Honestly, I'm surprised it took this long. I'm assumed Yahoo would have banned/purged adult content immediately after buying Tumblr.
I have this vague memory that they did, and then had to backtrack, but I could be thinking of another service.
Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
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Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#42There's always demand for 'adult content' so my assumption is sites like steemit and minds are going to get a sudden population rush, especially given Steemit's monetization model, on December 18.
Oath I'll assume are shuttering sites they can't data mine for marketing intel on users, and to not be associated with the terrabytes of 'adult content' they currently host...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you think those parts are scary, you should see the "yiff". Basically, furry porn. In the modern era it's considered rude to judge people for their kinky sex life, but some of the illustrations and cartoons in that community are highly unusual. To put it politely.
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say that blogs encouraging preteen girls to develop eating disorders are much scarier than furry porn. Unless... unless it's pro-ana furry porn.
We just have wholesome vore encouraging healthy eating
Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#44The way things are going with centralization, pretty soon the web itself will be unsuitable for adult media. Maybe we need a xxx:// protocol instead of the .xxx domain suffix.
Someone make a Github repo so we can design this new protocol!
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#45My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…
Giving people suggestions based on their profiled interests was a nice toy idea, but it's very dangerous in the real world. I worry about that often with my kid online now.
You need to teach critical thinking skills. Not promote censorship. There's a lot of stupid things in the world you can't censor.
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#46Isn't that the point of Tumblr these days? I honestly don't know of any non-adult Tumlbr pages. It seems to consist entirely of premium camgirl pages, NSFW LGBT discussion, furry and hentai art, and artistic nude photography.
The safe mode changes already started the move of a bunch of those communities to other sites, so it was expected at this point.
Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#47My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…
My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder.
I'm really sorry to hear this, having gone through a similar thing with a now ex-significant other.
She too became very active in the segments of tumblr you identified and others (showed me many of them, some seemed like teenage angst in blog form, others were far more...worrisome), developed an eating disorder along with severe anxiety issues, and in my attempts to remain empathetic, supportive but cautionary about the affects those groups had had on her in the last two years of a five year relationship, she abruptly called it quits on our relationship and walked away.
Citing the anxiety was too much for a relationship, to this day I can't help but look back and wonder if those groups were partly to blame given how recent her changes were leading up to us parting ways.
This wasn't a 12 year old adolescent as it was in your case, she was-up to that point-a healthy, happy 34 year old woman with a great career in the corporate world. Our relationship was healthy, we had a track record of building each other up and improving as people together. If there was something going on under the surface for these groups to infiltrate and exacerbate to the point of us breaking up, she did an amazing job suppressing it. The decline however was swift, immediate and depressing. Each time I'd try to be involved and supportive to help her out, I always got rebuffed and turned away until, well like I said she decided to just walk away from our relationship. To say I'm still stunned would be an understatement.
Good luck with your daughter, I hope what you and your family must be going through improves for the better
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#48Well, there is a healthy community concerning a particular obscure kink I have been 'given', that is not present anywhere else. I wonder what are suitable places to migrate to.
DeviantART is probably the closest alternative, but with more focus on the individual instead of the interaction between people
There are lots of big photographers that are complaining that DA has been killing their stuff as well so I would be very surprised if it won't add similar policies.
Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#49Isn't that the point of Tumblr these days? I honestly don't know of any non-adult Tumlbr pages. It seems to consist entirely of premium camgirl pages, NSFW LGBT discussion, furry and hentai art, and artistic nude photography.
"It's like pinterest for porn."
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is what Oath probably wants.
As someone out of the loop, can I get an explanation for this?
Too expensive to police. Losing users every month, downward trends, etc. Tumblr has become a money loser and won't ever be competitive with Facebook, TikTok, etc.
Another botched acquisition.