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Behind the Scenes: Justin and Marissa’s Tumblr Engagement (NewTeeVee)

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(Originally from the next new networks blog)

Our own Justin Johnson and his lovely longtime girlfriend Marissa got engaged last night (congrats!!), and Justin’s proposal method — taking over the Tumblr dashboard — sort of took over the Internet. NewTeeVee’s Shannon Miller has the whole behind-the-scenes story:

Justin Johnson, creative services lead at Next New Networks and one of the original writers for College Humor, was sitting at home yesterday with his girlfriend of six years, Marissa Nystrom. It was about 6:30 p.m. EST, their sixth anniversary as a couple, and a quiet night. They were making spaghetti for dinner, Nystrom was checking her Facebook and Tumblr accounts, and Johnson was nervous as hell.

About a month prior, Johnson had begun working with the team at Tumblr to create a wedding proposal that suited them as a couple — a big, splashy takeover of every Tumblr user’s dashboard, in which he’d pop the question in a post only Nystrom could respond to. That night, Johnson had just used a “secret link” to activate the proposal post, meaning that soon the entire Tumblr universe would be able to see it…except that his first attempt to activate it didn’t work.

Read the rest at NewTeeVee, and congratulations Justin and Marissa! In many ways they were the very first couple (of many) to make videos together for Next New Networks, and I can’t think of a better way for them to move on to the next big step.

Here are a few of my favorite Justin-Marissa videos from the past few years:

Channel Frederator, “Relationship Counselor (watch on Google Video)

Indy Mogul, Snorricam Party Music Video (with lots of other NNN peeps)

Channel Frederator, “Fred On”

We’re all a bit excited here. Can you tell!?