The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW.
This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.
So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST.
Times are listed above depending on timezone!
This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over!
There will be official updates on each account. Make sure to tag us in any posts, or use the hashtag #logoff2018 !
Thanks for your support guys. Let’s fight to make Tumblr better. Actually better.
I really love tumblr, it has always been a place for me to come and see what people have made. I love the fandom communities and honestly can’t imagine not having tumblr.
But. Their new policies go against everything that makes this a place for creation and community. Their policies are hurting creators and there’s no point in me being here if all the stuff and blogs i love gets falsely tagged as NSFW and removed.
Please. Help us keep tumblr the chaotic mess we know and love. There is a better way to improve the website.
mermaids with starfish covering their boobs is a great concept until you like.. remember what starfish are i mean ma’am theres an animal on your titties
Tumblr doubling down on Truth being “sensitive content” might just be the gold star on this dumpster fire.
The Truth is always sensitive content
The suckiest part is that tumblr claimed that they wouldn’t censor actual art. Which this is.
Proof that even art will not be spared.
So does Tumblr think that minors shouldn’t ever step foot into an art museum because they will just be soooo traumatized and corrupted by naked sculptures and paintings of gods and goddesses?
God forbid they go to the cadaver exhibits where the freeze-dried criminal penises don’t even have skin
The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.
Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.
Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.
Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.
Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.
Read it. Know what’s happening. Know why it is happening.
soumako central 
