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*[[Make Me Choose]]
*[[Make Me Choose]]
*[[Video Game Challenge]]
*[[Video Game Challenge]]
===Polls===
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According to an announcement post from staff, [[Tumblr]] started rolling out their poll feature on January 18, 2023.<ref>[https://archive.is/01hMv Post by @staff], Jan 18, 2023. Archived from [https://www.tumblr.com/staff/706805192704802816/ok-folks-everybody-stay-calm-its-happening the original] on April 8, 2023.</ref> Most Tumblr users can post polls with up to ten options and an 80 character limit for the text in each option. Polls have a countdown for when the voting period ends.<ref>[https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us/articles/12310217279127-Polls Polls - Help Center], Tumblr. Accessed and [archived] on April 8, 2023. After the voting period is over, the results are publicly available but not traceable to specific accounts. For example, if there was a poll between the colors blue and red, the results would not show if user "blues-clues" voted for the color red.
While some Tumblr users disliked polls, they became very popular and were used across the site in a variety of ways. Some were primarily not fannish, like a poll inviting tumblr users to make a cake by voting on ingredients, which became a [[meme]] after the majority of users voted for vanilla extract. However, the poll system has been widely used for fan use. Sometimes this is relatively simple, such as allowing people to vote for favorite characters, [[ships]], or specific books or episodes within a [[canon]]. Some uses are a less straightforward like having people vote to choose their favorite brief [[not!fic]] or [[headcanons]], voting on infamous fanfiction, or voting on a character's favorite drink.
The most noteworthy fan use of Tumblr polls is to create blogs devoted to multi-round [[Wikipedia:Bracket (tournaments)|bracket tournaments]]. The tournaments might compare ships (example: [[mfshipbracket]]), characters (example: [[eldestsiblingtournament]]), or [[fandoms]].
==Common Tumblr Terms==
==Common Tumblr Terms==