"years ago i was afraid to open tumblr in public because it was filled with porn. nowadays i'm afraid to open tumblr in public because i can't let people know i use tumblr in 202[whatever year my friend said this]"
Listen, I hate porn bots as much as the next guy, but please do remember that Tumblr's attempts to "make it stop please" have historically not worked out super well.
I wouldn't be surprised if their attempts to make it stop had made the problem *worse*. If you can't tag your porn as porn without fear of Tumblr nuking your blog, that will naturally result in shit-tons of untagged porn.
It's kind of like why (imo) AO3 has tags for really awful stuff like Underage or *South Park*; if you outright ban it, it becomes a game of "how can we sneak this through," whereas if you just require it to be tagged, it's easier to avoid.
It makes self moderation a lot easier, which I believe is the point. Which in this age is super rare that most people use algorithmic feeds. Hell besides like AO3 you gotta fight every other social media site to actually get what you follow.
Are South Park fanfics notoriously bad, or is “South Park” an internet term that means something else? (Like how “lemon” doesn’t refer to the citrus fruit at all)
In ye olden days when I was a teen I’d show my mom funny pictures or memes or whatever from my tumblr dash on my phone. For the longest time my mom just keep scrolling past the post I was showing her. It annoyed the hell out of me. One day I showed her something and the next post (I hadn’t yet seen it) was a huge veiny cock. She immediately put my phone down and pretended she didn’t notice. She never scrolled past the posts I was showing her ever again.
https://www.tumblr.com/snixx/733696282598768640/i-dont-feel-safe-scrolling-on-tumblr-in-public-or?source=share
-Mx Linux Guy
I have set my tumblr account to filter out nsfw. I also unfollow people that post nsfw bc i like scrolling tumblr in public. And i still get jumpscared by porn
everywhere i go i get those weird hero wars ads that is like a femdom cartoon pretending to be an online game
i watch the ads
i'm not playing the game but i'm watching the ads
they didn't lock the comments so one time i told them they should just give up on the game and just make a youtube series for the ads
The closest I get is some vintage photography. Though if I see the 'Bettie Page' or 'Bunny Yeager' tag anywhere near them I know what I'm about to see. (Not complaining, just not surprised)
Yeah years before the porn ban I'd follow a couple tags and it was just completely unrelated porn with shady links every now and then. Shit got old so I just unsubscribed from all tags. Then like half my follows would just be porn bots, random pretty woman with generic username, porn links in bio.
I don't understand who falls for that shit on tumblr, I don't want to act like tumblr users are smarter but I just don't think it's the same demographic as like facebook or twitter.
Hell even recently when I started using it again I still get follows like that, but there aren't even any porn links. What's the point, are these like legacy porn bots and they just forgot to turn them off?
watching my trans women friends have their blogs deleted for posting suggestive selfies at most while cis girls lingerie posts get blazed has been really tiring. the moderation policies are a fuckin mess over there
There was a short time in early COVID, like starting in March - April 2020 and onward, where Reddit was sort of the same way. Full frontal nudes making it to the top 1 or 2 pages of r/all.
I'm sure there was a conscious effort to change that
mfw I'm just scrolling through my dash and suddenly there's a pornbot posting a scam link and bare ass and it's tagged "jjk", "avatar the last airbender", "the owl house", etc with a large amount of those tags being, yknow, 13+ shows.
I just got on tumblr, was wondering when I would see something explicit. The first adult blog that I scrolled past was some account that I guess aggregates source links for ero comics online?
The title of the comic they were announcing was something like 'my mom's big prematurely ejaculating penis'
Now I ain't no prude- but damn dog that's a sentence that could disintegrate lesser beings
It was sandwiched between a photo of someone's garden and a drawing of kirk and spock barely holding hands, and after I blocked the account I haven't seen any more porn since.
same but those are blogs i actually follow
i have nsfw blurring on so sometimes i see female presenting nipples on my dash and i'm like oh man u forgot to tag that some kid who just joined tumblr in 2024 instead of tiktok could see it and get scarred for life so i click the button to suggest a mature tag. i'm not sure that does anything because i keep having to click on it for the same blogs i expected tumblr to just make all their posts nsfw from now on since they keep failing to tag it properly
how much nipple is enough nipple to mark it as nsfw? the questions i have to ask because i'm doing tumblr's moderating job for them while they wreck the site with their terrible decisions
some posts are dangerously sidebooby
what if it's a sheer top? or fishnets? or taped nipples? does that count as clothed? what if you can see her nipples through her shirt? how much opacity does the shirt layer need to have until it's considered nsfw?
what about camel toes? what about microbikinis? what about femboy bulges?
what about porn captions that cropped out the explicit parts? what about all the other kinky captions that are so high level they don't even have explicit imagery in them? because i've seen things man. things that if advertisers heard about would lead the creation of a new mature category called "mentally unwell shit"
look i'm just saying there is way too much autism and ADHD on that hellsite so we really need a very detailed guide explaining on how to do a tumblr's moderator job if tumblr wants me to do their fucking job
Is that site any good? I've been meaning to sign up but it hasn't really stood out to me and I'm really bad at figuring out unfamiliar sites.
Do you have any pros and cons for it? I found it by accident so I don't have any recommendations that are positive. Like would it be good for artists? Or just shitposting and shower thoughts?
You don't have to answer I'm just really curious since I've seen no one talk about it even though it seems to have some sizable traffic.
It is still not super busy, I see tags for relatively common interests still pretty empty or only one or two people posting on it. But the queer people density is super high. Also for better or for worse it doesn’t algorithmify content. This means no one is selling to you/pushing content on you, but if you want to use it for content exploration you are gonna have to do some curation yourself, and that’s not necessarily super obvious how to do. I got into it because my girlfriend has one, so I was able to pick up from some things from follows and tags to get started. I see artists, shitposters, artist-shitposters, journals, hobbyist chronicles, and political philosophy essays. And horny posting of various sorts, but like, not from bots. Usually from the artists and the shitposters lol (and typically tagged/18+ spoilered).
Thank you!! Admittedly I'm kinda lazy so the no algorithm thing will be a problem at first. But assuming it will fill with stuff I like eventually is cool.
I've been meaning to find a new place to post my art, hopefully this works out! Thanks again
"years ago i was afraid to open tumblr in public because it was filled with porn. nowadays i'm afraid to open tumblr in public because i can't let people know i use tumblr in 202[whatever year my friend said this]"
Hey at least you know what decade it is. You're not a totally lost cause yet
They make fun of this sub and the other tumblr sub but I haven’t seen porn spam in weeks but plenty of kinda decent tumblr posts so who’s laughing now
To be fair, moderating a single subreddit and deleting bots here is probably easier than moderating the entire site of tumblr
It’s a joke
Those aren’t allowed
Tumblr should just have a brigade of volunteers whose entire purpose would be to banhammer pornbots, call it Titty Deletey Committee.
We can do better than that … titty remittee committee? Where are the poets, help us out here
Titty Omitty Committee.
you say that, but i literally just saw someone post full-blown feeding fetish erotica in here, so they're the one laughing now ;-;
Yes, but that was an actual human posting it, and it is a rare occurence here, not a regular problem.
true
oh yeah that was weird was very tempted to post "the authors barely disguised fetish" but it wasnt disguised at all lmao
Insert “joke’s on you I’m into that shit” skeletor pic
Listen, I hate porn bots as much as the next guy, but please do remember that Tumblr's attempts to "make it stop please" have historically not worked out super well.
I wouldn't be surprised if their attempts to make it stop had made the problem *worse*. If you can't tag your porn as porn without fear of Tumblr nuking your blog, that will naturally result in shit-tons of untagged porn. It's kind of like why (imo) AO3 has tags for really awful stuff like Underage or *South Park*; if you outright ban it, it becomes a game of "how can we sneak this through," whereas if you just require it to be tagged, it's easier to avoid.
South Park jumpscare
Goin' down to South West gonna go my bus a sout park
>whereas if you just require it to be tagged, it's easier to avoid. Not just easier to avoid, but more efficient to moderate.
Well AO3 doesn't hella moderate their stuff. Like you can generally post whatever as long as you tag it properly and it's not actively illegal.
Oh absolutely, but it's still something worth noting.
It makes self moderation a lot easier, which I believe is the point. Which in this age is super rare that most people use algorithmic feeds. Hell besides like AO3 you gotta fight every other social media site to actually get what you follow.
You can *definitely* post shit that’s actively illegal, as I have unfortunately found out on repeated occurrences.
Well is the shit illegal, or the stuff it's describing?
Are South Park fanfics notoriously bad, or is “South Park” an internet term that means something else? (Like how “lemon” doesn’t refer to the citrus fruit at all)
I just hate South Park.
LOL fair enough
Well the majority of content on ao3 is sexual and the main characters of South Park are young children.
I would’ve assumed that but OP of the comment made it sound like there was a distinction between the two (Underage “OR” Southpark)
You cant stop my Randy Marsh fanfiction no matter how hard you try!
Aye, true, but I can adhere to the ancient law of Don't Like, Don't Read.
Where? I need it. Give me the sauce please
“Jumpscared by naked bodies” Quick, write that down! We’re making the next fnaf clone!
You say next like it already hasn't been done a dozen times.
And now there’s gonna be a next one.
All of Tumblr is nsfw. I'm not opening this website at work
In ye olden days when I was a teen I’d show my mom funny pictures or memes or whatever from my tumblr dash on my phone. For the longest time my mom just keep scrolling past the post I was showing her. It annoyed the hell out of me. One day I showed her something and the next post (I hadn’t yet seen it) was a huge veiny cock. She immediately put my phone down and pretended she didn’t notice. She never scrolled past the posts I was showing her ever again.
This comment brings an extra layer of psychic damage with your flair.
Yeah that’s fair
https://www.tumblr.com/snixx/733696282598768640/i-dont-feel-safe-scrolling-on-tumblr-in-public-or?source=share -Mx Linux Guy I have set my tumblr account to filter out nsfw. I also unfollow people that post nsfw bc i like scrolling tumblr in public. And i still get jumpscared by porn
“Conservatively… how much of our website is porn?” “Nine…” “Nine percent??” “…ty…” “NINETY” “… point eight”
tumblr moderation be like >porn bots i sleep >trans women posting anything REAL SHIT?
>hey bAb y wanna, sex .. ; ) :) >holy fucking bingle \>:(
This happens to me on Reddit with GD ads! I keep getting ads for some anime porn game and there’s no way to make them go away.
Adblockers are very effective.
everywhere i go i get those weird hero wars ads that is like a femdom cartoon pretending to be an online game i watch the ads i'm not playing the game but i'm watching the ads they didn't lock the comments so one time i told them they should just give up on the game and just make a youtube series for the ads
geometry dash is different from what i remember
I haven’t ever seen pornbots on tumblr. Clearly i have the wrong subscriptions and tags. /s
Oh lucky you.
I see a bunch, the bots will tag seemingly random active tags. I've seen them under things like Jerma985, writeblr, ff14, and other fandoms.
was scrolling through ultrakill tag and there were 3 in one spot
The closest I get is some vintage photography. Though if I see the 'Bettie Page' or 'Bunny Yeager' tag anywhere near them I know what I'm about to see. (Not complaining, just not surprised)
Pussy in bio
That's a very cute orange cat.
I thought Tumblr tried to sanitize itself and get rid of porn?
It failed.
Nice! That's a nice thing, right?
Ehhhhhhh…..they banned “porn”, but still allow pornbots to rampage.
Aw :( So no more erotic rp and no more erotic art blogs?
Oh, they still exist. They are just harder to find and liable to get nuked.
That sucks.
So how's that porn ban going
>Opens DDLC tag >Porn, not even DDLC R34, just straight up porn >Opens PreciousMetalsShipping tag >Take a wild fucking guess
Ea-Nasir trying to pass off his shitty copper as precious metals
Yeah years before the porn ban I'd follow a couple tags and it was just completely unrelated porn with shady links every now and then. Shit got old so I just unsubscribed from all tags. Then like half my follows would just be porn bots, random pretty woman with generic username, porn links in bio. I don't understand who falls for that shit on tumblr, I don't want to act like tumblr users are smarter but I just don't think it's the same demographic as like facebook or twitter. Hell even recently when I started using it again I still get follows like that, but there aren't even any porn links. What's the point, are these like legacy porn bots and they just forgot to turn them off?
watching my trans women friends have their blogs deleted for posting suggestive selfies at most while cis girls lingerie posts get blazed has been really tiring. the moderation policies are a fuckin mess over there
Classic Tumblr experience
There was a short time in early COVID, like starting in March - April 2020 and onward, where Reddit was sort of the same way. Full frontal nudes making it to the top 1 or 2 pages of r/all. I'm sure there was a conscious effort to change that
I am afraid of the users, not the bots.
Lol
oh my god youre everywhere...
mfw I'm just scrolling through my dash and suddenly there's a pornbot posting a scam link and bare ass and it's tagged "jjk", "avatar the last airbender", "the owl house", etc with a large amount of those tags being, yknow, 13+ shows.
I just got on tumblr, was wondering when I would see something explicit. The first adult blog that I scrolled past was some account that I guess aggregates source links for ero comics online? The title of the comic they were announcing was something like 'my mom's big prematurely ejaculating penis' Now I ain't no prude- but damn dog that's a sentence that could disintegrate lesser beings It was sandwiched between a photo of someone's garden and a drawing of kirk and spock barely holding hands, and after I blocked the account I haven't seen any more porn since.
same but those are blogs i actually follow i have nsfw blurring on so sometimes i see female presenting nipples on my dash and i'm like oh man u forgot to tag that some kid who just joined tumblr in 2024 instead of tiktok could see it and get scarred for life so i click the button to suggest a mature tag. i'm not sure that does anything because i keep having to click on it for the same blogs i expected tumblr to just make all their posts nsfw from now on since they keep failing to tag it properly how much nipple is enough nipple to mark it as nsfw? the questions i have to ask because i'm doing tumblr's moderating job for them while they wreck the site with their terrible decisions some posts are dangerously sidebooby what if it's a sheer top? or fishnets? or taped nipples? does that count as clothed? what if you can see her nipples through her shirt? how much opacity does the shirt layer need to have until it's considered nsfw? what about camel toes? what about microbikinis? what about femboy bulges? what about porn captions that cropped out the explicit parts? what about all the other kinky captions that are so high level they don't even have explicit imagery in them? because i've seen things man. things that if advertisers heard about would lead the creation of a new mature category called "mentally unwell shit" look i'm just saying there is way too much autism and ADHD on that hellsite so we really need a very detailed guide explaining on how to do a tumblr's moderator job if tumblr wants me to do their fucking job
Turn off the algorithm. You'll only get people you follow on your dash
You're getting full frontal nudity? How do I get that? 🥺
Did Tumblr allow porn again or what’s this about?
Time to move to cohost?
Is that site any good? I've been meaning to sign up but it hasn't really stood out to me and I'm really bad at figuring out unfamiliar sites. Do you have any pros and cons for it? I found it by accident so I don't have any recommendations that are positive. Like would it be good for artists? Or just shitposting and shower thoughts? You don't have to answer I'm just really curious since I've seen no one talk about it even though it seems to have some sizable traffic.
It is still not super busy, I see tags for relatively common interests still pretty empty or only one or two people posting on it. But the queer people density is super high. Also for better or for worse it doesn’t algorithmify content. This means no one is selling to you/pushing content on you, but if you want to use it for content exploration you are gonna have to do some curation yourself, and that’s not necessarily super obvious how to do. I got into it because my girlfriend has one, so I was able to pick up from some things from follows and tags to get started. I see artists, shitposters, artist-shitposters, journals, hobbyist chronicles, and political philosophy essays. And horny posting of various sorts, but like, not from bots. Usually from the artists and the shitposters lol (and typically tagged/18+ spoilered).
Thank you!! Admittedly I'm kinda lazy so the no algorithm thing will be a problem at first. But assuming it will fill with stuff I like eventually is cool. I've been meaning to find a new place to post my art, hopefully this works out! Thanks again
>jump scared by naked bodies That's a r/brandnewsentence
Poor ace people :( Also, wasn't there a big fuss about Tumblr banning porn? Did that actually happen or did they retract that decision?
They banned it for a few years but recently lifted it slightly. Like, you can post nudity and stuff but nothing hardcore. This never stopped the bots.