The Only Place For Me In Hell Is the Cage

20 year old that's an asshole sometimes but like a nice one

[someguyorwhateverxxx]

*gets down on one knee* sir would you… join me in mlm/wlw solidarity

[someguyorwhateverxxx]

[morningsuns]

Whats the most depressing song you can think of

[morningsuns]

[glurg]

Lorde made better lyrics at 16 than every other mediocre 30 yr old male singer with a guitar

[gratuitousautomaton]

This picture of Chris Fleming that he just tweeted is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

[unclefather]

[thebibliosphere]

I actually feel sorry for the likely unpaid intern sitting at tumblr HQ dealing with all our bullshit and snark while those actually in charge watch the world burn from a safe distance and blame it on us damn kids not buying more products. Because ultimately this is what this about. Verizon needs to make money from Tumblr, and Verizon can’t make money cause Apple says “no adult content” and Apple has a stranglehold on the app market.

The fact that a lot of us use tumblr to host our own services and products as independent creators, often as our only source of income, is irrelevant to them. The fact that to many of us this is our community is meaningless to them. We’re acceptable collateral damage to furthering corporate greed and that’s the fucking tea on that.

Also to the hypothetical unpaid intern: leave, sweety. You can do better, and you’re worth so much more.

[m-in-a-moonrock]

I thought Apple removed the app because of the CP though ? 

Not that I don’t think Apple is evil or don’t have a stranglehold on the market, but if the removal was specifically because of the pedophilia then that was a more than fair decision. Come to think of it, if it was because of all the porn bots it was also pretty fair. Tumblr should have gotten its shit together way earlier about that and if the whole “no adult content” thing is wholly their decisions then this mess is on them for not being able to manage their own website, panicking when there’s finally some consequences and deciding that trying to ban all “adult content” instead of dealing with the actual problem is the way to go

 (so yeah hypothetical intern might want to find a better, not completely incompetent place of work)

[thebibliosphere]

The CP is what forced them to roll out changes quicker, but otherwise this NSFW ban has been in the planning for quite some time. They were always planning to do this.

That whole “oh we rolled back the filtering system” that happened a while ago cause the algorithm was bullshit? Was them testing it to see a) how well it worked but also b) how we’d react.

But because, and this is all through the grapevine stuff and “anon sources” who were willing to talk to Vox (source), Verizon haven’t been putting any money into Tumblr since they bought it, the engineers that run the site have been jumping ship left right and center for better gigs (without being offered any reason to stay), so there’s been increasingly fewer staff to maintain or make changes, so the filter is still bullshit, still broken, and the site is only going to break further as time goes on cause no money is going into maintaining the basic infrastructure. So it doesn’t just seem like things are broken and no one is fixing it, things actually are breaking down, and there’s not enough people with the know how to fix it.

Tumblr is like the house built on sinking sand at this point. It just so also happens to be built on top of a tire fire as well, and the “discovery” of a CP circuit was just the thing that made them go “oh shit oh god oh shit” when Apple finally got sick of their shit and pulled the app. (And Apple is notorious for not allowing apps “that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic” or for trying to muscle them out of site out of mind (source)(source)(source) so to the people in the notes going “uuuh they allow snapchat???”, yeah, for now. It also likely has different age restrictions and details in their ToS compared to the android one, where the rules about apps are a lot more lax, something which Steve Jobs himself was snarky about (source).)

[datmusictho]

Jesus Christ I’m so mad at myself for not knowing about any of this until now

[thebibliosphere]

Don’t be! The facts are only just now starting to emerge as people are becoming willing to speak out and talk, but also, some of these things are well hidden!!

Big companies pay big money for you to never know these things about them, they scrub their google returns clean so that most of the time all you will ever find are positive results. Most people didn’t even know that Yahoo had been acquired by Verizon until recently. Some people still don’t.

Misinformation is how chaos thrives, and chaos can often be capitalized on provided it’s a carefully curated kind. All of this?—laughable as it is to say, was planned. Poorly planned, and even more poorly executed, but premeditated all the same. As is anything that is done by a corporate company.

This is why things like Net Neutrality did and do matter. This is why telecommunication companies developing a monopoly over the Internet was a bad idea. This is why so many of us have been freaking out while others call us tin foil hatters go “ugh come on guys, it’s not a big deal” because it does matter! The small things matter! Because the small things eventually make up the whole and sometimes the whole turns out to be a big steaming pile of mass censorship in favor of profit. And that’s a Problem.

So don’t be mad at yourself. Not when it’s time to get mad at them.

[aflawedmind]

Snapchat does not have any different age restrictions and their ToS re: sexual content is not materially different FYI. However, SC has the resources to go after CP that Tumblr never really did.

[thebibliosphere]

That’s interesting to know! I was actually going to look into it but hadn’t had the chance yet.

You are right about them having better resources than tumblr, the Vox argument was really telling at just how subpar and under maintained tumblr is as a website, which is shocking when you consider the size and popularity of it, but it is what it is at this stage. Intentionally allowed to die and become unmanageable because we’re “unprofitable”.

Which again is horseshit, but that’s inept marketers for you I suppose.

[blastoisarchive]

[arandomthot]

Sometimes the public just isn’t ready

[karayray1-deactivated20230129]

Not enough people gonna see it lol

[cryptidquinn-deactivated2021071]

me: *searches for a post i know for a fact is on my blog*

tumblr: “sowwy, we didn’t find anyfing wike that :(((((”

me:

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

Can’t flag me if there aren’t any nipples!

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

[hashtagloveloses]

tumblr users: please ban the Nazis

tumblr: if you post a tiddy you’ll be deleted on sight

[roguesgambits-deactivated202306]

thank u, jeff

[beetle-jude]

YES

[krawps]

dont care if this is inappropriate im gonna force staff to look at it with a review anway

[krawps]

[weirdnessisgood]

[tormod]

tumblr peaked when we were able to cyberbully john green

[tormod]

this is the post that got me my first anon graphically telling me to kms

[pissvortex]

that was john green

[unofficial-vatican]

I’m really sorry for flooding your walls right now, but I just need to point out that Tumblr explicitly said they would allow nudity in art… but they flagged the Sistine Chapel

@staff you seriously need to rewrite the code on your algorithm

[mandakatt]

Gonna drop my opinion here on this really quick:

Tumblr could have avoided all of this with a simple easy code - called CAPTCHA. It’s not an expensive investment, and it’s easy to work into the code of a site like this. Sure, it might have been a little annoying to end users but guess what, bots wouldn’t have been able to flood the system as much, and you could have used/relied on your filtering system you had in place to catch the others. 

The fact that tumblr is still relying on a algorithm just makes me shake my head.

Ok, I’m done venting about it now. =p Sorry. ♥ 

[geekandmisandry]

Tumblr, looking at Michelangelo: sLUT

[wetwareproblem]

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni has been dead for 454 slutty, slutty years.

[sendthebees]

me: hello darkness my old friend

darkness: do i know u