![]() Porn blogs sexualizing children and minors posting nudes are just a sampling of the illegal content users tell us they found on Tumblr. “I never got in trouble, I never had my blog shut down.” She was 16 at the time, and said so - but not only did her photos stay up, they were reblogged wildly. “I would straight-up tell people I was 16 years old and people literally didn’t care,” she admits to MEL. ‘I Would Straight-Up Tell People I Was 16 Years Old’Ĭomic writer Leah Williams writes in a Twitter thread that she “distinctly remember trying to report the way predators were using Tumblr to staff years ago” but “Tumblr wouldn’t do anything about it.” She made a Tumblr page in 2014 gathering predatory screenshots, mostly of a user who would reblog photos of young children or teenagers onto his BDSM porn blog, often adding suggestive or sexualized comments without the consent of the original poster.Īlso in 2014, a Tumblr user named Em posted nudes on her blog. a jar of spiders in his car December 3, 2018 Tumblr: “sorry we can’t deactivate these specific child porn and nazi blogs you’ve brought to our attention several times it’s too complicated ://“Īlso tumblr: “we’re gonna delete every single tiddy on the entire site by this date” This is not news, users have been yelling at tumblr for years to get on shit like child porn, white supremacists and pedophile grooming blogs and tumblr's completely refused to do so bc effort, now they're burning it all down bc they're still too lazy to investigate reports ![]() And in doing so, users say, Tumblr failed the communities that needed it most. Users say the site continually failed to respond adequately to reports, and that it had plenty of time - and advance warning - to correct the problem before selecting the nuclear option. The dark side of Tumblr was always two or three links away: a hotbed of seemingly illegal content, from minors posting nudes to overt bestiality and reblogged children in fetish hubs. They cited an ineffective flagging system that deems innocuous content explicit and, largely, leaves Nazis alone.īut 14 longtime Tumblr users tell MEL the site had far bigger problems than “ female-presenting nipples“: exploitative, abusive and illegal content, which they spent years reporting and flagging, to no avail. (Coincidentally, the shutdown took place on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.) On the shutdown day, users staged a “ #logoffprotest,” pledging to boycott Tumblr for 24 hours to show their displeasure with how the ban harms NSFW creators. Countless people detailed how the site provided a unique platform for sex workers, kinky folk and LGBTQ people to connect on all things explicit. Now, the day of reckoning has come and gone - December 17th, the day Tumblr said it would be purging the site for good, putting an end to what was, for many, the last safe space to be horny online. First, Tumblr vanished from the App Store, reportedly over its child porn problem. Then came the announcement that rattled the internet: Tumblr would place a blanket ban on all adult content. “Ignoring the problem, as you have done for so many years, is clearly not working,” they wrote. ![]() Fed up, Arcturus wrote an open letter about the “hotbed of child pornography” on Tumblr, tweeting it at Tumblr founder David Karp, CEO Jeff D’Onofrio and parent companies Verizon and Oath. They waited four days, and nothing happened - the images were still there when they checked. ![]() Then they tried to contact but that email was no longer in use. When they opened the page it came from, they saw graphic images with hundreds, even thousands of likes.Īrcturus reported the content and got an automated response. They say they’d simply gotten a follow, opened the page and spotted a repost of a questionable image. It took ArcturusXXXIII two clicks to end up on a Tumblr page filled with apparent child porn.
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