I haven't been on here in a year... I briefly decided to check some of the stories I used to read and the art blogs I followed. It's all destroyed. Most of the stuff wasnt even graphic... hell, they are blocking out photos of things not at all related to sex. My own page has several locks on posts, none of which are of a sexual nature (hot damn, that calico cat is adorable, but it's sure not pornographic... if the tumblr reps want to sleep with cats, it sounds like they're the one with issues, not the users sharing cute pet photos). Several of my own photos were flagged, so apparently a pic of me in my office is banned content? They succeeded in destroying everything that made the platform wonderful. I know it's all crickets on here now, that no one is even here to read this, but indeed it's a tragedy. This was once such a vibrant happy place, now it's a totalitarian dictatorship bent on censorship of everything, even things that make no sense. I understand why everyone has moved onto other places, as I shall too (I already really did, it's been a year since I bothered with checking tumblr, and what I saw was worse than anything I could even imagine). Goodbye to what was once such a safe comforting place we sought refuge in... we have since found other spots to escape mainstream society (like reddit). I hope they enjoyed throwing away millions of dollars, from 1.1 billion to a measly 3 million... that sold for less than a vacant lot in California. Well, tumblr has joined Myspace in obscurity. Facebook is the king of censorship and even they don't censor art or literary writing anymore. A platform should know their audience and not let apple dictate how they run their business. I think we all immediately knew they were flushing money when they made the unfortunate choice to kill the app a year ago (this affects everyone, not just artists, the GBLT community, and writers- when even photos of kittens and spools of thread are being pulled, it's a wide spread problem). Was losing nearly a billion dollars worth getting the app back in with apple? Why would it matter when no one bothers to download it anymore. The financial hit would have been far less if they'd left things as they were. It seems to be affecting far more nonnsfw posts than those that are. They took 8 posts off my page, none of which had any inappropriate content. Ironically, they left the few that actually did (writing/stories). Think about that one for a min... their algorithm machine is a failure. If they hadn't destroyed all profitability for the site, they could have hired people to police the illegal stuff. They did all this over a very small sect of people posting illicit material, 99.9% of the nsfw content may br related to sex, but there was nothing illegal about it. They didnt need a ban, they needed closer monitoring to keep the child stuff off. They lost nearly a billion dollars, they could have used that money to hire humans vs an inept algorithm machine. Then they would have kept their users, continued making money, and they wouldnt have lost everything.
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