Tumblarity
June 14th, 2009 | brainjuice
I’ve had a Tumblr account for years, but only recently reactivated it, having finally found a use of sorts for it. In the period I wasn’t paying attention, the Tumblr team have created a thing called Tumblarity: a number derived from your recent activity on your account. If you get a new follower, you get a certain number of tumblarity points. If you reblog something from another Tumblr user, your tumblarity goes up. And so on. If you leave your Tumblr unused for a while, your tumblarity starts to drop. The bigger your tumblarity number, the higher your Tumblr blog is ranked. It’s obviously just a bit of fun.
But now I see this number winking at me on the dashboard. And I start to realise how clever this is. It’s a Tamagotchi number. You log in, see your tumblarity’s dropped, and you can’t help but suddenly think "oh my god, my Tumblr’s dying." There’s almost an urge to do something to feed it, to pipette precious drops of life-giving tumblarity into your Tumblr.
Until, obviously, one day you look at it and say, "ah, fuck it, let’s watch the little bastard die."




Sadly it lacks a little avatar that goes from happy, perky little chibi pet to pussy, sore-ridden decrepit little half-life as it dies.
haha. i don’t care about my tumblarity. then again…i stop caring about my tamogachi after i had it for like a month…
Here’s a greasemonkey script to hide tumbleghrity, so you can remain blissfully unaware of your tumblr’s hunger cries.
uhm just speechless!!! Utterly
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Oh wow. Tumblr is… fun. o.O
haha. you’ve put this very well. that’s how i feel about tumblarity too.
Ahh, so true! Well said.
I didn’t realise that you got more ‘tumblarity’ when you reblogged.. which is what I hate most about Tumblr, constant reblogging content with no source cited in the first place.
Sometimes I feel like using Tumblr is being part of a community that will eventually, surely, just have slightly different assortments of the same content…
That’s so true.. but my Tumblr still is at 0 ._.
I just switched all my blogging over to tumblr so that it gets at least 1 (but normally 2-3) posts a day and my tumblarity has plummeted to zero. Apparently tumblr values dormant members.
haha.. my mother took my tamagotchi when I grew tired of it. maybe I’ll ask her to take over my tumblr when I get sick of it as well.
why is it that my tumblarity goes to zero when i edit one of my blog posts? when in fact i always update my blog everyday. hmppp.
Lol. No one is capable of understanding tumblarity. I’ve been on tumblr for a year now, yet I still haven’t managed to figure it out :D
Apparently it won’t let you spam Tumblr. If you leave your account unused, it drops. There isn’t anything you can do that won’t make your tumblarity take a fall eventually.
I keep posting nonetheless, because it’s fun. :D
i post a lot of stuff on tumblr everyday.
i just can’t understand how my tumblarity went down by 134 points!
how is that possible?
My tumblarity is at 15! Woot!