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Tumblr users panic over planned site outage

What are Tumblr users going to do when the site goes down for maintenance on Saturday? It's pandemonium!

 

Lauren Rae Orsini

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Posted on Oct 1, 2012   Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 10:17 am CDT

It’s a month until Halloween, but Tumblr users are already shivering in fear.

On Saturday, the blogging platform warned users in advance that it will be performing scheduled maintenance next Saturday, Oct. 6. Still shaken from the Great Tumblr Blackout of 2010, users are coping the only way they know how: reaction photos and GIFs.

Survey the panicked Tumblr wasteland in our Storify below:

Photo via Jethelred

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*First Published: Oct 1, 2012, 1:03 pm CDT