It really is way too late for me to start writing this now, given that I have a lecture tomorrow, but fuck it, I gotta.
I’ve been on tumblr since September 2014. That is not a healthy age to be introduced to any incarnation of tumblr, but the friends I’ve made here have made me not regret it in the long run. I’ve thought about quitting, but the thought of not hearing from those people have made me think “oh hell no”.
Which is why it is not just perplexing, enraging and fucking exhausting, but also saddening, to see @staff decide that the best way to handle Tumblr is to ruin it.
Historical art with nudity? Gone.
Film/comic/serial/videogame/book fanart with nudity? Gone.
Nonsexual photos of people naked in nature, an objectively beautiful kind of art? Gone.
So much good-natured, inoffensive art that happens to be sexual in nature? Gone.
Artists that earn their bread by art that may be of a sexual nature?
Gone. Because “EWW NIPPLES”.
There’s countless more. Sex workers. Independent adult entertainers. Writers. Anybody into anything more serious than playing Minecraft on peaceful.
The level of bullshit is just… I don’t have the energy to go into any detail on how much I think this “change” sucks. So fuck it. Tumblr’s not getting more ad money.
People who feel like they’ll miss me can go to my DM’s because I ain’t dead.
To the rest of y’all, it’s been grand. Not because of Tumblr itself or anything @staff did, but rather the experiences that were had in spite of that.
“Molag Bal wanted my mind, Boethiah wanted my arms, and Nocturnal perhaps my curiosity. Azura wants all of that, and our love above all. Not our abject slavering, but our honest and genuine caring in all its forms. It is important to her that our emotions be engaged in her worship. And our love must also be directed inward. If we love her and hate ourselves, she feels our pain. I will, for all time, have no other mistress.”
You know, I wanted to make a joke about this absolute dumpster fire of a decision to completely ban all NSFW on tumblr. I’m sure there’s a few things I could say that would be humorous. But it’s not funny. It’s just not.
For a really long fucking time, people have used the “think of the children!” excuse when it comes to censorship. Hilarious coming from Tumblr staff, considering they didn’t do JACK SHIT when child porn was an issue. Hilarious, considering they didn’t do JACK SHIT when MAPs were freely running around this fucking site. Let me put this as clearly as possible.
They didn’t give a fuck about pedophilia or child porn until it affected their revenue. They did not care until their own interests were threatened.
And those porn bots we all hated and complained about for months and begged staff to do something about? They didn’t give a fucking fuckity fuck until the App Store pulled them, then all the sudden they kick it into high gear.
Oh, and the hateful Nazi/white pride/hatespeech blogs that are around? They’re gunna be just fine unless they post a tit. Don’t even worry. Staff has you covered there too. They obviously have your best interest at heart here. I mean, it’s “to protect us and inspire a safe community” right staff?
You know who you’re punishing @staff ? You know what you’re heavy handed, lazy dumbassery is going to cost you?
Art blogs that make their living from commissions and sharing their work are pretty much going down. You ever posted a female tiddy? Say goodbye.
Sex workers who are trying to safely conduct their business through a legitimate platform. Not porn bots. Girls and boys who are just trying to stay safe in their line of work.
Hey, does that Ancient Greek statue have a dick on it? Let’s pull a Catholic Church and plaster a metaphorical fig leaf over it. No more art!
Writers and story tellers, you better keep it kid friendly! People can’t die in your stories anymore, especially not graphically, and that couple can never consummate their love, at least not “on screen.”
It wouldn’t surprise me if any trans positivity blogs suffer from this, since tumblr staff can’t get its shit together and was marking trans blogs as NSFW during their great purge.
You know what? Just everyone. If you’re an adult, too bad! Cause you don’t get to see anything that a 10 year old couldn’t look at. Underage? Well clearly you’re too stupid to work the NSFW safe search, so staff will do it for you! By purging the entire site. Because instead of doing their fucking jobs, they’re gunna just nuke the whole joint.
Yeah, you can give me some bullshit about how it’s their site and they can do what they want, and you’ll be right. But guess what? It’s our choice to use it, and by kicking its users in the goddamn face, they’re nailing their own coffin shut. And good. They deserve that.
I have no doubt that some of my favorite artists and authors are going to lose their blog. A lot of these elder scrolls and video game blogs are going down too. Maybe this one. Who knows, it’s staff and they’re a pack of fucking morons.
So yeah, I got nothin funny to say. I just find it endlessly sad that instead of getting off their ass and doing SOMETHING, they’re just going to say fuck it and hit the big red button, and some folks are going to lose their livelyhood over that. But they don’t give a shit. Because they can go back to sucking off the App Store and ignoring their user base.
@staff ain’t gonna read this until it’s too late tbh
