you know how whales die and drift down to the bottom of the ocean and all the shit that lives in the benthic zone feeds on the carcass? a creature they have never seen Alive before but nevertheless depend on for sustenance? in the wider internet ecosystem, tumblr is that whale
not just the endless stream of reposted screenshots of text posts, but like, how many funny internet memes can be directly traced back to random high schoolers from florida with unsupervised internet access?