Tumblr users did something unhinged again

a group of young, creative oddballs had started to use the site religiously to build cultural touchstones all on their own.

In contrast with her generation, which had spent most of its time online learning to code so that it could add crude butterfly animations to the backgrounds of its weblogs, the generation immediately following had spent most of its time online making incredibly bigoted jokes in order to laugh at the idiots who were stupid enough to think they meant

When even transgression is pre-packaged for consumption, the last frontier of resistance is not creativity but nihilism—a bleak symptom of a culture that has posted, pinned, and monetized everything else.