After Tumblr was removed from Apple's app store, the social media platform announced to ban all adult content from the website, therefore the app was restored making it available once again to download.
The decision has been upsetting and confusing for many users and have already started to look for alternatives such as Patreon and Pillowfort. In many cases, the adult content refers to nudity and erotica, with some exceptions for artistic and educational content. The company announced all the new rules and the appeal process for flagged content in their blog post. The first flagged content was taken down on Monday.
Tumblr is known for the users and their self expression. The blogging site welcomed many users to be part of the community such as the LGBTQ and sex-positive bloggers, artists and creators, those in need of support and many more.
Wil Wheaton has watched many communities grow on Tumblr having been a user for more than a decade.
The thing that is so upsetting to me is that I see all of these people, most of them young people, who are trying to find a place where they can be themselves, where they can find people who are like themselves. And Tumblr is kind of taking that away by delisting and hiding these things
Users will begin to see explicit posts to disappear from the website as the ban on adult content is now in effect. Media showing sex acts, exposed genitals and female presentation nipples will be kept out of sight. All explicit content is now being hidden from being viewed. In the coming weeks more adult content will be flagged. The social media blogger platform hope that the automated tools will be accurate at picked on what to flag.
Tumblr's Decline
It has been evident over the years that Tumblr had been on the decline, having suffered from a lack of user growth, losing artists to other media sites such as instagram. Tumblr has been acquired many times and still consistently underperforms. Its latest parent company, Verizon stated that Oath Media, the media brand of which Tumblr is a part, is worthless and has cut 10% of Oath staff, which isn’t a great sign for the struggling media platform company.
After Tumblr was removed from Apple's app store, the social media platform announced to ban all adult content from the website, therefore the app was restored making it available once again to download.
The decision has been upsetting and confusing for many users and have already started to look for alternatives such as Patreon and Pillowfort. In many cases, the adult content refers to nudity and erotica, with some exceptions for artistic and educational content. The company announced all the new rules and the appeal process for flagged content in their blog post. The first flagged content was taken down on Monday.
Tumblr is known for the users and their self expression. The blogging site welcomed many users to be part of the community such as the LGBTQ and sex-positive bloggers, artists and creators, those in need of support and many more.
Wil Wheaton has watched many communities grow on Tumblr having been a user for more than a decade.
The thing that is so upsetting to me is that I see all of these people, most of them young people, who are trying to find a place where they can be themselves, where they can find people who are like themselves. And Tumblr is kind of taking that away by delisting and hiding these things
Users will begin to see explicit posts to disappear from the website as the ban on adult content is now in effect. Media showing sex acts, exposed genitals and female presentation nipples will be kept out of sight. All explicit content is now being hidden from being viewed. In the coming weeks more adult content will be flagged. The social media blogger platform hope that the automated tools will be accurate at picked on what to flag.
Tumblr's Decline
It has been evident over the years that Tumblr had been on the decline, having suffered from a lack of user growth, losing artists to other media sites such as instagram. Tumblr has been acquired many times and still consistently underperforms. Its latest parent company, Verizon stated that Oath Media, the media brand of which Tumblr is a part, is worthless and has cut 10% of Oath staff, which isn’t a great sign for the struggling media platform company.
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