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You just learned about Tumblr today? Curious which generation/age group are you? Tumblr was pretty big among millennials but then sort of died after Yahoo acqui

• cercatrova 4y ago
  Then Tumblr mandated that porn be removed which killed it even more. It's now bought and controlled by Automattic which makes WordPress.
  • Izkata 4y ago
    I think this was it more than anything else. It wasn't even just a mandate or just porn, they ran some sort of "is this image mostly skin color?" check against posted images and automatically locked down accounts with matches. Got a huge number of false positives and didn't even notify the owners.
    • aidenn0 4y ago
      I think they were one of the ones to adopt the "female presenting nipple" language as well. I would like to know which lawyer originally came up with that language because I've seen it in many places at this point.
      • homonculus1 4y ago
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      • Izkata 4y ago
        Probably from the users. Tumblr was the origin point of a lot of the now-common "woke language".
        • aidenn0 4y ago
          I doubt that; the users widely mocked the phrase at the time.
• xrayarx 4y ago
  Yes, well, I’ve been around way before the series of tubes were a thing