Citations:ask box

Noun: "(Internet) the inbox in which asks (messages) sent to a Tumblr blog are received"

 * 2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Tackling Tumblr: Web Publishing Made Simple, page 183:
 * While enabling the feature gives you an /ask page to link, you can actually embed the Ask box anywhere, much like you embed a YouTube movie.
 * 2015, Jody Houser, "Clone Comments", Orphan Black #1, unnumbered page:
 * On Twitter, I can be found at @Jody_Houser and I have a Tumblr ask box.
 * 2018, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities, page 96:
 * When she tried to tell the online community about her traumatic encounter at the video game store, people accused her of lying: “I closed my Ask box and deleted my Tumblr. People used my username and other information to find my accounts on other sites, including but not limited to reddit, Fanfiction, and YouTube. Suddenly, I was being flooded with hate mail on those forums as well."
 * 2019, Holly Luetkenhaus & Zoe Weinstein, Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans, page 102:
 * One post on Tumblr by user penfairy begins with an ask-box submitted question reading "I didn't know there were Austen gay otps (I'm very sheltered). Could you tell me what they are, please?" to which the Tumblr user penfairy replies (italics theirs), "My time has come," before detailing two of the most common femslash pairings: Lizzie Bennett/Charlotte Lucas and Emma Woodhouse/Harriet Smith.
 * 2020, Amanda Harlowe, Consensual Hex, unnumbered page:
 * I whip out my phone. “Here, I'll message you on Tumblr right now.”
 * Gabi opens her ask box. "Touch your clit?"
 * 2020, Suvi, quoted in Meng Yoe Tan, Malaysian Christians Online: Faith, Experience, and Social Engagement on the Internet, page 68:
 * Tumblr has this nifty little thing called the “ask box”.
 * 2020, Will Eland, "Sonic For Real Justice: Meme Review", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), 13 July 2020, page 33:
 * Of a Silver scared of what hubris his group had brought into the world, in the form of an overflowing askbox that could never be emptied.
 * 2021, Anna, quoted in Jessica Kunert, "The Footy Girls of Tumblr: How Women Found Their Niche in the Online Football Fandom", Communication & Support, Volume 9, Issue 2, pages 255-256:
 * In this role as a fan artist, she finds that she is more lenient towards fans of clubs she dislikes than she normally would be: “I may not like Real Madrid, but if a Madridista [a fan of Real Madrid] comes into my askbox and asks me politely for art of their fave, the chances that I’ll oblige them are pretty good.”
 * 2021, Katrin Tiidenberg, Natalie Ann Hendry, & Crystal Abidin, Tumblr, unnumbered page:
 * Toward the late-2010s, popular media articles would often collate "best of" tumblr run by celebrities who were actively engaging with their tumblr fanbase, usually through Q&As or "Answer Time” events run by tumblr staff, participating in threaded comments, leaving comments in fans' ask boxes, and reblogging posts by fans (Baila 2017, Norton 2015).