Tumblr’s Experimental Gif Feed Finally Launches After 10 Years

Tumbler has yet launched Tumblr TV arsenic a caller tab astatine nan apical of its app, nan institution said coming successful a small group of update notes spotted by TechCrunch. Tumblr TV first debuted arsenic a GIF-finding characteristic successful 2015, but now it includes video contented arsenic well.

According to Tumblr, “New users will personification this tab enabled by default successful nan 3rd position, while existing users will personification it available in nan Dashboard Tabs configuration, if not already enabled.”

When you pat nan Tumblr TV tab, you’ll spot a grid of videos and GIFs. Once you pat one, you tin like, comment, repost, aliases banal it, and erstwhile you’re caller to spot point else, you tin swipe up to move on.

In my very small testing, it’s still very GIF-heavy contempt nan inclusion of video and a swipe interface akin to different short-form video apps.

It could beryllium tempting to comparison Tumblr TV to TikTok, peculiarly successful ray of its caller shutdown, but correct now, it’s overmuch for illustration scrolling a group matter afloat of GIFs.