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PSA regarding tumblr’s latest Censorship Nightmare

For those of you who haven’t seen this announcement, tumblr recently made some changes to the iOS version of the app, purportedly to comply with Apple’s content guidelines. These changes took effect on Dec 21, starting in version 22.5.1 of the iOS app. As some of you may recall, Apple’s strict guidelines were the driving force for the infamous Great Purge of 2018, which coincidentally also happened around this time of year, but it seems banning all of the female-presenting nipples wasn’t good enough for Apple.

Below is a summary of the important changes. Note that these changes technically ONLY affect those using the iOS app. If you’re accessing tumblr through a different app or operating system (Google Chrome, Android app, etc) it won’t affect you directly but it will affect your followers who use iOS so you should definitely be aware of it.

The list of banned tags has been expanded. As before, there’s no way to know which words or phrases have been banned until you try searching for them, in which case you’ll either get no search results or the following message: “This content has been hidden because of potentially suggestive or explicit content.” You may think this doesn’t concern you if you don’t post explicit material, but do not make the mistake of expecting the banned tags to be logical or reasonable. I’ve already encountered multiple completely innocuous posts (random fandom gifsets) that seem to be hidden on iOS for no discernible reason.

Blogs that have been flagged as explicit can no longer be viewed. Previously, flagged blogs just had their posts hidden from searches, but if you knew the username you could still visit it after clicking through a warning about sensitive content. Now you can’t access it at all.

Likes and reblogs from blogs that have been flagged will no longer show up in your notes. This one won’t affect most people’s user experience as much as the others, but it does mean you may be missing notes. It’s unclear if likes and reblogs from flagged blogs will still count towards the overall note total (and only be missing from the activity feed and note viewer) but I suspect that’s the case.

THE BIG ONE: ANY POST TAGGED WITH A BANNED TAG WILL NO LONGER SHOW UP ON YOUR DASHBOARD. Previously, if you tagged a post with a banned word or phrase (even if the words were used inside another tag), that post would not show up in searches, but your followers would still be able to see it on their dashboard. Now those posts are hidden from your own followers as well. This includes both original posts and reblogs. And if that wasn’t bad enough, here’s the real kicker: even if you don’t tag something with one of the banned words, if the OP used a banned tag, any reblogs of that post will not show up on anyone’s dashboard (on the iOS app). The only saving grace here, and I hate to even call it that, is that the blocked posts are still visible if you visit a blog directly or if you have post notifications turned on.

As usual, tumblr was extremely unclear and evasive about all of this in their official announcement. Not surprising, of course, since if more people were aware of these new draconian tactics I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be more of an uproar about it. Tumblr claims that these changes are somewhat temporary and that they are currently working on something that will allow for a less restricted iOS experience, but they refuse to say what that something is and when it will be implemented. And let’s just say, considering their track record, I’m not hopeful.

All of this is horrible and infuriating for many reasons, but the worst part is how insanely counterproductive it is to creating the “safe” environment tumblr (or more specifically Apple) supposedly wants.

Tags have always been used for both blog organization and filtering purposes. Tagging posts with triggers and content warnings is a common practice that gives users the ability to filter out content they may find upsetting or just don’t don’t want to see for whatever reason. By choosing to ban a bunch of unlisted “sensitive content” tags, all they’re doing is encouraging people who want to share that kind of content to come up with alternative less well-known tags or simply not tag that content at all anymore if they want it to show up on their follower’s dashboards, thereby making it more likely for someone to encounter it when they didn’t want to.

So really, with all of the alleged concern for safety and “protecting the children,” all they’ve done is make tumblr less safe for everyone. Typical.

I’m with the janitor. I think they’re time travelers.

Super last second Christmas drawing with the Handtern, featuring @pokeblog123 and @lolatulips interns Mal and Marie! I wanted to draw more holiday RD stuff but unfortunately I’ve been super busy with gift art for people 😅. Hope y’all have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays though!

Please re-blog if you’re OK with silly fan art of your characters.

🕸🕷🕷🦇🦇🦇🎃🎃🎃🎃Splendid All Hallows Eve to everyone! Tricks and treats shall be awarded accordingly! 🎃🎃🎃🎃🦇🦇🦇🕷🕷🕸

Creativity, however, shall be awarded when energy can be found and sustained! Just bolt me up and shock my electrodes, Frankenstein! Bzzt Bzztt!! ⚡⚡⚡

I’m a damn clown

Blue Cole is canon. To me.

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Watch out everybody, here comes Redacre! One of my few but very beloved scp ocs.

Dr. Marceline Redacre has the ability to reverse any and all damage done to her back onto the perpetrator, earning her the unaffectionate nickname of "Uno" by Cleff. She is also one of the more bubbly and hopeful scientists within the facility, wanting to try every possible avenue before an anomaly can be deemed "dangerous", thus resulting in her being the head of the Ethics Committee.

Of course, her being the only member of the Ethics Committee makes this incredibly easy, a fact that absolutely no one takes her seriously for. They're here to research and contain, not placate or empathize. But she intends to change all of that!

In addition, she was also assigned to care for Gaea, who she almost views as a daughter by this point, surprising her with plants from all over the world when she can get her hands on them. Unfortunately, this makes it impossible for her to avoid interacting with Dr Cleff at all hours of the day, who almost makes it a duty of his to playfully mess with the gal.