It’s not like the entirety of the staff was involved in this gag. In fact, I’m willing to bet that most of the people who helped with it aren’t in the same department as the ones responsible for bans.

And, in case you aren’t familiar with how a website like this is run, there are many different departments with many different jobs. The department for this sort of thing was probably something like “community outreach” and the one responsible for making tumblr a safe place would be in “security and accounts” or something like that.

So maybe chill out a bit and let people have some harmless fun like this. This isn’t spreading nazism or pedophillia. This is just a gag that the community has come to expect.