New [tumblr] users: there is something very important for you to know.
There is a secret callsign for [tumblr] users.
If you spot a wild [tumblr] human in the wild, you must tell them this phrase:
“I like your shoelaces.”
The appropriate reverse-call, if you hear this phrase, goes thusly:
“Thanks! I stole them from the president.”
I’m paying literal actual money for you to see this, so don’t let it be in vain. Use this phrase everywhere.
responses to this post so far:
40% “the ancient texts!”
30% “oh we’re bringing this back?”
20% “fuck you OP” and/or “you paid money for this!?”
10% “do not cite the deep magic to me, witch, I was there when it was written”
@rotten-dan this is a good question. honestly? little of column A, little of column B.
I do love the culture here, and I both unironically love the shoelaces thing as a cute little relic of a bygone era of freeform [tumblr] silliness and appreciate it as an AoE psychic damage attack on those old enough to remember those days.
I want to both include younger people by teaching them [tumblr] history, as goofy and “cringey” as it may be – because I absolutely want any new people to feel welcome in this absolutely bonkers community – and I want to deal just, like, massive psychic damage to those of us old enough to remember – because, well, after all, that’s a time-honoured part of the culture here, too.
do I think this code is silly and very few people will use it? sure.
do I think people should be going around using this code? absofuckinglutely.
“Don’t kill the part of you that’s cringe, kill the part of you that cringes.”
Anyways, I like your shoelaces.
thanks! I stole them from the president
now of all times we must bring this back. get fucked Musk
