1. @staff made a post pretty much saying “Your stuff isn’t getting deleted, just hidden from everyone but you” and “Yeah we know you hate the term “female presenting nipples” but we ain’t gonna stop saying it”
2. If a blog has a pixelated icon that means they got hit by the ban, you cannot view that blog outside the sidebar. You cannot even view their archive. Allegedly if you follow the advice in this post it’ll be fixed but only if it was an accidental flag (aka a real sfw blog)
3. The post Staff made including examples of what was ok to post. It got flagged.
4. Yes, the bots are still here. Yes they are still stealing posts and putting porn links on them. Yes there are still ads with stuff more sexual than they allow in posts. Yes innocent things are still getting flagged.
5. So yes, the site is still here and staff are still morons.
Everyone logging back into Tumblr after the December 17th protest:
Anyway this is my two cents. I know people are going to be laughing about how nothing’s happening but it is. People are losing access to their viewership and even the content of their own blogs (access has been wacky and bad for a lot for content creators that expected to be taken out). People are being affected as per the new staff post so please keep that in mind.
I talk a lot of shit about this website, and don’t get me wrong, it deserves all of it, but I’ve been on here for six years, and over that time I’ve met a lot of really great people who changed my life for the better in ways big and small. So if we’re friends on here, or we used to be and drifted apart, or if you just fuck with my presence generally: thanks. If this website just fucking collapses this coming Monday, y’all are awesome, and I wish you well.
This is the real goddamn truth.
I think a lot of it is couched in this: folks want internet relationships to be fake or less-than, but honestly? Internet friends have gotten me through some shit. And they have inspired me. And I have probably spent a comparable amount of time with them as I have with real-life friends. Some of them I have spent meat-based time with! That time is always amazing! Some of my real-life friends have become internet friends, and the skills I learned keeping in touch with internet friends has absolutely made that possible!
The connections you make and interactions you have on Tumblr or anywhere else in the internet are real. It is not stupid to mourn the passing of a tool that made that possible.
soumako central 