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Tumblr, buddy, listen to me. This is an unprecedented opportunity. You can snap up all of the pie here, and become defacto internet goodguy easy. All you gotta do is… drop the nsfw ban. Unambiguously. Announce that dicks are back on the menu. You want people subscribed the blogs? You want people to actually use your Post+ function? Porn. Let us use it for porn. The youngins aren’t joining this site anyway, you’re not competing with tiktok. The vaguely horny 20-40 demographic though? You can have that. You can have all of that. Think about it.
Do you know how many pinup artists alone are itching to come back to tumblr, but dont because of the unclear, seemingly arbitrary application of your nsfw policy? These are insanely talented people who are practically begging to give you content. For free. But you gotta change the policy. We can’t keep dancing around this. Just think of publicity. The drama. A complete 180. You’d kill it tumblr. You could make it happen. Please.
Hate to always be the one saying this, but:
No, they literally can’t.
FOSTA/SESTA hasn’t gone away. Credit card companies are still reluctant or completely unwilling to do business with adult content providers. The app store is still a bitch. Ads are still a necessary part of the website’s revenue stream.
People don’t seem to understand that Twitter being able to semi-openly host explicit porn, despite being so huge, is an act of fucking wizardry. It’s unclear why Twitter gets such wildly preferential treatment from these entities (especially now) but the fact remains that it is preferential treatment. Not just any website can do that.
If Tumblr’s ownership (not @staff mind you, the actual owners) was confident this website could be fully financially supported on subscriptions/post+ there might be a shred of a chance that we could get porn back, but people are EXTREMELY hostile to Tumblr’s efforts to ‘be a profitable business,’ so why would they expect that to work?
Yes, the NSFW policy could be hugely improved. It needs to be more clear and consistent. But, for the record, it’s fairly obvious that the inconsistency and vagueness are at least partially because A. the moderation is almost entirely automated and B. staff genuinely wants to give us wiggle room to post lewd shit while giving themselves plausible deniability
If you want porn back, stop talking to staff and start talking to your congressmen.
Tumblr, buddy, listen to me. This is an unprecedented opportunity. You can snap up all of the pie here, and become defacto internet goodguy easy. All you gotta do is… drop the nsfw ban. Unambiguously. Announce that dicks are back on the menu. You want people subscribed the blogs? You want people to actually use your Post+ function? Porn. Let us use it for porn. The youngins aren’t joining this site anyway, you’re not competing with tiktok. The vaguely horny 20-40 demographic though? You can have that. You can have all of that. Think about it.
Do you know how many pinup artists alone are itching to come back to tumblr, but dont because of the unclear, seemingly arbitrary application of your nsfw policy? These are insanely talented people who are practically begging to give you content. For free. But you gotta change the policy. We can’t keep dancing around this. Just think of publicity. The drama. A complete 180. You’d kill it tumblr. You could make it happen. Please.
Every time I see a “just allow nsfw” post: you really don’t think someone would have stepped into that social media niche if they though there was a money making opportunity there?
Every time I get the idea in my head to do this myself it gets stopped because I realize it’s not sustainable past a certain point because:
A) you have to moderate this, and I can rightfully describe having to moderate anything with images and user generated content as “traumatic”
B) credit card companies are going to Throw a Shitfit about NSFW content and everything you do is going to involve them in some way
games and media are always so scared of post-transformation permenance, like, there should be some aspect that stays with the character forever!!
Say they turn into a dragon, let them keep the horns and scars and patches of scales after they turn back!!! Let snouts and animal ears and patches of fur stick!!
Or even mannerisms!! Let the hoarding tendancies or animal noises or ways of affection define them after the fact!!!!
Twitter: what level of enshittification are you on? Tumblr: I dunno, 4, maybe 5? We took away the ability to easily go directly to an individual post off the dashboard and we’re still trying to Pivot to Streaming Twitter: you are like little baby. watch this Twitter: [BANS READING POSTS]
please stick around this time we can’t keep doing this twitter has you all in an abusive relationship
for the record im also not immune. you know my ass is gonna be back there in a few days too but. is it really worth it
i mostly stay on twitter bc i have friends on there i can interact with and its slowly stopped being fun for anything else. just a big eternal psychic damage machine
