Tumblr to block all adult content

Also - at the risk of being viewed as the spokesperson for tumblr-perverts everywhere - I'm guessing this is all about that tech-totalitarian social-sanitisation; keeping step with the likes of apple google and our other brutal tech overlords.

The cleanest streets are in North Korea and all that jazz.
 
Where are the incels going to find brony furry rule34 futa porn?
 
I never knew they had porn. Isn't it only visual? As in, no sound?
 
What does curated mean in this context?
 
What is so different from their porn to the rest of the internet? Porn is available everywhere, cant believe people are bothered by this.
 
dumbo said:
I knew there was a lot of stuff that wasn't tory-approved like spankings, female agency and non-hetro-over-the-covers-sex content on there. But this is the first I'm hearing about a significant problem with images of abuse, and I have no idea if it is a big problem specific to Tumblr or rather simply a reflection of the overall problem of abuse on all social media and the www as a whole. Personally I see much less problematic content (almost none) on Tumblr than other porn specific places but Tumblr is more segregated by design so I guess unless you are specifically searching for images of abuse you are unlikely to find them and there may well be a lot of stuff just beyond my search filters.

Also I consider illegal material, problematic material and images of actual abuse as not necessarily being the same thing.

Dec 17 is pornageddon I believe.
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Ah damn. I've never seen anything illegal on there thankfully, but yeah everything is pretty segregated as you say, so guess it does depend on what you're looking for. Does seem a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut though.
 
izec said:
What is so different from their porn to the rest of the internet? Porn is available everywhere, cant believe people are bothered by this.
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Lots of personal-homemade stuffs, though there is an overlapping with Reddit.
 
Siorac said:
I think you articulated the problem very well, if that's any consolation.
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:lol:it is a bit actually.

It just gets a tad dispiriting when you put a little effort into trying to politely explain an idea, or answer in good faith a query or two, only to find yourself at the end confronted by the same oblivious-Colin style reactions you got at the start.

Not that it really matters. I think the tumblr thing is a pretty shitty situation in reality but I expected this thread to be a light-hearted masturbation riff. Instead I just ended up looking like a wanker.
 
Ok, so I was probably being a little harsh. Sorry about that. Just find it weird to be putting any porn site on a pedestal and mourning the loss of a wanking resource.

As an aside, would strongly recommend The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson for some fascinating insights into the effect of Youporn et al on the porn industry.
 
Tumblr porn was the best collection of amateur stuff tbh :(

I hate having to sieve through a bunch of studio porn just to find something decent.

Hard to see how Tumblr continues to stay relevant tbh, half of their content comes straight from Twitter anyway.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Ok, so I was probably being a little harsh. Sorry about that. Just find it weird to be putting any porn site on a pedestal and mourning the loss of a wanking resource.

As an aside, would strongly recommend The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson for some fascinating insights into the effect of Youporn et al on the porn industry.
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But we're straight men. Almost all porn is pretty much dedicated to our wanking.

For many, there is literally no other place where they can express and explore so freely and where they can find such massive amounts of content at the same time.

Disclaimer: I never used it so I'm passing off other people's opinions as my own. But really, is there a more internet thing to do than that?
 
izec said:
What is so different from their porn to the rest of the internet? Porn is available everywhere, cant believe people are bothered by this.
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Not all porn is created equal!

VR porn provides the greatest porn experience known to man until about a month after where it gets boring the same way as other porn.

Tumblr is well up there. Its convenient and quick with minimal effort to scroll through it. Other sites take more clicks which slows down the whole process!

Tumblr not having porn is like Ferrari saying from now on they'll only sell cars without wheels. All art and no excitement.
 
Siorac said:
But we're straight men. Almost all porn is pretty much dedicated to our wanking.

For many, there is literally no other place where they can express and explore so freely and where they can find such massive amounts of content at the same time.

Disclaimer: I never used it so I'm passing off other people's opinions as my own. But really, is there a more internet thing to do than that?
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Thank you for pointing this out.

Normal porn sites are best suited for straight men, tumblr adheres to a much different audience who have particular kinks that are harder to find on pornhub and such.
It means you can go to the Tumblr of your choice, and scroll away - rather than sifting through 20 pages on pornhub to find maybe a handful of semi-relevant videos which are good.
 
Who the feck still wanks to images anyway?
 
izec said:
What is so different from their porn to the rest of the internet? Porn is available everywhere, cant believe people are bothered by this.
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Not all porn was created equally.

VR porn is incredible for about a month, but it's time consuming and storage intensive to get the content. Streaming is generally poor.

Tumblr was the next best option. Vast content, easy to find, plenty of niches covered, lots of amateur feeling content which is frankly more enjoyable than professional porn! Scrolling around was quick and easy with minimal clicks to get in the way.

I can understand the CP piece, but from spending a year or two on there I think I may have only seen one or two things that would have been classified as that, but then if you were looking for it there might have been more. I saw more violation postings suggesting they were quite good at managing it, but again that might just be from people reporting it in pages that were otherwise CP free.

As with all things internet if someone wants to post that or look for it then there is probably a way. I'm sure most people keep it to the dark web.

It all seems a bit short sighted. I cant see how removing porn is in anyone's favour. The app worked well with minimal adverts, but that would get plenty of views. Take away the porn and the app will go from millions down to maybe 50k of arty types. This doesn't work for Tumblr or the advertisers.
 
I think they will be painfully aware how much traffic this will cost them, however no company can be associated with cp and whenever we hear of a case we're quick to point the finger at companies like tumblr etc.

Kudos to them for paying such a hefty price to rid themselves of what will be a minute percentage but has horrible consequences for those affected.
 
I thought tumblr was only for emo teens expressing themselves with “you’re beautiful” memes?.

Anyway, wasn’t this on the cards ever since Yahoo bought Tumblr? The rumours were there from the get go anyway.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Ok, so I was probably being a little harsh. Sorry about that. Just find it weird to be putting any porn site on a pedestal and mourning the loss of a wanking resource.

As an aside, would strongly recommend The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson for some fascinating insights into the effect of Youporn et al on the porn industry.
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It's all good. It's a light hearted lament but a lament nonetheless.

It was simply the best resource for a wide variety of erotica. I followed pages on stuff like shunga woodblocks, vintage erotic photography, old playboy paintings and classic pinup drawings. All this before even getting to the actual jerk material. It had BDSM couples you could follow and learn about the dynamics of their relationship and individual amateur models who would display themselves as artistic expressions of sex.

All this on top of your standard porn categories. You could just Google Tumblr blondes/milfs or whatever floats your boat and have a quick convenient shuffle. Tumblr could be as high brow or as low brow as you wanted, and I wanted both.

I just don't know where else I would find all this and more, presented so well and in a way that is so easily accessible. Certainly not pornhub, reddit or the porn search sites I used previously.

In its own way I do feel that artistically and culturally the site is/was important (as well as pornally). It's not that the candy was any sweeter than elsewhere, just that there was a much greater range. And yeah it probably was sweeter too.

And with that fecking sad wanker admission, I'm off to hide.
 
dumbo said:
It's all good. It's a light hearted lament but a lament nonetheless.

It was simply the best resource for a wide variety of erotica. I followed pages on stuff like shunga woodblocks, vintage erotic photography, old playboy paintings and classic pinup drawings. All this before even getting to the actual jerk material. It had BDSM couples you could follow and learn about the dynamics of their relationship and individual amateur models who would display themselves as artistic expressions of sex.

All this on top of your standard porn categories. You could just Google Tumblr blondes/milfs or whatever floats your boat and have a quick convenient shuffle. Tumblr could be as high brow or as low brow as you wanted, and I wanted both.

I just don't know where else I would find all this and more, presented so well and in a way that is so easily accessible. Certainly not pornhub, reddit or the porn search sites I used previously.

In its own way I do feel that artistically and culturally the site is/was important (as well as pornally). It's not that the candy was any sweeter than elsewhere, just that there was a much greater range. And yeah it probably was sweeter too.

And with that fecking sad wanker admission, I'm off to hide.
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Yeah, run away to wank over your blocks of wood. Weirdo.

Asian midget facesitting not good enough for you like the rest of us decent folk? Am I right, lads? ....Lads?
 
Shane88 said:
Yeah, run away to wank over your blocks of wood. Weirdo.

Asian midget facesitting not good enough for you like the rest of us decent folk? Am I right, lads? ....Lads?
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:lol:

:nervous:

On the subject of wanking on images; I think it's actually better. People nowadays don't leave anything to the imagination. Porn is basically like VAR now, you can watch someone getting pounded in HD from 17 different camera angles. There's no more mysticism in it.

Also, young kids now think that porn is the actual way you should have sex.

Feck porn.

not really.
 
villain said:
Thank you for pointing this out.

Normal porn sites are best suited for straight men, tumblr adheres to a much different audience who have particular kinks that are harder to find on pornhub and such.
It means you can go to the Tumblr of your choice, and scroll away - rather than sifting through 20 pages on pornhub to find maybe a handful of semi-relevant videos which are good.
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I'm not even sure they are, you know? The fastest growing section on phub by far is the homemade amateur stuff, with all its kink too. And it's growing very rapidly among straight males as well.

I think porn in general is naturally evolving, not only due to more women-targeted or lgbt-targeted content (but of course because of that too). I think tastes are naturally changing, after a decades old over-saturation of studio-produced, bland porn. Studios can't compete with the variety of content amateurs put out. Tumblr was very widely used by the tech savvy younger generation including the straight male generation.

I think the old style content was indeed made and targeted for men but things change over time, including mens' tastes. Like watching 90s porn now seems more like comedy than something you can get off to.
 
The Tumblr porn section has some incredibly dark corners that can ruin your favourite childhood characters, I’ll never think of Skeletor or a my little pony the same way ever again. I couldn’t get it up for a week after seeing that image. Some of the stuff on it makes the darkest stuff on Pornhub and the likes seem like a kiddy’s program.
 
MadMike said:
I'm not even sure they are, you know? The fastest growing section on phub by far is the homemade amateur stuff, with all its kink too. And it's growing very rapidly among straight males as well.

I think porn in general is naturally evolving, not only due to more women-targeted or lgbt-targeted content (but of course because of that too). I think tastes are naturally changing, after a decades old over-saturation of studio-produced, bland porn. Studios can't compete with the variety of content amateurs put out. Tumblr was very widely used by the tech savvy younger generation including the straight male generation.

I think the old style content was indeed made and targeted for men but things change over time, including mens' tastes. Like watching 90s porn now seems more like comedy than something you can get off to.
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Of course they still are catered towards straight men - finding LGBT content can be cumbersome because you're looking for one link that says 'Gay' or 'Porn 4 Women' or whatever, amongst all these screen-grabs of everything else that take up 90% of the page.
Yes there are changes in trends & tastes and I would expect that, but porn is still mainly enjoyed by the straight male audience, I don't think we'll ever get to a point where you can load up pornhub and there will be gay porn on the home page, or lesbian porn that isn't two girls who look like models for example - certain things are just always going to be marginalised. Which is fine, and I understand why it's set up that way - it just makes it even more of a shame that Tumblr is choosing to take this action.
 
For around 6 months my mate used to spam various WhatsApp groups with pictures from Tumblr of women with hairy armpits. So it's fair to say I won't be gutted if it disappears.
 
villain said:
Tumblr porn was the best collection of amateur stuff tbh :(

I hate having to sieve through a bunch of studio porn just to find something decent.

Hard to see how Tumblr continues to stay relevant tbh, half of their content comes straight from Twitter anyway.
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That's an interesting point. Do others also consider mainstream porn to be "not that good"?
 
Zlatattack said:
That's an interesting point. Do others also consider mainstream porn to be "not that good"?
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I'm female, so studio porn isn't set up for my pleasure, even lesbian porn is set up for guys.
For straight males i'm sure its fine - you get great views of the woman, barely any shots of the guy, and he usually does nothing to pleasure her in anyway.
Nothing about that is what i'm looking for so it ends up being a treasure hunt to find decent content.
 
villain said:
I'm female, so studio porn isn't set up for my pleasure, even lesbian porn is set up for guys.
For straight males i'm sure its fine - you get great views of the woman, barely any shots of the guy, and he usually does nothing to pleasure her in anyway.
Nothing about that is what i'm looking for so it ends up being a treasure hunt to find decent content.
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A penny for your thoughts on the Blacked series?
 
adexkola said:
A penny for your thoughts on the Blacked series?
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Ugh, problematic to say the least - but the guys are almost always attractive or have a decent body, so I do dabble because its amongst the best of a bad bunch :(

This is why I watch gay porn :wenger:
 
villain said:
Ugh, problematic to say the least - but the guys are almost always attractive or have a decent body, so I do dabble because its amongst the best of a bad bunch :(
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Have the same thoughts on it. Don't watch it, and my p*rn consumption is minimal at best for other reasons

villain said:
This is why I watch gay porn :wenger:
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Shudders
 
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