The generic problem on Tumblr still exists. Like those posts about romanticizing her suicide. Hate & Shame posts are still happen regularly, and people seeing gender issues in everything is something why people outside tumblr make fun of it.

Its not only about transphobia, its about how youngsters use tumblr.

You are right in a way. Three teens from one highschool would probably make the local news (it did at my highschool, though there wasn't much going on in that town to report on), but not much more.

There is more going on than just three dead teens though. There is also the entire social movement surrounding these three people. Seemingly thousands of people talking about those three deaths. That is much more notable.

Anything can be epidemic to journalist, when he doesn't know what else to write about.

Caitlin Dewey's articles tend to be provocative and simplistic. It is worth doing independent checking before assuming this article is on to anything.