OPINION: A people’s history of November 5, 2020, the night Tumblr burned
2023/11/07

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Let's travel back to November 5, 2020. Just two days prior, the highly anticipated presidential election between Joe Biden and incumbent President Donald Trump had taken place. The entire nation anxiously awaited the results to determine the next leader of the United States. However, amidst this political fervor, an unexpected battle was unfolding on the nearly obsolete blogging platform, Tumblr. It was a clash unlike any other.

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While most people were fixated on the election, a dedicated group of fans tuned in to watch the second-to-last episode of the beloved show "Supernatural." This popular series followed two brothers who hunted demons and faced various supernatural phenomena.

Little did anyone anticipate what would transpire next, myself included. As a high school junior that night, I found myself immersed in the chaos.

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I had been refreshing Google for election updates so frequently in the past 48 hours that I was repeatedly prompted to solve reCAPTCHA puzzles. I had long outgrown my obsession with the Superwholock fandom from my middle school days.

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