So, our Tumblr is likely dead

We’re sad to say it, but it looks like our near 100,000 fellow bators on Tumblr are about to vanish.

Tumblr has decided, in their infinite wisdom, to annihilate their own platform and ban all adult content. If you’re old enough to remember MySpace, LiveJournal, Yahoo Groups or Blogger, you know how this is going to go. I guess everyone working at Tumblr and making these decisions is too young to remember how all those companies faded into obscurity.

Hint: they all cracked down on legal adult content, and they all suffered the consequences of that decision.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, they don’t seem to know what they’re doing. It’s due to take effect on December 17th, but they’re already deleting blogs and banning posts. If they can’t even get the timing of this fiasco right, we don’t have much hope of them getting anything else right.

Likewise, they make no mention of erotic fiction, and reports are coming in of them banning posts which dare to even show *gasp!* a NIPPLE.

Now, we’re all for preventing those who shouldn’t see adult content from being exposed to it, and we believed that setting our blog to adult, as the platform provided, was enough. Apparently they have failed to police their own platform, and now this is the result of that failure – blame the users and attack their communities.

We’ll struggle to continue to grow at the pace we were, but we existed before Tumblr and we’ll carry on regardless.

All we can do now is wait to see what they do. If they delete all our posts and leave our followers intact, perhaps we can continue to post erotic text with a link back here. But, as said, their weak and contradictory PR statement about this farce doesn’t indicate where their line in the sand is. They suggest that art is fine, but art blogs showing any adult content are already being deleted.

The way they’re enforcing this change before the date they were supposed to enforce it, and with such a vague statement saying that maybe some things are okay and other’s aren’t without telling anyone what any of that actually means, we doubt that our blog there will exist in the next week or two.

I guess we’ll have to see how this goes.

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