Novelty Bag Of The Year. Artist Attribution: 👆by Daan Habets

Lauren Ridloff As Makkari In THE ETERNALS

WHOA 😳

Equal parts expected and terrifying. The entire study is here: https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-algorithm-leads-users-transphobic-videos-far-right-rabbit-holes

Media Matters for America

TikTok's algorithm leads users from transphobic videos to far-right rabbit holes

TikTok’s “For You” page (FYP) recommendation algorithm appears to be leading users down far-right rabbit holes. By analyzing and coding over

WWDC21 and Tumblr… Recap!

By: Praveen Nagaraj

This year’s WWDC focused a lot on bringing improved experiences across iOS and macOS rather than adding a whole lot of new features. 👏

There was a lot of focus on making apps more inclusive and designing for accessibility. ♿️

Here is a summary of all the improvements I think Tumblr can make to its iOS app to improve the user experience! 🎈

1. Better support for larger screen sizes 🖥

This year, Apple improved upon the multitasking experience for the iPad.

Tumblr’s support for large screen sizes is rather poor 😔. The current approach is to include large white spaces on either side of the feed to compensate for the large screen size. The implementation is also rather inconsistent, as many places still have full width views.

Places like the post editor ✍️ on the iPad are full width, and do not represent how the post will look like when published. Paragraphs look more like a single sentence. This is one example of where better optimization for the larger screen will benefit the user experience.

It would be better if Tumblr could implement some sort of sidebar or complementary content to the side of the feed, to take advantage of the iPad’s larger screen size. Being a media-centric 🌄 platform, this would greatly improve the user experience.

2. Support for Quick Note ✏️

This year, Quick Notes were introduced to allow a user to quickly bring up a sticky note like user interface to make a note. 📝

Many use Tumblr for scrolling through fashion 👗 and decor inspiration. I personally know friends that use apps like Pinterest and Tumblr to search for inspiration, while jotting notes on the side.

Support for Quick Notes will allow Tumblr to show thumbnails of previously jotted Quick Notes for a specific post, when revisited. This will help users that use the app for this purpose quickly re-gather their thoughts 💭 .

3. Support for widgets 👀

This year’s updated support for more intelligent 🧠 widgets showed the importance of providing at least a few widget options to users.

Tumblr is filled with beautiful images in its posts. The iOS 14 widget craze showed how users love customizing their springboard.

By making widgets that show suggestions, trending posts, etc., it would be a great way to encourage more engagement on the app. It is also a better way to get the user’s attention.

4. Support for keyboard navigation ⌨️

One of the key focuses this year was on improving accessibility to our apps. ♿️

Supporting keyboard based navigation in our apps allow users that cannot easily access the touch screen to use the app.

There are special bluetooth input devices that these users can use to navigate through the app, if we support keyboard based navigation.

Conclusion

It was a great WWDC 🚀 , and it was definitely really fun taking a deep look at Tumblr’s iOS app and thinking about how to improve it! 😁

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Happy International Women’s Day! (March 8th, 2021)

It happened again!

@creatrs is making me save clothes money at this point

Thank you, Tumblr!  💙

Leaving this right here. The creativity of humans never cease to amaze me.

Art gives pleasure and naively tries to outwit death. Illustration Artist Karen Katar.

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See Rachael, Elza, and Tina journey into the heart of evil in the captivating sequel to bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders’s YA sci-fi debut, Victories Greater Than Death.

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Release the Pressure got LOUDR 🔊 @ Tumblr

WHO THEY ARE:

Release The Pressure is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving heart health for Black women through education and preventative action.

WHAT WE DID:

❤️‍🩹 On March 03 and March 31, 2021, Release the Pressure ran LOUDR campaigns with Creatrs art to raise awareness about Black women's high blood pressure and the impact it has on the black community. The campaign’s goal was to get 300,000 Release the Pressure pledges to learn more about heart health by 2022. Two banners were created in honor of Women’s History Month that amplifies the image of self-care for black women. Engaging with the arts can be an act of self-care, self-love, and therapy for black communities. This campaign accomplished the following:

Tapped into the arts through storytelling to produce energizing conversation, content, and engagement around preventive heart health actions in a smart, informative and relatable way focused on self-care & art.

Increased Release The Pressure pledges (btw have you taken the pledge? ).

Engaged with trusted messengers (Black Women artists) to build the Release The Pressure brand through their online community – their “squads.”

Image made by a Tumblr Creatr (Christa David)

Image made by a Tumblr Creatr (@macaroon22)

P.S. Check out @releasethepressure's Tumblr blog

DID YOU KNOW the characters in @Netflix’s western revenge tale #TheHarderTheyFall were based on actual figures from the old west? 🤠 👆 Check out this original art by Tumblr Creatr Nyanza D. based on the IRL Rufus Buck! Rufus Buck, the son of a Black woman and a Muscogee (Creek Indian) man, wasted no time jumping into his vocation as an outlaw. He was just 18 when he led his five-person gang of young Black and Indigenous gunslingers on a 13-day violent crime spree. His goal was to trigger an uprising and reclaim the parts of Indian Territory that later became Oklahoma and Arkansas for the native people who had lived there for centuries. Ultimately unsuccessful and arrested for his crimes on 1895, the young outlaw was hanged a year later at Fort Smith in Arkansas. (1877–1896) 🎥 Watch The Harder They Fall, playing in select theaters on October 22 and on Netflix globally on November 3.