Clueless and green, hopeful and a bit disoriented, Nemfrog tentatively emerged on the scene on December 22, 2013. Five years later, I’ve been called a Tumblr institution, the hardest working blogger on Tumblr, an inspiration and a few things which the new TOS don’t allow me to repeat. Today I’m reposting some of Nemfrog’s greatest hits, posts that have received 5,000 notes or more.
I’m really happy to reach this milestone and immensely grateful to all my followers, except for the pornbots.
You can help me celebrate the occasion by going on ko-fi or the cash app to send me a small gift. But whether you do or don’t, know I really appreciate all the compliments and love and passionate support you’ve shown all these years. The hearts and reblogs too! When I see that you like what I like I feel happy and rewarded.
There’s an ethos to this blog. Nemfrog doesn’t reblog stuff floating in air that everyone can see. Nemfrog scours out-of-the way urls, downloading books and other digital matter, page after page after page after page, sifting through the tedious, the ugly, the banal and predictable, to pull out images that are compelling and fresh and that have mostly been overlooked.
People recognize there’s something different about this blog, even if they don’t exactly know how it got that way.
Nemfrog rescues content. I liberate images from the grip of time. I’m also archiving which means I’m maintaining a searchable database available for artists and academics.
I do it because I love doing it. But it’s also work, which deserves to be respected and compensated. A lot of work. I rarely carry on this way. But Nemfrog is five and now is the right time.
