I personally think it would be very funny if Gwendolyn Bouchard is just the latest instance of the “what do you mean there are 5 separate guys named Micheal” phenomenon
My first attempt at animating anything (please forgive how rough it is)! I wanted to take the chance to show how my Cecil’s tattoos move, along with year 1 Carlos’ reaction to them.
just woke from a dream where the new big discourse going around was that if you were upset your parents were divorced/divorcing then you were actually super cringe for irl shipping your parents and it was disgusting to want to see your own parents together and that you were disrespecting them by placing your shipping expectations on them
is it conspiracy brained to think that tumblr's icon being period tracker core for longer than any other design + trans selfies being flagged and kept flagged through appeals + the harry potter staff blog incident point towards terfs having influence on tumblr internally. like staff has always been technically less than competent but if it's also infected with ideology as violent as terfs... idk....
Ok see, I’m no longer staff so I’ve no reason to defend the company: while I was there, not only I haven’t seen anyone talking about any issue in any way that could make me think they were TERFs, but the opposite. On top of that, there is a very significant percentage of people in staff that is trans or gender-queer. Like, a percentage significantly higher than any other company I’ve worked for. As far as I know, over my three years at Tumblr, there has been zero institutional transphobia there.
Now, what I think it happens is that TERFs weaponize the established systems and procedures. If you report EVERY POST made by a trans person, that will end with a significantly higher ratio of bans on the trans community just by pure statistics. And the fact that Tumblr’s ToS team is tiny and continually overloaded means that things like appeals not always work as they should, nor that they have the capacity to approach this abuse by evil actors.
Hmm maybe, just maybe… having restrictions on what kind of “sexual content” can be shown is a stupid as fuck idea for a company that can’t afford a sizeable mod team to police that content…. and that MAYBE when it comes to sex… they should…. idk… maybe listen to something you’ve said before and let us… idk…. go nuts…. and idk….. show nuts? Something like that?
Ok, let’s see.
You can remove the sex content limits, ok, but payment processor issues aside, you lose all the iphone traffic overnight. “But Twitter yadda yadda”. Let’s remember this is not speculation, this has happened in the past. Why apple let Twitter on the app store even if they break their rules? No idea. The same reason they let them change the name of the app to X even if the app store rules force a minimum of 2 letters for app names I guess.
So yeah, you go show nuts again and you lose, let’s say, 1/3rd of the users. And hey, yeah, Tumblr is not making money with ads, but still, ads are the most important source of revenue by far. You remove 1/3rd of that and .. well, yeah, Tumblr wouldn’t last long. The only reason Tumblr can still exist is staff slowly chipping away the yearly loses, so they can convince the money people the money flow may be positive at some point, so they keep the $ faucet open. If the line starts going in the other direction, the faucet will close and sayonara you weeaboo shits etc etc
Well I’m not entirely sure I buy the difference to income would be that large, but I’ll buy it since you have some measure of 1st person account on that.
So let’s assume the goal should be to maximize expression and freedom while not reducing the potential income.
I can’t confirm this because I’m on samsung, but I expect reddit is available on iPhone right? Which has full porn communities, so I assume either Apple tos allows adult content if it’s marked or that the Apple version doesn’t show that content right? So then the question would be why not do that here? We have tags and the mature filter. Why not make the function of a flag just to mark it mature if skin is showing instead of nuking that content for not being marked, which seems to be what happens now.
I think you’re probably missing the “Apple seems to let The Big Guys get away with things The Little Guys can’t” which was pretty strongly stated in @jv ’s previous comment.
The rules are literally not enforced the same for Tumblr vs Reddit/X/etc.
If you couldn’t use the twitter or reddit app on iPhone, a significant number of people would choose to buy android phones instead. Enforcing the rules against apps that popular would cost apple money.
It’s unlikely the same is true of tumblr. It has a much smaller user base, and users are less likely to be addicted to doomscrolling on their phone like with twitter so not having a dedicated app might not be a dealbreaker. That means Tumblr has to actually follow the rules, which apple made clear years ago when tumblr had a much larger user base.
Also there doesn’t need to be a secret TERF conspiracy at Tumblr because there are open, well documented TERF conspiracies to mass report every trans post that are organized on places like mumsnet. All that Tumblr needs to do is be cheap so they use a crappy algorithm to do all their moderation (including appeals) even though they know that’s easy to abuse.
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