how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
YES YOU DID
the more you reblog this the more it breaks
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO
literally what is happening @staff you dun goofd
i tried to reblog this and the stupid app just crashed
what
If you’re seeing this, I managed to reblog this post.
I-
what?
i’m frightened
Attempting to reblog
Notes:
This disaster of a post seems to be the result of two distinct events that compounded upon each other. Unfortunately the details can be challenging to suss out, so the following is a best effort explanation based on available evidence.
Event 1:
- The initial post was published by @roach shortly before 4AM UTC [1]
- A great many users received notifications that they had been tagged in it, but found no such tags present [2][3][4]
- @roach edited the post several times over the next hour, two remaining version contain a block of usernames, followed by the string "mfc-ads" repeated 1,000 times [5][6]
- A screenshot posted by @the-universe-at-large (current URL @bleary-eyed-blue) shows what may be the version of the post they had been tagged in, also containing a block of usernames [7]
- Some users replies suggest that they originally reblogged a different version of the post than they are attached to now [8][9]
- A possible reconstruction of events involves @roach repeatedly editing the post to add "batches" of user tags, before editing it again to remove them
Event 2:
- That very same day, Tumblr began switching from the older "indentation" reblog format to the current "caption" style format [10]
- @the-universe-at-large's reblog (and others [12]) partially retained the "indentation" formatting despite the wider website's migration [9]
- When @high-saffron (now user @anthraxplus) reblogged @bleary-eyed-blue's post [13], they noticed that @roach's root post (in the new format) was re-inserted into the beginning of the chain every time there was a reblog, and did several times [13]
- As duplicates accumulated in the top of the chain, the post seems to have more fully migrated to the new format some time before @lenasai's reblog. However, some quirk in the process flattened the whole corrupted chain into a single post, which then had its authorship attributed to @lenasai, as the most recent contributor [14][15]
- The @roach conga line continued to grow irregularly for some time, before settling on the 28 currently present
Sources:
[1] https://www.tumblr.com/dnaha/128161107666/roach-hi-yo [2] https://www.tumblr.com/lmporterroblnson/128162201579/roach-hi-how-was-i-mentioned-in-this [3] https://www.tumblr.com/the-a-r-t-i-s-t/128164407735/roach-hows-everyone-doin-tonight-i-just-broke [4] https://www.tumblr.com/paledrake/128162523614/roach-hi-i-broke-tumblr-they-somehow-tagged [5] https://www.tumblr.com/chocolatewarkittens/128162793370/roach-hey-tumblr-did-you-know-that-the-text [6] https://www.tumblr.com/i-taste-melancholy/128162743855/roach-hey-tumblr-did-you-know-that-the-text [7] https://www.tumblr.com/bleary-eyed-blue/128168632021/roach-hows-everyone-doin-tonight-i-just-broke [8] https://www.tumblr.com/whistlingwadewilson/128162268296/roach-i-broke-tumblr-lmao-yeah-i-did-know [9] https://www.tumblr.com/bueno-desolation/128164399483/roach-hi-doing-good-thanks-for-asking-how [10] https://www.tumblr.com/@support/128127169452/ever-see-a-crazy-long-indecipherable-reblog-chain [11] https://www.tumblr.com/anthraxplus/128168673257/the-universe-at-large-roach-hows-everyone [12] https://www.tumblr.com/se7-seethe-blog/128161624861/roach-hi-sorry-have-we-met [13] https://www.tumblr.com/anthraxplus/128168703042/the-universe-at-large-roach-roach [14] https://www.tumblr.com/busytown/128222679024/dangergays-the-universe-at-large [15] https://www.tumblr.com/lenasai/128223024163/roach-hows-everyone-doin-tonight-i-just-broke
