Comparing Reddit, and Tumblr, and Why Having Both Will Probably Keep You Happily Away From Productivity Basically Indefinitely

This is something everyone has major opinions on on the internet, and in fact, may throw their allegiance to different sites entirely. I just happen to be affiliated mainly with those two, so I know more about them in general. However, if you expect me to be choosing one, I'm going to direct your attention back to the Old El Paso TV Commercial.

[Yeah, I'm going to get judged heavily for that one.]

That's the thing, though. Both sites hate each other's guts, though they both also consider each other minor villains compared to the horrors of 4chan and deviantart.

It goes like this: Reddit is convinced that tumblr is a bunch of teenage girls writing bad fanfiction, making crappy social justice blogs, and obsessing over doctor who. 

Tumblr is convinced that reddit is a bunch of twenty-something men making stupid jokes, complaining about how horrible their white, twenty-something lives are, and obsessing over mindcraft.

They're both kind of right. Reddit's home to a lot of jerks, and tumblr's home to a lot of crazy feminist jerks. If you weren't expecting unsavory people on the internet, you, well...

Let's just say you should expect unsavory people on the internet. It's kind of a given. 

However, I'd like to remind people before they start actually tying me to the stake: people don't notice, but both sites borrow heavily from each other. Tumblr makes it a lot easier for original content users to both display and get credit for their work and to let them distribute it quickly, whereas Reddit is simply a way to share links to a variety of other places. I hate to break it to you, redditors, but a lot of those really funny exchanges that got so many upvotes? That format's Tumblr. Sorry, Tumblr, those little facts you found so interesting? Third page of Reddit. 

I ship it.