Here for a good time not a long time

Hi I'm Shelby (they/she), I'm bi as hell. P.S: I have an art blog at Tidbits-of-Art, go check it out!

[hobbular]

Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:

We’re trying to decide which of these is a better option:

or

[nowlander]

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[bramble-berries]

the problem with being creative is that you start to feel very guilty when you haven’t created anything in a while

[captain-cargoshorts]

do you get upset when a field isn't ready for harvest at all times? your seeds are doing mysterious things in the dirt. but you have to leave them hidden in the dirt or they won't grow

[jackthelemmon]

i love them so much genuinely the movie of all time

[auxryn]

Many people are aware that copyright originated as and remains a protection for publishers, not authors.

However, there are longstanding rights intended to protect authors. These are legally called 'the moral rights of authors.' Good naming.

These rights include:

The right to attribution. To have your name on your work. Don't repost peoples work without attribution.

The right to use a pen name or to publish anonymously. Publishers should protect the privacy of authors. Service providers shouldn't require posters to provide ID.

The right to integrity. Editors should not cut up your work to make it say something you do not endorse.

So let's review:

❌ AI harms authors because it violates copyright.

✅ AI harms authors because it violates their rights to attribution and integrity.

[damppaws]

[zoesupreme]

so many cartoons used to do stuff like this and it ruled. Space Jam Pulp Fiction reference. Spongebob Nosferatu reference. Animaniacs and Tiny Toons was literally full of stuff like this. it's how kids used to get introduced to influential media. cutting this stuff is why we have a generation of 30 year olds that watch Bluey.

[transcatgirl551]

Shitting on adults that watch childrens media was not necessary to make the point.

[zoesupreme]

I know but I did that on purpose bc I wanted to

[punchy4real]

LETTING THE DAYS GO BY

[07-chan]

[misfit-toy-haven]

why is this more expressive than the entire lion king cgi movie

[niijima]

[pickledh]

h-how did you have the exact gif…….who are you

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

*Columbo voice* So you were reading posts on Tumblr? Oh, that's a great website. My wife has an account on there. She showed me one about the color of the sky? Funny stuff. Although there is one thing, sir. How could you have been reading a post when no one on Tumblr has any media literacy?

[chrownox]

oh yes, i remember now. i was reading my own post i had just written. i'm a stickler for the details you know. here you can even see the time stamp indicating the moment of posting. clearly i was busy elsewhere when the murder happened now if you'll excuse me, there's a callout post i've been meaning to tend to

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

That explains it, sir. You know, at the station they always tell me I sweat the little stuff too much. But that must be how you have... what is it, sir? 500 followers? Very impressive. Well, I'll get out of your hair. Wouldn't want to get in the way of social justice. Oh, there is one more thing. There's this tag on the bottom of your post. Is that what you call those? Tags? I wonder where you get a name like that. Anyway, I didn't understand it. It says "queue be continued". I hope I pronounced that right. What does that mean, sir?

[chrownox]

(hesitantly) that would be the tag i use to indicate a post was reblogged through the queue system to post at a later time, but you knew that already, didn't you?

(confidently now) yes the post was in my queue originally. i had reblogged it at the time to make some additions adn fix a few mistakes. my "keep tags!" xkit add-on must have put the tag there and i simply forgot to remove it, that is all there is to it

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

These tags are so correct

[ex0rin]

markiplier's redemption: ripped shirt edition

[markthekng]

I watched Iron Lung again tonight in the comfort of my home and my dog must've been watching with me cause as soon as bad things started happening to Simon she started crying. In the scene where he ultimately dies she could not stop crying at me. I am now watching him play the Henry Stickman collection so she can see that A.) He's not dead and B.) He's not in distress. Occasionally he'll whine or hum in discontent about something and my dog will look at me and whine to try and get me to fix whatever is distressing Markiplier.

[markthekng]

Her genuine reaction to Simon getting Iron Lunged:

[zzoupz]

she's the opposite of that snake that hates markiplier

[academicssay]

academic self-regulation explained

[crabussy]

you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

[galileoace]

It is awesome to be a living thing!

But also only living things experience suffering

[crabussy]

you don't know what a rock could be going through

[sugar-petals]

wandered across my local summer festival and ai 'illustrations' are plastered everywhere. the food trucks, the amusement park, the instagram menus, posters, ads, there's no escape. what an eye sore

[ankle-beez]

sheep detectives is finally out on digital which means i can show you guys one of the funniest movie scenes of the year so far

[atrusovaartist]

I always thought Reddit was a place where people could share things they created.A few days ago I posted one of my original paintings. People loved it. We had wonderful conversations about art, emotions, and how everyone saw something different in the same sunset.

About two hours later I was permanently banned from r/MadeMeSmile for “self-promotion.”

I accepted that different communities have different rules.But then something even stranger happened.Soon afterward, a moderator from r/pics started going through my account. Not just the new post—many of my older painting posts disappeared as well. One after another. Then I was permanently banned there too.

Maybe it was the same moderator. Maybe it wasn’t. I honestly don’t know.

What surprised me wasn’t even the ban itself. It was realizing how much power individual moderators have over what millions of people are allowed to see. One decision can erase years of posts from a community and instantly cut off your ability to participate, even if those posts had been happily sitting there for months or years.I’m not saying moderators shouldn’t have rules. Communities need moderation.But it does make you wonder where the line is between protecting a community and allowing a single interpretation of the rules to completely reshape what people can share.

The funny part?

I wasn’t advertising anything in those posts. I wasn’t posting prices or asking anyone to buy anything. I was simply sharing my original paintings because I enjoy discussing art with strangers from around the world.

Anyway…

Here’s the painting that apparently caused all the trouble. 🎨