It only took several days and hundreds of bannings!
You can read about what is happening here, but be warned, it’s pretty fucking disgusting. With this information coming to light, I don’t really blame Tumblr for nuking their NSFW content. Essentially Tumblr became such a hotbed for illegal pornography that the industry standard bot that is supposed to catch images of that nature couldn’t catch these things. As in, the system used by most places that can host images wasn’t even good enough because Tumblr is a goddamn creep haven.
Yikes. Like……holy fucking yikes. So yeah, I’d nuke it from orbit as well.
However, this doesn’t bode well for NSFW blogs that follow the rules. Tags like “nsfw” “erotica” and so on have been blacklisted. I’m sure a ton of key phrases have been given the same treatment. It may be that blogs that are flagged as NSFW blogs may altogether be blacklisted at this point, and honestly? I don’t blame Tumblr at this point.
So there you have it. Tumblr is a cesspool and they’re trying to clean it up but I don’t know if they’re going to bounce back from this. This is…bad. Like, real bad.
Again, you should follow me everywhere else. I don’t think my blog is going anywhere, but in the big picture, this is probably a massive red flag that Tumblr as a social media platform has its days numbered.