![]() ![]() The dark side of Tumblr was always two or three links away: a hotbed of seemingly illegal content, from minors posting nudes to overt bestiality and reblogged children in fetish hubs. They cited an ineffective flagging system that deems innocuous content explicit and, largely, leaves Nazis alone.īut 14 longtime Tumblr users tell MEL the site had far bigger problems than “ female-presenting nipples“: exploitative, abusive and illegal content, which they spent years reporting and flagging, to no avail. (Coincidentally, the shutdown took place on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.) On the shutdown day, users staged a “ #logoffprotest,” pledging to boycott Tumblr for 24 hours to show their displeasure with how the ban harms NSFW creators. Countless people detailed how the site provided a unique platform for sex workers, kinky folk and LGBTQ people to connect on all things explicit. Now, the day of reckoning has come and gone - December 17th, the day Tumblr said it would be purging the site for good, putting an end to what was, for many, the last safe space to be horny online. ![]() First, Tumblr vanished from the App Store, reportedly over its child porn problem. Then came the announcement that rattled the internet: Tumblr would place a blanket ban on all adult content. “Ignoring the problem, as you have done for so many years, is clearly not working,” they wrote. ![]() Fed up, Arcturus wrote an open letter about the “hotbed of child pornography” on Tumblr, tweeting it at Tumblr founder David Karp, CEO Jeff D’Onofrio and parent companies Verizon and Oath. They waited four days, and nothing happened - the images were still there when they checked. Then they tried to contact but that email was no longer in use. When they opened the page it came from, they saw graphic images with hundreds, even thousands of likes.Īrcturus reported the content and got an automated response. They say they’d simply gotten a follow, opened the page and spotted a repost of a questionable image. It took ArcturusXXXIII two clicks to end up on a Tumblr page filled with apparent child porn. ![]()
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