Since tumblr still hasn’t unblurred me, I’m going to take some time to tell you about one of their most secret policies:
Tumblr bans specific images. This is not a flagging thing. The image doesn’t get flagged. It gets removed from the site permanently. And I mean PERMANENTLY. There is no notification that this happens to your image because the policy is completely unofficial. There are also absolutely no guidelines to it. For instance, an image like this one is not against any tumblr community guidelines.
Yet this image when I had if as my header for my blog, to protest my previous blog’s sudden and uncalled for deletion (I had zero flagged posts, was given no warnings, and then one day I checked at two of my blogs were missing and I had a stern email from tumblr to never make a nsft blog again or else all my blogs would get deleted…yes the email said that) was removed. Not only was it removed form the posts I had made using it. They removed it from my header.
Of course, as you can see the image in no way violates the community guidelines…and even if it did, technically the official policy of tumblr is to flag the image and make it invisible to anyone but the OP. Instead this is a different far less official policy…and it seems as though it is completely within the realm of individual tumblr staff to decide what gets to count. Indeed, this is not the only image this has happened to me too. The first two blogs of mine that got deleted we’re actually nsft blogs, unlike my current blogs, they actually technically did violate tumblr guidelines…now mind you I was no longer posting original nsft content on their at time of their deletion…but still they’d previously been porn blogs. ANYWAYS…if you run a very popular nsft blog you’ll notice that your most popular post occasionally just disappear. Maybe if you’re not paying attention you presume you just can’t track it down or no one has reblogged it lately…but no, they (staff) straight up extrajudicially remove your content. I say extrajudicially because they do have official policy and protocols they should be following, aka flagging the content and/or labeling the content. But no, they fucking remove it.
And when they remove it, it’s gone for good, for everyone. For instance, the above photo, the “ew tumblr” photo…that’s not the original photo, that’s a screenshot of that photo. You can’t post the original, the code of that photo is forever banned. It’s not even just one account either. For instance, to test this, I attempted to upload an old “missing” nsft image from my original blog, which is not associated with this email, and is not even associated with my IP address. And this is what happened:
Tumblr’s transphobia runs so deep they are eager and willing to circumvent their own policies and procedures, the staff acting like thin skinned vigilantes on their own website where they held all the power to start with anyways.
eeewwwwwwwww
unblur me now staff
unblur me now!!! I did nothing wrong, and you folks are acting super against your own policies!
also have I mentioned the only reason i’m currently blurred is because I posted an informational diagram about how to use a tampon
off to a good start so far with the reblogs to likes ratio
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*both laughing*
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anytime i say some profoundly millennial bullshit like “i don’t have baggage i have lore” God winces a little further away from me & this is how i plan to keep evading death
“Women and non-binary” poll that only lets in afabs 😔
(!?) op is a trans woman…
Hdishskdhshs I meant it as a joke about how many spaces that describe themselves as “women and non-binary” (adding non-binary to the woman poll) don’t include trans women not as a jab at you sorry
Oh, thank you for clearing that up. Unfortunately I have encountered that :(
poll 4/2
Should OP be raptured for not including nonbinary people?
The village people sang “Go West” so west is men and east is women because that’s where the women are compared to west (note: everything is east compared to west)
> go East
You go East.
As your journey stretches on, there are fewer and fewer men.
What do you do?
> go East
what the fuck did i stumble upon
this is a perfectly normal post, don’t worry about it kitten
Hi followers wanna fuck up this Trainwreck of a post even more
the reason trump demanding the EU buys american cars is ridiculous. americans out there might be used to cars like the ford F150
in some EU countries this requires a licence higher than a car to even drive due to its size but could you imagine driving this mfer around these streets
you might say oh thats a backroad, be fair well alright
the fact of the matter is these cars aren’t being bought in europe because they are just not practical to drive in most of europe. forget licencing and fuel cost aside (the cost of petrol is MUCH higher in europe than the US and they guzzle fuel)
they are just impractical for daily use
all of those above examples were for italy, which fair enough ok. let’s have a look at a much more care dependant country, like the UK
this is a fairly average street in the UK. where the HELL would you park that beast and you would struggle to get it even down the road. the EU isn’t not buying american made cars because they’re suppressing the US market, there is just little to no demand for US style cars
Trump: You need to get rid of non-monetary trade barriers that discriminate against American goods.
UK: Like what?
Trump: Like um, why is shipping to the UK from America so much more expensive than shipping from Europe. You need to fix that.
UK: Europe is geographically much closer to us, Mr. President.
Trump: And that’s not fair. Change it.
UK: Okay… if you say so.
Further proof that the aristocracy are so accustomed to bribing their way out of accountability to any law that they think it will work with the fucking Laws of Physics.
See Also: Oceangate
I wouldn’t surprise if Trump or one of his idiot advisors saw a line about shipping costs and complained about it without thinking why that is.
I can’t believe the country with the biggest economy and the most money buys more stuff than it sells. This is an injustice!
