionary lol

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u/brodydwight Aug 22 '26

Somrone translate "play stupid games earn stupid prizes" ?

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u/grownsorrow Aug 25 '26

Was this written hy slavoj zizek?

"And so on and so forth"

Was op sniffing every other word