Since its inception, Tumblr has served as a countercultural hub for women, queer folks, young people and marginalized communities.
And in the years following the NSFW ban, I’ve seen many try to make sense of Tumblr as a platform on thecuspofacomeback or a vestige of abygoneera.Īnd yet, long overshadowed by social media platforms like Facebook and Snapchat, Tumblr continues to resist easy answers to what it is and could be.įrom ‘blue hellsite’ to hell in a handbasket The controversial policy led to a mass exodus from the site, the so-called Tumblr apocalypse.īoth as a communication researcher and early era user of Tumblr, I’ve contemplated the site’s unique place in internet culture. In 2018, Tumblr content deemed sexually explicit – or NSFW – was banned. However, many Twitter users proposing a migration to Tumblr seemed to be those who had abandoned the site only a few years prior. Tumblr – a microblogging platform launched in 2007 long known as a laboratory for social justice causes and burgeoning fan cultures – became one contender. There, monsieur, there is that lettercried the queen, with a broken and trembling voice take it, and deliver me from your odious presence.(THE CONVERSATION) When tech billionaire Elon Musk made a deal to acquire Twitter in April 2022, many Twitter users threatened to shut down their accounts and migrate elsewhere online. The king took it with a trembling hand, looked for the address, which was wanting, became very pale, opened it slowly, then seeing by the first words that it was addressed to the King of Spain, he read it rapidly. The chancellor carried the letter to the king without having read a single word of it. It is thus I will always treat my enemies and yours, Duke, however high they may be placed, and whatever peril I may incur in acting severely toward them. The commission might well be called delicate and the king had reached, in his jealousy of Buckingham, the point of not being jealous of anyone else. The queen was, as we have said, of great beauty. The conduct is infamously violent Do you know that, monsieur? I will not suffer itcried the queen, in whom the imperious blood of Spain and Austria began to rise.
The door was scarcely closed upon him, when the queen sank, half fainting, into the arms of her women. The chancellor, who, on his part, trembled with an emotion easily to be conceived, took the letter, bowed to the ground, and retired. The king, quite delighted, inquired if the cardinal was still at the Louvre he was told that his Eminence awaited the orders of his Majesty in the business cabinet.Īnne of Austria took one step backward, became so pale that it might be said she was dying, and leaning with her left hand upon a table behind her to keep herself from falling, she with her right hand drew the paper from her bosom and held it out to the keeper of the seals. That my orders go far, madame and that I am authorized to seek for the suspected paper, even on the person of your Majesty. Let her humble herself, then, and come to me first. That is true, Monsieur Cardinal,said the king, and you were right, as you always are but the queen, not the less, deserves all my anger. The queen pressed her brother and the Emperor of Austria to appear to be wounded, as they really were, by the policy of Richelieu-the eternal object of which was the abasement of the house of Austria-to declare war against France, and as a condition of peace, to insist upon the dismissal of the cardinal but as to love, there was not a single word about it in all the letter. It was nothing but a plan of attack against the cardinal. Without doubt the chancellor, Seguier looked about at that moment for the rope of the famous bell but not finding it he summoned his resolution, and stretched forth his hands toward the place where the queen had acknowledged the paper was to be found. Allow me, then, sire, to intercede for her with your Majesty. The queen is my enemy, but is not yours, sire on the contrary, she is a devoted, submissive, and irreproachable wife. He has, then, charged me to take it from you.
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