here is my one bit of wisdom as a 32 year old with no interest in being a "fandom elder" or "community mom" or whatever -
if someone a little older in your friend group takes care of things and has good advice to offer and whatever, and you all sometimes joke abt them being the mom friend, that's fine and normal
if someone self declares themselves as the mom friend, and begins to act like that is a role with actual authority, Fucking Run
House on the Place du Caire, Paris, France, 1903. (Photo by
Eugène Atget). The sphinx heads were built in 1799 to commemorate the Egyptian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte.
House Flint of Widow’s Watch, sworn to Winterfell - Julien Fournie Haute Couture Fall 2019
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Jeff D’Onofrio
CEO
So in today’s sensitive and progressive world the First Amendment dies at Tumblr. Big Brother decides what is acceptable to the sheep. It used to be that the Right were vilified for being up-tight and censorship but we knew all along who were the true suppressors of freedom, thought and ideas~
No, they just don’t want a site that allows members as young as 13 to be full of pornography. It’s that simple. Everyone complaining in the notes is so ignorant. You guys don’t care about kids at all. They’re asking you to make the smallest sacrifice and you’re throwing tantrums like toddlers. All you care about is having an endless bounty of material to wank to. It’s not all about you.
Adults are allowed to have adult spaces. Spaces we can talk about our sexuality, our relationships, our experiences as adult human beings. Why should the entire world be sanitized on the off chance a child wanders into a space they shouldn’t be?
It is not “the smallest sacrifice” to have our lives purified for your convenience. It’s our autonomy. I’m not interested in a space set up like a kindergarten, with round corners and safety scissors and perpetually smiling monitors giving me wholesome, society-approved activities. I already went through childhood once. I’ve earned the right to be treated like an adult instead of being patronized to.
This is NOT just about one website. This is about the hypocritical, stifling purity culture of people like you. You think SEX is a problem. You think BODIES are a problem. Sex is fucking awesome. Bodies are fucking beautiful. Neither of those are dirty or morally corrupting. RACISM is dirty and morally corrupting. SEXISM is dirty and morally corrupting. IGNORANCE is dirty and morally corrupting. Take a stand against something that matters instead of going on a crusade to police whether female presenting skin nubs are visible.
^^^ What @eisenvulcanstein said. Let me add, I have never and likely will never use tumblr porn to wank off to. I’m asexual. 99% of the time I don’t feel sexual attraction, nevermind getting turned on by fan art or whatever. (That said, I most certainly do not judge those who do, because there’s nothing wrong with it.) Yet I am very much, 100% against this stupid ban.
The NSFW fan art that gets posted here isn’t just material for your spank bank. It is genuinely beautiful art, labored over for hours upon hours by incredibly talented people, depicting complex, romantic, tender relationships between two characters, giving us all the sexual layers that the mainstream media won’t include in canon ships and all the layers for non-canon ships. Reducing it to just “something to wank off to” is incredibly disrespectful to and undermining of the hard work and passion that these artists pour into their work, often for free, just for the satisfaction of creating something that people will love.
You’re right about one thing, though, @introspectrum. I don’t care about “the kids.” In general, I don’t want bad things to happen to kids, obviously; in particular, I care about the kids I personally know in my life (all five or so of them), but in broad terms? No, I actually don’t care if unsuspecting 13 year olds wander into adult spaces and are scandalized by what they see. They’re not my problem. I’m not their parent, I shouldn’t be expected to function as their parent by policing and censoring adult fandom spaces, and Tumblr’s guidelines (at least for their app, which they care so much about) requires you to be 17 to register anyway. I don’t know who all these hypothetical, innocent children are who people like you are so concerned about protecting, but I don’t care about them and maybe if their parents did better jobs of monitoring their online content and teaching them about personal responsibility and accountability for their actions (ie, if you click past the warnings and the tags and the age requirements, you don’t get to be upset and offended that you saw a female-presenting nipple), we wouldn’t be in this position in the first place.
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Jeff D’Onofrio
CEO
Seriously guys fuck you. Eroticism is not the same as pornography. One of the many reason I enjoyed this site so much was the sex positivity community and the freedom of expression. This was never supossed to be a pg or a child friendly website in first place. Good fucking bye
One day I will finish this but for now I just wanted to say PLEASE GO READ BETWEEN THE SHADOW AND THE SOUL by the incredible @saltyshiro 🔥
It’s been ages since I began and finished it and yet, it’s wonder has never left me. I’ve read my share of some amazing works but BTSATS is beyond all else… I cannot even begin to describe to you how UNREAL, BEAUTIFUL, CAPTIVATING, UNIQUE, DARING AND SO MUCH MORE it is.
GO GO GOOOOO if you haven’t read it already!
“Drowning Mariposa”
An accompanying piece to Keith’s “Suffocating Rosebay”
They’re not as matching as I planned, but I don’t mind, Lance turned out very pretty
Do Not Repost My Art
I made a useless lesbian aesthetic generator so reblog and tag what your new aesthetic is
mine is ambitious pastel bottom
