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Credit to Author: Rachel Pick| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:32:50 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

I stopped updating my Tumblr<\/a> a long-ass time ago, when I got out of a long period of unemployment and just became too busy to keep up. But now, as a social media editor who sees scrolling TweetDeck columns when I close my eyes, I’ve hopped back on, because basically everything good on the internet comes from Tumblr<\/i>, and it’s sorta my job to know about it.<\/p>\n

Tumblr is a haven for weird teens, kids who stay in on Saturdays with the shades drawn to binge-watch cartoons and make microwave mac ‘n’ cheese. (This is not an insult, I relate strongly to this vibe.) These youths\u2014despite their late 2010s cynicism\u2014curate some of the funniest shit out there, and a lot of it very earnest and endearing. <\/p>\n

I don’t know if user markv5<\/a> is a teen. I don’t even know their gender for sure, though I think I saw somewhere that they’re a dude, and their name is Markus, which makes sense. I just know they speak Russian. Whatever, it really doesn’t matter. Only the content matters.<\/p>\n

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Image: Markv5\/Tumblr<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Markv5 posts cat memes. They’re simple. Just pictures of cats doing funny or cute shit, and a caption in the vein of a “That feeling when\u2026” type of statement. This is perhaps the most classic, crowd-pleasing meme format. But the captions are all in Russian, and because a lot of Tumblr can’t read Cyrillic, markv5’s posts are frequently accompanied by another user’s handy translation. <\/p>\n

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Image: Markv5\/Tumblr<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I became so delighted by this micro-community of markv5 and their translators that I tweeted about it, and the thread went somewhat viral.<\/p>\n

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