S&M Can Be Fun

Nobody gives two shits about an ENTIRE COUNTRY being hit by two cyclones consecutively. It’s displaced over 160,000 people and destroyed over 30,000 homes.

Yet no one cries.

No billionaires or other countries have talked about donating or helping the country out.

Please help by donating to charities and fundraisers dedicated to helping provide humanitarian aid to Mozambique!

https://support.savethechildren.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3241&mfc_pref=T&3241.donation=form1&cid=Social_Network:Twitter:Emer_Mozambique:Scus_Lp_Post2:031919&hootPostID=23abdd2d4250de3d6b684c68a4fb250b

https://www.allhandsandhearts.org/programs/mozambique-tropical-cyclone-relief/

https://www.msf.org/msf-response-wake-devastating-cyclone-idai-mozambique-malawi-zimbabwe

I don’t need to re-explain the anger and frustration going through the Tumblr community over the impending adult-content ban. Soon enough, this NSFW blog will empty out like all the rest. But before that happens, I would like to share some thoughts on where to point our frustrations.

Right now, much of the criticism by targeted blogs has been against Tumblr. But this is missing the mark. Our community anger should be placed squarely on Verizon, Tumblr’s new corporate parent.

In terms of Verizon’s entire media portfolio, Tumblr is just a blip on the radar, especially in terms of ad revenue. But you know what is important? Verizon’s reputation and branding. The more we refocus on slamming Verizon, not just here but on Twitter, Instagram, Google Reviews, and more, then more they’ll sweat their decision.

Dear Tumblr,

apparently you feel that adult content is no longer allowable on your site. Could you explain that decision, as the last time I looked everyone I was following or speaking to on your site was an adult, and could therefore legally show or talk about anything legal? As far as I am aware it is not illegal to share photos or video of oneself naked or in sexual situations, provided it is consensual, except of course in those jurisdictions which are totalitarian or punitive of any images of women not fully covered.

You do not want to be associated with such societies do you? Or perhaps you do? Is your desire to commercially infiltrate punitive societies behind your censorship of more tolerant ones?

Or is there a desire, since adult content is banned, to infantilise your audience? I would point out that to most of us adults, cute kittens and puppies and lovely scenery quickly pall.

I am a poet, but I sometimes write erotica which I see you bizarrely allow, but my inspiration for such erotica is the often explicit photos which friendly users here allow me to use, so you allow the poetry but deny me the inspiration, and I cannot see the logic in that.

Sadly, I see Tumblr crumbling to nothing in a few months, a year at best, like Flickr before it, and MySpace, relics of a time when adults where in charge of our space on the Net and not corporations scared of any adverse publicity. I urge users here to evacuate Tumblr as quickly as possible, and I hope there are those more egalitarian who will make a new space.