In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of November 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
//and even as i try to counsel a younger friend in the art of healthy self-esteem, i sit here paralyzed by guilt and fearing that, for so many of my own friends, i fall short of being enough. lol. see case in point. being an overachiever fucks you up for the rest of your life.
i wish to god nobody in fucking high school, a million fucking years ago, had ever told me i was “most likely to succeed” and “so smart” and “a genius” and other total untruths because to this DAY i am guiltily, frantically trying to live up to that standard and one day it is going to kill me, i already know this. one day i will snap because i didn’t do “enough” in some obscure way that nobody really cares about and i will just have a nervous breakdown.
like it goes way way way beyond smarts and grades. you start to code your own worth based on your ability to be useful and productive and in some nebulous way “good.”
i will try and try and try to practice healthy coping strategies and self-care and proactive healing methods and this will still be true. maybe not tomorrow or even ten years from now, but i am fully convinced it’s a demon i’ll never exorcise.
i am telling every last one of you millennials and gen-z kids following this blog: do not be me. fuck up once in a while, and don’t care. be free. be healthy.
Icarus 