What Happened to Tumblr: Why Adult Content Mattered | Video Essay by Kenz Mangan

Lol- i don’t need a video to know blocking porn was the downfall of tumblr.

So you're saying you watched a 40 minute video in one minute and I shouldn't have posted it because it's the only valid point the video makes?

Or did you rather just read the title of the video and assumed that its content was 40 minutes of repeating what was said in the title in long form?

But some of the comments for that video suggest that they aren’t able to connect to people outside of that bubble, since these people’s instances might block NSFW ones.

I think a lot of times that's due to the risk of hosting potentially illegal federated content from nsfw instances.

Wish these were articles, video is so slow.

That's part of the appeal for me. And that it's more visual with more pictures than the average article.

But you can also increase the speed to 2x, then it's faster (:

People like porn and it's most of the activity on the internet. Taking porn away means you lose a substantial portion of your activity, including people who used your site for both sfw and nsfw content and shit snowballs as advertisers and other members see activity die.

I'm guessing. I didn't watch either.

Tumblr was a safe haven for a lot of LGBTQ niches, for most of them it was the only place they could go that wasn't fetishized to hell. They created a safe place for those. For some of them there were blogs that were NSFW technically but they were about sex ed.

Banning NSFW wasn't removing dudes shoving porn spam, it was about removing all of those safe havens. With those gone for some it was no longer what they need d and for the rest it proves that the trust had been lost.

very abbreviated tl;dw: Adult content mattered because people could express and explore their sexual identity, not only LGBTQ+ people but everyone. After that disappeared, the users didn't want to interact with a corporate site which is trying to exploit them. It went from indie project to Verizon/Oath daughter company.