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Tumblr is no longer allowing adult content. Infinite Body Piercing, along with many disappointed Tumblr users, are leaving the platform. “Goodbye, Tumblr.”

With the announcement of a ban on adult content going into effect December 17, 2018, Infinite Body Piercing, along with numerous artists, photographers, sex educators, body modification enthusiasts, and untold numbers of disappointed users are leaving this platform, saying “Goodbye, Tumblr.”

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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

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So many people will lose their income and artistic platform. Fuck you @staff

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Well I guess I’ll be deleted at some point. If we’re friends, you can follow my IG.

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Halloween Pin-ups, Sveta Shubina

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Hamonshū, Wave forms

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The Ainu are an Indigenous people of Hokkaido in Japan, and the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of Russia. DNA evidence demonstrates that the Ainu are direct descendants of the Jōmon, an ancient people who inhabited Japan and the Russian Archipelago for at least 12,000 years. The garment being worn by the woman pictured, called an attush, was spun from the inner bark of an elm tree and salmon skin. Her necklaces of metal plates and glass balls, called rektunpe, were also designed to protect from spirits attempting to enter the body. Tattooing was common in Ainu culture, and was strictly reserved for women. The tattoo process would begin as one small spot above the upper lip when a girl was about six years of age. As they grow older, the tattoo is expanded as a line which curves towards the ears, which is later filled with colour. The pain experienced throughout this process was thought to help prepare the woman for the pain of childbirth. A completed lip tattoo represented that a woman had reached maturity, and helped to prevent spirits from entering the body through the mouth. The tattooing process was done with a traditional knife-like instrument called a makiri. Before the invention of this tool, razor sharp obsidian points were used which were wound with a fiber to control the depth of the incision. As the cutting intensified, blood was wiped away with a cloth saturated in nire, a natural antiseptic procured from hot ash wood or spindlewood. Dark black soot was then rubbed deep into the wound as the woman’s tattooist (usually her aunt or grandmother) sung a yukar, a portion of an epic poem which said: “Even without it, she is beautiful. The tattoo around her lips, how brilliant it is. It can only be wondered at.” Afterward, the tattooist recited a spell or formula as more pigment was laid into the skin: “pas ci-yay, roski, roski, pas ren-ren”, meaning “soot enclosed remain, soot sink in, sink in.”