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Tumblr has a huge porn community, and always has. I don't have actual statistics, but it's huge. In general, people on tumblr might have a regular, personal blo
by waterphone 9y ago
Tumblr has a huge porn community, and always has. I don't have actual statistics, but it's huge. In general, people on tumblr might have a regular, personal blog, and then a side blog where they reblog and/or comment on/add captions to pornographic images, gifs and videos. In that sense, they can sort of curate porn that interests and appeals to them. The addition of this personal touch and intellectual component appeals to a lot of people, including a lot of women. But there are also various sex advice blogs, etc., which will be affected by this change as well, artists who do non-pornographic nude artwork, and potentially even various LGBT communities where sex can at times be a topic.
There are various levels of NSFW-flagging on Tumblr: users flagging their own site NSFW, Tumblr marking a blog NSFW and the user having no way to change that, or enough individual posts being flagged NSFW by users and AI that Tumblr decides to call the entire blog NSFW.
- antoineMoPa 9y agoMaybe your vision of tumblr's userbase is biased by the kind of people you follow. Personally, I'm on the "computer science/glitch art/study/science" part of tumblr and I don't see much NSFW content (Apart from some bots who follow me which I block automatically).
- waterphone 9y agoThe areas are kept quite separate, but that doesn't mean that there isn't still a huge porn userbase. Many people on tumblr have multiple blogs on different subjects, and deliberately keep their porn blog(s) separate from the rest.
- rmc 9y agoSounds a lot like what happened with LiveJournal. About 10-15 years ago LJ was where all the LGBT and niche erotic interests where, like fanfic. It's been bought by a Russian company and they've been turning the screws on the LGBT users for years.