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Artist Lana Del Rey became a Tumblr icon after releasing her 2012 album "Born To Die."
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If TikTok is Gen Z's favorite social media platform, then Tumblr is also a favorite of the younger generation.

The influence of theBlogging website on the generation's adolescent years is hard to deny, as the site allowed users to create their own unique brand of internet culture.

The platform has become a vestige of the early 2010s. After the company struggled with profitability, it was passed from corporation to corporation.

It's probably earned its spot on the list of most influential internet platforms because it may or may not see a Gen Z comeback soon.

The website that bred the "Tumblr girl" has gone through many changes.

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Karp in 2012.
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He dropped out of high school at the age of 15 and founded Tumblr at the age of 21 after learning to code at an early age. He commuted into the New York City office on a scooter.

He told Chris that he started Tumblr to give users a different type of platform that was more free-form and less complicated than other platforms.

It wasn't a social networking site like Facebook that required you to "friend" other users, though there was a community building aspect to it.

A number of bands were popularized on the website.

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