Why is everyone angry about this tumblr purge thing? I thought it was a good thing.
It should never be forgotten that this all started with shutting down Pedophlies, that is very important.Ā But there are alot of sides to this whole thing, the LGTB+ community getting lumped in with porn, the importance of sex education or sex positivity in general, or peopleās right to speech and expression, Yahoo!/Tumblr chasing down that sweet ad revenue (or maybe none of these, I mostly get all my info from Reddit headlines).Ā Tumblrās method was to just cut it all out, and really, Tumblr is under no obligation to host any kind of porn.
Iām not very broken up about losing Tumblr. It wasnāt great, as an image hosting site it was subpar.Ā But it was easy and not without its charms.Ā I doubt Tumblr is going anywhere. There will still be blogs and art and whatever else people use Tumblr for.Ā Itās just the question of what will be here that can survive the new filters.Ā Either way I probably wonāt be here to find out, I can find all the cool artists I want on Artstation or Twitter, which is mainly what I used Tumblr for in the first place.
In the end the most important thing to remember is itās the fucking Pedophiles fault! They just ruin everything.
