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here is very useful yuru yuri cap for christmas
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what even are any of these “alternative sites to tumblr in case it dies” everyone’s suggesting like i’ve never heard of any of these in my life do you really expect me to create an account on babar the elephant dot com or some shit and follow you there
Been married to Tumblr since 2010. We have had some ups and downs. And although my hoe is eager to go to hell, I am staying. Wherever you go I follow. I love you amigo Tumblr.
Polite version
tumblr is silently shadowbanning posts based on unknown criteria (unlikely to be image-matching, we suspect text content). Affected posts appear on dash and dash-like views, but not on the actual blog page as seen by other users. I have been able to see the effect personally on desktop. Almost certainly related to the gutting of the chronic pain tag and similar hits previously.
There is no red warning bar and no way to dispute a shadowban.
My friend has a class where she makes blog entries about art for a grade, aaaand this just happened to her. I’m amazed
La letra con amor, entra. (via)
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THOSE BOOKS ARE PUSSYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THOSE BOOKS BEING PUSSY;S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW THATS WHAT I CALL “INTELLECTUALLY STIMULATING”…!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS WILL… REALLY MAKE YOU THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if this post gets deleted on the 17th I’m going with it
can’t wait for this to get flagged
HJKHDKLJHSJKFHSJKDFH
THIS HISTORICAL POST… THREATENED
same thing for straight people and queer studies tbh
oh god what is going on now
guys calm down, you can still draw fictional people naked
#just not fucking.#I can live with that.#honestly this is slightly irritating but not ‘THE SKY IS FALLING’
Yyyyyeah except they’ve already:
purged the ‘chronic pain’ tag
purged the ‘top surgery’ tag
made ‘trans’ tag inaccessible to non-functional
deleted a bunch of chronic illness blogs
deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)
This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects.
The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.
ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers.
Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)
This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.
I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.
Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.
(As an interesting aside: isn’t it funny how all these sites attribute these things to an algorithm error? Itsn’t that funny.)
Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.
And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.
So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.
This. I see a lot of talk about how “the tumblr ancients know tumblr will not die” and fam, I was an early adopter. I drifted in here after Strikethrough. (I’ve deleted and purged at least three accounts since then, before you say anything.) Livejournal still exists, you know? It’s not dead. It’s just not a place where fandom and fan communities or LGBTQAetc communities or living-with-disability communities want to be any more, because it was made clear that the owners didn’t want our sort. And what looked like the best possible alternative (hello Dreamwidth my old friend), a by-us for-us solution, kind of… didn’t exactly die on its ass, but most of the activity ended up here. (You know, on the scrolling blue hellsite that most of us agree is kind of a crock but it’s where the community is so we live with it.)
I don’t know where the fuck we’re all going to decamp to next - even the little indie platforms that are just building up might sell out some day because business be like that and the stuff that stays indie stays on a fucking shoestring and dates badly (hello again Dreamwidth, god looking at you is like going back in time and I didn’t enjoy 2009 the first time around).
I’m not looking forward to rebuilding a community and establishing new norms and all the teething troubles early Tumblr had when it suddenly got big. It’s fucking difficult and after the second go around it’s tiring, especially when people have forgotten - or were never there for - the last time a platform shit the bed while we were still in it. And on a personal note, I came over here because VtM Facebook does my nut in, Reddit has the attention span of a suicidal fruitfly, and Blogspot/G+ is full of OSR people stirring each other’s shit with a long spoon. And as much as I like Wordpress, you’ve got to build a community from scratch over there. It’s not a good platform to have actual conversations on.
Anyway. Where was I? Oh yeah. The sky doesn’t have to fall. It just has to get low and threatening enough that people don’t want to be under it any more.
“maybe this way the sallon will accept it, monsieur Manet”
GUYS I FOUND A LOOPHOLE IN THE SYSTEM
sirblackaxe fyi if you check the front of your blog instead of your dashboard, you’ll notice that all those falsely flagged posts are now stuck at the top.
thanks for the heads-up. this is the worst thing ever. LOL. i dont wanna delete em so ill just leave them and hope tumblr fixes it (a very foolish hope, i know) so just an FYI then: to anyone looking, the entire first page of my blog is old stuff right now, so i apologize :’)
a very kind individual informed me of a solution for this! if you’re dealing with the same problem, just edit and save the post, and it’ll go back to where it’s supposed to be.
people on the internet complaining that the literal teenagers Disney hired for the live action Kim Possible look “too young” then making their own ridiculous fancasts
okay, i had not heard that this was happening, so let me just go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s going to be a Disney Channel Original Movie, so easy to watch and tivo or whatever.
Allyson Hannigan is playing Kim’s mom, which is delightful to me.
Christy Carlson Romano is going to be in it in some capacity.
PATTON OSWALT IS REPRISING HIS ROLE AS PROFESSOR DEMENTOR
And these are our delightful trio:
OH MY GOD I AM SO HERE FOR THIS YES GOOD THIS IS GONNA BE CUTE AF AND I’M SO DELIGHTED.
This is legitimately the funniest thing that has ever happened on MBMBAM
okay but like.
At first I thought griffin was doing a good goof.
BUT NO THIS MAN IS LEGITIMATELY REELING UNDER THIS NEW INFORMATION.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
"Same-sex romantic content will be far more likely to be remove" meaning the art of Steven Universe of the gems and content in general will it be removed and content from the new She-ra, which both shows does have lbgt and queer themes in them?
this won’t be official policy or anything but it will probably be the aggregate effect, yes.
why does this happen, you ask?
because the site rules are enforced by humans, and humans … are not very good at being 100% fair or unbiased. (at least, not when we’re acting in large numbers. any one person could be good at it, but the likelihood that most of a group is good at fairness drops as the group gets bigger.)
thus, Even when we’re trying to be unbiased:
material that’s potentially in violation of the tumblr TOS featuring subjects that are not ‘default’ (NOT straight, cis, perisex, white, able-bodied, healthy, etc) have a greater chance of being noticed and reported. it’s more ‘visible’ because of a combined effect of ‘this might be a violation’ and the brain’s increased awareness when something is ‘out of the ordinary’. if straight-cis-white is ‘ordinary’: things that aren’t straight-cis-white grab our attention, and are that much more likely to be scrutinized for violations of the TOS. (see: fandom’s tendency to go after media that isn’t mediocre whitebread content for failing to be ‘good enough’.)
this is severely compounded by:
a lack of internal awareness of privilege/bias/etc amongst those who hold the majority opinion. (it’s the majority opinion because the majority holds that opinion.) if the majority is biased against something, that thing is more likely to get reported as a problem by people who don’t even acknowledge that they’re biased against it.
not to mention:
people who will participate in deliberately biased & malicious reporting. there’s plenty of people who are openly racist, openly homophobes, openly transphobes, etc. you think they won’t take special time to go after TOS violations from content that they openly loathe? because they do - and they will continue to do so.
why this happens in America/on American platforms in particular:
at the admin level: in America, the higher up the management ladder you go, the more likely the people making the decisions are straight white cis guys who do not have a strong awareness of their own privilege and/or bias against people who don’t share their privilege. These are the people who will be responsible for writing & enforcing the rules for nsfw content at Oath and/or Tumblr. they are likely to be unconsciously biased towards content that they personally like and against content they personally don’t like, so in aggregate, their decisions will be more likely to favor straight white cis guy tastes & enjoyments.
at the cultural level: America is obsessive about keeping sexual content from ‘the children’ than violent content, because our cultural values are very much rooted in puritanial Christian morality. We also still have a lot of racism, homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, sexism, etc. baked directly into our culture. so if something can be concievably argued as a threat to preserving the innocence/sexual ignorance of a puritanical, white Christian kid, then it has much higher potential to be flagged as n sfw. (of course, this means LGBTQ+ content (romantic or otherwise) and non-white content is more likely to be tagged as in violation of the TOS.)
tl;dr: even if every single person moderating tumblr was acting with the best intentions, trying to be 100% fair and reporting/acting without bias, the drift will be towards creating a sexually chaste, LGBTQ+-unfriendly, white-centric, and cis-bodied/perisex only space as everything else gets reported more often as a problem and purged off the site.
that’s why censorship enforces baked-in privilege in brief, folx.
Sorry to bother you, but, this post has been incorrectly flagged as explicit content by tumblr. I’m reblogging it here in hopes that you (the OP) will see this note and file an appeal. I would file an appeal myself, but apparently ONLY the OP can.
Wow, look at that!
No images to be misinterpreted by a bot
Nothing sexually explicit at all - not even mentions of sexually explicit content.
One mention of n sfw (even censored as here)
But I did mention lgbtq+ content 🤔
And talk about how Tumblr’s new policy will absolutely be enforced in racist and queerphobic ways
Wild
it’s definitely working as intended, and that should be a warning to all of us.
Uh so this post is definitely getting soft blocked.
My wife reblogged this from me. I saw the little “X reblogged an ask” notification pop up in the bottom of my browser window, and I was curious to see what she’d reblogged so I went to her blog. The most recent post was a text post that she reblogged hours ago. “oh” I thought “i guess it was an old notif.” That’s been known to happen.
go to my dash to see new posts, and HERE THIS POST IS, reblogged a few minutes ago from me.
It is not on her blog. It is not in my notes. I checked, I went through posts going back HOURS, and there are a LOT of posts that I’ve reblogged that are not showing in my notes OR on my blog if you go directly to it.
IDK if this is an intended feature or not (a kim possible post i reblogged about half an hour ago isn’t on my blog atm, for example) and it could very well just be a bug that they’re trying to fix, but SOME SHIT IS GOING DOWN AND IT IS ACTIVELY HIDING CONTENT UNLESS YOU’RE ON YOUR DASH.
“lol the only people mad about the tumblr announcement just want porn lol”
Yeah, no.
Tumblr blocked the tag “chronic pain” in this mess for no reason
They’re flagging commonly used tags by queer people, sex educators, and artists who make their fucking LIVING on tumblr
They’re gonna take down genuine sex workers because they didn’t curb the problem with spamming porn bots YEARS ago when tumblr users REPORTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND *OVER* that it was a problem
Tumblr IGNORED the bots, IGNORED the problems, and honestly treated it like NOTHING until their app was taken off a store due to it.
They’re fucking over a shit-ton of REAL PEOPLE who rely on tumblr for community and/or income because they ignored users’ complaints about shitty porn bots for YEARS until it had financial consequences
I can no longer even talk about chronic pain without the post being blocked from searches
I have drawn one or two nude pieces on my art tumblr which is 99% safe for work but now I’m worried the blog will be taken down entirely because Tumblr won’t bother differentiating between spam and REAL PEOPLE just trying to live their goddamn lives
And god forbid I want to talk about bisexuality or sex or kink in just… MY LIFE. As a normal-ass human being who just wants to TALK ABOUT HUMAN THINGS
No, their solution to nuke a problem they’ve ignored for years is to take us all down at once
So maybe don’t laugh about “oh no not my pornz” because 1. plenty of that ~porn~ is made by actual humans making their living and 2. WAY MORE than “just porn” is being targeted
This along with Facebook continuously upholding white supremacy by letting nazi shit fly by while they ban people for speaking out against their oppressors and it’s basically like we’re running out of truly free places to just… BE
Ancient Roman gold nipple cover, 1st century AD.
from Czerny’s International Auction House
My favorite part about all this is that even the sober, disciplined, thoughtful blogs devoted to history/science/academia are taking potshots @staff. Fucking outstanding.
okay but the thing about academia is that it is populated ENTIRELY by spiteful, petty, vindictive people who ABSOLUTELY WOULD DO SHIT LIKE THIS.
seriously. This is hugely on brand and I love it.