Since its launch in February , the blog has inspired dozens of spin-off sites that focus on a specific field of interest or occupation. The Tumblr blog What Should We Call Me [1] was started on February 6th, by two year-old best friends who had recently parted ways to attend law schools in Washington, D. While chatting online one night, the pair decided to start a collaborative blog to stay in touch with each other during the school year.
On March 12th, the creators began a Twitter account [4] for their Tumblr posts, which has gained more than 34, followers as of May On April 20th, the pair revealed that their blog had broken , followers. On May 15th, Buzzfeed [13] featured several of these blogs including What Should We Call Cats [14] below left , written from the perspective of cats, College Greeks [15] below center , for people who participate in fraternities and sororities and When in Austin [16] below right , for people from the city in Texas.
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This is one more blog with daily memes and rage comics. What should we call me is a well-known and very popular Tumblr blog with a wide range of GIF pictures that illustrates how we look like in different situations. Drawing on this body of work, I suggest that authentic individuality, performed through imperviousness to social influence, is the way in which these contradictions of the postfeminist self-brand are justified.
Authenticity in these forms of digital production might be argued to signify more about desires for legitimate or authentic belonging within digital publics as insiders, rather than proving a fundamental individuality. Tumblr is a relatively under-researched but rapidly growing blogging social network, documented at the end of as the social platform with the most growth in user numbers Lunden.
Tumblr is known as a promising hub of burgeoning visual youth cultures Third and Hart , possibly due to its norms of anonymity and significant pop culture content of posts.
Images are a dominant form of communication on the site, and most content on Tumblr is public. These structures set up Tumblr as an ideal site for the production of memes as part of its remix culture, whilst still adhering to certain connective features of other social networks. To provide some context, the founder WSWCM blog boasted 50, new Tumblr followers in the month following its creation in , with independent traffic reports logging the number of page views as one to two million per day Casserly.
Each post on the founder WSWCM is on average liked and reblogged by hundreds of other Tumblr users, but its significance, which I consider here, lies in the way that it has been taken up in a prolific variety of follower meme blogs. The follower memes I consider here adapt the GIF-reaction format which is used to narrate everyday experiences of youthful femininity.
GIFs are moving photo files excerpting about three seconds of movement from popular culture ranging from film, television and YouTube videos. The imitation of the follower blogs is strategic: a deliberate, slight differentiation, which operates to set them apart, but still locates them within a youthful feminine public.
The emergence of the WSWCM follower blogs is a dynamic one which, I suggest, has catalysed the founder to intensify its claims to legitimacy through authentic originality even as its funny and creative followers throw its uniqueness into question. In this way, we see how certain social relationships become recognisable as authentic.
The founder bloggers state in their FAQ s:. We are two best friends who met in college and now live on opposite coasts of the United States. We used to send each other funny. We thought we were just posting inside jokes, but are thrilled that other people find them as funny as we do. We never really intended for anyone else to see it. Whilst now, with potentially hundreds of thousands of followers, it is difficult to maintain that the blog is maintained solely as a means of keeping in contact, this long distance girlfriendship can be drawn on to establish the authenticity and social capital for the blog.
I suggest that this best girlfriendship should be understood as a permutation of the authentic self-brand, practised to achieve a form of authentic individuality. However, in early the bloggers changed to a different header to distinguish their site. I suggest this can be understood as a response to establish originality and authenticity through a best friendship brand, in opposition to the other meme blogs, which had also adopted the founder theme.
The WSWCM header features cartoonish depictions of the two bloggers, one in New York with the silhouette of skyscrapers behind her, and one on a beach with an open laptop, the blog visible on her screen. This header clearly alludes to the fact that the bloggers are separated, in different places, but links them by depicting them as virtually identical. Further, whilst girlfriends are often positioned as differing , their differences are often positioned as complementary, to strengthen a united co-brand Winch.
I am not suggesting here that the best friendship of the bloggers is artificial or purely commercial, but rather, that this production of digital best friendship coincides with strategies to achieve authentic individuality recognisable in postfeminist digital cultures.
The best friend is thus crucial to the performance of authenticity in the original blog. It is important to note, however, that these practices exceed postfeminist self-branding in certain ways. Given that WSWCM has indeed inspired follower memes keyed in a self-representative register, this suggests possibilities of broader connection and a sense of intimacy through recognisability of shared femininity.
From one form of insider practice—the WSWCM best girlfriendship—to another, other Tumblr bloggers through follower meme texts have also signalled their insider status, as young women able to narrate forms of feminine experience held out as representative and legitimate.
Authentic individuality is decentred; rather, the follower blogs appear to foreground the importance of authentic belonging. For example, in the blog WhatShouldBetchesCallMe , the blogging subject still narrates quotidian feminine trials and tribulations, but is much more knowingly confident and sassy; in WhatShouldWeCollegeMe , the blog focuses more on the experience of being at university than the founder meme.
Shifman foregrounds the process of repackaging and imitation in the adaptation of memes; I suggest that what also must be considered in this meme set is connective differentiation, which repositions this repackaging as simultaneously a form of distancing and connection.
Arguably, what the memes opt into—through being recognised as derivative—is a form of recognition in an intimate feminine public. Thus, the follower memes adhere to these rules of recognisability in order to be seen. Recognition as belonging in this intimate public through social knowledge becomes more useful for the follower memes, which cannot rely on the status of originality of the founder meme.
Notably, many of the situations which are put forward in blog posts of the follower memes are not necessarily easily distinguishable in genre or content from the blog posts of the founder memes.
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