Tumblr, you are weird.
Recently I've been looking forward to doing a bit of blogging again. Cue the search for blogging options, then I remembered - I already have a Tumblr account, don't I? I can still use that.
Around the same time, I heard some folks talking about Tumblr being less welcoming of queer (or queer-coded) content and forcing mature labels or straight out hiding it. I didn't think much of it, seeing as I don't think I've uploaded anything like that here.
Turns out I was wrong, as I have two YouTube videos featuring Noelle, the Other Side (which, for those who aren't aware, is me... just different). And turns out those people were right, because - what do you know? - Tumblr thinks those posts need a Mature tag. I'm not aware if they are hidden or not, but they might be for all I know.
Which is pretty fucked up IMHO - I have posts here with clear swearing, screenshots from games where you fight other people and enemies in a clearly non-peaceful way, hell there's even a dick graffiti in one of those. None of those got a mature rating. But a handsome lad turning into a gorgeous lass for a couple videos totalling less than ten minutes warrants a mature label? And mind you, these are gaming videos - no suggestive ASMR, no soft-ero stuff, nothing that could possibly suggest anything NSFW is going on. So what gives?
I don't understand the logic of this place, but it's off-putting. And coming from a place that years ago was allowing all sorts of NSFW content without any restrictions, it's kind of stupid.
Still - their house, their rules. I'm not going to test my luck and FAFO here. But I'm gonna look for places that won't treat me like some sort of freak.

















