So many great images Iâd love to be able to repost and add remarks about. But Tumblrâs just so brittle about blocking things, even just when I repost something someone else has gotten away with.
And yeah, I like to reblog things just because theyâre naughty, and because I have wickedly salacious things to add. But sometimes theyâre just great illustrations for editorial or education (or, cough, daddyâsplaining but letâs pretend I donât do that.) But the lame dudes (and it seems to be mostly dudes) on @staff and their filterbots donât make distinctions do they?
Pretty fucked up of Tumblr that I can post topless selfies.
Funny how I was basically crippled with asthma till nearly age 30. 6â4â and about 140 pounds. Horizontal stretch marks on my hips from growing just short of 12 inches in just over 12 months. Sunken chested and so skinny my tummy was concave under my ribs!
Thank goodness for albuterol inhalers though! Started exercising in earnest in my late 30âs. Hit my peak fitness maybe 10 years ago.
Iâm older now -old enough to be the father of far more than half the worlds population. (And boy is my dick tired… no, wait! đ)
But it still feels good to have been getting back to the gym.
Cause Now Iâm a D/Lg Daddy I ought to be able to put around half the worlds population over my shoulder and carry them to bed, patting and squeezing their cute little upturned asses as we go up the stairs… donât you think, tatertot?
Assholes showing off obscene wealth advocating crime isnât offensive.
You want to know whatâs offensive?
Nipples, thatâs what!
According to Tumblr anyway.
Oh, and not all nipples of course. Only âfemale-presentingâ nipples. Â
Thing is I like your nipples! Theyâre cute! Sexy. Eye catching. They feel nice. They make me genuinely happy.
Unlike guns, smoking, extremists, drug and alcohol abuse, gangs, and conspicuous consumption, which make most people feel unhappy. (Even the gun, smoking, drugs, and wealth lovers, every one of whom is unhappy because they can never, ever get enough of that shit.)
Nipples though?  Because like Good Omensâ Sergeant Shadwell I really only need your two to be happy. And all the rest of you too, pumpkin.
Letâs see if Tumblr blocks this photo of a fairly common Indonesian pitcher plant, a member (ahaha) of the genus Nepenthes. (The wags at Snopes.com call it a âpenis flytrapâ though flytraps are unrelated members of the genus Dionaea.)
Since Tumblr announced its porn ban in December, many users reacted by explaining that they mainly used the site for browsing not-safe-for-work content, and they threatened to leave the platform if the ban were enforced. It now appears that many users have made good on that threat: Tumblrâs traffic has dropped nearly 30 percent since December.
Tumblrâs global traffic in December clocked in at 521 million, but it had dropped to 370 million by February, web analytics firm SimilarWeb tells The Verge. Statista reports a similar trend in the number of unique visitors. By January 2019, only over 437 million visited Tumblr, compared to a high of 642 million visitors in July 2018.
The ban removed explicit posts from public view, including any media that portrayed sex acts, exposed genitals, and âfemale-presentingâ nipples. Some users say enforcement of the ban has been spotty â one user wrote into The Verge to say that theyâre still seeing porn on the platform â but even so, users have apparently left Tumblr in droves. We know that the platform was mainly known for its NSFW content, which was often not just porn that could be found on any number of alternative sites. It also included unique communities that discussed sexuality in healthy ways.
On December 3rd, when Tumblr first told The Verge that it would ban porn by the 17th, CEO Jeff DâOnofrio said in a statement at the time that users had other options. âThere are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content,â he said. It looks like users have taken DâOnofrio up on his offer and gone to other sites.
Big tip of the hat to decidedly non-porn sci-fi writer and futurist Bruce Sterling.
A 30% drop couldnât happen to a less-nice company. Â
For the record this may actually come out as a âwinâ for Tumblr beancounters as Itâs not clear to me how many folks who came for porn clicked through the typically bland, untargeted ads that have always tended to show up on the platform. On the one hand, 30% fewer ad impressions, on the other hand possibly higher click-through rates.
Since the Dec. 17th ban all âadult-contentâ blog avatars were replaced with an icon representing pixelation. The one upside?
You no longer see dick-pic avatars! ????
Everything has a downside, especially anything Tumblr @staff does. And of course the downside of not having to look at dick-pic avatars is you just see the kind of posts guys who use dick-pics would post. Â
âEasy come, easy go, little high, little low, anyway the winds blowâ – Freddy Mercury
Hey fun fact, if you write fuck in the tags your post wont show up in any tag, so uuuuuh heads up
Also fun fact, adding âpornâ in your reblog tags (e.g. âhistory pornâ or âfashion pornâ) means that those posts wonât show up when you search your own blog.
Wank too. Itâs why I changed all my fandom #wank posts to fandom #dramaz posts
âŚ.well this is a psa that needs to go around
I tagged one of my drawings as âwell mark me down as both scared and hornyâ and it vanished from the other tags until I removed that so⌠âhornyâ too, apparently
One of my comics wasnât showing up in tumblr tags until I removed all my tags with the crass language in it. (âshitpostingâ and âbitchâ were the 2 I suspected) Then it conveniently started appearing publicly in the tags.
Oh my god this site really did become catholic
The following tags are (also) no longer searchable:
Tumblr seriously doesnât get the difference between âpornâ and âintensely erotic,â does it? If they did theyâd filter this and not bother with all the joylessly bored, stunt-fucking âporn starâ antics.
