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In two weeks, Tumblr porn will be no more

Postby cmsellers » Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:12 pm

Find your favorite porn Tumblrs and save everything you can, because on December 17, Tumblr bans porn forever. It looks like it's because Tumblr was acquired by Verizon, and where Yahoo wanted any users they could, Verizon apparently doesn't give a fuck. My best guess is that it's hard to monetize porn unless you allow the explicit ads porn sites run, so they figured they're better off without it: they'll save money and head off any risk of Focus on the Family or whoever deciding to boycott them.

Of course Tumblr filled a niche neither other social media nor actual porn sites could fill. The article is about why 20-something women use Tumblr for porn, but I can attest that I also used it a lot, because it avoided unpleasant surprises of the sort I often encounter on porn sites. Whether the decision makes business sense probably depends on whether the porn sites attracted members who also posted and viewed advertiser-friendly content. I know that I'd been meaning to make a Tumblr account to track porn easier, which I'm not going to now, but since I can't see their ads anyways I'm no loss to them. And hey, going from the place known for porn and social justice bullshit to a place known only for social justice bullshit should really help them clarify their brand.
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Re: In two weeks, Tumblr porn will be no more

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:01 am

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Postby KleinerKiller » Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:31 am

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On the one hand, this will inevitably lead to Tumblr crashing and burning, which is something I can't get too upset about given how much of a role they've had in polluting and radicalizing the wider social justice discourse. The vast majority of their non-political userbase is there for the porn, be it the accounts of actual porn stars or the treasure troves of fetish art and kinky fan art. The site will not survive this. Good riddance.

On the other hand, I feel really bad for porn creators who have to find new places to migrate to that don't offer the unified platform Tumblr did. And the Puritanical fury with which all adult content is being targeted is kind of terrifying; while CP should be glassed off the face of the fucking earth, the idea making the rounds that it was running rampant and infesting every corner of the site is utter nonsense, and their algorithm is so absurdly overreactive that it's even flagged their own announcement post about this and reblogs of reporting articles (it is not too dissimilar to when YouTube was down for hours a little while back because an update to their infamous algorithm immediately caused every video on the site to be flagged). It's definitely in response to being removed from the App Store, because Apple has the power to enforce their stringent morality on everyone else; whether this is genuine apoplectic maneuvering to appease them or intentional sabotage to have an excuse to close down an unprofitable property, any reaction of mass censorship is not good.

Plus, I can't personally vouch or provide evidence for this, but there are whisperings that this move is heavily targeting LGBT communities while things like pro-Nazi communities have been allowed to maintain full activity -- an issue that's apparently been a recurring problem every time Tumblr management has tried to institute practices like this.
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Postby FaceTheCitizen » Wed Dec 05, 2018 4:33 am

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Re: In two weeks, Tumblr porn will be no more

Postby Tuli » Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:11 am

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"Female-presenting nipples" are a meme already. Aside from the wording, the prudishness about nipples is ridiculous anyways.

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And there we have it, artistic nudity being banned as well. Even if they don't say it, their algorithms can't differentiate between real and drawn nipples. I guess it's time to start using deviantart again.
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Postby Kivutar » Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:28 am

Tuli wrote:And there we have it, artistic nudity being banned as well. Even if they don't say it, their algorithms can't differentiate between real and drawn nipples.


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Re: In two weeks, Tumblr porn will be no more

Postby cmsellers » Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:48 am

I assume "female-presenting nipples" is intended to prevent both trans women on hormones and trans pre-op trans men from showing nipples, and to prevent people doing things like photoshopping male nipples over female breasts. Texas and New York may have topless equality, but American corporations do not and may never.

But even going beyond toplessness to full nudity, I find prudishness (especially by my compatriots) around mere nudity to be irritating and ridiculous. I get why some sites might want to ban sexual content (though given Tumblr has allowed it so long and still allows written erotica, I find even this ridiculous here), but mere nudity, even though it's arousing because of how unused-to-it Americans are, is not inherently sexual.

As for the whole child porn thing, I'm not clear on the details of what happened, I get the impression it's a pretext for something Verizon had wanted to do for awhile.
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Postby KleinerKiller » Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:58 am

The "female-presenting nipples" thing is my favorite/least favorite part about this, as I find it disgusting even as I cackle at it. It's the most transparent case I've seen lately of someone trying to score woke cred for acknowledging the existence of gender identity while simultaneously revealing their core backwardness. Really is America in a nutshell.
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Postby Australia » Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:38 pm

cmsellers wrote:the porn sites attracted members

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Re: In two weeks, Tumblr porn will be no more

Postby SlayerGoddess » Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:25 am

I guess I'll have to make a Tumblr account and copy/save fangirly porn
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Re: In two weeks, Tumblr porn will be no more

Postby cmsellers » Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:25 am

SlayerGoddess wrote:I guess I'll have to make a Tumblr account and copy/save the fangirly things I like

Why do you need an account for that?
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Postby SlayerGoddess » Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:41 am

Tumblr always blocks everything below a fraction of a page trying to scroll, and urges me to make an account to see it, unless that's recently changed. I tried to make an account months ago but they screwed it up.

I just made an account now.
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Postby Grimstone » Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:37 am

It's pretty sexist IMO that a simple image of a female nipple can be considered offensive or obscene, but a shirtless man is perfectly fine.
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Re: In two weeks, Tumblr porn will be no more

Postby Krashlia » Thu Dec 06, 2018 6:42 am

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On the upside, there’s always the possibility of Newgrounds being popular again, if the NSFW artists flock over there.


I just find it kinda funny that, when everyone heard that Tumblr was doing away with the NSFW's, they all turned their thoughts to Newgrounds.
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Postby AboveGL » Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:21 pm

Re-registering was far down my to-do list, and has been for a few years. I guess it's no longer on there.
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