So in the small hours of this morning, while a lot of Australians were out celebrating the long weekend, and the rest of the world was preparing to pretend to be inflicted by interesting illnesses in order to avoid Monday, RedBubble passed a small milestone in the shape of 50,000 members.
We’re quite chuffed about this. And instead of writing more words we’ve prepared a graph to explain exactly how it happened:

Hopefully that answers any questions you may have had.
Happy Monday
David Lay, 4 months ago
That is fantastic news! Congratulations are in order!
Matt Mawson, 4 months ago
blinded me with science!
Jim Phillips, 4 months ago
This is a clear as any graph I’ve ever read. Makes perfectly good sense to me.
RoughDiamond, 4 months ago
Woohooo!!!!!
Fantastic job. Well deserved indeed :) x
olechka, 4 months ago
wooow :)
Christine Wilson, 4 months ago
wow congrats guys now your out there !
budrfli, 4 months ago
:O)))))))
KEITH R. WILL..., 4 months ago
it really doesn’t surprise me
artsthrufotos, 4 months ago
you are so witty and i luv the way you write things up! we should get a write-up of the day’s perspective to enjoy!
Joe Thill, 4 months ago
That Graph makes PERFECT sense.
Brian Carr, 4 months ago
Well done team, I don’t wonder though, with a site like this.
Maximus, 4 months ago
perfectly :)
red addiction, 4 months ago
“Ooooooo!”
Cheri McEachin, 4 months ago
LMAO!!!!! ok so I totally understand!!!! good to see you have a sense of humur out there..:)
Roger Sampson, 4 months ago
Incredible!!! The child is far past crawling…the child runs.
We are blessed!!
Rog
Nancy Polanski, 4 months ago
We want to know our numbers!
andrew cowell, 4 months ago
Clear as mud….. :p
Loren Ioppolo, 4 months ago
`CRAZY IS AS CRAZY DOES~
Nancy Polanski, 4 months ago
And who was #50,000?
Lisa Putman, 4 months ago
That’s a lot of crazy artistic types addicted to the internet! Looks like I’m in good company! Congrats, RB!!!
Al Neaimi, 4 months ago
wow 50 already … well done to RB … glad to be part of it.
Bevellee, 4 months ago
I understand perfectly!!
mealiex, 4 months ago
Woot woo… sweet graph too!
Jan Piller, 4 months ago
Wow – congrats – (but I still don’t quite understand why people buy plasticine)
Dennis Jones -..., 4 months ago
Looks like some of that there new fangled math
Bevellee, 4 months ago
....and that’s a worry!!
kathleen
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4 months ago
oh… now I am nostalgic, I remember when we hit 4000… happy days!
Paolo De Faveri, 4 months ago
Hei bubblers,
as I just joined, what’s the prize for the 50’000th? :-)))
Jokes apart, my first impression here is the one of a great, thrilling, engaging community. That’s no surprise many want to be part of it.
Paolo
Tracey Bransfield, 4 months ago
clear as mudd…..
Karen Martin IPA, 4 months ago
Congratulatons – and the graph is certainly an eye opener…..
KellieBee, 4 months ago
3 cheers 4 RB hiphip hooray!......
sjem, 4 months ago
Thats it – I’m leaving.
Robert Elliott, 4 months ago
Congratulations and I almost understand the graph, just the 12th dot down and 15 in from the right has me confused!!!!!!
Peter Hill, 4 months ago
Long weekend? Do you mean I don’t have to be here at work today?
Leah Smaridge, 4 months ago
Congrats!!
Rebecca Brann, 4 months ago
Fantastic!!!!!
Ilene Brooks, 4 months ago
I had no idea I had so many friends!
Lumineux, 4 months ago
No wonder I’m feeling claustrophobic.
Paul Louis Vil..., 4 months ago
LOL! Hmmmm, I think that graph make too much sense!! Well done to you Red Bubble!! :D
Ozcloggie, 4 months ago
Good to see it all, yes, bubbling along!
Angy, 4 months ago
Oooh – and one of the last ones was me !!
Pilgrim
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4 months ago
I think I will include this graph in some of my upcoming presentations to investors (thought not sure many of them have much of a sense of humor left after the last few months on the stock market!)
Larry Davis, 4 months ago
And I’m one of them…. But I’m certainly not addicted. &^%$#$###
sjem, 4 months ago
peter
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4 months ago
Can I just go on public record as saying that Ed (onetonshadow) is a genius. More please sir!
jerry alcantara, 4 months ago
welldone,congrats
Randy Monteith, 4 months ago
To answer your questions in the Graph
Question 1
What makes people buy plasticine?
My wife bought some today for your 4 year ! He loves playing with it
Question 2
Why can’t we get off the internets?
Well first of all there is no such thing as ” Internets ” its not a plural word. Its INTERNET. The reason we can’t get off them is because that would be like saying why do we need to breath air. To much email , things to look up, and too many great artists on RB!!
Question 3
Why do kids draw on walls?
Cause they’re there! Well my little guy did draw on his keyboard with a marker but one of those MR Clean Magic Eraser sponges is a miracle worker! It made it disapear!!!
More importantly congrats on 50,000 members!!!!!
Darlene, 4 months ago
Woooohoooo! I’d be curious to know how many pieces of work that amounted to at that time too.
Joanne Bradley, 4 months ago
Congratulations Redbubble! And a great creative original graph as well! Wish they had some of those at the meetings I have attended! :-)
Aloramyst, 4 months ago
Congrats RedBubble! I do believe this snowball will be getting alot bigger! And how could it not, with all these great people here!
Jan Cartwright, 4 months ago
Wow! They like you…they really like you! Great job, RB!
Russell Fry, 4 months ago
Congrats on the milestone! I’m a little nervous, I worked in a government office and somehow the graph makes perfect sense to me…. ROFL
Tallulah, 4 months ago
Congratulations …..comforting to know so many of us out there enjoying RB. Brilliant graph too. Rocket science for sure. : )
berndt2, 4 months ago
Awesome graph 8)
oh… and congratulations!
Larry149, 4 months ago
There’s a slight problem . . . . In your drawing. Are you looking closely??
You see the 4th tiny little blue box down from the top?? Well, the red line from it should go up not down…..
(ha!)
Congratulations on achieving the 50,000!
IndyLady, 4 months ago
Very cool!
bearhat, 4 months ago
now i know why people buy plasticine. thanks.
nanarhodes, 4 months ago
Wooo-Hooooo go RB
Trace Lowe, 4 months ago
The graphmakes it clear to me
Silvia Manuela, 4 months ago
Congratulations Red Bubble!
Tom Godfrey, 4 months ago
LOL well done team.
Nancy Fischer, 4 months ago
Congrats RB! Happy to be a member.
trennea, 4 months ago
That graph is the first thing I have ever seen in my life that makes sense to me….you are brilliant!
Or mad? Are you mad? Are we all mad?
Jeffm, 4 months ago
Ah, I see Barry Jones has been co-opted to prepare graphs for RedBubble… Well done to RedBubble, well done to all!
adgray, 4 months ago
hahahahaahahahahahahahaahah
but why does the moon shrink as it rises????
Cool 50,000 new friends to meet …. is there a directory????
Man am I goner get lost in this place good!!!
We really need a cafe for sustenance every 10,000 profiles or so lol
Keep Happy!!! :o) ~ adg xox
DuncanW, 4 months ago
(1) It’s not clear whether ‘Plasticine’ includes Play-Doh and cheap supermarket white bread. If not, then your results will be skewed.
(2) Please show your working.
(3) No allowance has been made for alcohol … I’d recommend 2 large malt whiskies per night.
Jeffrey S. Rease, 4 months ago
Yea!
Now, can I get that graph on a t-shirt? :-)
kidi, 4 months ago
Congratulations !!!
KarDanCreations, 4 months ago
Couldn’t have figured it out without the graph, thanks !! 50 thou… amazing!! We love seeing the works of such fantastic talent around the world on RB. Congrats RB, we are glad we found you.
KCphoto, 4 months ago
WOW…..................that is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CoNgRaTs!!!!!!!!! :)K
ManaMoon, 4 months ago
hubble bubble toil and no trouble . we the people dedicate labour day to redbubble for all their efforts! well done you can have a holiday with no pay! NJoy
SkyFox, 4 months ago
This news feels like a good insurance policy on my ‘home’. For as far as the internet goes, redbubble is the address to find me!
Congrats, now – lets sell some shit!
mlgkats, 4 months ago
conrats for the 50000
Per Einar Gunn..., 4 months ago
WoW..
:-•:’”“:•.:¦:•CONGRATS•:¦:•:’’’’‘:•:¦:- Redbubble!!:¦:•:’’’’‘:•:¦:-tagbruns, 4 months ago
which one is me ?
BarbL, 4 months ago
WAHOOO!!!! GOOD FOR ALL OF US!!! And I love the graph….it says it all!
Annmb78, 4 months ago
Great news RB, however, isn’t the long weekend in OZ next week?? Or are we on a different public holiday zone to the rest of the country? Too bad i had to go to work this morning!
Rella, 4 months ago
Redbubble WILL steadily take over the world. No doubt about it.
Joe Beasley IPA, 4 months ago
Confirms my belief that once you figure out the pattern, it changes!
chinet, 4 months ago
Awesome! Way to go!
MuscularTeeth
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4 months ago
CONGRATULATIONS !!!
its only the beginning too…
Kristina Kitch..., 4 months ago
what do you expect when you have such a great addictive site.
congrats…
Christopher E..., 4 months ago
wow!! awesome, but when you have a site like this..whatcha spect? :) great job guys
BarbBarcikKeith, 4 months ago
Yup.. sure.. I totally understand that graph..
CONGRATS!!! (from one of your own)
chaton, 4 months ago
This officially makes us the coolest people in the internet, yes?
jegustavsen, 4 months ago
This has got to be one of thee BEST graphs I’ve ever seen as well as understood-ha! Thank you Redbubble…it has been a pleasure!!!
Damien Woods, 4 months ago
RedBubble – it certainly is a “Community” of Artists.
AlienVisitor, 4 months ago
I guess mores better,Redbubble forever!!!!!!!!.
AV
urraca Fitten, 4 months ago
I noticed a lot of Red Bubble members are also professionals and use the platform as a stepping stone for their work. One of the things Red Bubble could do to help hobbyists, students and other people passionate about their work is to let them create Red Bubble T-shirts where their (our) name will appear as “created by” for example. I would do it without getting a percentage on it since I’d get the free advertisment, but I’m not sure if it’s fair for everybody.
clone42, 4 months ago
Deep deep deep…
susi lawson, 4 months ago
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim Caldwell, 4 months ago
You folks love graphs. :-)
Thanks
Mary Trebilco, 4 months ago
My sincere congratulations!!
And also to anyone who can read that graph!! lol
Plukie, 4 months ago
Proud to be part of it!! Congratulations.
Maria Dryfhout, 4 months ago
I did not know my family was so big! Way to go, RB…
ozlat, 4 months ago
if it wasn’t for the graph i would of been confused…congrats!
SharonD, 4 months ago
Congratulations RB.Even if I stand on my head I don’t understand the graph.LOL.
AdamDonnelly, 4 months ago
Nobody told me it was a long weekend
nesi, 4 months ago
A toast, a cheer and a bow!!! Congrats indeed. Proud to be a part of RB :-))
AnnaMarie, 4 months ago
Congrats, now I feel like playing connect the dots. :)
gypsygirl, 4 months ago
Congratulations, love the graph!!LOL
judymin, 4 months ago
Congrats to you all, but I am jealous Australians have a long weekend!! Ok, I am moving!!! And where was the fanfare and the balloons for the 50, 000nd member? Hmmmm???
Kelly KMA Berm..., 4 months ago
To clarify – WA had our long weekend last monday – the rest of Australia are today – I did attempt to do a graph as to why as a country we celebrate Labour Day on different days…...but… stuff it – couldnt compete with yours :) Congratulations – RB Rocks!! Kelly
Dawn Jarvi, 4 months ago
Congrats RB! Thanks for the graph….it helped me understand so much better!
Good to know there are people out there with a sense of humor and plasticine.
....Why do kids draw on walls though? We encourage them to draw, then they make a beautiful pice of artwork for you…right on your living room wall for everyone to see, and we yell at them for it….poor things must be so confused….and then we happen and join RB!
Proud to be a part of it!
meanderthal, 4 months ago
this journal has almost 50,000 comments
Linda Sass, 4 months ago
What? Today isn’t Labour Day, In NSW anyway. Just another example that needs a graph (don’t look at me, I’m not doing it)! But really, great work RB.
NuffNuff, 4 months ago
Well done. Out of curiosity, who was the 50,000th member cause I joined about 2am this morning….
Momlee Bhattac..., 4 months ago
Woo hoo! Congratulations to all of us…..so glad to be part of this community :). Like NuffNuff said, any special prizes for the 50,000th member? ;)
chamo, 4 months ago
I hope you dont get 50 000 replies here it will take you a life time to thank everbody personly
charlena, 4 months ago
Fantastic job I love this site
Snapperman, 4 months ago
Congrats Redbubble – I’m sure there are many more to come – hope you have done some load testing?.
Gary Crandall, 4 months ago
You left out the arrow pointing to beer and sex… which explains a lot more than we give it credit for… particularly with Red Bubblers…
Linda Syms, 4 months ago
Congratulations Red Bubble
Gregory Ewanowich, 4 months ago
Awesome news and congrats! Wow I still have a lot of profiles to look at it would seem!!!
JayVee, 4 months ago
Congrats. Can’t figure out the red line. Please explain. LOL
YELLOWJACKET, 4 months ago
CONGRATS TO THE BIG RED BUBBLE!!!
Chris Seabrooke, 4 months ago
Great news … and the Graph … clear as mud ;-))
Darren Stones, 4 months ago
And how many keyboards stokes has that 50,00 members had, eh?
Irene Burdell, 4 months ago
That is amazing in just over a year . Congratulations you have created a wonderful site and community..
webdog, 4 months ago
WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! FANTASTIC 50
ccrcats, 4 months ago
Groovy.
Jo Hoden, 4 months ago
How fantastic,Im proud to be part of this amazing place,thanks for everything,the graph was very helpful…LOL,now were is my plastersine.
Happy Monday to everybody to…....................:):)
hennie, 4 months ago
wow
lance leopold, 4 months ago
So amazing,take a bow!!!!
Larry White, 4 months ago
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heather Rivet..., 4 months ago
outstanding congrats
Nigel Plant, 4 months ago
It must have been when i joined!!
That Graph looks just like the last project plan I created, mind you, i was to busy thinking about depth of field.
Role on a zillion members and well and a few extra servers :) Good luck!
heartco, 4 months ago
Fantastic and well done. Can that graph be purchased as a card? It is an amazing piece of art! :)
CathyBrookes, 4 months ago
Well now you have done it. All 50 000 of us feel we need to reply and say congratulations. Talk about spam lol.
Love the graph btw.
Ilunia Felczer, 4 months ago
WOW…..!!!! Congrats RB…......like the graph…........
nakomis, 4 months ago
Congratulations!! i am assuming by the graph that people play with plasticine and draw on walls introduce peoples Internet addiction.. far too much caffeine and there you have it!
Wulfrunnut, 4 months ago
That would be great news if you hadn’t overlooked the coefficient of the independent variable. Oh well, back to the drawing board!
Blaise Pellegrin, 4 months ago
Well done Redbubble!
Gilberte, 4 months ago
Congrats on this wondeful site.I have still friends to come – will they still find a chair?
Jessc, 4 months ago
Clearly.
I am not surprised at all. RedBubble rocks.
pauldrobertson, 4 months ago
congratulations.if i were not an artist and hence therefore had any money at all, i would invest here
and in butterscotch ice cream
Cathie Tranent
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4 months ago
Congrats on the member milestone.
Ed, that is my kind of graph ….. more artistic than mathematic ….. AND
It’s Adelaide Cup day in South Australia!!!
We spent the long weekend ski-ing on the Murray and I survived!
(Three days without RB!!)
amarica, 4 months ago
That is great
Kym Breeze, 4 months ago
well done guys…..this is awesome news…..rock on red…...
pat oubridge, 4 months ago
Congratulations to everybody involved in this brilliant club LOL!!!!!!!
PICMART, 4 months ago
Great news! Well done! This is a great place to be!
Jacqueline Baker, 4 months ago
Wow i am in awe!
A very deep and extremely reverential bow to you!!!!!!!!!!
Debbie Black, 4 months ago
I would never have made sense of it without the wonderful graph….. thanks guys ;) And congrats!!!
Azzurra, 4 months ago
i wonder if there will be 50 000 replies to this … bahaha
congrats red bubble and thank you 4 letting us have a haven to share our creativity and passion with everyone…
:P
Naylor, 4 months ago
CONGRATS RB !!!!! I am so excited about the future for RB and all of us here !!!!!! Great work all of you and thank you for keeping us up to date :) ((hug))
Heather Totori..., 4 months ago
Happy to be a part of the success.
jemimalovesbigted, 4 months ago
amazing and in just over a year! wow! congrats guys, happy to be part of the fitty!
Jbarritt, 4 months ago
Wow, I joined late last night, wonder if I was no 50,000!!
PixelProtest, 4 months ago
love the graphs, more welcome :D. great, well done rb
Sara Lamond, 4 months ago
congrats – great numbers – so many talented people and so much art!
Now… maybe all those google adsense ads could be changed to read “BUY art” instead of sell your art?
Just a thought…
Reece Ward, 4 months ago
Big up yer’ self! Respect in your area… Peace out!
james miller, 4 months ago
i seem to be having trouble finding the correlation between why we can’t get off the internets and why people buy plasti…. oooooh waaaaait… I see what you did there….
velveteagle, 4 months ago
Its ALIVE and Growing…
RedBubble in reply to Jan Piller’s comment, 4 months ago
We made is as clear as possible Jan. Try looking at the graph while standing up, that can help.
RedBubble in reply to Robert Elliott’s comment, 4 months ago
Yes, tricky one that. Have a glass of milk and give it another go.
RedBubble in reply to Randy Monteith’s comment, 4 months ago
We felt the graph admirably answered all these questions anyway. Especially the need for a pluralisation of the Internets.
But your admirable advice on Mr Clean Magic Erasers may cause a restructure of the third parameter.
Thank you.
RedBubble in reply to Russell Fry’s comment, 4 months ago
Don’t worry. I’ve never worked for the Government and it makes perfect sense to me too.
It can also be used to convince your offspring that television is evil.
RedBubble in reply to trennea’s comment, 4 months ago
I’m not mad.
I can’t speak for every one else, even if I often do, but I am suspicious.
RedBubble in reply to Jeffrey S. Rease’s comment, 4 months ago
Of course not.
It’s secret, don’t tell anyone you’ve seen it.
(Actually you can, send you size and colour preference to “I want that all purpose genius graph on a t-shirt and I want it now” to the usual address)
RedBubble in reply to tagbruns’s comment, 4 months ago
38,826
this may be a lie
RedBubble in reply to urraca Fitten’s comment, 4 months ago
This is something the Minister of T-Shirts has been working on for a while.
Wendy Slee KMA, 4 months ago
huh?
Chad Bracken, 4 months ago
yes…Yes….YES
.....wait….what?
lettie1957, 4 months ago
looks like a gun to me.
I don’t get it – but hubby says it’s a joke -
congrats Redbubble – - I know this is one of my
favourite sites for my photos…....
regards Aletta
agentsmith, 4 months ago
I was probably about no. 49,500 then ;)
dacrossphotogr..., 4 months ago
The graph would make a good T-shirt, too. 50,000 artists contributing to a single site? Kinda humbling ain’t it?
Colin Hollywood, 4 months ago
Well done!
Louise LeGresley, 4 months ago
Congrats… yeah redbubble… :)
JoLennox, 4 months ago
WTG RB!!! love the graph .. (dont think there is any need for a graph to show how this graph works either! It says it all!)
Chris Capizzi, 4 months ago
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual” Quote by Vince Lombardi
Congrats to all of the staff at Redbubble.
Cecilia August..., 4 months ago
wow
wayatsagi, 4 months ago
Some how I seem to be better educated….; wonderful news.
Lizspittall, 4 months ago
Great job folks, what a wonderful achievement. The graphic explanation has left feeling a bit like I guess kids at my school feel when they dont understand!! He ! HE!
Gary Oram, Jr., 4 months ago
Could tell you are estatic. After all that graph may itself serve as an abstract. Save it it may be a collector’s items someday.
Symmetry44, 4 months ago
You’ve inadvertently created a cool piece of art! Or did you, as Jack Nicholson said in Witches of Eastwick, “Do it to us on purpose!” lol
susan davies, 4 months ago
and im so very proud to be one of those 50,000
anaisnais, 4 months ago
Wow it’s great to know we are being watched – congatulations on a great site! Wishing a few more would kindly comment to help us acheive even higher standards and give back what our viewers want!
180ronin, 4 months ago
180ronin loves redbubble!!!!!! :) lets keep it up there is alot of talented people on here that need some well deserved recognition.
- design is love
BeckyJean, 4 months ago
Congrats! U guys that’s great!! :)
pentangled, 4 months ago
I’ve wondered how many of there are – more than I thought!! :o)
TIMKIELY, 4 months ago
well done and well deresived
jcjimages, 4 months ago
Congrats!
Heidi Powers, 4 months ago
that’s amazing…..congrats…and thanks for making it all possible!!
Linda Ridpath, 4 months ago
Well done you all!!
snsabarinath, 4 months ago
congrats
yanmos, 4 months ago
doesn’t surprise me…. CONGRATS!
Melinda Kerr, 4 months ago
Man that’s exactly the same as my business model. Well done dudes and dudettes. I too remember when It was 4 and a half thousand. We could almost all fit in the one taxi…albeit a big one.
Mitchell Vetter, 4 months ago
I was pouring over this graph…and have predicted the future…
Roy barry, 4 months ago
If all the members would like to send me a £, $ or shekel, I will go out and buy a cake and some balloons…......
frogster, 4 months ago
Gratz RedBubble
PhotogeniquE IPA, 4 months ago
I can see it all clearly now – at last!
50K member – woo hoo!
Dolf, 4 months ago
Right, got the graph worked out and the answer is 17!
Congrats on the 50K!
Grinch / ..., 4 months ago
WooHoo!!! Congrats!!!
Anita Helget, 4 months ago
I’m confused, I thought the 4th dot from the left should have been ip 1 mm? Great job everyone!
Alison Edge, 4 months ago
50k eh, bet it’s more like 75k now!!
mrfitz, 4 months ago
That is awesome, evolution surely has its ways.
HeatherOwen, 4 months ago
Wow! That’s great news!!! Special thanks to all of you running the operation and to my fellow bubblers – congrats everyone!!!
worshipleader, 4 months ago
? help ?
gigglingnewt, 4 months ago
So, that’s it then – I am just a number
elisab, 4 months ago
Wowee!!
Evmo, 4 months ago
Yeahhhh awesome! Congratulatory plaques all round!!!