wait does this also effect normal photography too?
Everyone is going to leave. I don’t post nsfw content, but I feel that it is part of the freedom of Tumblr. I don’t think folks are going to take well to that freedom being taken. Like, even artwork is being taken down? And artistic nudes? I simply cannot understand how they think this is a good decision. This site isn’t for children… there is no reason to pretend that it is.
I’ll probably stick around tumblr till the ship’s fully sunk but I’m planning on getting into using my Twitter more so you can find me over there @crowfanity
the whole “this is good for kids” thing doesn’t….really make sense. like if they wanted to protect minors then 1. making sure there was no CP on the site and 2. enforcing the explicit blog function correctly would be the top priority. The sex workers i know/have seen on this site make use of the explict blog function and repeatedly block/warn people under 18/21 not to interact with them or they’ll get blocked. the wording of the new rules is very obviously targeting sex workers and tumblr’s transphobic definition of women. This is just a heavy handed two sided slap to get back on the app store and hurt the sex workers that rely on this site even more. also i’m pretty sure removing nazi’s would fall under “protecting children” but…here we are!
Bruh, it’s not just sex workers or trans stuff.
Take it from fandom and older fans who’ve seen this shit before: this is just the first step in what will eventually be a much broader content purge. We’ve seen this before, some of us have seen it multiple times. Every time, “protecting the children” has been the excuse.
no one gives a fuck about your stupid ass fandom porn you old ass geek
Except you should!
Because tons of young artists rely on fandom art to make money! And the most lucrative commissions are, you guessed it, porn!
Tumblr has been great for artists who are trying to support themselves or just finding a way to make some “fun money.” Many, many college students use this site and commissions to make up the difference for what jobs and finacial aid don’t cover! I’ve literally seen people post “Commissions are half off so I can make my rent this month.”
The reblogging system is great for them because it gets their work out there. People put it on their blogs and then more people see it and the artist gets more traffic flowing to their blog. More traffic equals more commissions equals more money.
Artists are freaking out about this! They are about to lose an important source of income! They are about to lose a following that they have built up over years! People who have commissioned them multiple times and spread their work to other consumers. Finding a site that will give them the kind of exposure Tumblr does has been hard for them! And again a lot of them rely on this money! It’s reassuring to them there is a way they can make money fast.
Maybe it isn’t as serious as the effect it will have on sex workers but real people ARE going to be hurt by how much this changes fanart. Real people working jobs that pay them nowhere near enough to survive on and who are drowning in debt are about to lose something important!
I’m not even saying you should take the person who brought it up seriously. But please don’t throw young artists under the bus. Have some sympathy for what fandom restrictions will do to their lives. They are losing their emergency back-up funds for when they miss too much work or have an unexpected expense they wouldn’t be able to handle otherwise.
You don’t have to take fandom as a whole seriously and you don’t have to listen to the idiots who are just upset they can’t look at fandom porn anymore. But I ask that you please have some consideration for the struggling artists out there who are going to suffer.
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
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So uh what’s the next tumblr bc this one is dead to me
Crowfanity's Tumblr 