David Karp is 23 and the founder and creator of Tumblr, and probably everyone but my editor (even though Vice has one) knows what that is. He is also a millionaire. Which is hilarious, because when I was 23 I was running around with a rolled-up $20 bill up my nose, stealing day-old bagels from dumpsters, memorizing Nation of Ulysses lyrics, drinking midrange gin, and trying to sleep with art school girls. I was most certainly not flying around the world with my hot girlfriend being a genius. I called David up for an interview the other day to see just exactly how someone got the whole “being young and fucking smart” thing totally right.

VICE: So, first things first. It looks like you’re giving the “early Prince album cover” look in almost every single picture taken of you. Why is this? David Karp: In all stories about you people like to mention how you dropped out of high school and moved to Japan at, what, 18? That’s insane. So not for the usual “I’m really into Anime” sort of thing? There’s a certain stigma when someone names you Boy Wonder Of The Internet or what have you. A lot of the time it’s some phony bullshit. How do you feel about the stigmas being attached to yourself and Tumblr so early on? Define “entrepreneur.” Is it more along the lines of the 1985 Val Kilmer movie Real Genius or more like Warren Buffet in a suit and tie? Would you actually consider yourself an entrepreneur? Why do you think you’ve succeeded and other people who might have similar goals haven’t succeeded? So, social media and social networking are blurring the lines between public interaction and “internet” interaction. We are using them for the same reasons, almost. me. What about oversharing? Is this the Age Of Oversharing? So people from the site are meeting up and having babies. Do you own the rights to these babies? Are you going to make people call the babies “Reblog”? Where do you see the lines of public and internet interactions going in five years? While the site is designed to be incredibly user friendly, there’s no denying that just under the surface there’s a vast amount porn. How do you feel about that? It’s only about four percent. Really? That sounds AWESOME. Any favorite Tumblr porn blogs? Dirtyrottenwhore ThingsThatExciteMe Hmm, Syntheticpubes and Bedazzledblue aren’t bad. I gotta keep it classy for when I do my work at the coffee shops. I hear that you think that robots are better than humans and that you want to have robot children. So you do think robots are superior to humans? Why do you trust the robots? OK, last question. I’m gonna ask a hard-hitting one. Tumblr. Why no “e”?