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deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)
This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects.
The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.
ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers.
Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)
This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.
I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.
Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.
(As an interesting aside: isn’t it funny how all these sites attribute these things to an algorithm error? Itsn’t that funny.)
Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.
And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.
So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.
Also, as someone who draws fictional people naked?
That art is effectively gone.
Art I’ve drawn of characters naked or in partial undress, with no visible genitals, not having intercourse but cuddling or kissing or simply holding each other? All flagged explicit and made unsearchable, even from my own blog. It’s basically been eliminated, and while I have appeals filed on some, it’s probably all being purged on the 17th.
What tumblr *says* and what tumblr is *doing* are not the same. They might tell you that art is safe, but it isn’t.
Only Lovers Left Alive is not porn. It’s a love story with vampires.
High-Rise is not porn. It’s a dystopian, social commentary.
I can’t help but wonder what the film makers, the creative directors, the actors, the actresses, and the writers of these and other pieces of work feel about Tumblr’s new censorship… 🤔
I bet none of them were aware that they were producing “adult content” and porn.
Update for those of you who are waiting for the importer to unstick at WordPress – submit a request for a reset by using their help/support link. It’ll send you to a help forum where it looks like the “community” will answer your question, but someone from their tech staff will actually read it once it’s there and get back to you. I got this in my email this morning:
Hi there,
I’ve reset the Tumblr importer for your site so you can try again.
If it seems to take long, please be patient and don’t try cancelling the process yourself – we’re experiencing a high volume of imports from Tumblr at the moment causing a backlog of pending imports in our system. The imports are being run in the order they are submitted.
If the new import doesn’t complete within 24 hours, please let us know.
“we’re experiencing a high volume of imports from Tumblr at the moment”
LOL
Anyway, yeah it takes a while, mine has been running for about 8 hours and doesn’t even look like it has any progress yet, but they’re saying 24 hours so…hang in there.
In other news, the powers that be here haven’t gotten back to me yet about my oh so inappropriate facepalming-Loki pic that was redflagged, but then I’m guessing they have about 857,932 mistakes to address at the moment, so…our WordPress imports are gonna be done long before any of us get apologies.
I know there’s a lot of tension after Tumblr’s new policy annouced for December 17th, but reblog this if you aren’t leaving Tumblr so that other blogs can know they aren’t going to be completely alone!
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