maxellera:

maxellera:

So XD

With Tumblr going to shit XD I’ll be exporting my blogs (this one, @shattered-heathens, @baa-sama-art, and @black-wererabbit).

I’ll be searching for alternatives at the moment but if ya wanna still follow me and such welp here’s my Discord: Baa-sama#9930

So incase Tumblr nukes itself yo, my shit is going to WordPress cause I’m not taking chances.

Also I’m not going anywhere, wordpress is just a fail safe because ya never know with tumblr.

maxellera:

So XD

With Tumblr going to shit XD I’ll be exporting my blogs (this one, @shattered-heathens, @baa-sama-art, and @black-wererabbit).

I’ll be searching for alternatives at the moment but if ya wanna still follow me and such welp here’s my Discord: Baa-sama#9930

So incase Tumblr nukes itself yo, my shit is going to WordPress cause I’m not taking chances.

arkadycosplay:

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

– don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

– archive everything on your blog you want to keep

– tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

– tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

– go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

– support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

janeykara:

timeclonemike:

loldyinginside:

janeykara:

I know it’s tempting to leave and migrate to Twitter or Deviantart or whatever place to put your content due to the new policies, but DON’T. Let me explain why:

when your space is invaded, do you leave and let them take it? or do you stay because it’s YOUR space.

Leaving Tumblr won’t solve anything. As nonchalant as the staff is, if we leave, the new policy will stay in tact and NOTHING will be fixed.

We have to stay right here and tell the staff to go fuck themselves (Not literally, don’t harass the staff with threats or something) and do whatever we can to let them know their rules ain’t shit. Fix it.

it could take awhile. Weeks, a month, but we HAVE to kill this new policy.

Make petitions, videos, posts, but DO NOT LEAVE TUMBLR until they learn how to fix their shit.

@staff could you actually fix your shit instead of flagging and deleting every depiction of humans regardless of context. I have a blog where pictures of people who are hugging, driving, or just modeling clothes have been flagged and I assume are set to be taken down. I never comment on anything but this is lazy bullshit. 

Leaving is a good plan B. Digging in and forcing change would make a good Plan A.

Remember the ruckus that got raised from Patreon’s unilateral policy changes? Same basic principle. And while some might dispute that analogy based on Tumblr being a free platform, I say it is a very similar situation. If Tumblr alienates a large enough population of its users, causing them to migrate to other platforms, they lose potential advertising revenue and personal data that they can sell to third parties. It is in their financial interest to keep people using this Rube Goldberg Machine of a website for a while yet.

ALSO remember how 2 years ago when youtubers were losing a lot of their videos from unfair copyright claims, they posted videos under the hashtag #WTFU (where’s the fair use) to call out youtube for letting that shit happen. YES. INSTEAD OF PACKING THEIR THINGS AND LEAVING, they actually DIRECTLY responded to youtube’s nonchalance to raise awareness.

SAME BASIC PRINCIPLE.

yellow-sandwich:

drawing-prompt-s:

therealgoldenzebra:

girlgirloveandreams:

kam13chomo:

staff:

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio
CEO

Constructive Critisim: You’ve failed. Not only yourselves @staff but the whole community of tumblr. You say “freedom of expression” and yet take away that freedom from fanartists, positivity blogs, and others all in the name of making it a “safe place” for those who’re underage. You have done the complete opposite, you aren’t making it safer, you’ve made a war zone by your own hand on your own doorstep. Sadly, I will probably delete my blog, there’s no point to be in a place where “freedom” has chains.

I would have maybe gotten it if you had did an all round sweep of every tag there was. However only nuking one and completely ignoring the others (aggressive hate groups hiding behind “freedom of expression”) is not equitable in any way.

Unless you do something – You will not see me after December.

Tumblr should not ban fanart or even pictures simply because there are 2 women kissing! That’s what’s appening in my tumblr

Everyone, if you are a creator go to this website and sign up for their email course on how to grow & keep your fanbase and monetize your content. Currently lots of traffic so the website is a bit slow to load. Seriously, do it.

#SIGNAL BOOST!!!

It’s a 7-day email course. Sandra (blog owner) recommend having your own website and to be self-hosted so that when things like this happen it doesn’t affect you, and to start working on an email list rather than only focussing on the # of followers on social media. With email there is no algorithm that hides your content. So if you have 300 subscribers, all 300 subscribers receive your email instead of having 300 followers and only 10 people seeing your content. 

So basically you gonna need things like WordPress self-hosted using, for example, BlueHost that costs around $4 a month and Mailchimp (free). 

If you don’t have any money, I still highly recommend Sandra’s course because the information she gives out is amazing and also work without a website 80% of the time. Definitely worth checking out.