You may have heard Tumblr will ban pornographic content starting December 17th. You may think it’s because of Apple’s removal of the app from the App Store, but that is just an excuse. I think Tumblr was looking for a way to tell users that post pr0n to leave, but it did not know how and now it has an excuse.
And the reason it’s so simple: Tumblr can’t make money with the pr0n it has. It’s not Tumblr’s pr0n, it’s not it’s uploaders pr0n, it’s stolen pr0n. And legitimate companies can’t show ads next to pr0n, at least not the way it shows on P0rnhub or other pornographic sites. Right now, the pr0n on Tumblr is just consuming bandwith.
On a bigger picture, Tumblr was just an 1.1 billion scam some VC’s ran on Yahoo.
From a business perspective that’s very true, but still a bit sad (for me). I think they had some problems with stolen porn and since they can’t really ear from it, they have to cut it. I still miss Marissa’s ass. I mean leadership.
i cant find a statistic on how much porn it’s on there and i am guessing a lot since they dont release any numbers.
I am pretty sure more than 60% of the content it’s either porn or erotic. For the past 10 years Tumblr was among the fewest websites (from the big ones ofc) that actually allowed explicit content and we all went there for it. Recently they had to deal with some child sex abuse images that were found on the platform. Apple kicked their ass from the Store and this might be the way they are handling the problem.
They could have searched for a better solution. Making a NSFW filter that would actually work and some sort of system to get verified as an adult. Or even go extreme, to get verified as a porn producer.
also the child pr0n thingie https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/a2r4h4/whats_the_deal_with_tumblr_banning_all_nsfw/eb0z65x/