Tumblr

This is only delaying the inevitable now. Tumblr as a brand has been permanently damaged, when it used to have this massive amount of artists and writers that went there because they weren’t being handcuffed the way a Deviantart would (sure, you can post every single fetish under the sun, but actual sex is immoral and wrong. This frustrated artists to no end). But because companies aren’t succeeding unless they’re increasing profits they tried to fix something that for all the jokes made at the expense of the user base, wasn’t broken. I’d like to know what, if anything is the plan of the new owner’s and how it will serve to bring people back given the ruined reputation of the platform.

For financial comparison, a single character in the Fate mobile game alone has bought in $2.8 million worldwide. Not the game, a single character.

Edited by Beatman1 on Aug 13th 2019 at 9:10:21 AM

Some people are holding out hope that at least Wordpress will do something to change the filter so it will at least not strike normal pics at will.

Tumblr's adult content ban was planned in the wake of the Backpage investigation and the passing of FOSTA/SESTA, before being put into effect sooner than initially intended due to the reported presence of child sexual exploitation material leading to Apple temporarily pulling the iOS app from the app store. The ban isn't likely to ever be rescinded for legal liability reasons.

The other rumor is that Word Press bought Tumblr to leverage its admittedly considerable mobile platform tools with little regards to Tumblr as a service. That makes more sense to me, as an outsider.

Honestly, I absolutely hate Tumblr. It's practically a cesspool of social justice warriors who Freak Out over any little thing and villainize everyone who so much as doesn't agree with their world views or meet their astronomically impossible standards of purity. I went there for a while until I met with some...unbearably toxic people and got the hell out of there.

> It's practically a cesspool of social justice warriors

Considering how often I hear the term outside tumblr to mean "Anyone I disagree" with the term has become quite meaningless

I prefer the term "extreme left-wimg nutters", myself.

Or "alt-left", if you're in a rush, though I'm not sure they did enough horrible stuff to deserve the name.

Yet, anyway.

As a general rule any unironic use of the term "SJW" is just an invitation to be disregarded entirely.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Aug 13th 2019 at 10:30:55 AM

> I prefer the term "extreme left-wimg nutters", myself.

I prefer to call them self righteous bastards personally

Most of them aren't even that extreme, just huge assholes about it.

@Druken: It didn't used to be like that, so maybe the first poster just has outdated definitions.

In its original definition it was what less militant leftists used to make fun of Don't Shoot the Message types, but it hasn't meant that for over five years now. So unless they've been in a bubble for five years...

Edited by AlleyOop on Aug 13th 2019 at 8:06:42 AM

The point is that the new company that bought Tumblr is just as puritan as the previous one.

That goes on the assumption that information spreads evenly and immediately.

That's not the case: it's not as if five years ago every person on Earth just had their brains uploaded with the new definition.

That might be common knowledge in the net places you visit, but not theirs.

That’s if they keep Tumblr around and don’t just phase it out while adapting its mobile tools.

When it come to tumblr I prefer to use the term SWF or social warrior fandumb for obvious reasons, no a term I think it will stick but one I feel it capsule them well.

I'd call a lot of them straight up evil. If you're threatening to dox a mother, then call CPS on her to try and have her toddler removed from the home and forced into foster care because she let the little one hug a friend that was in a Kylo cosplay I don't believe for a second that it's anything other than active maliciousness. I don't buy the "I'm doing this to SAVE CHILDREN" excuse for a second.

I swear, Tumblr is filled with a bunch of low key Light Yagami's— narcissists judging others and causing chaos and misfortune, and all the while insisting it's for some kind of pure greater good.

Edited by Zanthype on Aug 14th 2019 at 5:42:28 AM

That's pretty fucked up, but I've heard about the same elsewhere. It's not even restricted to Tumblr. It's just the nature of modern fandom in general.

Yeah chalk it up to me being in a bubble but frankly I haven't gotten the impression that Tumblr is that much worse than other sites. (And yes that includes Twitter where your rants may be constrained by the character limit because nothing stopping you from ranting in a chain of 10 tweets if you are so inclined.)

The problem is a lack of moderation on the modern internet. Proper moderation requires a lot of time and effort, and it's much easier for the big sites to just ignore it all until it gets too big. It's very difficult to report any problems on most sites, and even if you do go through all the hoops to report something, it typically gets dismissed as not a real issue.

And that means people can constantly be assholes with no repercussions. There's a reason I spend most of my time on tvtropes—even the worst threads on this site aren't as bad as some of the basic stuff you'll stumble into on Tumblr or Twitter, simply because we've got decent moderators.

It just seems like no matter who buys it, it'll be run by moronic American purists who hate the very idea of sex being acknowledged as existing outside the missionary position between two white Christian people in a dark room. And Wordpress seems to be no different. SOSTA and the like were basically written to appeal to a bunch of handwringing protestant soccer moms that have a stroke every single time a little bit of a torso comes into view without adequate coverage.

And of course these people enthusiastically support a tiny handed tyrant who hasn't had an honest belief across his seventy year life.

"B-But, if young people think sex exists, then they might...do the sex and NOT IN A CHRISTIAN WAY!!!"

This is a primary reason why Millenials and Gen Z are more unlikely to go to church anymore.

But thats for a different thread, but yeah, Tumblr isn't gonna get any better.

A lot of this relies on the idea Tumblr will continue to exist as is and won’t just be shut down and its assets essentially pillaged for useful technologies Wordpress can apply in the future (such as the powerful mobile tools). It’s actually quite interesting to see the decline of Tumblr as a platform when many entertainment platforms seem to have started to give up pandering to even the more moderate socially inclined users that would use such a platform. They’re similar to pro wrestling fans in a way, very numerous, but derided by accountants as a low value demographic that doesn’t buy product so much as talk about it.

Edited by Beatman1 on Aug 15th 2019 at 9:18:33 AM

Of all the "post-Facebook" social medias out there (unless, of course, I'm getting my dates wrong) Tumblr is the very firat to have crashed down and burned, and certainly serves as a case study of why proper moderation is important.

It's more the lack of real infrastructure support as the active negligence of the staff is what allowed the pornbots to run rampant in the first place.