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- Jan 7, 2020
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Have you ever wondered what the result is when you cross neopagans and neopronouns? How about what happens when a wiccan is told they can change the world with emojis then falls into lefty politics? What if the world is filled with ghosts, demons, faeries, angels and more - all of whom are super chill and ready to hang with just about anyone? Can you cure anxiety and smite the patriarchy with magical fruit?
Witchblr is the punchline to all that! As you may expect, it is a sub-community filled with lolcows.
An article by the Verge (bare with me) goes over some of the history and appeal of this community. At one point it was apparently the 11th largest on Tumblr, making it one of the larger easily available groups of crazy people on the net. Naturally how seriously this is taken varies from person to person, as does their degree of lolcowness and entertainment.
One common thread to the whole community is the "Emoji spell" (vice article for laughs, supposedly their origin). Something like a meme that certain people take way too seriously, emoji spells are attempts at doing magic by putting a bunch of pictures together, saying "like to charge reblog to cast", and then letting the Tumblr machine take over. Here are some examples:
Now these may seem like random memes on any normal sight, but look at the hastags and usernames. This is a community that contains people who genuinely think
is #wicca #spell. They have full faith that this nonsense is a legitimate prayer. You can generally tell the cows that take this seriously by their names. Keywords in their username like Witch, Pagan, Magic, and other Witchblr keywords help you identify who takes this seriously vs who is just posting to meme.
Emoji spells have been around for years so you can find one for just about anything. Given the current climate for some examples, you want to find one to stop Covid-19? They made one. BLM emoji spells? They made one. Anti-Trump? Anti-Rowling? Easy to find. While these are entertaining on their own they're only the briefest dip into the insanity that is Witchblr, I'll go on to the next topic now.
Would you expect a religious community to come together regardless of race? Do the Gods and Spirits care about the gender of mere mortals? Does magic care about what culture you come from? This is Witchblr, so the answers are naturally no, yes, and yes. Witchblr is the type of culture that fully believes voodoo and hoodoo are functional magic systems, but also white people shouldn't use them because that is cultural appropriation.
Aside from emojis and identities in magic, the third uniquely Tumblr take is politics. The most recent event being the attempt to cast a "mass spell" during the eclipse for BLM to defeat all cops ever and usher in the age of the witch. Naturally they would have to fight off Nazi and government occultists to do so, and need to be careful to avoid having their spells backfire.
The last point isn't Tumblr or Tumblr culture specific, its just that the Witchblr community gives crazy people who want to be special the opportunity to tell the world how special they are and show it how crazy they are. The rest are just random examples of varied insanity I pulled from the community, along with links for those interested in potential places to farm content. I hope they give you a small taste of what is available in the Witchblr community. You can generally find more content like this by searching #witchblr on Tumblr, or the other common hastags seen in these examples such at #witchtips. Happy (Witch) Hunting!
Witchblr is the punchline to all that! As you may expect, it is a sub-community filled with lolcows.
An article by the Verge (bare with me) goes over some of the history and appeal of this community. At one point it was apparently the 11th largest on Tumblr, making it one of the larger easily available groups of crazy people on the net. Naturally how seriously this is taken varies from person to person, as does their degree of lolcowness and entertainment.
One common thread to the whole community is the "Emoji spell" (vice article for laughs, supposedly their origin). Something like a meme that certain people take way too seriously, emoji spells are attempts at doing magic by putting a bunch of pictures together, saying "like to charge reblog to cast", and then letting the Tumblr machine take over. Here are some examples:
Now these may seem like random memes on any normal sight, but look at the hastags and usernames. This is a community that contains people who genuinely think
is #wicca #spell. They have full faith that this nonsense is a legitimate prayer. You can generally tell the cows that take this seriously by their names. Keywords in their username like Witch, Pagan, Magic, and other Witchblr keywords help you identify who takes this seriously vs who is just posting to meme.Emoji spells have been around for years so you can find one for just about anything. Given the current climate for some examples, you want to find one to stop Covid-19? They made one. BLM emoji spells? They made one. Anti-Trump? Anti-Rowling? Easy to find. While these are entertaining on their own they're only the briefest dip into the insanity that is Witchblr, I'll go on to the next topic now.
Would you expect a religious community to come together regardless of race? Do the Gods and Spirits care about the gender of mere mortals? Does magic care about what culture you come from? This is Witchblr, so the answers are naturally no, yes, and yes. Witchblr is the type of culture that fully believes voodoo and hoodoo are functional magic systems, but also white people shouldn't use them because that is cultural appropriation.
Aside from emojis and identities in magic, the third uniquely Tumblr take is politics. The most recent event being the attempt to cast a "mass spell" during the eclipse for BLM to defeat all cops ever and usher in the age of the witch. Naturally they would have to fight off Nazi and government occultists to do so, and need to be careful to avoid having their spells backfire.
The last point isn't Tumblr or Tumblr culture specific, its just that the Witchblr community gives crazy people who want to be special the opportunity to tell the world how special they are and show it how crazy they are. The rest are just random examples of varied insanity I pulled from the community, along with links for those interested in potential places to farm content. I hope they give you a small taste of what is available in the Witchblr community. You can generally find more content like this by searching #witchblr on Tumblr, or the other common hastags seen in these examples such at #witchtips. Happy (Witch) Hunting!
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