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One thing we’re looking forward to next year is the stabilization of microblogging site Tumblr.

By now even your great-grandmother has a tumblr. You know because she’s tweeting about it and she’s your Facebook friend. Every time she updates her Tumblr, it updates her Twitter which feeds her Facebook page and your newsfeed on Facebook. Modern times, y’all!

There’s so many tumblrs – Good ones, great ones, awesome ones, awesomely bad ones, ones that crash because Tumblr is operating like its server farms are living in 1998.

STORY: Our Fav Celeb Tumblrs

Making this list wasn’t easy, especially when you consider all the porn we had to sift through.

Above is one of our favorites, http://hotrufftrade.tumblr.com/ which is a tumblr about fashion and sex from the perspective of a 20-year-old kid living in either Bed-Stuy or Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 

This tumblr is genius for many reasons, including its play with gifs and the repetition of imagery. Trust us, an image takes on new meaning when it’s repeated ad infinite. Andy Warhol knew this and employed it in his giant screen printed paintings, the most famous being his Elvis and Marilyn paintings from the ’60s and ’70s.

Hot Ruff Trade excels with this technique, offering criticism, celebration and eroticism of the homo and hetero variety, in a single self loading frame.

Somehow it works, as do these, listed on the following pages!

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40OzVanNYC.Tumblr can best be described as a hip-hop, groupie loving, booty loving site. With close to about five million page views, the site isn’t the best place for T&A, but it will get you started. It’s funny, sad, simple, and most of the time, not safe for work.

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Terrysdiary.Tumblr

We’ve pulled quite a few stories from this Terry Richardson run Tumblr, which isn’t as exciting as it could be. Most of the time – OK all of the time – Terry posts pictures of all the stars, models and musicians who drop by his downtown NYC studio. Sometimes Terry, usually on his bike, will trek to other parts of the city, (he went to Harlem a few months ago) and around the country, and post images of Americana.

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Drejones.Tumblr

The Dre Jones Tumblr isn’t one of the funniest Tumblrs around or the best designed, but it could be! It’s also a great place to check out dope photos such as the one above.

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VirgilAbloh.com 

Virgil’s tumblr reminds us of Terry Richardson’s Tumblr in that it functions as a diary of the author’s experience which include trips to Vegas and Watch The Throne Tours.

It’s very sleek, understated and visually cool. 

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Pipercarter.tumblr.com

Detroit native Piper Carter is a fashion photographer and gallerist who went back to her hometown to contribute to its rebuilding/rebranding. Her Tumblr is a fashion lover’s dream! Images of our favorite supermodels from the ’90s and earlier are her staple of images.