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An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support

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If you're a Roman Reigns fan, AND a Dean Ambrose fan, PLEASE reblog this.

I just wanna know who it’s safe for me to talk to anymore. I feel like I can’t talk about either of these guys anymore. Especially Dean. This fandom is breaking me.

@ everyone who went through a period of having no friends, who ate alone, who had a point in their life where they were too embarrassed to tell their parents they had no one to play with after school: I love you. I know it hurts and I know it’s hard but it’s not your fault. Things will grow and change. You will find people who you click with and they will love you too. You deserve positive friendship relationships just like anyone else. And if you’re still going through this phase, you’re strong, and things will change for you too. You are not alone, there are people experiencing the same thing you are, find them, you deserve positivity and companionship. Keep your head up.

Preach 🙌🏻🙏🏻💋 I’m so sorry you guys are experiencing this and I hope 🤞🏻it gets better. Abusing a function on this website that is supposed to help make tumblr a safe place is really sad 😢. Why can’t we all just get along, support each other, and love ❤️ the differences between us? Honestly upset that someone or a group would blatantly target another group just because of a few small differences.  Rooting for you guys. Don’t let the hate get you down and stay strong. 🥺👍🏻😘

I’ve put off saying this for a while but I think it needs to be said after so many of my mutuals were terminated out of the blue this morning. 

This can be the fault of the website acting up…but it’s highly suspect to the people it targeted. Or this was the fault of those who do not like me reporting me and my friends for spam when we are not. They’re abusing a function and using it to report blogs they do not like, mine especially. 

You don’t have to like me. I am not on this website to be liked. You don’t have to follow me, in fact, if you don’t like me unfollow me or block me. 

People want to go off about how I react to hate and having something that means a lot to me and many of my friends being taken away simply we have a different viewpoint of a wrestler or someone and how I react when that happened. 

I act like an adult. I do not send hate. I do not post hate. I do no go into your favs tag and write hateful shit. I don’t even hate those who follow a certain fav. I unfollow and/or block if I really don’t like someone. Me responding to the anon hate is different, especially since they’re on anon, half of it is out of my own fun and the other half was through having my work be taken away from me. But reducing me down to the small glimpses of what you see of how I act is not ok because you do not know what I put up with through this blog or even in my IRL life. I have said things out of emotion and I apologized for it greatly. I acted like the bigger person and apologized for it numerous times. 

I’ve acted like an adult to those who don’t send me hate. It’s time for those who really don’t like me to do the same. 

Abusing functions that help this website be maintained is not ok. Using it to get rid of me and my friends is not ok because we are not a group of people doing really bad things. We are not hurting anyone or has done things to hurt another person. 

This needs to stop. To go to affect my friends is blatant bullying and disgusting use of this website. 

I mean... the potential power of this post is really twisting my arm here lol 😂 

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good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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im very grateful for the lessons in photography i was taught in stop motion class because just now they made it possible to photograph the stars with my phone in spite of the camera usually not detecting the light of stars because theyre so dim,,,, enjoy these shiny motherfuckers

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theres a new product by verzion called “hum” that allows your parents to track your car and places you go, if your parents are controlling like mine please check under your steering wheel to make sure that they havent installed this

I need this in my life 🤤💗👌🏻😱

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