So yesterday, stand-up-comedian-slash-fat-dad Jim Gaffigan decided to make what he thought was a mostly harmless joke about women and their nails.

Up until last week, "One Direction Infection," a Tumblr blog created and maintained by an eighth grader we'll call Claire, looked like any other 14-year-old's Tumblr: a bright pink background, a default font that resembles cute handwriting, an embedded MP3 player playing Daddy Yankee and Jesse McCartney, and scores of…

In a move that's sure to inspire thousands of sad-face GIF reposts, social-blogging site Tumblr declared Storyboard, its ambitious year-old editorial initiative, an unqualified success Tuesday night and immediately celebrated by shutting it down and canning its entire crew.

Your baby boy loves to cry. Loves it.

The musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, is responsible for one of last year's most acclaimed indie albums, Visions. This morning, she posted an essay on her Tumblr regarding her pop-filled best-of 2012 music list. In it, she praised Beyoncé ("She is everything good"), "Gangam Style" mastermind Psy ("Psy…

A stylish Shiba Inu named after Patrick Swayze's character in Point Break is teaching humans a thing or two about looking presentable biped.

15-year-old Ellen-admirer Laurel was understandably nervous about how her parents would react to her coming out, so she baked them a cake to sweeten the blow.

Tumblr, a microblogging platform where minors come together to post inappropriate content, has apparently drawn a line when it comes to inappropriate content involving minors.

Nice Guys of OK Cupid is a Tumblr blog collecting screen shots of men on OK Cupid who describe themselves as "nice guys" but don't seem to understand that being an actual nice guy involves, like, being nice. Many of the men are also obsessed with the Friend Zone, the horrible place where you are friends with women…

Tumblr has been flooded by a worm that's spamming thousands of user's feeds with an anti-Tumblr rant. In an interview, a spokesman for the group that's apparently behind the hack claims they warned Tumblr weeks ago about the potential exploit but they were ignored. Oh, and they're also waging a "War on Blogs."

Feelings-sharing platform Tumblr is currently being bombarded by a massive worm that spreads a hateful anti-Tumblr message, and a notorious internet trolling organization has claimed credit. Happy Monday!

It's only been around a day or so, but the single-topic Tumblr "What if Adele was Mrs. Doubtfire?" is already garnering high praise from across the web:

At least that's what it was.

Like so many comedians, Chris Gethard — host of The Chris Gethard Show — has struggled with anxiety and depression. He's spoken openly about these issues in the past, which prompted one anonymous fan to ask him a question about feeling suicidal:

Like a lot of teenagers and 20-somethings, "Eric Draven" used to keep a Tumblr. The microblogging platform has a strong community aspect, and it's easy to find people who like the same things — or are undergoing the same struggles — as you. There aren't many people undergoing the exact same struggles as Draven (a…

In the wee hours of early Wednesday morning, a veritable photoshopping frenzy was touched off after a Redditor noted that the photo found on VP nominee Paul Ryan's Wikipedia page was "absurdly high resolution" and therefore ripe for "some fun."

Few things in life are as entrancing as Beyoncé's tumblr. Through it, Beyoncé invites viewers ("beys" in the beywildering language of her cultish manifesto) to accompany their Queen on a yacht-based Odyssey as she attempts to discover What is Art.

The NASA rover Curiosity landed on Mars early this morning. Now this picture of a sunset on Mars is going viral on Tumblr and Twitter and all the hot sharing apparatuses, along with the caption: "NASA just landed a rover on Mars, this is the very first picture. This JUST happened minutes ago."

There are fans of everything on the internet. Even James Holmes, the 24-year-old accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 in the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting. What would drive a bunch of seemingly normal internet geeks to worship a mass murderer? To understand this, you'll have to journey to the dark heart of…