“Mature”

For reasons I barely understand myself, I still use Tumblr. I mean, it’s largely because it’s practically impossible to actually look at other users’ archives if you don’t have an account yourself. I understand that reason, what I don’t understand is why I’m still using it to actually reblog stuff. And that’s ALL I’m using it for, it should be said, cos Tumblr has terminated both of my previous two accounts for… well, mixed reasons, in that no reason was actually ever given for the death of the second one and the previous one went down for some vaguely defined copyright violation, and in neither case was I given any warning that I was about to be whacked. Hence I’m only reblogging from others now; let them run the risk.

Tumblr famously lost a huge chunk of its userbase in 2018 after cracking down on the amount of porn on the place, which never actually went away as such (I stumbled on a remarkable of actual hardcore in gif form), but more recently they’ve introduced something called community warnings, so that, theoretically, users could fiddle with their settings and not have to be exposed to that stuff if they didn’t want to, while those of us who did want to see that sort of thing could. It was such a logical solution to the issue that you have to ask why Tumblr didn’t implement it in 2018. And the answer to that is, frankly, “because Tumblr”.

I assume that “because Tumblr” also explains why the community warning thing is apparently working as well as their female-presenting nipple detection technology did back in 2018. I mean…

…this has a community warning on it, as you can hopefully see. Apart from the user avatars, this picture is entirely made of text. I don’t know what about this could be construed as “adult”. I mean, even the language is mild for Tumblr. I’m baffled by this. I don’t know at what point the warning was added, but I have no memory of it being there when I queued the post up. Though, to be sure, my memory is not to be relied upon, but whatever the case it makes no sense. Because Tumblr.