I just want to get a cute apartment with a cute person and wear nothing but underwear and a big t-shirt or sweater and dance around, cook for each other, make our own movies and record each other while we’re playing, smiling, and laughing, and lay in bed together at night snuggled up warm together so close that we can hear each others pulse.
You may or may not see this, but try and spread the word if you can.
Tumblr has begun shadowbanning posts well before the deadline of December 17th. This was brought to my attention as people began to message me saying they were getting alerts that I posted something new, but when they came to my blog there was nothing new when in fact there should be.
These posts aren’t flagged as inappropriate or anything. They are simply hidden, as I suspect this one may be as well. Whether this is slowly rolling out to various blogs or if it’s one big switch that has been flipped, Adult Content creators are getting fucked harder and earlier than anticipated.
With the information we were given it was understood that blogs that had voluntarily flagged themselves as explicit from the start would be safe to post safe for work content, and only the posts deemed inappropriate would be flagged and hidden. No deletions. No shadowbans, nothing like that.
But what we’re seeing now is different. Posts aren’t being flagged then hidden, they’re simply not being shown at all, with no option to contest it.
And that’s all well and good, Tumblr can do as it pleases, but what really pisses me off is that all of these artists have been scrambling to get the word out about where to follow them, many trying to attempt to secure their future and ability to make money and thrive as artists…and Tumblr has essentially given them a huge middle finger by cutting off their connection to their followers.
If you are able to read this, follow my Twitter to make sure you actually see the updates I post from here on out. Nothing is guaranteed with Tumblr, and things don’t look like they’re going to get better.
Edit: It appears that new posts can show up on the dashboard just fine, but if you go directly to a blog, it’s not showing up. So I’ll probably be forced to do a lot of posting/reblogging in the coming days (which I’ve already done a ton of) and I apologize for that. Tumblr is really a damn mess.
On the off chance that hyperlinks are the cause (because of course fuck people who want to point their followers somewhere off of this hellsite) I’ll just write out the links and you can copypasta them into your browser to find me.
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