Tumblr's New Adult Content Policy

[HGohwell]

So, Tumblr has announced it's new policy and in just a few weeks anything "adult" will no longer be allowed. This means NSFW ect. Anyone using Tumblr, even hidden side-blogs or marked as 18+ to be filtered out will be effected it seems. I know some artists use Tumblr for NSFW pieces and locked side-blog access as rewards, so I suggest everyone using Tumblr checks it out.

A better, more positive Tumblr

Updates to Tumblr’s Community Guidelines

Edit: Just so everyone is aware the reason I dub it "adult" like that is because one of the guidelines refers to female nipples, something that really doesn't sit right as being a redline for what counts as explict/NSFW and what doesn't despite how widespread that seems to be as a thing.

[racarter]

You have no idea how much white hot rage this fills me with.

Tumblr’s been going down the drain for a while now but this is the final straw. Thank God Pillowfort is gonna try to get back online in the next for days and are on top of this crap since they’re going to get an influx of people wanted to join.

Just, ugh. I could rage all day about this but why bother? Tumblr’s dead. It was a long time coming. Just like with LJ, FF, and so many other sites that either dwindled or died when they pulled the same shit.

[vworksart]

Don't NSFW communities hold a big part of Tumblr's demographic?
If so, their shooting themselves in the foot.

[Azifri]

I know! I thought that was what Tumblr's all about lol

[racarter]

YUUUUUP.

A lot of people are super pissed. Even people who don’t post or even enjoy NSFW content, they’re pissed on the principle of the whole matter. Plus NSFW blogs and artists are getting punished for Tumblr’s inability to filter out legitimate CP content involving actual real life children. Not to mention the rampant porn bot problem and bestiality shit.

I’ve seen things that haunt me on that website. But the regular porn blogs and NSFW artists shouldn’t be punished for the actual illegal content, spam, and whatnot.

It’s terrible. Everyone is going bonkers since the news broke.

EDIT: Btw, I’m on Tumblr a lot and was basically addicted to it in a very masochistic way. Until now.

[vworksart]

Yeah I see a lot of people claiming that they are cheaping out of hiring people to filter content correctly and are instead, just hosing the entire site all together.
That's an unfortunate way to handle it.

[HGohwell]

Yeah, I don't post NSFW on Tumblr but the fact that you could post completely uncensored explicit works as long as it was marked as such was a huge draw for many creators. Tumblr has definitely been going downhill so I'm not surprised by the move. Porn bots aside there are so many more problems Tumblr should be dealing with (like the people who post untagged porn, gore in younger fandom tags, their issues with rampant racist content ect) rather than people who often put their work on password protected or private side-blogs and mark their work properly.

[Luminosophy]

I left tumblr a long time ago and never looked back because of the rampant harassment campaigns that people were doing against artists the most minor issues. Kinda surprises me to hear that NSFW is one of the first targets given the site's horrendous reputation for other things. I mean unless it's just been that long and things have changed.

[Louhi]

I swear to god that everyone is losing it because of these news, hell people from the other sites are angry, though mostly because none of them want the tumbrl userbase to migrate to their sites, cannot say I don't see why.

[echoeotto]

So, Tumblr has announced it's new policy and in just a few weeks anything "adult" will no longer be allowed.

Seriously? I'm surprised. It's been a few years since I was active on there (left just before Yahoo happened to buy the site), but I remember that being a large part of their content. It seems counterintuitive to do that to themselves.

[ar-ninetysix]

Nothing like offering a freedom to post whatever you want and ripping it away. They should definitely see people being super upset at this, as some people have built their entire lives and gaining a following on using the site through NSFW blogs.

It's a step backwards tbh and I can't imagine that this is gonna keep going over well. That community's a huge part of Tumblr, isn't it? It's not like the site was ever too child-friendly to begin with anyways, a huge majority of blogs on there in general are aimed at adults and teens from what I understand. There's far more important things to fix on that site than drawn lewds. You already got safe mode automatically on and NSFW tags that you gotta go out of your way to find, don't remove the option of uploading there and ruining people's hard work in the process of trying to fix this (quite frankly, irrelevant) issue???

[HGohwell]

Just a quick update: it seems they've already begun flagging work to be taken down. As always with these things, work affects involves perfectly wholesome gay content (such as forehead kisses, hand holding and hugs, all still fully clothed) and women with cleavage, legs on display or in underwear. Interesting concepts of NSFW but then we all knew this was how it would go, right? Just take a quick search on Twitter and see content creators showing you their wholesome work being flagged.

[JBrentonParker]

I literally just made a Tumblr account three days ago because I was looking for an easier blogging platform than fighting with the free, impossible-to-customize wordpress blogs -_-
I always seem to jump on the bandwagon right when the website goes to pot.

Anybody have any recommendations for a good site/blogging platform to post content centered around writing?

[HGohwell]

Pillowfort is the big one people are looking at to replace Tumblr. It's down at the moment, possibly because of the sudden influx, but it's where most people seem to be looking to move to.

[punkarsenic]

i will say, from the looks of the situation tumblrs hands were tied on what they chose to ban; because of a prominence of porn on the site the tumblr app was removed from the app store, which is obviously bad for business. this doesnt make what they did extra good or extra bad (i dont have much feelings abt it bc i dont pay attention to nsfw tumblr), but it was kind of inevitable.

tumblr doing smth that fucks over large parts of their user base is also par of the course

[joannekwan]

Fuck, the universe just wants me to make my own damn site now doesn't it. I just made a twitter account after hearing this news and am looking to beef up my Fur Affinity account soon.

I'm still keeping my main tumblr account, but who knows how much will get flagged. I've already purged the clearly explicit stuff.

The $5 entry fee to pillowfort's beta site irks me and is a major deterrent for your average internet goers. Hopefully they'll get rid of it when they launch for real.

[Freemints30]

This is just upsetting. I don't actively look for NSFW content, but to me tumbler was one of the few large platforms that would allow it as long as you rightfully label it as such which is a very big appeal to many artists. This is just really dumb move that will just cause three things to happen;
Artist who draw said content to leave else where (a large portion)
people angry at this Moralizing move to leave (an extremely large portion)
and finally
People who only use tumbler for NSFW content to leave.(they are many)
Congratulation driving away your audience worse than a you tube apology video.

[skicoak]

I don't know anything about Tumblr's business model but I'm pretty sure the only sites that benefit from hosting porn/extreme adult content are porn sites. Other potential advertisers/investors tend to avoid even the hint of that reputation.

Not judging, just saying.

[HGohwell]

Tumblr used to allow you to post anything you liked so long as it was filtered out correctly, usually behind NSFW blog filters and most people used password protected blogs for it, people used these for reward tiers a lot. Tumblr made it business off of being a site where as long as it wasn't illegal you could post practically whatever you liked, as long as it was filtered properly. It was bought out by Yahoo a few years ago for a really good amount. And has proceeded to nose dive ever since, becoming infested with intrusive and inappropriate ads (seriously, banning adult content announcement right below a sponsored pornsite ad Tumblr?), porn bots, white supremacist blogs and so on. A lot of creators I know only stayed because it was one of the few places which allowed you to post so freely without censorship as long as tagging and filtering was correct, especially as harassment became more and more common

[crayon_witch]

What upsets me is that many people rely on tumblr for gaining an audience/money for their art or sex work. In a blink of an eye people will lose their source of income.

The staff 100% knew about the issues regarding illegal porn. They only chose to do something about it when they were forced to after the app was taken off the apple store. Not a word about the nazi blogs, pro anoroxic/self harm blogs, pedophile community (“MAPS”), real pictures of human gore, etc.