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[Kater]

Meh, we did the same thing when I was 14. It's the thrill of it or at least that was what it was for us.

I stopped when I heard that employees apparently have to pay for any stolen items that go missing while they are at the store (probably untrue but it shocked me and made me feel guilty anyway).

I do find it interesting how social media can create communities for shoplifters though. The internet is such a diverse place, heh.

 

[ReAxion]

it's just a platform, folks

 

[CloudyTuba]

My porno is on there.

I am under the impression that tumblr is mostly for short, small GIFs, text posts and still images.
What makes the site so good for this purpose when compared to leading video sites?

 

[Elitist1945]

Nothing surprises me anymore.

 

[Odrion]

WTF is going on? Not only do they just talk about shoplifitng but they actually try to justify it. Like they are rebelling against capitalism or some shit.

A loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of people use this line of reasoning to justify pirating games/movies/music/etc or as an excuse when they're called out on it. Including me at earlier times of my life.

 

[PSqueak]

I am under the impression that tumblr is mostly for short, small GIFs, text posts and still images.
What makes the site so good for this purpose when compared to leading video sites?

You can upload videos too.

 

[Vault Dweller 111]

This is the image I saw that got me to investigate:

More gems:

 

[Stat Flow]

Nothing about human beings surprises me anymore. The majority of people are trash.

 

[Principate]

I am under the impression that tumblr is mostly for short, small GIFs, text posts and still images.
What makes the site so good for this purpose when compared to leading video sites?

Porn gifs, members own content, several dedicated blogs to whatever niche of porn you fancy. It's pretty good.

 

[AtomskEater]

I really hope these people don't actually exist but who am I kidding, humanity has some real douches in it.

I am under the impression that tumblr is mostly for short, small GIFs, text posts and still images.
What makes the site so good for this purpose when compared to leading video sites?

If you're into drawn stuff, a fair amount of artists use tumblr as a main blog.

 

[adj_noun]

This is like something out of that Not A Cop twitter account.

lol post ur lift hauls and where you got them yolo

do you have friends who lift a/s/l/distinguishing marks plz

 

[FStop7]

Someone famous will get popped for shoplifting and there will be a misguided push to normalize it.

 

[SecretDan]

Dated a girl when I first started college that had a shoplifting problem. She really didn't see why it was wrong.

Mainly stole makeup.

Was strange watching how calm she was about it all.

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

This has been going on tumblr for a while now. Surprised it's just now being made aware of outside the site.

FWIW these people are looked down on even on tumblr. The vast majority of users know this is wrong and there are a bunch of posts circulating going "yeah, uh, this isn't okay".

 

[Nephtis]

the fact that they're trying to not just justify but encourage it is laughable. I've never thought of tumblr as anything but a cesspool -- which sucks because the site has so much potential for being awesome.

Hopefully those idiots will get ID'ed at their local stores and get banned and / have charges pressed against them.

 

[Dennis]

d'awwwww

:\

 

[FriedConsole]

Someone famous will get popped for shoplifting and there will be a misguided push to normalize it.

 

[barik]

Tumblr is a site where anyone can make a blog and post to it. What you see there is what you follow, or what you are linked to. It is not a hivemind, or a singular culture. If you only follow artists blogs on Tumblr, then to you Tumblr is an art site with a ton of art. If you go looking for garbage on any site and fixate only on that, then any site is nothing but garbage.

I don't get why this is still weird to people, it's like, how does the internet work.

Thank you. It's a great site for artists and illustrators, I go there a lot and I've never encountered any of this crazy shit that people complain about. (and rightfully, but still)

It's like how people complain about stupid people on Facebook. No, it just means that you're friends with fucking idiots.

 

[Crossing Eden]

This is the image I saw that got me to investigate:

A protected minority...oh my lord these people.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

This is the image I saw that got me to investigate:

More gems:

im almost 100% sure these are all from joke accounts to get people riled up.

 

[Pops Maellard]

Yeah, saw this on 4chan a few months ago.

This is pretty great.

 

[Dennis]

y'all a bunch of anti-lifters.

 

[Sky Interloper]

I shouldn't be surprised anymore. For all they moan about it, Tumblr is very similar to 4chan in certain subcommunities, and it reflects on the image of the site at large.
It's no wonder that Yahoo is regretting buying it.

 

[enzo_gt]

no wonder every fucking art store near me is emptied of copics

SMFH

 

[Shaanyboi]

This is the image I saw that got me to investigate:

More gems:

I'm fucking dying

 

[Not]

So this just reinforces my notion that privileged people, whether liberal or conservative, tumblr user or redditor, male, female, or any other identity, are entitled. As. Fuck.

 

[Nightbird]

I really hope these people don't actually exist but who am I kidding, humanity has some real douches in it.

No, they DO exist. I myself knew two of them in high school. It was a hobby for them. Each time they went shopping they would also lift something. Mostly clothes.

Their trick was also very simple: Try the clothing and don't take it off.

I was tempted to snuck one of those magnet strips that would set off the store alarms in their bag, because I had quite a lot of them at home.

Ended up not doing that.

 

[Pizoxuat]

The reason that the shoplift blogs all have "role play" disclaimers on them is because several larger communities on tumblr got sick of their shit (seriously, they even stole the lifting tag from weightlifters, so the fitblr community has it out for them bad) and started reporting them en mass. They are not tolerated by most tumblr users.

 

[Nokagi]

It's all fun and games until you're banned from Walmart!

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Steal this book.

 

[SalvaPot]

I wonder how many of those tumblr blogs are people pretending to shoplift but actually buying the stuff they post on their hauls.

 

[Condom]

guyz i have kleptomania please leave me alone and let me lift if i want 2

 

[Gentleman Jack]

This is about as real as those 'this is my sonic fursona' posts. Most of them are fake following the discovery of some six year old's crayon drawn fantasy art.

 

[Instro]

I bet they've even downloaded a car.

 

[Ganzlinger]

There's a Tumblr for everything.

the new rule 34

 

[Dennis]

Sis, do you even lift?

 

[adj_noun]

I wonder how many of those tumblr blogs are people pretending to shoplift but actually buying the stuff they post on their hauls.

Oooh! What if their haul pics were just stolen from another shoplifting group?

Could...could you get mad about that?

 

[Trey]

!!!!!!

This is amazing.

 

[Fisticuffs]

You guys just don't understand the culture. I mean, like, seriously, do you even lift bros?

 

[MHWilliams]

Tumblr, like Reddit and 4chan, has a community for everything.

 

[jstripes]

Honestly, I'm not that surprised.

For some people it's a thrill. For others it's an addiction.

A friend of mine and I went through a phase of it when we were 13/14, waaaay long ago. We even challenged each other at the mall one day to see who could lift the most/best stuff.

I'm not justifying it by any means, but it's more common than you think.

 

[Bold One]

Yeah please get rid of all my art blogs and porn because of a handful of fuckos.

 

[jwk94]

I was always under the impression that shoplifting was supposed to be super difficult?

 

[BronsonLee]

Tumblr has an EVERYTHING fandom

 

[Littlefang]

Hmm I really can't tell if this is satire or serious. Unfortunately, I'm leaning towards it being serious. But there's no way that protected minority post is serious.

 

[Schweinehund]

God damnit Marie

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I was always under the impression that shoplifting was supposed to be super difficult?

Why would it be? Most shops aren't exactly under 24 hour armed guard and I'm willing to bet that employees are complicit in a lot of the shoplifting that does go on.

 

[pashmilla]

Are you surprised? It's tumblr. Also in fairness, lifting tumblr is pretty much reviled by basically everyone else on tumblr, which is a little encouraging. Maybe.

 

[Einchy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shoplifting/

The fuck, internet.

 

[SalvaPot]

Oooh! What if their haul pics were just stolen from another shoplifting group?

Could...could you get mad about that?

Hehe, I do believe that a big percentage of posters do shoplift, but I like to think they are doing this more for the attention, so a great way to still get the attention but not the risk of getting caught is to actually buy the stuff and pretend it was shoplifted.

I just think it would be funny if that was the case for some of the blogs.