Ad Astra Per Aspera

Formerly for my own naughty inhibitions and whatever things I found pretty- then to chronicle the abuses of tumblr- now just a place to release my feelings in hope that one day things will be ok...

[snappysprinkledog]

Step 1: don’t screw it up

Failed step 1

[tranarchist]

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

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.”

[plainhug]

fight me tumblr

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories...

[ffpn]

Tumblr’s stupid move

I stopped posting on Tumblr some time ago because my photos were getting reblogged to porn blogs. My work isn’t porn and I don’t want to be associated with porn. If Tumblr had worked out a way to make it possible for me to stop my work from being recirculated on blogs on which I didn’t want it to appear I would have continued posting. However, I kept my blog active (actually two blogs - one now deleted) because I still enjoyed looking at the work of other artists and photographers. Sadly, Tumblr’s new community guidelines have removed content from many of those blogs (as well as removing content from my blogs) and many of those artists and photographers have left Tumblr as a result.

I am amazed that horror, gore and violence are acceptable while nudity and sex are not. It’s ok to destroy, but not ok to show love, sex and beauty. Stupid.

There already is censored social media. Facebook and Instagram for example (which I don’t use because of their malicious manipulation of public opinion and theft of personal data). I really hope another platform emerges that will allow artists to post as they please and figures out a way to keep nasty crap from being posted (racism, bigotry, child porn, gore and other types of vulgarity).

I’m not using Tumblr anymore. I’ve deleted all the content from this blog because if Tumblr is going to censor some of my work then they can’t have any of it.

The Community Guidelines are stupid and cowardly.

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories...

[lilyallurenola]

So I just went through my entire Tumblr and appealed every flag that I could. I noticed an alarming trend. I rarely post anything that violates the new rules, and while not all of my censored posts were flagged, EVERY SINGLE ONE that provided a way for me to make money was. Whether I was in pasties, baring my ass, or had digitally censored a photo, if it included a link to my Patreon or my PayPal link, it was flagged. On top of that, I found an alarming number of feminist and women-supporting posts were flagged regardless of nudity. Explain that @staff

On that note as well, my PayPal is [email protected] and my Patreon is lilyallurenola. Women and sex-workers are being attacked and need y'alls help. Whether you support me or another performer, please send some support. Also, if y'all go through my Tumblr and see an all caps note at the top about not “female presenting nipples”, that post was previously flagged. They have since gone through and unflagged quite a few of them.

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories...

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our darkest days. These are our stories. Follow the blog as I hunt down as many stories as I can about how Tumblr going dark has hurt regular people…

Submit your stories in messenger…

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories...

[east-bay]

A ton of my old charcoal live-model draws & digital drawings got flagged for nipples 🖕🏻😂 Fuck Tumblr.

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories...

[jancphoto]

Fuck you, Tumblr and your censors (and feel free to report this post)

Fuck you, Tumblr. You flagged posts on my blog that were good enough for Instagram. WTF? I am done with you. I don’t support your inquisition-grade prudery crusade. Who are you to tell us that we cannot view “adult” content? And who are you to decide what content is “adult”? Weapons, hate speech, trolling, bullying are OK but a nipple would corrupt your viewers? Oh, yeah, you are the owner of this space on the internet. Gotcha. Well, good riddance on your self-inflicted one-way road to nowhere but don’t count on me to accompany you.

To my followers: it’s been great to share my work with you over the past few years but this platform is no longer a safe place for my work to thrive. It can still be found on Instagram and if any of you hear about the “new place to be” that would look more like the pre-2013 Tumblr, please let me know.

This shall be my last post here. “Au revoir dans des temps meilleurs.”

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories...

[morrowsmind]

Up until now I thought that Tumblr simply hid the flagged “adult” posts completely, but scrolling through the blog of @tombagshaw I suddenly see this. And honestly, this makes it even worse in my opinion. This is adding insult to injury. “LOOK AT THIS PERVERT WHO VIOLATES OUR POLICIES! ALSO HERE’S A LINK TO WHY WE PROTECT YOU FROM THIS VILE STUFF!”

I’m 48 and a half years old. I’ve done and seen a lot in my day and age. I’m also the proud owner of a pair of beautiful titties, and trust me when I say I’m fairly familiar with nipples in many of their forms, both female and male. They’re just a nub of flesh, not that different from many other nubs of flesh every single one of us has (except they’re a little more sensitive for most of us).

You’re not protecting me by hiding nipples from me, you’re killing my joy in the freedom of being here. And no, it’s not like I was just here for the nipples. I can get those everywhere. But I liked having them perk up my dash (pardon the pun), in between the pretty crystals and landscapes and writing discussions and bunnies. It’s a lot more boring now without a bit of random sexiness every now and then.

I’m not gonna say “fuck you, staff” because staff doesn’t make the decisions, the poor schmucks just execute the shit the owners come up with. But by god, fuck you, owners. You turned a damn fun place into a sad parody of itself. Seriously, fuck you.

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories...

[thegoodlion]

Good job tumblr. 🙄

How tf can tumblr leave a blog like this up and say that porn is what’s ruining the site.

[astra-umbra-passion]

They destroyed the lives of artists, sex workers, and people who love humanity. They let evil stay.

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories...

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are our stories...

Our Death of Tumblr Stories.

[astra-umbra-passion]

These are some of our stories...

The death of Tumblr stories...

[sss-drake]

Id like to show you all something.

Yes indeed no nudity but you can find all the discriminatory and hate speech you want!

But wait, the icing on the cake…

…really? Do i need even say anything.

[taboolicious-deactivated2018121]

since this place is going down the shitter, why not reblog this?

[staff]

Hey, Tumblr! We’ve made it easier for you to find and appeal incorrectly flagged posts on your blogs. Just open your account settings, select “Review flagged posts,” and you’ll see a timeline view of your posts that have been flagged on that blog. Not sure if a post was correctly flagged or not? You can check by reading more about adult content on Tumblr in our Help Center.

Finding the “Review flagged posts” page in the app is easy, but you’ll need to be using iOS 12.2 or Android 12.3.1 or later:

Open the account tab (the silhouette of a person).

Tap the gear icon.

Tap “Review flagged posts” to see your flagged content.

If you have multiple secondary blogs, switch between them by tapping the dropdown in the upper left corner of the account tab.

More of a desktop web person?

Go to the account tab by clicking into account settings (the silhouette of a person) at the top of the dashboard.

Click the name of the blog you want to check on the right-hand side of the page.

Select “Review flagged posts” to see all flagged content for that blog.

Every single appealed post will be reviewed by a real human who will make sure content that shouldn’t have ever been flagged will be appropriately reinstated.  

You’ll also continue to receive email notifications if your content is flagged, so you don’t have to worry about keeping tabs on this page for newly flagged posts. Make sure the email associated with your Tumblr account is one that is checked frequently!

If you need additional support or have other questions, visit our Help Center.

Here’s to a happy 2019, Tumblr.

[ms-demeanor]

*checks help center*

Yep, still sticking with the transphobic phrasing of ‘female presenting nipples.’

General reminder: tumblr doesn’t care about you, the content you produce is the product that they market to advertisers and advertisers want to be family friendly.

Even more general reminder: Restrictions like this are also due to anti-sex-work laws like SESTA/FOSTA and that’s why you’ve gotta be careful who you vote into office (AKA please stop pretending Kamala Harris is the last great hope for democrats)

[staff]

Hey, Tumblr! We’ve made it easier for you to find and appeal incorrectly flagged posts on your blogs. Just open your account settings, select “Review flagged posts,” and you’ll see a timeline view of your posts that have been flagged on that blog. Not sure if a post was correctly flagged or not? You can check by reading more about adult content on Tumblr in our Help Center.

Finding the “Review flagged posts” page in the app is easy, but you’ll need to be using iOS 12.2 or Android 12.3.1 or later:

Open the account tab (the silhouette of a person).

Tap the gear icon.

Tap “Review flagged posts” to see your flagged content.

If you have multiple secondary blogs, switch between them by tapping the dropdown in the upper left corner of the account tab.

More of a desktop web person?

Go to the account tab by clicking into account settings (the silhouette of a person) at the top of the dashboard.

Click the name of the blog you want to check on the right-hand side of the page.

Select “Review flagged posts” to see all flagged content for that blog.

Every single appealed post will be reviewed by a real human who will make sure content that shouldn’t have ever been flagged will be appropriately reinstated.  

You’ll also continue to receive email notifications if your content is flagged, so you don’t have to worry about keeping tabs on this page for newly flagged posts. Make sure the email associated with your Tumblr account is one that is checked frequently!

If you need additional support or have other questions, visit our Help Center.

Here’s to a happy 2019, Tumblr.

[digitalangels-deactivated202510]

So apparently this should be finally available for everyone? I’ve had it for few weeks and during that time out of the 40-something flagged posts I’ve had exactly 1 has shown under this new review page so pretty clearly this feature does not actually work. I also still haven’t gotten a single email about my flagged posts even though you guys keep claiming that you’re sending them. Has literally anyone gotten one? The only mails I’ve gotten have been when I’ve manually weeded through 6 years worth of content I’ve posted and appealed for the posts as I go through them and then get the same automated “sorry for incorrectly flagging your post!” reply regardless of what actually is in the post. Additionally your algorithm still can’t tell nipple from dark eyes, doorknob or chocolate chip cookies, wasn’t it supposed to learn something as time passes? 

Also worth mentioning that in the 6 years of tumblring I’ve done before the nipple ban I had gotten maybe 40 pornbot followers during all that time, now after the ban I’ve gotten and blocked at least 40 more, the only thing that has changed is that now the bots post pictures with bras, you still get the same shady links under those pictures telling you to come fuck hot girls/teens near you or check out their camgirls so clearly the ban did nothing to the actual problem, you just drove tons of real people away with it so great job staff! 

I’m honestly not even that angry anymore, just disappointed and sad. 

[ivy-sims]

yeah, I only found my flagged posts by going back through all 250+ pages of my simblr. nothing shows up for any of my blogs on the flagged posts page and my sims blog is STILL flagged as adult for no reason

[mau5bot]

@staff @support @logoffprotest I suggest we start reporting the Tumblr app in all app stores as malicious/infected, since you know, it is full of malicious bots. Would be something extra to do during the next protest. If losing most of their user base due to the NSFW ban hasn’t gotten their attention, maybe getting removed from the app stores AGAIN will.

Flag as Inappropriate >> Harmful to Device or Data

[staff]

Hey, Tumblr! We’ve made it easier for you to find and appeal incorrectly flagged posts on your blogs. Just open your account settings, select “Review flagged posts,” and you’ll see a timeline view of your posts that have been flagged on that blog. Not sure if a post was correctly flagged or not? You can check by reading more about adult content on Tumblr in our Help Center.

Finding the “Review flagged posts” page in the app is easy, but you’ll need to be using iOS 12.2 or Android 12.3.1 or later:

Open the account tab (the silhouette of a person).

Tap the gear icon.

Tap “Review flagged posts” to see your flagged content.

If you have multiple secondary blogs, switch between them by tapping the dropdown in the upper left corner of the account tab.

More of a desktop web person?

Go to the account tab by clicking into account settings (the silhouette of a person) at the top of the dashboard.

Click the name of the blog you want to check on the right-hand side of the page.

Select “Review flagged posts” to see all flagged content for that blog.

Every single appealed post will be reviewed by a real human who will make sure content that shouldn’t have ever been flagged will be appropriately reinstated.  

You’ll also continue to receive email notifications if your content is flagged, so you don’t have to worry about keeping tabs on this page for newly flagged posts. Make sure the email associated with your Tumblr account is one that is checked frequently!

If you need additional support or have other questions, visit our Help Center.

Here’s to a happy 2019, Tumblr.

[a-story-yet-complete]

Gimme back my kitties amd titties you assfaces. Gimme back my porn in general.

Take the stupid fucking porn bots. Fight them not out the people who were doing just fine as workers of art in all mediums till yahoo bought you out. Give us back our hell site

[staff]

Hey, Tumblr! We’ve made it easier for you to find and appeal incorrectly flagged posts on your blogs. Just open your account settings, select “Review flagged posts,” and you’ll see a timeline view of your posts that have been flagged on that blog. Not sure if a post was correctly flagged or not? You can check by reading more about adult content on Tumblr in our Help Center.

Finding the “Review flagged posts” page in the app is easy, but you’ll need to be using iOS 12.2 or Android 12.3.1 or later:

Open the account tab (the silhouette of a person).

Tap the gear icon.

Tap “Review flagged posts” to see your flagged content.

If you have multiple secondary blogs, switch between them by tapping the dropdown in the upper left corner of the account tab.

More of a desktop web person?

Go to the account tab by clicking into account settings (the silhouette of a person) at the top of the dashboard.

Click the name of the blog you want to check on the right-hand side of the page.

Select “Review flagged posts” to see all flagged content for that blog.

Every single appealed post will be reviewed by a real human who will make sure content that shouldn’t have ever been flagged will be appropriately reinstated.  

You’ll also continue to receive email notifications if your content is flagged, so you don’t have to worry about keeping tabs on this page for newly flagged posts. Make sure the email associated with your Tumblr account is one that is checked frequently!

If you need additional support or have other questions, visit our Help Center.

Here’s to a happy 2019, Tumblr.

[krysslabryn]