Current Events > Tumblr is deleting all the NSFW content

(+) Yeah! (+)

I just did several searches using their search feature and they returned empty results. Previously, a bunch of nude images would appear for those results.

https://piunikaweb.com/2018/11/22/tumblr-shutting-down-no-but-theres-exodus-and-newgrounds-is-gaining-from-it/

Tumblr released a statement that suggested all this was due to the discovery of child-related explicit material that the company said somehow missed the platforms filters. Thereafter, it came to light that in addition to the culprit blogs, even blogs with general NSFW content and even SFW content are being targeted and removed by Tumblr.

I guess Tumblr is dead.
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what use is tumblr if there are no nsfw gifs
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I remember reading a NSFW tumblr blog in HS and it gave me tips on how to perform oral sex properly

RIP tumblr you will be missed
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This is basically suicide for tumblr, but if that's what they want to do then sure...
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I don't give a fuck about Tumblr, but:

Vol2tex posted...

all this was due to the discovery of child-related explicit material that the company said somehow missed the platforms filters.

I'm fine with this if this was the reason.
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pinky0926 posted...

This is basically suicide for tumblr

This is especially bad because I followed a lot of models and photographers, they post SFW content on Instagram and you can go to their Tumblr to see the uncensored images. But if Tumblr isn't allowing them now, where can they be posted?
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Noooo
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Vol2tex posted...

This is especially bad because I followed a lot of models and photographers, they post SFW content on Instagram and you can go to their Tumblr to see the uncensored images. But if Tumblr isn't allowing them now, where can they be posted?

I followed a photographer like that. Body art.
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Vicious_Dios posted...

I'm fine with this if this was the reason.

Why?

It's not literally everyone else who obeyed the rules fault Tumblr's filters weren't good enough.
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Now where will my wife go to look at black and white BDSM gifs and lesbian foot fetish pictures?

I mean, sure, I've explained to her a dozen times how to use EMP and Tube sites and showed her that Bing is a decent resource for pornography.

Oh wait I forgot, three seconds into every video she has some annoying criticism. Every girl is "annoying" in some way. Like, welcome to my world, babe.
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RIP Tumblr

Died as you lived. Cockblocking people at every opportunity.
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The internet is so lame now. The dedicated websites are pretty dead, all people use are Instagram and Reddit it seems.
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I'm sure another site will come around to take its place. Tumblr is the spot for cam girls and premium snapchat chicks.
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Hmm, the artists and animators I follow are still fine, but no telling how long that will last now.
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Perhaps they took down all nsfw content until they can figure out how illegal content made it past their filters? It might be just temporary.

Literally newgrounds. I was just remembering it yesterday actually.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

I'm sure another site will come around to take its place.

The cycle continues, yes. In a few years we'll all get to see that site's awkward porn purges.

http://www.openlettertopatreon.com/

"They somehow slipped past our filters" doesn't mean much when every popular post's replies are 50% porn bots.

I remember the initial fear when Yahoo bought them out, but I don't think anyone expected them to be so bad at managing that the NSFW and offensive content would grow out of control.
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Haven't gone to Tumblr for porn for quite a while but there's some content on the I'll miss, particularly some BDSM erotica I read some years ago but still haven't found and never will sadly
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NSFW content is the only reason I was on tumblr in the first place. Theyre going to lose lots of site activity.

Something tells me part of this is probably motivated by being delisted on Apple's app store.
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pinky0926 posted...

This is basically suicide for tumblr

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The one social media network where I have the most followers is about to die, go figure.

I haven't been active on it in over a year anyways though.
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I wonder if the real reason tumblr's purging porn this time, is because the NSFW cockblock screen didn't actually drive much new user signups.

Anything that gets between a user and content will drive only bounces and publicly-shared workarounds. Just change your useragent to "googlebot", and tumblr lets you right on in to look at whatever depravity hasn't been deleted yet.

Kombucha posted...

Something tells me part of this is probably motivated by being delisted on Apple's app store.

Sites do this to themselves, but sticking annoying "View in app! Please?" buttons all over their mobile sites, in a desperate attempt for clickbait 'push' notifications, and to shove even more surveillance and ads at us.

Ugh I was wondering if something was up because one of the porn blogs I frequent got deleted :(
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Vol2tex posted...

I just did several searches using their search feature and they returned empty results. Previously, a bunch of nude images would appear for those results.

https://piunikaweb.com/2018/11/22/tumblr-shutting-down-no-but-theres-exodus-and-newgrounds-is-gaining-from-it/

Tumblr released a statement that suggested all this was due to the discovery of child-related explicit material that the company said somehow missed the platforms filters. Thereafter, it came to light that in addition to the culprit blogs, even blogs with general NSFW content and even SFW content are being targeted and removed by Tumblr.

I guess Tumblr is dead.

wait is mainstream media picking up on that stuff only now?

/pol/ had threads about it like a month and a half ago

crazy how "da wurst place in da internets" is aware of hideous things going on far before anyone else

i wonder if they're going to pick up on the child grooming on youtube?

to clarify, users of /pol/ found streams of young girls by searching mundane things ("my stream" or other small crap about how someone's day is going, cant really remember this was about 3 or 4 weeks ago)

from there, they found people live chatting them telling them to dance, or to do stuff like the splits and change into a swimsuit etc. the same people also told them "name your next stream an emoticon that way only your fans can see it" (in reality it's because you can't search an emoticon on youtube, so now that they are subbed to these kids they get a notification whenever they would stream) so god only knows what children have been affected by this and what they might do for their "fans" that show them attention

but no one cares cuz LOL YOUTUBE RIGHT just watch the 6 million people streaming or playing whatever hit new game comes out and how they talk about how it's "SOOOOO GOOOD"

Kombucha posted...

Something tells me part of this is probably motivated by being delisted on Apple's app store.

actually, that happened about a week or two after i saw the thread on /pol/ regarding the illegal underage content.

if any of ya'll think /pol/ is just an evil place, you should check your instagrams for "dropbox links" or whatever it was. last thread on that was months ago, but it was people asking or giving links with numbers ("have 13 looking for 15" or something similar)

there is a lot of shady shit going on in social media, and it's easy for people to pull off because ya know, people only care about the people who have followers.
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There's been a really big pornbot issue lately, it's been really bad for the last couple of years but it's been especially bad in the last two or so months. The Tumblr app was actually unlisted on the Google Play Store and the App Store due to the porn bot problem.

A few regular, chill people have been losing their accounts - the "Tumblr purge", as it's been christened, seems to strike kind of randomly. There's an option to contact the staff, and it's worked for some folks, but others have been waiting for a response for like a week or more. I follow this artist girl who's friends with a popular blog named polyglotplatypus, and they've basically lost a friend because Tumblr hasn't gotten back from reviewing the account. Things are certainly interesting.

Honestly, I think the purge is for the best. There's a lot of moderate and chill content on Tumblr, even with its more extreme content like batshit crazy Sherlock/Voltron/Steven Universe fans or whatever - but there's also a lot of shit going on, and there are some extraordinarily shitty groups of people on the platform. 2018 alone has seen a sharp increase in hatred towards asexual/aromatic people, and there's been a subgroup on the platform who stayed hidden for ages before the Tumblr discourse caught up with them - MAPs.

What is a MAP? It's a Minor Attracted Person. AKA a fucking pedophile.

Tumblr is a goddamn mess, and it has been for a while - even before this recent porn bot and pedo problem. I can only hope that this Tumblr purge business scrubs a majority of the website's hateful and morally reprehensible content away, because when it isn't this level of fucked up, it is honestly a decent platform - I've surrounded myself in decent, funny content for years, and made friends through the platform over mutual interests. Even with the raving lunatics, I would say that it's the friendliest social network to be involved with. So hopefully the website survives and manages to purge the most abhorrent and illegal happenings from the website, because I would hate to see the platform as a whole go up in smoke. I would be losing a good handful of friends in the process.
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Ulyanyx posted...

i wonder if they're going to pick up on the child grooming on youtube?

Dumbasses grooming on large popular public sites are pretty much asking for a channel's subscribers to be mostly cops. All a crackdown would do is drive it back underground where it's largely invisible.

MrMallard posted...

words

wrong, the "MAP"s that were just found had been posting for a LONG time. it was only when it was found that the app got delisted.

it's very easy to convince people who don't use the app, that it is only being done on the grounds of the reasons you are stating. yet no action was taken for YEARS until the illicit porn trade on it was found out.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Ulyanyx posted...

i wonder if they're going to pick up on the child grooming on youtube?

Dumbasses grooming on large popular public sites are pretty much asking for a channel's subscribers to be mostly cops. All a crackdown would do is drive it back underground where it's largely invisible.

thats the thing, the streams people posted to /pol/ had maybe 10 or 20 viewers. what is the chance of a cop finding a random child's stream, and why would a cop be looking for that?

the absolute chance given how many people there are in the world with electronics, compared to police is almost nil. I wish I could remember the names of some of the people that were posted

I think one was MrGood____ or something, but essentially he was telling the girl to dance, and telling her that anyone saying not to listen to him was a bad person, he just wanted her to have fun etc. it's fucking sick.
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Ulyanyx posted...

thats the thing, the streams people posted to /pol/ had maybe 10 or 20 viewers. what is the chance of a cop finding a random child's stream, and why would a cop be looking for that?

Of those 10 or 20 viewers, it's pretty safe to assume that three or four are cops or FBI or something.

I did say that this garbage sub-group have been rolling for a while, but they've only been "exposed" on Tumblr for a relatively short period of time. That's my experience anyway, I only saw the discourse posts a couple of months ago. They could have been active for years beforehand for all I know.

I'm just writing what I know from using the platform, this is the information that's perpetuated around there. Folks have been dissatisfied with Tumblr's handling of NSFW and blatantly illegal shit for a while now, I know that much - it's only now that the app has been delisted that Tumblr has come down to sort this shit out.
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These sites only seem to be relevant for a handful of years. Remember blogspot?

I guess we just have to see what will be the next big site.
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On the bright side, newgrounds is getting a revival of sorts with all the artists moving back there. I'm glad.
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pour one out for tumblr porn

we patreon now
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#SaveTheWhales
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Same thing with Patreon, they have been taking down a lot of adult pages.

This has been a terrible year for adult content, Craigslist was hit too earlier in the year.
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Vol2tex posted...

These sites only seem to be relevant for a handful of years. Remember blogspot?

That's just how it goes.

Start a new site, and get popular from all the "adult" content that got kicked out of some other site.
Kick out all the "adult" content once your site becomes popular enough, and advertisers and payment processors complain.
Someone else starts a new site, and attracts all the porn you just purged.

I think tumblr's been popular for a lot longer than blogspot has, though. And they took over from livejournal, iirc.
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tumblr is a goldmine if Chinese girls porn
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Guide posted...

I think tumblr's been popular for a lot longer than blogspot has, though. And they took over from livejournal, iirc.

If I recall, blogspot was became notable around 2007 but everyone started flocking to Tumblr around 2013 (everyone I followed stopped using it in 2013/2014).

http://caseybaugh.blogspot.com/

Hmm, one of my favorite artists stopped posting in 2012.
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Two_Dee posted...

if Chinese girls porn

do they?
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Vol2tex posted...

If I recall, blogspot was became notable around 2007 but everyone started flocking to Tumblr around 2013 (everyone I followed stopped using it in 2013/2014).

The mass abandonment of blogspot made it more attractive for porn somehow.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Vol2tex posted...

If I recall, blogspot was became notable around 2007 but everyone started flocking to Tumblr around 2013 (everyone I followed stopped using it in 2013/2014).

The mass abandonment of blogspot made it more attractive for porn somehow.

I rarely have looked at blogspot since, but I've noticed that a lot of abandoned pages suddenly have weird or sexual content.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

I wonder if the real reason tumblr's purging porn this time, is because the NSFW cockblock screen didn't actually drive much new user signups.

Anything that gets between a user and content will drive only bounces and publicly-shared workarounds. Just change your useragent to "googlebot", and tumblr lets you right on in to look at whatever depravity hasn't been deleted yet.

Kombucha posted...

Something tells me part of this is probably motivated by being delisted on Apple's app store.

Sites do this to themselves, but sticking annoying "View in app! Please?" buttons all over their mobile sites, in a desperate attempt for clickbait 'push' notifications, and to shove even more surveillance and ads at us.

Fucking reddit does it constantly.

I want to bitch slap the wank monkeys who run Reddit.
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pikachupwnage posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

I wonder if the real reason tumblr's purging porn this time, is because the NSFW cockblock screen didn't actually drive much new user signups.

Anything that gets between a user and content will drive only bounces and publicly-shared workarounds. Just change your useragent to "googlebot", and tumblr lets you right on in to look at whatever depravity hasn't been deleted yet.

Kombucha posted...

Something tells me part of this is probably motivated by being delisted on Apple's app store.

Sites do this to themselves, but sticking annoying "View in app! Please?" buttons all over their mobile sites, in a desperate attempt for clickbait 'push' notifications, and to shove even more surveillance and ads at us.

Fucking reddit does it constantly.

I want to bitch slap the wank monkeys who run Reddit.

Reddits mobile site is the actual worst. Every time you click anything "OKAY BUT HEY. WE GOT AN APP! WANNA TRY?" fuck off
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Vaati_Reborn posted...

pikachupwnage posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

I wonder if the real reason tumblr's purging porn this time, is because the NSFW cockblock screen didn't actually drive much new user signups.

Anything that gets between a user and content will drive only bounces and publicly-shared workarounds. Just change your useragent to "googlebot", and tumblr lets you right on in to look at whatever depravity hasn't been deleted yet.

Kombucha posted...

Something tells me part of this is probably motivated by being delisted on Apple's app store.

Sites do this to themselves, but sticking annoying "View in app! Please?" buttons all over their mobile sites, in a desperate attempt for clickbait 'push' notifications, and to shove even more surveillance and ads at us.

Fucking reddit does it constantly.

I want to bitch slap the wank monkeys who run Reddit.

Reddits mobile site is the actual worst. Every time you click anything "OKAY BUT HEY. WE GOT AN APP! WANNA TRY?" fuck off

I hate the mobile apps because I hate getting cumbersomely redirected to the app when I click a link. Tumblrs process for that is disgusting.

Also wastes storage space.
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what use is tumblr if not for porn
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