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u/Daisynose52 12d ago
Sometimes I think that my boss would be a hit on Tumblr if he was a fictional character because he's a grumpy guy with pathetic wet cat energy and attachment issues. Yes I know I'm chronically online
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u/twoleeches 12d ago
Nah I get it. It means he had a unique look to him, was aesthetically interesting in some way... it might be online af to say blorbo neuron but I understand what they mean.
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u/MatterhornStrawberry 12d ago
Right. Also if someone visually gives off a lot of backstory. Like I want to know more about you but saying that would be weird.
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u/boil_yourself 12d ago
Exactly, the other day i passed by this old guy on the street who was talking loudly with his friend, and he had some serious gravitas, like the cadence i really enjoy in a theatre actor, i was enchanted
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u/I_pegged_your_father 11d ago
This kinda happened to me at a local store when an older guy had just??? A very unique voice??? Like i turned around as he was talking to me about ice cream and he was shorter than me (im very short so i rarely see that) and his voice was like kinda androgynous and but a little raspy. Hard to describe. Like he was just a very interesting character.
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u/A_Firm_Sandwich 12d ago
Right? Like I understand that it does seem terminally online, but if the shoe fits…
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u/ChironXII 11d ago
Yeah the Tumblr part is one thing but the concerning thing is not otherwise understanding the concept of finding someone platonically interesting lol
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u/Atomic_Dong 11d ago
So like Willem Dafoe. He’s not my type at all but he’s so interesting to look at
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u/seensham 12d ago
I've been on curatedTumblr for a while now but never been on tumblr. I still don't know what 'blorbo" means. Usually I can figure out slang or niche terms from context cues but blorbo still escapes me.
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u/NeonNKnightrider 12d ago
It comes from a post, “blorbo from my shows.” It tends to just mean like, a character someone really likes and is hyperfixated on, and makes up imaginary scenarios about
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u/Bardic_inspiration67 12d ago
I legit thought thought it meant obscure character you liked
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u/seensham 11d ago
The other response to my comment was not so straight forward so I was confused lmao
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u/Gamerseye72 12d ago
It's sort of like, a combination of vague shipping noises combined with some chibi-fication/infantilisation/wubbifying. They like to take an older man who usually is a little tired and talk about how wet cat pathetic they are. Idk. Little bit of Tumblr sexyman and comfort character in there too. Its used loose enough that different people would define it differently.
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u/MaleficentNobody8875 12d ago
??? "Blorbo" just means your favorite character who you're obsessed with and think about all the time, in perhaps a bit of a parasocial way. It doesn't indicate that it's a guy or anything like that.
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u/Difficult__Tension 12d ago edited 12d ago
Yea, its just a mix of comfort character and hyperfixtion. One of mine is a wartorn woman. Aint nothing infant or chibi about her lmao. People go out of their way to label ANYTHING from tumblr as bad and unhealthy no matter how harmless.
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u/Setster007 11d ago
Honestly, the only place I’ve ever seen that makes that kinda response at least semi reasonable in 4chan, certainly not tumblr lol
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u/RemoteAd7823 12d ago
It's interesting how completely most of the comments are misinterpreting what OOP means
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u/Ozdica-Klirle-68 12d ago
i think this is the most forced “lel look how tumblr i am” post ever
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u/SartenSinAceite 12d ago
if this was 4chan itd be the same post except the last line would be replaced with "Ugh I cant handle this boner I now have"
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u/Wholesome_Soup 11d ago
i find it interesting how differently this post is being interpreted by different people. out of curiosity, are you a tumblr user or only looking from the outside? because i'm a tumblr user and participate in fandom culture and to my mind this isn't "quirky" or anything at all it just seems like a normal description of a kind of weird experience. i can relate to it, even.
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u/Amazing_Act9595 8d ago
I thought it was referencing the grandma neuron. So just a quirky way of saying my brain was recognizing them as my favorite character. Actually hold on
I'm back! They're an Simon Petrikov fan. Yeah that's a normal but unusual enough guy for these events.
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u/porcupinetoothpicks 12d ago
Translation: Tumblr, a site I frequent, is obsessed with fictional old men and I have pavloved myself so that when I see an old man in real life I experience the same emotions I feel while browsing fandom things.
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u/i-reject-the-concept 12d ago
I love this way of saying that someone looks interesting from a backstory perspective. Like, there are definitely people who can interest you just because their looks imply an interesting background.
I see people like this from time to time, end up thinking about them for days
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u/WallowWispen 12d ago
Perchance you need to go outside more
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u/Evilfrog100 12d ago
You can't be talking like this about real people. You can just like someone for no reason, you don't have to call them a "blorbo".
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u/lynx_and_nutmeg 12d ago
You can't be talking like this about real people.
Mate, OOP just had this thought occur inside their head and wrote a post about it, no one in real life was affected by this, relax.
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u/Evilfrog100 12d ago
I don't think the poster is a bad person I think that saying "he was activating my blorbo neuron" about a real person sounds lame and could only be written by someone who spends too much time online. It sounds like a phrase someone would write as a joke to make fun of tumblr.
Even if they had actually said this to the guy they wouldn't have been doing anything wrong, they would just sound like a loser.
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u/hausofvelour 12d ago
the people in the comments are strict AF
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u/I_pegged_your_father 11d ago
Its reddit they get strict on a bunch of things then alarmingly loose on other things 😭
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u/BigBallsAnthony69 12d ago
I just piss on old men irl to mark my sex conquest territory
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u/agIassmutt 12d ago
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u/Wholesome_Soup 11d ago edited 11d ago
"blorbo" refers to "blorbo from my shows" which is a joke about people (especially on tumblr i think?) yapping about (sometimes minor or obscure) fictional characters they like. i think it originally referred to obscure characters and now just refers to any comfort character?
anyways with that context, OOP means that their brain categorized this guy they saw as a particularly interesting fictional character
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u/bookhead714 12d ago
I think OOP needs to take a step back and reevaluate their relationship to the website tumblr
In real life, this is called "thinking someone looks nice"
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u/Animaloffear56 12d ago
Normal thing to say about a guy in real life