TUMBLR DELETING PORN CONTENT

[Nintex]

*Verizon board meeting 2017*

 
"I'm happy to report we've made a good profit this year and gross revenue is way up. I believe it is time to invest gentlemen as we cannot possibly find us so many drugs and ladies that the IRS won't come looking. So... any ideas?"

 
"Do I get to use my board of directors wildcard David?"

 
"Yes Karl, you may"

 
"Then we buy Tumblr and ban all the gay porn and finally Michael will pay attention during our board meetings"

 
"Fuck you Karl"

[toku]

[Trent Dole]

https://twitter.com/certaspessoa/status/1069936487855210496

[eleuin]

https://twitter.com/gayprotag/status/1069640349713383424

[Anti-Monitor]

Man, fuuuuck this. I use tumblr so much. I can’t fucking believe they’d be this imbecile

[Momo]

not you too

[Himu]

“Horny people” makes me laugh. Like it’s a new race of people or something. Horny people. Lmao

[zomgee]

kill whitey

[TVC15]

I just spent like 15 minutes re-writing American Pie to be about this national tragedy. I may have to do the full song. The Day the Porno Died, man. 

[Joe Molotov]

I just spent like 15 minutes re-writing American Pie to be about this national tragedy. I may have to do the full song. The Day the Porno Died, man. 

At first I thought you meant the movie. Kids have to start setting up spy cams just to see a nipple and humping pastries to get off.

[Tasty]

Re: everyone moving to Newgrounds.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Updated my Newgrounds account from 2007 and intend to start using the site much more.

Became a supporter to change me name too.

So glad that not only is NG still around but that it's stayed true to itself all this time.

I had another account from '05 I could have updated, but not sure if I want my current self to be connected to it.

I always wanted to get into DeviantArt but the I never really cared for the site (felt too "heavy") and I didn't really get into "community" either... NG feels like home in comparison.

I don't even really post much stuff, but I fucking love the indie artist spirit of these kinds of sites, and I'm totally OK with NG taking whatever mantle Tumblr had for this stuff.

[close]

[kingv]

a repeat.

Probably nsfw

[TVC15]

Is Tom Fulp (right?) still the head of Nrwgrounds? Never met him, but he's a friend of an IRL childhood friend. Or was. I haven't talked to them in like 5 years. She went kinda crazy.

[Tasty]

Is Tom Fulp (right?) still the head of Nrwgrounds? Never met him, but he's a friend of an IRL childhood friend. Or was. I haven't talked to them in like 5 years. She went kinda crazy.

Yup, he's still running the boat, and in fact made a post yesterday welcoming Tumblr refugees.

[Don Rumata]

Re: everyone moving to Newgrounds.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Updated my Newgrounds account from 2007 and intend to start using the site much more.

Became a supporter to change me name too.

So glad that not only is NG still around but that it's stayed true to itself all this time.

I had another account from '05 I could have updated, but not sure if I want my current self to be connected to it.

I always wanted to get into DeviantArt but the I never really cared for the site (felt too "heavy") and I didn't really get into "community" either... NG feels like home in comparison.

I don't even really post much stuff, but I fucking love the indie artist spirit of these kinds of sites, and I'm totally OK with NG taking whatever mantle Tumblr had for this stuff.

[close]

I migrated to NG too, and i like the dorky design, hadn't been there in more than 10 years, and it looks the same as when i used to watch those Madness animations on it.

[Boredfrom]

Is just funny to me that it was banning porn what killed Tumblr. Just dunno, the Tumblr generation seems to be one of contradictions.

[Trent Dole]

But isn't newgrounds a flash site? Weird place to go to for stills and gifs.

[Himu]

Is just funny to me that it was banning porn what killed Tumblr. Just dunno, the Tumblr generation seems to be one of contradictions.

How so

[Boredfrom]

Is just funny to me that it was banning porn what killed Tumblr. Just dunno, the Tumblr generation seems to be one of contradictions.

How so

Come on. The vocal part of the community that is infamous...

[Himu]

Is just funny to me that it was banning porn what killed Tumblr. Just dunno, the Tumblr generation seems to be one of contradictions.

How so

Come on. The vocal part of the community that is infamous...

Yeah and they still like porn. I’m not seeing the contradiction.

Most of the porn on tumblr is user curated.

[Boredfrom]

Is just funny to me that it was banning porn what killed Tumblr. Just dunno, the Tumblr generation seems to be one of contradictions.

How so

Come on. The vocal part of the community that is infamous...

Yeah and they still like porn. I’m not seeing the contradiction.

Most of the porn on tumblr is user curated.

How convenient they are now worried about censorship and algorithms taking over IRL moderators.

I know that many on Tumblr were not like that but still...

[eleuin]

https://twitter.com/LyricsTooHeavy/status/1069667646239531009

newsfeed pls

[thisismyusername]

I have many fetishes.

So show me.gif

But isn't newgrounds a flash site? Weird place to go to for stills and gifs.

I mean people should just tell the folks migrating to Twitter/et. al. that there's Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/about), you have to make the server if you want to 100% own it, but at that point you can post whatever the fuck you want. A la reddit, but without the reddit admin oversights.

You can NSFW tag your stuff, to where it doesn't show. Problem is: It's like Twitter so curation of things you post is harder than Tumblr.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/i-fear-loss-community-tumblr-s-new-adult-content-rules-n944196

[Tasty]

Finished deleting both of my DeviantArts and both of my Tumblrs. All Newgrounds future baby.

But isn't newgrounds a flash site? Weird place to go to for stills and gifs.

It's not good for IRL GIFs. Or porn for that matter.

But they do have a large thriving art portal and blog system, and I think Fulp's said they'll be bringing in some features from Tumblr next year (though they're being really selective about it, as to not turn NG into something it's not.)

[Tasty]

NG does have this though, sooo.... https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/330027

[Himu]

I’ve making a new twitter tonight and backing up all of my hot shit

[Tasty]

FWIW Tweetdeck is really the only way to go, not only just if you have one account but *especially* if you have multiple accounts.

[thisismyusername]

Speaking of Mastodon, I just checked the federated timeline and came across this server: https://humblr.social/about

So there, you go. Tumblr exodusers can just post their posts there.

[Nintex]

It looks like a shit show but so does Tumblr so 

[Anti-Monitor]

not you too

What do you mean

Also I'd rather wait to see where most people migrate to before doing the same

[Himu]

not you too

What do you mean

Also I'd rather wait to see where most people migrate to before doing the same

Right now it looks like twitter.

[TVC15]

You people poo poo'd me for jerking off to nazisploitation movies and now you all hypocrites are trusting Jack Himmler Dorsey to twiddle your knobs.

[I'm a Puppy!]

not you too

What do you mean

Also I'd rather wait to see where most people migrate to before doing the same

Right now it looks like twitter.

Having to go to the twitter cespool for some boobies? No thanks.

[eleuin]

https://twitter.com/BoltGSR/status/1069737220003614720

[Momo]

not you too

What do you mean

Also I'd rather wait to see where most people migrate to before doing the same

I'm trying to feign disappointment for comedic effect,  joke's over i'm drunk and going home, I can see you guys are taking tumblr porn seriously  
@Tasty because you mentioned it i went to check on my DeviantArt, Jesus Christ I was a weird motherfucker in 2007 

[Tasty]

Porn may end up on Twitter for a while before it gets big and Twitter pulls a Tumblr. If anything, three months ago Twitter was by far the more likely choice for which of the two would start being super puritanical about porn.

Newgrounds is still a private, founder-owned company, that has already survived for 20+ years without Google Ads (and the rest of the major, most-profitable anti-NSFW ad networks) because it hasn't budged on adult content since it began, and likely never will.

Twitter? You're rolling the same dice you rolled with Tumblr. Just sayin'.

/shill

[curly]

the internet really sucks ass

[Tasty]

the internet really sucks ass

It is what we deserve. I mean that literally -- humans have a direct say in what the internet is, so it's a reflection of us.

Of course it sucks ass.

[Himu]

does newgrounds have a handy app?

does it allocate your content into a nice, convenient feed?

[Tasty]

There's a feed for people and things you follow.

No native app but Fulp encourages people to pin the web app to the homescreen, with more mobile optimizations on the way.

[Don Rumata]

Porn may end up on Twitter for a while before it gets big and Twitter pulls a Tumblr. If anything, three months ago Twitter was by far the more likely choice for which of the two would start being super puritanical about porn.

Newgrounds is still a private, founder-owned company, that has already survived for 20+ years without Google Ads (and the rest of the major, most-profitable anti-NSFW ad networks) because it hasn't budged on adult content since it began, and likely never will.

Twitter? You're rolling the same dice you rolled with Tumblr. Just sayin'.

/shill

What's the harm in just doing an account on each? It's free anyway.
Twitter is shit for posting art (which is what i'm doing) but it has a bigger audience, it's all there is to it, really.
But just do an account on both, it literally takes 2 minutes.

[Tasty]

I think redundancy is a virtue when it comes to data, so I agree. People should put their content in as many places as they feel comfortable.

Although, taking that to the extreme, the best way to go *would* be a self-hosted Mastodon instance. But it seems people don't quite care enough about owning their content to do that (in addition to social accounts.)

[PsychoBee]

can u imagine being this ignorant of what ur own site is

like, deadass thats mostly what people used tumblr for, whether they admitted to it or not, that and rp blogs (which mostly devolved into porn anyways so)

I get tumblr thinks their shit doesn't stink and they wanna uphold some "moral standard" () by banning all the porn but thats not what ur site is hombre, gj on killing yourself off and fuck u bc now all those weirdos are in the hentai community on twitter & we have to deal with them but w/e thats a different story

ultimately this just continues the trend of major companies trying to curate their image by banning anything deemed "morally impure" by puritanical standards which feels incredibly contradictory given how "progressive" everyone wants to be seen in 2018, how being sex positive is cool now and then u have business like Tumblr & co suddenly going "nah nope we want to maintain a pure website despite the fact that its not what the majority of our userbase uses it for"

ig you could call it tone deaf?? but honestly this trend towards scrubbing urself of anything remotely horny is hilarious to me & i cant wait to see how it plays out, it'll either blow up in everyones face miserably bc the places that are OK with u being horny or just dont care in general will see a sudden influx of users and those places will prosper while others will shrivel up and die, or eventually this will become the norm again & everyone will return to the status quo of being hyper sex negative and freaking out over anything remotely lewd

[Himu]

I made a new twitter and it’s really hot. I’m proud. Valkyrie and Anti please send me your twitters via pm and I will share mine.

[PsychoBee]

can u imagine being this ignorant of what ur own site is

like, deadass thats mostly what people used tumblr for, whether they admitted to it or not, that and rp blogs (which mostly devolved into porn anyways so)

I'm sure your "like deadass" comment is more accurate than the server stats they have.  (I read porn was 11% of Tumblr in one article.. and it's the 11% of Tumblr they can't put advertising on.. so yeah, I'm sure it will "kill them" to remove it!)

hey hopefully ur right & they continue on into oblivion bc outside of the porn tumblr was a good support structure for some of my friends through the communities built there, but

following this announcement everyone i knew abandoned tumblr & went to twitter/mastodon/discord in large numbers, entire communities of various types said "nah fuck this we're out" so who knows, ive been wrong before, but like all the blogs i followed that were porn or not are dead now, so idk

[Himu]

I love having a blog to express my inner slut.

[kingv]

can u imagine being this ignorant of what ur own site is

like, deadass thats mostly what people used tumblr for, whether they admitted to it or not, that and rp blogs (which mostly devolved into porn anyways so)

I'm sure your "like deadass" comment is more accurate than the server stats they have.  (I read porn was 11% of Tumblr in one article.. and it's the 11% of Tumblr they can't put advertising on.. so yeah, I'm sure it will "kill them" to remove it!)

It’s like if Bore banned talking about dicks and Taco Bell.

I don’t come here to talk about dicks and taco bell , but because I can talk about dicks and Taco Bell without judgment.

[PsychoBee]

Look I'm not arguing that there couldn't be a domino effect;  but most of Tumblr wasn't porn.. and ALL of the profitable part of Tumblr wasn't porn.

Granted you cut off that 11% and some of the 89% will follow..

.. but their app got removed from the iOS app store, that probably reprsents a HUGE portion of their revenue.. so they were likely "dead" either way, however removing porn to try to get back on the app store is probably the better business decision.

I didnt know abt their app being removed- all the info I get is second-hand from friends who use the site constantly (&I dont think they knew that was the reason either? I'll have to ask-) but yea in that case seems like they were put between a rock & a hard place, now i feel bad for them

[kingv]

Yahoo!’s got this guys.

Trust the plan.

Edit: the app thing really screwed them though, IMO and is probably what made this happen.

Does yahoo groups have an app? Because a lot of those are just basically porn sharing too. I’m just relatively sure that porn is view like me through a lot more apps than just umblr.

[Don Rumata]

Can you have different sub-galleries on Newgrounds? You can do it in Deviantart, and it's pretty useful, if you have a lot of images, or comic pages.

[MMaRsu]

I mean..there's porn to find everywhere though  Who even uses tumblr

[kingv]

Speak for yourself, I’ve been beating off to the lingerie section of sears.com for the last 3 days.

[Boredfrom]

The phone App is terrible, though.

[Nintex]

I mean..there's porn to find everywhere though  Who even uses tumblr

First they came for Tumblr and I did not speak because I didn't fap to Tumblr....

[Boredfrom]

can u imagine being this ignorant of what ur own site is

like, deadass thats mostly what people used tumblr for, whether they admitted to it or not, that and rp blogs (which mostly devolved into porn anyways so)

I'm sure your "like deadass" comment is more accurate than the server stats they have.  (I read porn was 11% of Tumblr in one article.. and it's the 11% of Tumblr they can't put advertising on.. so yeah, I'm sure it will "kill them" to remove it!)

hey hopefully ur right & they continue on into oblivion bc outside of the porn tumblr was a good support structure for some of my friends through the communities built there, but

following this announcement everyone i knew abandoned tumblr & went to twitter/mastodon/discord in large numbers, entire communities of various types said "nah fuck this we're out" so who knows, ive been wrong before, but like all the blogs i followed that were porn or not are dead now, so idk

Look I'm not arguing that there couldn't be a domino effect;  but most of Tumblr wasn't porn.. and ALL of the profitable part of Tumblr wasn't porn.

Granted you cut off that 11% and some of the 89% will follow..

.. but their app got removed from the iOS app store, that probably reprsents a HUGE portion of their revenue.. so they were likely "dead" either way, however removing porn to try to get back on the app store is probably the better business decision.

Is a social media platform, the fact there is a huge outcry  and a lot of people abandoning the platform makes me feel that the people that feel alienated are the ones that were regularly using the site.

[Boredfrom]

What percentage of users are part of the backlash?

I dunno. But the probably the same percentage that made Tumblr infamous.

[thisismyusername]

What percentage of users are part of the backlash?

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/12/05/2318211/a-quarter-of-tumblrs-users-are-there-to-consume-porn-data-scientists-estimate#comments

This study was based on the behavior of 130 million users, about half of Tumblr's entire user base. Of that number, "adult content consumers are 22 percent of our sample," the study said. "At the time of the study, roughly 30 million active accounts were consuming adult content, either re-sharing it or following the accounts of those producers," Luca Aiello, one of the study's authors and now a senior research scientist at Nokia Bell Labs told Motherboard in an email. "I expect this audience to experience a noticeable drop in engagement: some of them will just churn out, many of them will likely reduce considerably the time spent on the platform."

Another 28 percent, or roughly 40 million users, encountered pornography unintentionally on Tumblr. That means they didn't seek out the porn, but they followed someone who pushed it into their feed. "The extent of this exposure is hard to estimate but it's probably not major," Aiello said. "Therefore, I believe some people in this segments would be happy to have a cleaner Tumblr feed but I don't expect a significant lift in their engagement, overall." Crucially, the study found that Tumblr's userbase was more female than many social networks ("we estimate that the average user age is 26 and 72 percent of the users are female," they wrote.) They found that these demographics held up between porn consumers and non porn consumers on the site, and that, in fact, young women between the ages of 20-25 were consuming porn on the site at a higher rate than young men. This means that Tumblr's crackdown will likely disproportionately affect women porn consumers.

Now granted, this is a study based on accounts and doesn't factor in that people could view tumblr blogs without an account... so gain of salt on how big a backlash this.

[shosta]

What percentage of users are part of the backlash?

The first way to look at this is "what percentage of accounts are involved in pornographic content?" VICE reports that 22% of all users were direct consumers of pornographic content and that another 28% indirectly consumed it by following accounts that reblogged porn but were not the original producers. That was in 2016. The other way to look at it is to directly measure what percentage of traffic goes to adult content on Tumblr. According to SimilarWeb in 2017 this was about 20% of all clicks.

You can confidently say that a fifth of all "activity" on Tumblr was definitely porn related, and that approximately half of all Tumblr users were comfortable with pornographic content appearing in their feed, or even appreciated its existence (in the same way that I don't have a Facebook account necessarily because I want political content, but I am happy that I have the option to consume it and that it does appear in my timeline on occasion). In short, this is a significant chunk of the userbase, but like you pointed out earlier, there is a larger non-porn consuming userbase on Tumblr than a porn consuming one, and this is the only way they can stay on the iOS app store.

How does Tumblr compete with Instagram after it kills the porn content? I dunno. It probably can't.

[shosta]

fuck you timu. fuck you, fuck your house, fuck your family, fuck your life, fuck you forever.

[thisismyusername]

fuck you timu. fuck you, fuck your house, fuck your family, fuck your life, fuck you forever.