![]() This too will amount to a staggering loss of internet history - in this case, people’s personal history and data. ![]() This is especially painful coming a month after the announcement from Flickr that the site will soon limit free account holders to 1,000 photos and begin deleting old photos beyond that. But I care more about the massive loss of internet history that will happen when all these images vanish forever. There is tasteful erotica, supportive places for people to post their own bodies - including those that don’t look like typical porn bodies - and to consume and engage with the wide swath of human sexual experience that can’t be replicated by logging on to xHamster and being greeted with a blast of extremely aggressive heterosexual facials.Īnd of course, where else could one go to see erotic fan art of the Laughing Cow cow having sex with the Lactaid cartoon cow? Personally, I enjoyed the funny crude/nude humor on Tumblr (I do a joint Tumblr, along with a few of my colleagues, called “Worst Things on the Internet,” which is very NSFW), and I’ll miss that. It has always been a safe haven for young people exploring and expressing their sexuality. “Tumblr sex sites created spaces for ALL KINDS of people who don’t have access to sexual community elsewhere,” wrote Steven Thrasher. But Tumblr is also a thriving place for the kind of sexual expression that you won’t find on Pornhub. At some point around 2020, we’ll wake up, look around, and realize all our old photos from college are gone, we can’t see our old wall posts from friends because we deleted Facebook in protest of whatever the 2019 outrage was, and worst of all, we have absolutely nothing left to jerk off to.Ī lot what Tumblr is banning is just gratuitous porn GIFs, and the internet is not lacking options when it comes to free pornography. Now we’re living through the middle of the end. (Yahoo also bought Tumblr in 2013 - are you sensing a pattern?) Then there was Myspace’s removal of all your manicured Top 8s, and just recently, the removal of hotlinked images from Photobucket. That began years ago, maybe starting with Yahoo’s deletion of Geocities in 2009. This is not the beginning of the end of the internet as we know it. There was no mention on “ unbirthing,” the subgenre of vore where something - usually a cartoon furry - shoves another cartoon furry back up its vagina. Though most “female-presenting nipples” are banned, breastfeeding and childbirth nudity will also be allowed. (According to Tumblr’s blog post, some forms of nudity, like gender-confirmation surgery photos or the weenus on Michelangelo’s “David,” will still be allowed. And god knows how many millions of individual posts contain what is deemed adult content. Some were abandoned years ago, but others are still very active. Much like this (warning: very NSFW) GIF, it’s hard to even consider how to measure the impact of this - I’m guessing there are hundreds of thousands (millions?) of blogs that will be shut down and disappear forever. This will kill a small but significant chunk of the internet. ![]()
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