You did it. You went the long way around the sun and now you’re back for another Tumblr Year in Review. This year: 2016.
What is Tumblr’s Year In Review?
Why it’s all the top stuff on Tumblr. From all over Tumblr. Stacked and sorted by our very own Fandometrics, the pleasingly scientific system we use to rank your enthusiasm and love. Scan the categories below for the things you’re most enthusiastic about.
The best of 2016, right this way please 👉
TV: Live Action
The stranger things in life: Zombies, teen wolves, big brothers, and Steven Moffat.TV: Animated
Gems, ladybugs, and transformers start our top 20 list.Movies
Superheroes and strong women. Not mutually exclusive.Solo artists
60% of your favorite musicians were women this year. Some of the others came from the Australian internet.Bands
In this year: Numbered groups. Out this year: The Beatles.Albums
The oldest album on this list is from 2010. It’s old enough to go to Kindergarten.K-Pop
Once you K-pop the fun don’t K-stop.Actresses
A commander and scavenger walked into this list.Actors
Sebastian Stan is our boyfriend now. Sorry, Chris-es.Models
The first time we’ve seen two male models grace this list.Athletes
With seven past and present members of the USWNT, we almost have a whole soccer team.Reality stars
The Kardashians continue to be your favorite family, but this list is 40% drag queens.Video games
An indie game can beat out every major release this year. Take that, Big Game.Web stuff
Assorted stuff from the internet.Social issues
In a year of countless important conversations, these were the issues Tumblr talked about the most.Books
How many lists can Dan and Phil appear on? Here’s another.Anime and Manga
We made a dubbed version of this list, but it was way worse than the original.Ships
Set sail on the S.S. Conceptual Relationship.Memes
So much more than just a picture with bottom text.Tumblr communities
Not every -blr on Tumblr, but the 20 that did the the most talking this year. From Artblr to the Simblr, Petblr to Applying-for-college-blr, welcome home.Art
You’ll know it when you see it.Food
Serving size: 1 list. Contains natural flavors. A good source of riboflavin. 100%DV fun.Animals
You can domesticate about half of this list. Two of them may even be real!Tumblr Gets Deep
When reblogs get witty, wise, or just straight-up WTF.
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Shifty Dark has dropped
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Soooo much darker.
Designed to let your posts really pop on your blog, Shifty Dark is happy to disappear into the background and let your content be the star of the show.
Shifty Dark is particularly great at showing off photos and artwork and will display photosets in all their glory on the home page. Your images are going to look super vibrant on the ‘almost-black’ background. As an added bonus you can hide dates, icons, tags and navigation so there is literally nothing to distract your audience from your visuals.
But simplicity doesn’t mean that Shifty Dark is dumb. Like all of our themes it’s full of easy-to-use features like an quick way to create a dropdown of important tags - perfect for portfolio blogs.
Features of Shifty Dark
- Choose how wide your images are from small to full width
- Go ultra-minimal and hide dates, icons, tags and navigation
- Create beautiful photosets for display on the home page
- Select key tags as a dropdown in the menu with ease
- Set up your intro block with a color, text or image
- Use the sticky navigation to keep your menu in full view
- Upload your own logo or use your Tumblr avatar
- Enable the ‘related posts’ Tumblr feature to keep people reading
- Switch on ‘infinite scroll’ to automatically load more posts
- Effortlessly display elegant social icons
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