ohgoditsneph:

Honestly Tumblr as an idea is great.

I like the fact that all they ask of me is a username and email. They should ask for a birthday too but that’s a different post for a different time.

I like the fact that with a simple click or touch I can upload up to 10 pictures at once.

I like the fact that people can go to my blog and ask some questions or request something, or just to drop me some praise that I can reply to.

I like the fact that I can have sideblogs to post my art and my, uh, more sinful vices without needing to log out or register for additional accounts.

I like the fact that I can put just about as many tags as I please without worrying about exceeding a character limit

I like the fact that I can like whatever I goddamn please and make it so nobody would know except for the OP.

And most of all I like the fact that anyone that sees my posts can reblog it to their own blog (or their sideblog) and help me gain visibility.

And now because of corporate jackasses that can’t be bothered to invest more efficient processes to curb the child porn and porn bots it’s going to hell in a handbasket. People are effectively losing their primary (and in some cases, only) source of income because the Yahoo/Verizon/Oath or whatever would rather just go the nuclear option and take the risk of alienating a majority of its userbase instead of investing in some basic god damn tools to filter out the porn bots and illegal material.

I mean for fucks sake, if Pixiv, a site with an extensive R-18 community can keep themselves in Apple’s App Store, then so can fucking Tumblr. And I’m sure that the lower-level staff members directly employed by Tumblr (and not the ones by Verizon or Oath, I’m talking more like the entry-level sort of members) feel the same way and aren’t happy with these recent events.

It’s depressing.

And against all logic I really hope that something changes and I can look back at this post and chuckle at how dramatic I was being instead of looking back and being depressed with how this site died.