In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of December 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
Reblog to signal boost! We must force change.
As a lovely parting gift and if you have a second account you don’t mind losing–or hell, if you don’t care about losing your main one anyway– be sure to queue up as much porn and “female presenting nipples” as possible before you log out and help to crash the site ❤️
With a large chin, a prominent slightly arched nose and delicate lips, the “face” of England’s King Richard III was unveiled on Tuesday, a day after researchers confirmed his remains had finally been found after 500 years.
A team of university archaeologists and scientists announced on Monday that a skeleton discovered last September underneath a council parking lot in Leicester was indeed that of Richard, the last English king to die in battle, in 1485.
Devotees of Richard, who have long campaigned to restore his reputation, proudly revealed a 3D reconstruction of the long-lost monarch’s head on Tuesday, introducing him to reporters as “His Grace Richard Plantagenet, King of England and France, Lord of Ireland”.
A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain
anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in
the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it
was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September,
shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an
all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the
former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child
pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem
was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.
Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to
make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the
platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just
before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure
out how to better monetize.
On that note-
Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose
Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should
focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge,
“Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to
[make] a ton of money.”
In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of November 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
Reblog to signal boost! We must force change.
I’ll most likely be doing this. I encourage you to do the same.
I don’t know if it will really change anything, but give it a shot. Let’s show Tumblr we are not happy with their constant fuckin’ shitty choices.
Don’t log in for ANY reason on D-Day. No reason. A full 24 hours. Go take a self-care day. Eat some fancy snacks, drink a soda, sit in the tub for a few hours.
Sounds like a plan to me
Yeah I support crashing their stocks even more.
Let’s Do This! Spread the word! This will be most effective if it reaches every corner of every fandom, so Please Reblog! This isn’t just another Net Neutrality scare or something, this is about the very future of Tumblr! It is our duty to fight!
You know what?
Fuck it, I’m gonna bring back a classic, and you all can’t stop me, and I hope some other site oldbies will jump on with me:
SUMMARY: Where does technology end and magic begin? Kaiba thought he needed a duel. Atem thought he needed to help Kaiba accept the inevitable. But neither stopped to ask themselves what “closure” means in a world where wish fulfillment is possible. And both forgot that when you chase after something so desperately, you run the risk of losing sight of just what it is that you’re longing for. Set at the end of The Dark Sides of Dimensions but can be read without seeing the movie.
This is my first story since the end of “Return to Romance.” I’m both excited and nervous. I hope you enjoy the story!
For people who want to read it on FanficNet, here is the link:
Something positive I already noticed from Pillowfort: People actually talking about their fandoms.
Not people defending why their fandom/ship/plots are good/not abusive. But talking about what they love. About what they want to see, what they already liked, their headcanons.
Without having to worry about a bunch of anti assholes attacking them.
Again, what was so hard about making mutual only posts?!
Considering the nature of Tumblr being about the open sharing of photos and microblogging, I can get why that never became an option here. This place was never designed with fandom in mind.
But big mood.
Honestly I don’t get how fandom people ended up here. It’s an entirely miserable atmosphere with no organization. Do you know how beautiful not it to see communities again?!
I think a part of it maybe had to do with this being a fanartist Haven? LJ was great for many things, but hosting and recirculating fanart wasn’t one of them. Add to it that people were mostly posting fic to AO3 by 2015 and the fact that there were at one point four competing LJ spin-offs (Greatest Journal, Journalfen, insaneJournal and Dreamwidth) and it makes some kind of sense people navigated here.
Truthfully, it took me till last year to give up the ghost on LJ for good, and even then I only came here because this was the only place I could find any of the mutural friend I’d made prior to when I left fandom after joining the Navy.
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