The most reblogged Tumblr posts of 2016
343 posts measured from 2016, across 119 blogs, topping out at 190.9K notes.
What 2016 was about
#*10k · 235.5K
#*2k · 169.8K
#*5k · 38.7K
#101dalmatiansedit · 27.9K
#*btvs · 10.6K
#1570s · 8.6K
#101 dalmations · 8.3K
#10th century · 7.6K
#1400s · 5.3K
#:mine · 4.8K
#15th century art · 4.5K
#'merica · 4.1K
These are the tags that led us to the year's biggest posts, ranked by the notes those posts earned — our path in, not a census of everything Tumblr tagged.
Most reblogged
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me when someone changes their url and icon at the same time:
@adelledewitts · text · 2016-01-03
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BEYONCE ─ LEMONADE (2016) Love drought // Behind the scenes
@beyt7s · photo · 2016-08-26
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cap 1: steve, the government says u can’t go after bucky cap 2: steve, the corrupt government says u can’t go after bucky cap 3…
@mccoy · text · 2016-05-16
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shoutout to all my asian girls that don’t fit typical beauty expectations!! this is for all the girls that aren’t like the...
@liaability · text · 2016-10-17
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yes offense but non-binary people who aren’t androgynous and use she/her or he/him pronouns are 110% just as valid as non-binar…
@snowystater-blog · text · 2016-08-09
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kylo: general sux kylo: i meant *hux, damn autocorrect hux: this is a verbal conversation you piece of shit
@snowystater-blog · chat · 2016-01-02
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that moment when al and ed are actual kids waiting in the car like
@bishamontaen · photo · 2016-05-14
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“The Breakfast Tray” by Elizabeth Okie Paxton, 1910
@hellfreeway · photo · 2016-06-28
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Inscribed sapphire ring. Setting made in Italy in the late 14th century; engraved sapphire c. 10th century (source). Arabic nam…
@aleyma · photo · 2016-12-30
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died, lied & killed ; a mothers love is faultless
@abrcxasmalfoy · photo · 2016-11-05
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From Omnia Andreae Alciati V.C. Emblemata, 1577. Here are all the vintage bats we’ve so far encountered.
@danskjavlarna · photo · 2016-03-12
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101 dalmatians: cruella de vil + costumes (requested by anonymous)
@lady-arryn · photo · 2016-01-25
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well, let’s see now. that’s eighty-four and fifteen plus two. a hundred and one!
@jack-shphard-blog · photo · 2016-02-03
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wizarding schools + moodboards: Durmstrang Institute, Scandinavia
@abrcxasmalfoy · photo · 2016-09-02
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![Tumblr post by @medievalpoc: The Salzburg Missal, Vol. 1 [Clm 15708 I, f. 63r.] “The three Magi, cozily tucke](https://64.media.tumblr.com/42e88fc6444b69dca4f130632e7da030/tumblr_oi6gn3QggC1ssmm02o1_1280.jpg)
The Salzburg Missal, Vol. 1 [Clm 15708 I, f. 63r.] “The three Magi, cozily tucked in together, receive a dream vision.“...
@medievalpoc · photo · 2016-12-14
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hp parallels: the boys who had no choice • slytherins • both from “ancient and noble” pure-blood families (Black and...
@abrcxasmalfoy · photo · 2016-09-23
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Ring found by the River Thames, 1351-1457.
@shewhoworshipscarlin · photo · 2016-05-10
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I may be dead, but I'm still pretty. Which is more than I can say for you.
@buffonia · photo · 2016-04-08
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I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me....
@buffonia · photo · 2016-11-07
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The blogs behind them
Notes are likes, reblogs and replies added together — Tumblr's own number, which its API does not break apart.
These are the 343 posts from 2016 that we hold, not every post Tumblr published that year. Nobody has that; this is a measured sample of what travelled furthest.