Is this how the rest of the world sees Trump? Or perhaps what his true face looks like when he peels back his human mask? Is The Donald a close relative of Graham?

If the likes of Tolstoy and Beethoven are to be believed, art is important in part because it speaks to some essential humanity shared by creator and beholder. On Tumblr, artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is figuring out what happens when the beholder is less "human" than "reasonably smart piece of software."

It's a well-known fact that unsourced, unverifiable, anonymous Tumblr posts are an agent of social progress and meaningful change. So it's surprising that some prick used "Racists Getting Fired," an enormously popular new web attraction, to smear his ex.

At his day job, John Overholt is the curator the Harvard library's collection of early modern books and manuscripts. On Tumblr, he does kind of the same thing, but with Wikipedia articles.

Looking back, we now see it was inevitable. The internet has finally produced what we've apparently all been waiting for: an erotic gay slash-fic about conservative congressmen Paul Ryan and Aaron Schock.

Because your body will simply shut down once it realizes it's being forced to share the same plane of existence with the kind of people who think it's completely normal to snap selfies at funerals and upload them to social media sites with the caption "love my hair today, hate why I'm dressed up" and the hashtag…

David Karp, the quirky weirdo who built—and sold—the blogging service Tumblr, is rich. But is he actually good at what he does? And what does he do, anyway, besides fly remote-controlled helicopters around?

A few days ago, one time-abundant Tumblr user (is there any other sort?) taught his followers a trick designed to instantly transform over-sized gym shorts into stylish cocktail dresses.

Caleb Clemmons, the 20-year-old former college student who was jailed for six months after making a prank threat on Tumblr, pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats on Tuesday. Clemmons was sentenced to five years of probation during which time he is prohibited from using any social media.

Inspired by a 1986 Smiths gig poster that features a ponderous Charlie Brown, Bay Area graphic designer Lauren LoPrete decided to see what would happen if she combined other Morrissey-penned lyrics with random panels from Peanuts comic strips.

You could probably re-assemble a large part of the entire run of The Wire just from the gifs obsessive fans have posted to Tumblr. A new robot spoofs fandom by automatically and arbitrarily creating gifs from The Wire and uploading them to Tumblr.

Caleb Clemmons, a 20-year-old former student at Georgia Southern has been in jail for six months for making a joke Tumblr post that said he was going to shoot up his school.

A woman who had her phone stolen while vacationing in Ibiza was given an excellent opportunity to name and shame her victim, but then went and kinda spoiled it by being sorta racist.

When news of an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed by a "neighborhood watch volunteer" while on his way home first gained national attention last year, the phrase "I am Trayvon Martin" took hold as the official rallying cry of supporters looking, as Feministing put it, to lift the story "out of the particular."