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.
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.
ok so.. apparently there’s a bug going around that it makes you block (or makes it appear that you blocked) your mutuals and that they blocked you in turn. i’m just letting you guys know that if it appears that i blocked you, that is 100% not the case and is just tumblr being funky again.
reblogs are ok and appreciated because holy shit this website is a hellhole
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