#tumblr problems

[quanta-44]

20th march, mass Tumblr log off in protest of the reblog update

Remember when we threatened a mass log off to get rid of shapes.inc and then all the shapes.inc ads mysteriously vanished? yeah, let's do that again. On the 20th of march 2026, we tumblr users will log off in protest of the split notes on reblogs. Spread the word!! Reblog!! Tag your moots!!

EDIT: do NOT harass anyone who's not taking part. This instruction should go without saying.

EDIT 2: like with shapes.inc, Tumblr have decided to reverse their decision. Clearly, protesting by reducing revenue, making a ton of angry noise and sending feedback is a method that works.

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[oldschoolfrp]

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What in the AI-powered hell is this.

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[catsofyore]

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[catsofyore]

@Tumblr @staff you gotta figure out your "mature content" flagging system. They're just cats. I don't want my whole account to get classified as "mature" just because your bot needs new glasses. I tried submitting a help request but the form doesn't work. Help?

[uchidachi]

I feel like the psyops are back…

[forestmush]

attention!

due to all the ai chatbot ads that been showing up a few tumblr users have been proposing a black out day on the 26 of February where no one logs in for the whole day to show we actually care about what they advertise and show that we're against it! Spread the message!

Here are some examples of this

Please don't let this stand.

Again. February 26th.please. Do Not Log In.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

@tumblr @staff how many hundreds of botnet-added automated rape threats will there be on every single post before this site collapses from the sheer volume of them? for every human post, there can be hundreds of spam responses threatening rape, murder, kidnapping, and on and on and on. there is NOTHING we can do to prevent this from happening without leaving the site entirely, because we already report all of these spam threats, and you do nothing with those reports! the spambots remain, and they keep rapidly spamming no matter what we do. we can't do anything more, you have to do something.

the posts are clearly coming from one single source. they always use one of a small number of identical threats, down to even the spelling errors. you clearly are already able to detect them as spam on some level, since they show up in the activity dropdown and on the activity page, but not in the notes tab of the post itself unless you look at the graph. so why are you letting these known spambots drown out everything in the activity page / dropdown when you could be removing the bot accounts? why are you letting these rape threats stand? what is the point of this?

[goth-spider-freak]

hey it's only two days after the ides of march what if we ides of march'd tumblr

FUCK THE NEW UPDATE FUCK THIS SHIT REMEMBER THE BLACKOUT PROTEST 18th TO 20th!!!