it’s 2024 and people are still accidentally deleting their ENTIRE tumblr accounts while trying to remove a sideblog, so… a PSA.
do not “delete” the sideblog. you have to change the “members” (admins/mods) of the sideblog to zero.
you can either do this by removing yourself from the list of members, or if you want to be extra safe you can add a burner account (ACCOUNT. NOT SIDEBLOG) as one or the members and THEN remove yourself
or, to be even safer, just set the sideblog to “password protected” – which means that no one can view it.
this website is made out of duct tape and it is very likely that if you try to delete a sideblog, you will delete everything.