Tumblr – Fandom, Art, Chaos 17+

Okay, so I’ve had my tumblr for 13 years now, and I love it very much. I’ve tailored my dash to be exactly what I need. It’s like a well seasoned cast iron. However, the mobile version of this app consistently gets on my nerves. I’m aware that you need to advertise to run a service, but oh my god, these ads open like 4 separate apps when I didn’t even click on the ad. Sometimes I won’t even be near an ad and I will get dragged away from tumblr. It’s actually super frustrating. Not to mention, an ad will literally hold me hostage and scroll at an unbearably slow pace to make sure I see it. It is very uncomfortable for me, as a user, to be consistently dragged away from your app. Sometimes I actually get annoyed enough to close out because I don’t want to deal with that. I thoroughly enjoy my time on the app, but pestering your user base will never be enough to encourage me or anyone else to buy premiums. They will just… leave. Again, I totally understand advertising, and I actually don’t mind dealing with the ads that pop up in feed. It’s the aggression and annoyance of the ads opening up other apps and browsers that is just so aggravating!!! Please let me scroll past these ads at a NORMAL pace, and please stop dragging me from your app to take me to the App Store for a game I couldn’t care less about. You want people to stay on your app, don’t shoo them away!

I truly believe that Tumblr is one of the least toxic social platforms on the internet. Tumblr is just a fun place where you can destress after a long day at work or school, most of the communities are super wholesome and the platform is just an overall uplifting place where people can talk about fandom, Comics, Fanfics, The latest shows, Art, Etc. I’m finally at peace with myself after they removed “Tumblr live” because now that it’s gone I don’t have to worry about accidentally hitting the useless button on my feed. Another thing to mention is that there are so many fandoms to find and explore with so much creativity and love put into each one. It’s also a great place to post your own art and fanfics with genuine nontoxic feedback unlike Reddit or Twitter. The only thing to note is the NSFW (not safe for work) content but I do appreciate that the site doesn’t show you that kind of content unless you search for it, yes once in a while your dashboard will show you a NSFW pic but it’s genuinely minimized unlike Reddit which will show you a NSFW post every couple scrolls, another thing I will warn you about is that you will get scam messages asking you to join NSFW sites but these messages can be deleted and in my experience will go away after awhile. I genuinely rate the app a five out of five and highly recommend for anyone who’s new to the internet or is interested in a genuine, wholesome social media platform.

TUMBLR is, at least to a large extent, a very good porn site. Adults ought to be free to make their own decisions about the content they choose to view and contribute. TMBLR is free to set its own moderation policies. The way TUMBLR has approached this reality- and I understand the choices it has made, and why- has been an attempt to reach a middle ground, but it has been lackluster. In the 21st century, there are ways to set age limits for certain content, to moderate very highly offensive and illegal content reasonably well, and to do so without punishing the conscientious and law abiding adults that want to exercise their perfectly sound inclination to engage porn. Content providers should tag content as porn and the app should filter pornographic content for all accept those that opt to view/contribute porn. For those users that opt, require some authentication that has a reasonable association with age, and make it binding. If the user is caught lying about their age, ban them- ban their isp# or whatever number IDs their device, etc. If the content provider fails to tag content, ban them. If a user posts illegal content, block them, give them an opportunity to appeal, and then block them if they don’t or if the appeal fails.

TUMBLR is a great app- for all things, not only porn. It’s a worthy contender, and more than anything it can support the (legal, ethical) interests of everyone… users, advertisers, TUMBLR, and even the US Congress.