Met one of my biggest inspirations: Jonathan Wilson. @nongmopaleovapedaddy420 📸: @amy.hale.4412 (at Swedish American Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvBS3oBlEU9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nmrylbetozyk

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Met one of my biggest inspirations: Jonathan Wilson. @nongmopaleovapedaddy420 📸: @amy.hale.4412 (at Swedish American Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvBS3oBlEU9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nmrylbetozyk
The adventures of Goth Duck
Gotta love some fam time 😎❤ (at Tahoe City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtKDKIClNvg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1usbsx9kyo9zh
Yo, @mistergoulart took a bunch of mini stories of me and @jon_bay on our LA trip a few weeks back. 😎🤘 (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs7BuJVl1O-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=joh90pu0b908
Brian finally comin through with the good shots from new years 📸: @mistergoulart (at Arcadia, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs4I1-bF2F4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kym1bgdxdush
📸: @mistergoulart (at Arcadia, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs2KDveFUu7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=r65ig3tu3ayj
Groovin with @jtrainthedawg 😎🤘 (at Berkeley, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsoPwMfl5BV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6d5jrvbkaaq7
HOLY CRAP. The closeups are stunning… then you see the whole thing!!!
HOLY CRAP. The closeups are stunning… then you see the whole thing!!!
Panoramic Photographs by Peter Li Bring an Otherworldly Perspective to the Architectural Symmetry of Churches
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#jellyfish (at California Science Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br9hHEpFy_m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i3epaw8w66x6
at Yosemite National Park https://www.instagram.com/p/BrZPv_flMAG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mwemz9loxi5g
An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:
Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more.
You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again.
We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue.
Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole. There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough.
You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:
Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind.
We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.
If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to.
You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.
If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise.
Sincerely,
The users of your website.
@staff @support
They flagged this post immediately and I’ve submitted it for review… this is… quite a week.
If you believe these words, reblog it, please. I want this to be right in their face because I couldn’t email them directly.
@staff
Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened every day and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breath in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.
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