Dear tumblr, this is your #LOL page. Three of these videos are the same video. You chose to have unpaid community editors do this for you and this is what it looks like. Please make your tag pages worth looking at and credit original posters vs. HuffPo and Kelly Oxford who came WAY after the fact (seriously, look at those notes). You have to do better than this.
When community editors tag a post it automatically selects the original post, not a reblog. If a post has already been tagged and an editor tries to tag it, it gives you an error message. Triple tagging content is human error and can easily be rectified by editors sporadically checking the tracked tag page.
In this instance, I know for a fact Huff Post TV was the first to post the Kristen Bell video (after it being posted to Ellen’s YouTube page).
Reblogging to echo PCB and also just to point out that the number of notes does not determine originality at all (it just shows that certain posters can viralize something better than others, kudos Oh-rebecca and your followers). Sometimes it is an indicator, but the nature of Tumblr allows a lot of people to have a great idea at the same time to spread content from elsewhere on the web. There is something to be said about fostering the promotion of true original content on Tumblr (aka, content that ONLY lives on Tumblr and isn’t curated from elsewhere) but that’s another discussion. Tag editors have a lot to sort through, but we try our best to check the page and keep it balanced and non-repetitive!
