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'It started out as a joke to my friend - I would email them to my friend over lunch with pictures of guys with space beards,' says Josh, who works in digital marketing in Milwaukee and gets hundreds of notes and reblogs a day. In fact you're probably already making the gold and you hadn't even realised. Sitting around planning what Tumblr you can create to ensure it goes viral isn't going to cut it. **The idea will hit you when you least expect it ** Just kidding: 'It's not about the money, money' (yawn). In the words of Jessie J: 'Bang Bang into the room'.

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Those people tend to stay behind the scenes, probably because it's not 100% clear how to best monetise something as anonymous, sprawling and uncontrollable as Tumblr yet - it has over 100 million users, but generates very little revenue - and the suits in the office buildings have only just got their heads around Facebook pages. But, he's not a Tumblr star per se - famous specifically for his Tumblr profile. The guy has 1.1million followers on instagram, for god's sake. Although if you want to use it as a platform, you can cross-promote, like internet megastar Danisnotonfire - while he's massive on Tumblr, he's a YouTuber first and foremost, using all his profiles to advertise everything the videos. Despite the popularity, those who dominated the Tumblr scene in 2014 almost relish in their anonymity, using the 'Oh I grew a blog from nought to tens of thousands of subscribers' card when they want to further their careers - or not using it at all.Ĭertainly, it seems to be a bit more about the creation and the joy of doing what you're doing, than getting famous/rich quick, as with other social media platforms. But is this the year it finally breaks the mainstream? Like, actually? At the end of last year, it was the fastest growing social media platform, overtaking instagram, and expanding its active users by a whopping 120%. In a world where YouTubers get millions of hits on their faces, people have hundreds of thousands of followers for posting selfies on instagram, and you can get Twitter-famous for talking about your own opinions, Tumblr remains way more anonymous. Chances are, you'll have no idea where it was first posted, and chances are, it was on a Tumblr (or Reddit, but let's just concentrate on Tumblr ok?) blog. Remember the last meme you saw, whether it was Cinderella telling the Prince she can 'do whatever the fuck I want' or a gif of Tom Hiddleston looking sensitive, and how much it had been shared.

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