What Is Blorbo? Tumblr's Latest Meme Trolls Fandom – Elite Daily

Social MediaIt’s Blorbo! From my shows!Jeremy Poland/E+/Getty ImagesThe internet is no stranger to making up its own language. You’ve probably scrolled through Twitter and TikTok before only to fine yourself scratching your head at the latest confusing slang. Of course, no app is better at coming up with its own language than Tumblr, and if you took a glance at the site right now, you might be wondering what is Blorbo? Tumblr’s latest meme is all about trolling fandoms, but there’s a lot more to it than just that. To truly understand what Blorbo means, we have to go all the way back to its origins. Blorbo actually started as just an innocent post from Tumblr user thelustiestargonianmaid on Dec. 24. For those not too familiar with Tumblr, it’s typical for users to find posts that don’t necessarily relate to a certain TV show or fandom, but these stans will quickly find some sort of a relation to their fave fandom and flood the comments with tags relating to it. In thelustiestargonianmaid’s post, the user was mocking this trend by saying, “Bitches will be like ‘prev tags omg’ on my post and I check the preg [sic] tags and it’s…
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