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7 years ago
When life gives you lemons, burn life's house down. Preferrably with life still inside.
Since Tumblr decided to shit into everyone's breakfast, I will be moving to FA and Newgrounds.
As you're....already on my FA (no duh!), you can also find my NG account here: https://cr0nicallyinsane.newgrounds.com/
As you all know, as of yesterday the Internet has been shaken up *thoroughly* when Tumblr announced they will be banning all adult/NSFW content, effective December 17th. Many people say this is in direct response to Apple removing Tumblr app from their store due to a rampant issue concerning porn bot accounts which were spreading child pornography. While it -is- a major factor in this "scorched Earth" scenario that Tumblr staff is pulling, it isn't the main reason. Tumblr (or should we say, Yahoo, as they own it) has been planning this for a long time now.
How so, you might ask?
Some of you might remember when, upon Yahoo purchasing Tumblr in 2013., Yahoo CEO bragged how they will be "purging Tumblr of all "undesirable content" in order to make the site more marketable and accessible to wider userbase". Which, naturally, triggered a gigantic wave of outrage from NSFW content creators and consumers. This decision forced Yahoo/Tumblr to back down, and instead of a full-on ban, they began implementing more and more frustrating features that made it difficult for NSFW artists to use the site; they had to constantly be up to speed with all the shit Tumblr staff was pulling and accordingly adapt their account, or risk losing it. What also didn't help was Tumblr staff's (most likely purposeful) lack of cooperation and communication with NSFW artists who did end up losing their accounts.
Fast forward to November of 2018. and the shitshow with Apple store occurs. Due to Tumblr staff's negligence, the porn bot issue becomes so overwhelming that Apple (notoriously anti-porn) decided to remove the app from their store. While it's partly reason why Tumblr went on a much wider purge, it also gave them the big opening they were so desperately looking for:
Now they have an excuse to pull off an all-out ban on adult content.
And of course, without consideration for the consequences, they grabbed onto the opportunity and used it to it's full extent. Now we're witnessing the fallout.
What will happen to Tumblr at this point? Some say it will still keep going because "people were angry before and protested and the site was still up". Which is true, but the shit Tumblr pulled back then pales in comparison to this latest stunt, which has effectively booted a significant portion of Tumblr's userbase. At this point, all we can do is sit back and watch the events unfold.
And some final words: #fuckTumblr.
As you're....already on my FA (no duh!), you can also find my NG account here: https://cr0nicallyinsane.newgrounds.com/
As you all know, as of yesterday the Internet has been shaken up *thoroughly* when Tumblr announced they will be banning all adult/NSFW content, effective December 17th. Many people say this is in direct response to Apple removing Tumblr app from their store due to a rampant issue concerning porn bot accounts which were spreading child pornography. While it -is- a major factor in this "scorched Earth" scenario that Tumblr staff is pulling, it isn't the main reason. Tumblr (or should we say, Yahoo, as they own it) has been planning this for a long time now.
How so, you might ask?
Some of you might remember when, upon Yahoo purchasing Tumblr in 2013., Yahoo CEO bragged how they will be "purging Tumblr of all "undesirable content" in order to make the site more marketable and accessible to wider userbase". Which, naturally, triggered a gigantic wave of outrage from NSFW content creators and consumers. This decision forced Yahoo/Tumblr to back down, and instead of a full-on ban, they began implementing more and more frustrating features that made it difficult for NSFW artists to use the site; they had to constantly be up to speed with all the shit Tumblr staff was pulling and accordingly adapt their account, or risk losing it. What also didn't help was Tumblr staff's (most likely purposeful) lack of cooperation and communication with NSFW artists who did end up losing their accounts.
Fast forward to November of 2018. and the shitshow with Apple store occurs. Due to Tumblr staff's negligence, the porn bot issue becomes so overwhelming that Apple (notoriously anti-porn) decided to remove the app from their store. While it's partly reason why Tumblr went on a much wider purge, it also gave them the big opening they were so desperately looking for:
Now they have an excuse to pull off an all-out ban on adult content.
And of course, without consideration for the consequences, they grabbed onto the opportunity and used it to it's full extent. Now we're witnessing the fallout.
What will happen to Tumblr at this point? Some say it will still keep going because "people were angry before and protested and the site was still up". Which is true, but the shit Tumblr pulled back then pales in comparison to this latest stunt, which has effectively booted a significant portion of Tumblr's userbase. At this point, all we can do is sit back and watch the events unfold.
And some final words: #fuckTumblr.
In addition, not only NSFW accounts are affected, some normal accounts are getting flags and shit like that even if their content is safe.
They want a "Family Friendly" site, which is also affecting LGTB+ support accounts and similars, because they are also flagging and deleting that kind of content. They consider two men kissing as "adult" content, which is bullshit.
so yea #fuckTumblr
Them doing this absolutely devastates me.. as a small nsfw artist, I was never well known enough to survive Tumblr doing this shit to me.. and honestly I would be lying if I said I thought I could recover.
I really have no idea what to do at this point.. it feels like.. why bother at all? Very few seem to appreciate my artwork, fewer comment, or interact, or anything.. why even bother uploading? I could try to rebuild, but for what? I mean.. bleh..
During December, too, which is the roughest month for me to start with due to the Holiday and Holiday cheer and other such bullshit which I guess is fine for others and like I am glad they can be happy, but I am miserable. I have no family to celebrate anything with, what little blood relation I have has told me with no uncertain words that I should die and I ruin everyones lives by existing, so I have no contact with them.. then my Birthday this month.. and just.. uhhn..
I feel like I have had the shit kicked out of me by November and December and I just.. do not really want to get back up.. I am not even sure that getting back up is even worth it at this point..
Anyway, I feel like I'm in the minority when it comes to not really caring about this at all. FA has always been my main place, Tumblr is okay I guess, definitely wouldn't miss it at all.
This is why we need decentralized internet more then ever, so we can have websites that won't be prone to government and corporate regulation.
Major obstacle to starting up (from what I've seen) is that you're pretty much off the radar unless another established artist "scouts" you (essentially vouching for you as a quality artist).
What I'd heard is that Tumblr got taken off the app store because some actual child porn got posted on the site, and now this happened. It read to me like what happened with Hentai Foundry (and FurAffinity I guess), where they were like "Guys, we either get rid of the underage stuff or the site can't exist." Except in this case Tumblr is just making sure nothing ever comes close to porn. Now that I'm reminded that they did directly say they were gonna make it a clean site, that makes sense too.
This actually has me curious if Twitter is a safe place to post because the content is accepted, or if Twitter just hasn't caught onto the fact that they're now housing tons of porn art that could be seen as objectionable content if the right person complains. Cause one of the things that Twitter has been used for is Inkbunny/Pixiv artists to post underage human art, annnd I can't see Twitter wanting that on their site based on the kind of things I've heard about them. Hope they appreciate Tumblr giving them this traffic, at least.
Since folks have been specifically migrating to Twitter and Newgrounds, I'm curious - was Blogspot in consideration for anyone? Only because, well, it's a blog service like Tumblr, and Twitter seems odd for art since it's gonna be difficult to tag search.