In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of December 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
Not adult content @staff these are colourful trees, people in clothing, meerkats, funny faces, news, a book review, and a poem with a line drawing of a woman’s back…
donald trump way too fuckin rich to be lookin tore up as he is
every rich person who does not use their money to flex is a dumb motherfucker and i hate them. why the hell you got money n u not lookin good w it? dumbass
here’s the thing: he thinks he is flexin. He’s utterly without aesthetic knowledge or the wisdom to recognize value, so if you just tell him something is expensive, he instantly thinks it’s good and he’s better than you for having it. So he does stupid shit like buy expensive italian suits without getting them taken in, or getting fake tans and hair plugs without thinking about how they look because they cost him a lot, so it must look good. So he looks like an unusually large toddler in his sunday suit from the husky boys section of Men’s Warehouse who got into mommy’s makeup kit, and it cost him 10 large to look like that.
Oh thats scarier to think than that hes not trying. Dont say that
It’s absolutely true though. His family was the embodiment of nouveau riche tackiness built on exploitation and discrimination. He grew up in an environment of ostentation, conspicuous consumption, and complete freedom from consequence. It’s no wonder he’s tapped into the darkest id of every shitty little white supremacist incel troll on the internet. He’s their aspirational figure. But I digress. Of course he’s completely tasteless and incompetent. He’s never had to develop taste or competency or even a real personality, and that’s why he’s so stunted. That’s why he is such a cruel joke and that is why it is so damned difficult for emotionally developed people to understand him. We give him too much credit for cunning and ability that he does not possess. He is exactly what he appears to be. A gross, mean, disgusting little con-man who has been shaped by his environment in exactly the way petty tyrants just like him have been shaped in all of recorded history. He’s a perfect representation of corruption, vice, and depravity given human form.
Holy. Shit.
Not only is this just a pathetic, lame, and cruel personal attack, but it’s arrogant and elitist.
“His family was the embodiment of nouveau riche tackiness…”
“Of course he’s completely tasteless…”
Oh, this one is precious: “…that is why he is so damned difficult for emotionally developed people to understand…” Ha ha! How the hell would you know? Clearly your emotional development is still that of a pre-teen angsty insecure individual who doesn’t know how to relate to people without insulting others to make themselves feel better. For example…
“He is…a gross, mean, disgusting little con-man…a perfect representation of corruption, vice, and depravity given human form.”
Yep. And you’re clearly a sweet, emotionally stable loving human being who seeks greater understanding of the world and how to make it a better place. OH WAIT. Actually, you simply look down your nose at people you dislike and resent for their success and then broadcast it to all your virtue-signaling peers just so they can reassure you that yes, you are better than those awful people who would actually be willing to be polite to someone whose politics they might disagree with.
Did you even manage to listen to Hillary Clinton day “When they go low we go high” without sputtering laughter at the fucking absurdity of such a bald-faced lie?
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This post is the epitome of what’s wrong with politics today. It’s the epitome of why half the country thinks the other half will never ever give two shits about them and don’t even bother listening to them anymore. It’s the epitome of where the expression “liberal elitism” came from.
Well done.
Yes, I’m the “liberal elite”.
Maybe half the country thinks the other half doesn’t give two shits about them because it’s true, but not the way you think. It’s being consistently demonstrated that straight white Christian Republicans literally don’t care about anyone not just like them and often actively go out of their way to hurt everyone else. And maybe rather than a “liberal elite” with a teenage worldview I’m actually a 35 year old combat veteran that grew up in trailer parks in bumfuck nowhere south carolina but actually has the capacity for empathy with people outside of my ethnic group. If you’re going to tell me that giving equal rights and protections to everyone somehow diminishes straight white god-fearing christians, then you’re damned right I’m not going to listen to you. If you think it’s wrong to make fun of a rich spoon-fed tyrant for his lack of taste and dignity while he mocks disabled people, objectifies and assaults women, and calls for violence against all of his detractors, you’re gods damned right that I’m not going to listen to your opinion.
Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
