The father’s artistic talent is clearly on display here, but I’m actually really impressed with this kid’s wild imagination. Many of his drawings are both conceptually unique and coherent.
WOW!! This is some amazing stuff right here! I’d totally watch an anime of this!!
A dad using his son’s drawings as inspiration? Now that’s pure genius!
Reading the new terms and seeing what they described going forward after Dec 17th it sounds like my blogs *might* go down with the ship. I’m not an artist, but I’ve shared pictures of adult content on my NSFW blog and on this primary blog years ago when I didn’t separate the two. I also had shared sexually graphic pictures before on my advice archive as well.
Needless to say, I hope I am left unscathed after the fact but I have my doubts.
There are a lot of people I met thanks to Tumblr who are now planning their exit strategy and I don’t blame them. I hope I can in someway keep in contact with a good majority of them if they fully remove themselves from this site. I strongly believe Verizon is using a hammer to solve a problem that a scalpel would’ve to suffice. It may have taken a lot more time, but they could’ve easily set up an alert system (and be more responsive to our own flagging) of bots and people creating illegal sexual content… but I digress…
The situation is what it is and I’m going to just have to face the music with all of you. I hope to see many of you on the other side.
Tumblr is apparently doing some crazy nonsense again, so it seems like a good time to remind everyone that Pillowfort.io is a new social media platform that aims to give users control of their content and how it’s seen and shared, as well as provide better communication tools to promote conversation and creativity. If this sounds good to you, you can donate $5 to our PayPal and you will receive a registration link the Friday after your donation. And if you decide the site isn’t for you, you can request a refund for up to three weeks after you sign up. (All money we receive through this process is going towards paying our hosting expenses and compensating our programmers.)
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Pillowfort is under maintenance so it can’t have new users.
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
To deal with child porn, you banned ALL ADULT CONTENT. You can’t spin this in a positive light. You have blatantly shown that you are against adults being able to sexually express themselves in a mature environment. This goes far beyond child pornography, you people have become prudes. What you are doing doesn’t spread culture, it kills it. Do you know how many artists make pornography? You have systematically screwed every single one that ever gave you patronage. And for what? So you could be on a stupid app store? Cut the crap. You didn’t do any of this for the community as many, many people have been systematically talking about how they don’t want this. Well it seems all that objection fell of deaf ears. Enjoy your fall to the bottom. I hope you crash and burn for what you’ve done to these people.
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