@inhalingarchitecture - Tumblr Blog

I’m having a conversation with one of my friends and I ask him, “What defines you?” and he responded with, “Nothing. A definition excludes the possibility for change.”

This is one of the best responses I’ve ever received to any of my questions.

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A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

inhalingarchitecture

To be honest, Tumblr, the blogs that you intend to destroy are the same blogs that showed me how beautiful my own body could be. When I first made this account, I was 13 and hated myself and my self image. I saw beautiful, flawless, skinny young women and I hated myself even more. I aspired to be THAT aesthetic. I would look at my body and cringe because I couldn’t be the ideal Tumblr image. While I’ve stayed on tumblr, I’ve seen people flash suicide warnings daily, hate themselves religiously, and cry at every opportunity until their tears just dried. The porn community at tumblr dramatically HELPED my perception of my self and my body. I saw the body as it twisted, turned, felt pure release, and feel loved. I no longer felt self conscious in the bedroom or in my own skin because I saw people like me move like me. If we aren’t going to do anything to censor images that promote suicidak thoughts and self hatred, then why are we going to ban the opposite. I’m disappointed. It wasn’t just always “jerking off to big tittles.” For me, it taught me how to make myself cum, and taught me how to teach my partner how to help me cum. This saddens me. It wasn’t just some porn group with girls with fake nails, fake tits, fake tans and fake hair and it wasn’t just some 6-pack, 10 inch dick having men. It was the gamut of all beautiful bodies. And it really helped me learn to appreciate the sharing of bodies. I thank the community that will suffer from this, because you’ve helped more than you’ll ever know.

I'm in love with you. The way you hold my belly when I have cramps. The way you encourage me to eat the last slice of pizza because you want me to say no so that you can have it instead. The way you interrupt me to tell me you love me. The way you make me laugh. I. Crave. Every. Inch. Of. You. And I need you now more than ever before

Have you ever felt so disgusted with who you are as a person that even self-deprecating jokes don't help anymore?

I've had men tell me to stop shaving. I've had men tell me to shave more frequently. I've never had a man tell me my decision is justified.

iaintnopapaya

Disney Princesses as sloths.

but why

why not

Ngl….mood

weklwejrwaejflasfkraewl-deactiv

Girl same

lucidnee

Patrick was a fake ass friend to spongebob. He was a bitch

a-tom-ic-bomb

Source?

lucidnee

episode where Patrick fam came over and sponegbob pretended to be dumb for him and Patrick flip flop ass started making fun of him.

skyakafreckles

Patrick was cold for that

reign-sl

And that episode where Mr Krabs gave them both a toy to share and he selfishly dodged and ignored SpongeBob to keep it for himself? TRIFLING

lucidnee

EXACTLY Patrick ain’t never been a true friend

bodegaowner-deactivated20190930

real friends……how many of us?

sexthongsandbuddah

And the time he ate his fucking chocolate bar & tried to jack spongebob for his.. nah son

lucidnee

Patrick did spongebob dirty so many times smh he a Gemini

free-market-pluralist-deactivat

Patrick has no self awareness.

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what about when his slug wanted to be friends with patrick and he just ditched spongebob and clowned on him for it

woodlandenjoyer

When they were raising the clam together and Patrick kept leavin spongebob all day with the baby so he could watch tv smh

hoplite-operator

When patrick made spongebob believe he was ugly when he just had some bad breath

dustinberrycool

Wasn’t Patrick the one that ditched Spongebob in the advanced darkness at the bottom of the sea?

joey-wheeler-official

we’re pulling out the receipts tonight

You're the type of guy I could fall asleep next to; even with a coked out mind

frosty-rain

s0ulx-deactivated20211207

This was and still is my fav thing

maywemeetagainprincess

mdintraining

If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

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I'm not used to being alone. And at first it all seems so liberating. But then time comes barging through, breaking the hinges. Time makes sure you feel unworthy of a moment. Time makes you feel insensitive for 3 am desires. Time makes you look backwards and forwards and makes you question everything you thought you already had figured out. Time is not a friend. He is selfish and stops for nothing. For no one. He has no feelings. He will continue to take and take until you are nothing left but a shell of something you previously thought was full. But let me tell you, Time; I will make myself full again. Only this round, it will be real.