Jordan Sweke
Tumblr’s closing down the bulkheads. And the rats leave the sinking ship. The rats, that’s us and that’s also many of our followers. The panicked and desperate reactions of the bloggers already show the collateral damage. The community is blown up, pulverized, scattered to the winds. That’s the really bad thing about it. It took us four years to create an audience, almost 13,000, exclusively with our own content. No chance to take even a fraction of it anywhere worth mentioning. No chance for us to be able to use this audience at some point.
Tumblr simply takes it away from us, briefly and painfully. On the grounds of wanting to create a safe place. For the majority of the western world we are disgusting, scum, dirt, riff-raff, rabble. Tumblr no longer wants to be a reservoir for us. We were also bothered by some things, but we accepted the pornbots, the shit eaters and animal fuckers inevitably. Simply because there was and still no serious alternative to Tumblr. Nothing comparable, which offers a similar functional range, similar user friendliness and possibilities of expansion.
Who actually creates a safe place for us? Lovers of natural nudity, nudists, porn aesthetes, exhibitionists? Apparently we have no rights whatsoever and are always less dependent on goodwill. The benevolence less and less of the few. All other platforms assure now of course to accept adult content, because they want to incorporate a big piece of tumbler cake. These insurances are not worth the electrons with whose help they were produced. The best example is Tumblr itself when it is taken over by Yahoo. So don’t be surprised if the next one that flies out of the fucked up Appleshop will puke out you, us and our content in a high arc.
Divorce hurts. We certainly will and Tumblr himself probably will. Hopefully they have marginalized themselves with this step, I wouldn’t be surprised.
