Alright I need to make a post here. I know there are hundreds of other posts ranting about the new “safety mode” but i seriously feel the need to make my own. This blog is 3 days old, I have started making moodboards because I like how they look and they are calming to make, letting the anxiety about literally everything go. One thing that I get the most requests about is to make boards for the lgbtq+ community, as a member myself these are some of my favourites to make. Within literally 20 seconds of posting a new pride edit, they are marked as explicit content. Now, I am under 18 and can’t turn off this safety mode, half of this blog has been marked as sensory content and I can’t even see my own stuff. I like reading through the tags that people put on my stuff and I can’t see that because Tumblr thinks that I am not mature enough to see a post of my own edit because it has different coloured photos arranged to make a pride flag.
However, my posts aren't the only ones being flagged, every other post on my dash is flagged too. Now I cant see photos on my dash of:
cute dogs
a harry potter edit
a photo of Bill Potts from Doctor Who
a gif from a dan and Phil video
and countless others
What Really bugs me though is was doesn’t get flagged though. I follow a couple tags, this morning a post came through the painting tag which was clearly nsfw, even had it tagged on the original post, but was this flagged? No. Were those p/bots that try to follow any and every account blocked? No.
Tumblr I try to keep my dash as clean as possible but are things going to slip in? Yes of course, but that is going to be on every website you go to. Today you can’t even go onto an informational website without getting clickbait ads. You aren’t my mother who has the right to tell me that I can’t follow what I want to follow and to make sure I don’t have lgbt content on my dash. I already deal with one homophobic mother, tumblr please don’t be a second one because this website is my refuge per say. Its the only place I can be open about who I am and you are taking that away from me.
Please Please Please take this new update away and focus on other things that are going to make tumblr a better place. Get rid of bots, add a blacklisting feature for mobile, there are other ways to go about this. Honestly you could keep the update but allow anyone to turn it off at a given time. You are hurting yourself be keeping this update. @staff fix this now
