an-apocalypse-of-magpies:

novocaineandabel:

@staff LIED about not banning erotica. Writers absolutely got hit by the purge yesterday. If you ever wrote adult content, you got hit. Now those users have been flagged explicit, are blocked from search, and their stories are being hidden.

Let me make this clear: TUMBLR LIED ABOUT THEIR OWN GUIDELINES. People who were supposed to be safe from the purge got hit.

This is unacceptable. Pedos, nazis, and bots are still overtaking this website. I had to block 2 porn bots that followed me yesterday. But someone who writes fanfiction? THEY GET BLOCKED? Tumblr can’t even follow their own rules and expect us to toe the line. “Do as I say, not as I do.”

Promises that @staff made that turned out to be lies re: the nsfw purge

1. The infamous ‘female-presenting nipples’ debacle, wherein male nipples got flagged

2. The exceptions to the FPN rule (breastfeeding, political protest photos, classical art) being flagged anyway

2a. Their own stated example of an artistic nude that would be exempted, Michelangelo’s David, being flagged

2b. Their own counterpost explaining what nipples are allowed, complete with a gif demonstrating such photos, getting flagged

3. That written erotica would be allowed. It is getting flagged now

4. That nudes not engaging in sexual acts and not showing genitals would be allowed. They’ve been flagged too.

5. That this would only be purging pornography, meanwhile discussion of art, sex and sexuality would be allowed to continue. Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ tags, black positivity tags, tags relating to chronic illness and more unrelated tags were immediately discovered to be purged.

6. That one would be alerted immediately if Tumblr’s algorithm detects posting or reblogging of sensitive content. Any such alert system has been shaky at best.

7. That this is in the name of making Tumblr ‘a better, more positive’ place. Meanwhile, a whole industry has been chased off the site by the ban, their business either ruined or jeopardised for being sex workers, the porn bots literally immediately found a way around the ban and continued in force (in fact, they did it by tagging otherwise inappropriate material as ‘sfw’), and seem to have redoubled their efforts at cross-blog linking and consuming traffic, neo-nazis and white supremacists continue to cause trouble as before, and generally things have taken a turn for the worse. But Tumblr’s back on the App Store, so congratulations, @staff. I hope you’re proud of yourselves.

Twats.