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"Classic Myspace retired In June, but its spirit endures on Tumblr.\nThe former social networking behemoth is like an Internet cockroach, refusing to die even after several virtual whacks inflicted by everyone from tech reporters, to Twitter haters, to your mom migrating to Facebook. \nSee also: Top 8 Things You'll Miss About Classic Myspace\nFor most, the persistent image of Myspace is stuck in the early 2000s, when the website was in its prime \u2014 years away from being revamped as a \u201Csocial entertainment\u201D site, complete with an unrecognizable design and Justin Timberlake\u2019s face splayed across the branding. Top 8 drama still ruined friendships. Bulletins, not status updates, broadcasted news to all your friends.\nThe site turns 10 years old this month. While you can't dredge up old Myspace, don't get too wrapped up in your own nostalgia. Tumblr is basically the reincarnation of classic Myspace \u2014 and that's not necessarily a bad thing. \n1. Usernames\n\nWhen people on Myspace would have names like this: pic.twitter.com/5QnkHfbzto\n\u2014 Myspace Memories (@Myspace_Memory) March 27, 2013\n\nPerhaps you've moved beyond arbitrarily uPPeR-cAseD usernames, but Tumblr isn't like Facebook. There's a good chance your Tumblr username isn't your actual name. \nIn fact, it might be more anonymous than your Myspace name, which frequently nodded to your real-life moniker. (Albeit, with more $ signs and artfully placed characters.)\n2. Customized Layouts\n\nImage: Glitter-Graphics\n\nImage: Tumblr, verite-sur-moi\nWhile you can avoid Tumblr layouts if you stick to your Dashboard, check out another user's homepage and you might experience a sensory overindulgence similar to your Myspace days. \nMaybe you'll stumble upon the default theme or an eye-numbing neon color scheme. Maybe you'll find some chalky Comic Sans lettering, coupled with an overly-filtered Instagram photo tiled in the background.  Follow the right blog, and you may even get a cursor that sends star trails across your screen. But only if you're lucky.\n3. Celebrities\n\nImage: Tumblr, Torie RPH\nMyspace celebrity were famous simply for being on Myspace. Maybe you had a side music career or a DIY fashion line, but you were mostly known for being the loudest version of yourself \u2014 loud enough to get attention. \nTila Tequila is perhaps the most well-known of the bunch, parlaying her infamy into a 2007 MTV reality show, A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila.\n\nTumblr fame operates in much the same way. Boasting an impressive number of followers can lead to recognition beyond the Tumblr community. \nTumblr-core rapper Kitty Pryde may not have a reality TV show, but Rolling Stone did name \"Okay Cupid\" one of the top songs of 2012. \n4. Selfies\nThanks to Myspace, an entire generation learned how to shoot selfies and perfect their duck face. Dual camera phones didn't exist yet. Hence, the classic mirror shot.\n\nTOILET MYSPACE SELFIES OH DAN YOU'D KNOW ALL ABOUT THOSE pic.twitter.com/BvRkWPWNAi\n\u2014 \u2639 connie \u2639 (@philbo_dangins) April 29, 2013\n\nTumblr is no stranger to the selfie. You'll inevitably see one on your Dashboard, especially cross-postings from Instagram. \n\nImage: Tumblr, gothamsnexttoprobin\nWhether you're pro- or anti-selfie, just be grateful that they're no longer dictated by your proximity to a bathroom mirror. Yay, technology!\n5. Long, Emotional Rants\n\nImage: neogaf\nAs a blogging platform, Tumblr naturally lends itself to a lot of feelings. \n\"The feels\" may be Tumblr lingo, but the Myspace ecosystem encompassed the experience before there was a nifty term for it. Reading a friend's Myspace blog was a similar, intense experience, rife with cryptic passive-aggressive titles that indicated if a post was drenched in self-pity, self-loathing, or some other combination of angst.\n6. Online Lovers\n\nImage: Tumblr, holymaurymotherofgod\nMyspace boyfriends and girlfriends existed only online, and were the object of equal parts mockery and concern back when the site was portrayed as a hotbed for stranger danger. \nYou know what they're exactly like? Tumblr boyfriends or girlfriends. (Yes, they exist.)\n\nImage: Tumblr, dealwithitsweetie\nNow, people broadcast calls for a special someone to be their better (Tumblr) half. On the bright side, there's no longer the need to awkwardly message some rando because you both put the same band in your Top 8.\n7. Fan Role-Playing Communities\n\nCharacter-driven role-playing thrived on Myspace, where individuals created fake profiles for book or movie characters and interacted with others as those characters. \nAfter more social networks, like YouTube, popped up, users incorporated the new platforms into their character's Myspace presence.\n\nImage: Tumblr, maywoodhills-rp\nThat lineage has continued on Tumblr, with fandom-specific or entirely original role-playing.\nThere's a heavier reliance of GIF responses for tasks and prompts now, though.\n8. That One Loved/Loathed Archetype\n\nImage: Tumblr, ssuicidaldreamss\nMyspace was home to many a Hot Topic devotee, most of whom rocked pink-streaked hair and electric blue eyeliner, and pouted profusely for the camera. The Myspace community either identified with the subculture, or expressed varying levels of disdain for the emo and scene kids that characterized the site. \n\nImage: Tumblr, Nuclear GIF Reactor\nIf Tumblr has one loved/loathed archetype, it's hipsters. But while many emo kids wore that label like a badge of pride, the first rule of hipsterdom is never say that you're a hipster. \nHaters still hate. \n9. GIFs\nGIFs live and breathe (and reblog) ad nauseum on Tumblr, but who can forget the old school word art GIFs embedded on Classic Myspace pages?\n\nImage: Tumblr, animatedtext\nThey left their home on Myspace to start new roots on Tumblr, because Facebook was unwelcome territory. \nIt was a successful migration. \n\nImage: ChillyHill\n10. Freedom of Expression\n\nImage: Tumblr, trustmeiamalawstudent\nThere was something precious about that early, unbridled frenzy of classic Myspace, when people expressed themselves without worrying that their science teacher would judge their profile pics. Now, you expect to be Googled. \nBut Tumblr, with all its customization and funky usernames, retains some of that experimental energy. It's not squeaky-clean professionalism, and it might make you cringe in a few years, but that's actually a wonderful thing. \nMashable composite: Jemal Countess/Getty Images and Chad Buchanan/Getty Images\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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