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If you've ever played the wondrously reprehensible Cards Against Humanity, then it's definitely your favorite card game. How can we know for sure? Because you're on this website, so naturally you must be the same kind of awful human being that we all are. Shhhh, it's okay; you're among friends. Horrible, horrible friends. Friends who think the incredibly NSFW website Drawings Against Humanity is one of the funniest things to happen to the internet since the invention of the nut shot video.

The news broke yesterday that Yahoo will pay $1.1 billion for the Internet's foremost source for cat GIFs and teenage poetry, Tumblr. Not everyone is taking the news well, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has stated that she promises "not to screw it up." Then she outlined a plan to feature more ads on Tumblr. That sounds a lot like screwing up Tumblr.

Yahoo is holding a big media event in New York tomorrow, at which everyone was expecting them to announce they would be buying Tumblr. Instead of waiting for the big event, The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo's board has approved the Tumblr purchase and its $1.1 billion price tag, which will be paid in cash.

I guess it was only a matter of time. The White House has slowly made itself completely and totally a part of the Internet by invading social media like Twitter, so it's not all that surprising that they'd branch out to engage with people in other ways. Still, an official White House Tumblr? Yeah, that's a thing that exists now.

This is kind of complicated, but the facts boil down to this: A 30-second promo spot for Animation DO, a studio that was spun off from Kyoto Animation, featuring a bunch of young male swimmers dropped, this got picked up on Tumblr, which in turn created an entire fandom based around the fictional anime series. Still with me? Okay, well, to add another layer to this cake of Internet goodness, Kyoto Animation has officially announced that they're now going to actually make it a real anime series. Yeah.

We're in the final days of Game Developers Conference 2013, and as we look over the news that's coming out of the event, like this bizarre Metal Gear trailer, we are also reminded that the conference plays just as hard as it works. These people are gamers after all. So far our favorite thing to come out of GDC 2013 is a Tumblr showing developers sporting a branded fedora.

There has been some controversy in the world of Hollywood special effects recently. While Life of Pi brings in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office and wins awards for its special effects, the company that did those effects, Rhythm & Hues, went bankrupt and closed up shop. The effects community protested the Oscars over the weekend, and have since continued their campaign online, where no one can play them off in mid-speech. The new Tumblr "Before VFX" shows us what popular Hollywood films looked like before special effects.

Arrested Development has a date set for its comeback, and we couldn't be happier. The show is one of our rerun go-tos -- great for watching while doing doing the dishes or other menial chores -- and it goes great with pretty much anything. Need proof? Just check out some of these Tumblrs that mashup the wit and wisdom of the Bluth family with some of our other favorite TV shows, and commence getting pumped for 14 new episodes worth of quotable captions that are on their way.

It is an indelible law of the universe: Nothing on this world or any other is infinite, all things must sadly come to an end, and this even extends to Tumblr blogs. Yesterday, the Internet community woke up to the sad news that the much beloved and Webby Award-winning Tumblr Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things will not be posting any further pictures of the late Kim Jong-il acknowledging random objects with his glorious gaze. Though the blog won't be pulled down, that isn't to say this hasn't spoiled our morning.

Earlier today, the blogging platform Tumblr and its massive community of blogs were hacked by an organization known as the GNAA, notorious for their malicious rhetoric as well as their propensity for inundating websites and blogs with inflammatory commentary they deem an affront to their personal beliefs. The issue has since been remedied by Tumblr's staff, but many were left wondering how and from where did the worm responsible for this hack spread. It all began with The Daily Dot.

Once just a way to show that your website was under construction, GIFS are now a valued means of communication. Whole blogs are composed of them. Whole conversations are had in their parlance. The first thesis done in animated GIF format can't be too far off. Now, Tumblr, unofficial Internet headquarters for all GIF-related technology, is running sponsored .gif ads in its Radar sidebar. You will be able to differentiate these animated clips from all of the other animated clips on tumblr by, well, you actually probably kind of won't be able to, which is what makes this smart advertising. And just like smart advertising anyway, this might leave you feeling a little oily after you see it.

Tumblr has been a surprise hit blogging service, giving users the ability to easily share pictures and pithy posts inside their ecosystem. Up to this point, the company had shied away from major efforts to monetize their operations. Aside from a selection of premium blog layouts, the entire service has been free to use since day one. That changed today when Tumblr announced new "highlighted posts," which for a small fee aim to draw user's attention.

If you're anything like me, you're constantly looking for new ways to tap into your distilled reserves of video game nostaliga. Mapstalgia, a thriving new Tumblr that popped up a few days ago, seems to be the perfect, unusual-but-effective way to do that. It's my nostalgia drug of the morning. The premise is simple: People draw video game maps from memory, but somehow the result is so much more than that.

Single-serving Tumblr The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day posts the same picture of Dave Coulier every day. It might also be home to the only Dave Coulier favicon on the Internet. Either Tumblr must be crowned King of the Comedy-Based Internet, or it must be stopped. It is difficult to tell which is the better option.

It began with a simple request over Tumblr. The proprietor of My Life as Rebekah was asked, "can you draw a shark who's addicted to the internet?" The response is truly wonderful, combining all the best of obsessive sharing platforms like Twitter and Tumblr with Shark Week and Disney's The Little Mermaid. This veritable pop culture cavalcade coalesced into a fantastic comic strip which will have you humming Part of Your World for the rest of the day. How wonderful, you ask? Read on below. I assure you, you will not be disappointed.