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by **Rockman** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:30 pm

what's a tumblr?

by **Punchy** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:55 pm

Rockman wrote:what's a tumblr?

It's a blog hosting site with elements of social networking. Theoretically it can be used for any kind of writing, but it's mainly used for hysterical and annoying bi-sexual teenagers freaking out about how upset/offended a comic/cartoon/tv show/movie/whatever has made them and posting gifs about it.

That and porn.

It's hilarious.

by **Punchy** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:11 pm

So Rich Johnston just posted an article that was just reposting hysterical Tumblr reactions to Journey Into Mystery #645.

Has he ripped us off again?

by **Arion** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:19 pm

False Prophet wrote:
That could really turn into a meme.

I know.

by **Zechs** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:26 pm

Punchy wrote:So Rich Johnston just posted an article that was just reposting hysterical Tumblr reactions to Journey Into Mystery #645.

Has he ripped us off again?

Yes. Go get him Punchy.

by **Lord Simian** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:26 pm

Zechs wrote:
Yes. Go get him Punchy.

Someone should put an article on our front page, styled after his "Swipe Files", showing our thread and then his article following...

by **Zechs** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:57 am

Lord Simian wrote:
Someone should put an article on our front page, styled after his "Swipe Files", showing our thread and then his article following...

SECOND! RICCH JOHNSTON MUST PAY!!!!

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:30 am

What date did The Outhouse first use the TUMBLR responses? Bleeding Cool has been doing it for months.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/26/ ... mblr-rage/

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/05/ ... ghty-thor/

Are you sure you guys aren't the ones copying Rich Johnston here? :lol:

by **Punchy** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:13 am

Black Jumbo wrote:What date did The Outhouse first use the TUMBLR responses? Bleeding Cool has been doing it for months.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/26/ ... mblr-rage/

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/05/ ... ghty-thor/

Are you sure you guys aren't the ones copying Rich Johnston here?

I wasn't being serious, it was based on Rich ripping off the story about Young Justice last week.

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:16 am

Punchy wrote:
I wasn't being serious, it was based on Rich ripping off the story about Young Justice last week.

I was pretty sure none of us were being serious! I even used an emoticon.

Anyway, apparently there's enough pathetic mewling on TUMBLR to go around.

by **Punchy** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:17 am

Black Jumbo wrote:
I was pretty sure none of us were being serious! I even used an emoticon.

Anyway, apparently there's enough pathetic mewling on TUMBLR to go around.

Yep, it's ridiculous, it makes me ashamed to read comics tbh.

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:11 pm

Punchy wrote:
Yep, it's ridiculous, it makes me ashamed to read comics tbh.

That's what it takes for you to be ashamed of comics?

by **Punchy** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:35 pm

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:
That's what it takes for you to be ashamed of comics?

Well, cosplay does it more, but I bet most of the people who freak out like this on Tumblr are cosplayers.

by **dairydead** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:44 pm

Punchy wrote:
Well, cosplay does it more, but I bet most of the people who freak out like this on Tumblr are cosplayers.

you'd be right, i think.

by **GHERU** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:48 pm

dairydead wrote:
Im not "shocked" that people are offended by the concept, only annoyed. Characters die in literature all the time, characters we grow to like. Having Romeo and Juliet die at the end of the story doesn't make it "terrible" or "offensive", its just that social networking and tumblr has elevated "fandom" into weird, juvenile, cultish groups who obsess over characters so much that when they die, it becomes a huge ordeal.

that was one play, not a serial and completely different and it was called a tragedy for a reason

when Doyle killed of Sherlock Holmes the reason he brought him back was pressure from the fans. Letters to him, his publishers, etc

and you're right, having then die didn't make the play terrible
the play does that all on its own