That Redditor who somehow speedran Tumblr

Oh boy oh boy you're gonna get a Rare achievement for this one

Containment Breach

I've been inundated with over 120 new followers in the last 5 hours. I haven't been able to even check if I have any pornbots. I'm tired and need to go to bed. I'll clean up this mess tomorrow.

This is cool to look at, though. I'm studying some data-science adjacent fields so things like this are fascinating to me.

I've been told I should submit this to world-heritage-posts. Just to make it clear what happened to me, here's a screenshot of my notifications activity in the last 24 hours.

For additional context, I've only been here 4 days.

At his point, I’ve been here 5 days and this post has 85k+ notes. My notifications have recovered to the point that sometimes they’re empty so I’d say the breach has been recontained and now I just need to deal with the cleanup process.

I figure it might be interesting to show just what this experience has been like.

This is my notification history over the last week. I joined Tumblr Saturday June 17th, 2023 around 12pm so the actual data starts half way through the chart. My follower count has grown at a roughly equal pace.

Overall, I enjoyed the whole thing once the shock died down. I was just surprised this was the post that would gain any traction at all. I expected the chicken posts would be the first ones to reach triple digits and only several months later. But I’ve enjoyed reading peoples’ reactions and chatting with folks here.

I’ll close out by sharing some other achievements I’ve gotten since:

• It’s free to give: Like a post
• It’s great to receive: Have a post be liked
• This calls for a specialist: Install a third-party app
• Precautionary measure: Disable email notifications
• Uh-oh: Have a post reach 100 notes
• Oh no: Have a post reach 1k notes
• PLEASE NO!!: Have a post reach 30k notes
• CONTAINMENT BREACH: Have a post spread across Tumblr
• Fallout: Have at least three posts reach 500 notes during a containment breach
• Blessings(?) of the gods: Have a post reblogged by a member of Tumblr staff
• At this point, it’s all white noise: Open your notifications when it’s at 99+ and receive 99+ notifications in less than a second
• And blocked: Receive hate mail
• Also blocked: Receive a creepy DM
• To the scrapyard with you!: Report a pornbot
• Shiny scrap: Report a male pornbot
• Maybe you should have thought ahead: Use the Mass Post Editor to add a tag to 20 posts
• Next time, proofread before you post: Use the Mass Post Editor to edit a tag on 20 posts
• Wild creature at the zoo: Find a heritage post using the search engine
• It’s raining cats and cats!: Receive 30 cat pictures
• True human experience: Receive a message that makes you feel genuinely loved

And with this, I’m going to call this chapter of the Saga of Containment Breach closed