![]() O’Neil, who is now a costume designer and also works at an exotic animal sanctuary, always had an interest in small animal husbandry. “I saw one of my neighbor’s accounts where she would just post pictures of hipster hairstyles and One Direction members, and I thought ‘What is this even for?’ But my friend assured me it was cool, that you could blog about whatever you wanted,” O’Neil told CNN. She started using Tumblr in 2012, and it took her a while to really figure out what the platform was for. Like so many other Tumblr users, O’Neil was just a nerdy teenager with cool interests looking for other people like her. The idea can be traced back to Lochlan O’Neil who was only 17 at the time DashCon took place. Whose failure it was, exactly, is a thornier question. To say DashCon was a failure is a simple fact. It taught us how difficult it is to translate the social media experience into the real world, and that sometimes, even with the best intentions, what happens online should just stay there. It was a legendary failure, plagued by low attendance and mismanagement, summed up in one iconic image of a single, sad child’s ball pit on a hotel convention room floor.įor all its (somewhat hilarious) failures, DashCon immediately became a core parable of our social media lore. The idea was similar to the already-popular VidCon, which focuses on YouTube celebrities, or any number of fan conventions around the world that have been going strong for decades.ĭashCon would not reach such great heights. The result was DashCon, an attempt to bring together Tumblr users from different interests and fandoms for a single event. ![]() However, in 2014, its denizens learned a hard lesson when some forward-thinking users thought to gather this amorphous mass of creativity and recreate it in real life. Years of Tumblr discourse have helped shape current structures of entertainment fandoms, social justice language, queer subcultures and all manner of special interests one might see at a comic book convention or Marvel movie premiere. It was – and still is – hailed as a crucible of nerd-dom, where young people gather to trade memes, pop culture observations, poems, musings, fan fiction, art, and absurdist jokes to satisfy even the most niche communities. Though the blogging platform is still active, Tumblr’s unquestionable heyday passed in the mid-2010s. ![]() As their rheumy gazes search the distant past, they’ll recall another titan of that lawless age. ![]() Registrar IANA ID: 292 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.2086851750 Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: Name Server: the first generations of social media natives are old and gray, they will bounce their grandchildren on their knee and tell them about the old days when Facebook was just for college kids and Twitter wasn’t a place for world-altering political discourse. #ĭomain Name: TUMBLR.COM Registry Domain ID: 477969468_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: Registrar URL: Updated Date: Creation Date: Registry Expiry Date: Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc. # ASNumber: 2635 ASName: AUTOMATTIC ASHandle: AS2635 RegDate: Updated: Ref: OrgName: Automattic, Inc OrgId: AUTOM-93 Address: 60 29th Street #343 City: San Francisco StateProv: CA PostalCode: 94110 Country: US RegDate: Updated: Ref: OrgNOCHandle: NOC12276-ARIN OrgNOCName: NOC OrgNOCPhone: +1-87 OrgNOCEmail: OrgNOCRef: OrgTechHandle: NOC12276-ARIN OrgTechName: NOC OrgTechPhone: +1-87 OrgTechEmail: OrgTechRef: OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE3970-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Abuse OrgAbusePhone: +1-87 OrgAbuseEmail: OrgAbuseRef: # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at: # If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at # Copyright 1997-2018, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at: # If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at # Copyright 1997-2018, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. ![]()
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