I'm going to go off for a minute about the whole tumblr shutting down thing
I see a lot of people talking about how "no one wants to pay for tumblr premium and that's [part of] the reason tumblr is going under" and I'd like to address this specifically.
I remember when Tumblr announced they had badges, a shop, blaze, and premium people were really excited! Including me! We could pay to keep the lights on and maybe this meant we could get porn back! Tumblr generally wouldn't have to be beholden to "advertiser friendly" standards that not only affected nsfw creators but also a lot of just openly queer people on this site whose only crime was existing.
Then, Tumblr didn't keep their end of the bargain. The big visible issue at the time was transfems were being banned from the platform. Did you all forget Matt Mullenweg's harassment campaign against predestrogen? Remember how he FOLLOWED HER TO TWITTER and CONTINUED TO HARRASS HER after she left tumlbr?
Remember all the trans women talking about how they didn't feel safe on tumblr anymore? What about the sex workers who got banned for sharing sfw promos of their content? Or the artists who spoke up when Tumblr stole their work for their merch without asking?
We didn't choose not to give Tumblr money because "hehe tumblr anticapitalist". We chose not to give money to Tumblr and by extension Automatic because even when people were eagerly giving them money Tumblr and Automatic showed complete disregard for the same users they were asking to pay to keep this platform running. We made an informed decision to not give money to a platform that refused to put its users first.
Tl;dr: Tumblr's user base was perfectly happy to pay to keep the lights on until it became obvious Automatic and Tumblr didn't respect it's users enough to keep up their end of the bargain. The founder harassed predestrogen (who was a well known transfem user) off of the site, sexworkers being sfw were banned, and artist's work was stolen and used without their permission for merch. Automatic doesn't respect the users they asked for help.
Obligatory don't harrass staff regarding this, all of this is representative of a problem with Automatic, not the people who work for them and I imagine the meager team working on Tumblr is doing their best with the few tools they have.
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