Blog Assignment #1

My familiarity with blogs in general has been something very close to me. A majority of my high school years was spent on the Internet, whether it was social networking sites, or networking with editors of magazines and publicists of bands and artists, I was always everywhere on the Internet. In 2009 I found Tumblr from a friend, which is now a larger site than it was back then, and I became completely immersed in the types of blogs and personalities it had to offer. Whether it featured photography, poetry, cultural and political views, activism, I was so intrigued. I spent most of my time on there, making myself knowledgeable in different things, and meeting and talking with a lot of people who had shared things about themselves with their followers and so forth. A few months after I created my personal blog, there was a trend on Tumblr where people would put, "fuckyeah-" in front of things in their URL blog and their blog would be solely about the thing they were representing. Whether it was a famous TV show that everyone loved, an artist or band, author, or popular demanded trendy quotes, it had "fuckyeah-" before it. I came across a blog that was just about skinny girls. Seeing as how people have opinions about most things these days, it caused quite a big controversy with a lot of people who were on Tumblr at the time. All types of people opinionated their voice about it, and people felt hurt that a site was dedicated to a certain kind of physical appearance. I decided to open a blog with a friend that focused around every type of female; size, ethnicity, sexual orientation. With the opening of that, people were able to submit themselves to our blog through email (which later on escalated to being able to submit on the actual blog itself) and you would be posted on the site for our followers of the blog to see. As soon as we knew it, the blog became very popular over night. People liked the idea of liking and enjoying themselves on a different kind of level, and I felt as if it were very liberating to some which was so nice to see. Currently, the blog has over 45,000 followers but I don't keep up with it much anymore. The theme of the blog got out of hand a few years later, and sadly most of our followers became greedy with the idea so we had to shut it down for a little while.

But on my adventure of discovering blogs, personalities, and even opening one that changed my perspective on a lot of things - I've kept up with quite a few that I still read and enjoy from time to time. Here are the URL's to a few of those blogs.

http://dearstevencraige.tumblr.com/
http://dearscarlet.tumblr.com/
http://www.joshweed.com/