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UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

Hey, creators! I’m thrilled to finally share this with you all! It's giveaway time! 🌈 So far, we've sold 150+ copies and raised over $6,000 USD for charity! That sure is a lot, huh? But we aren't finished yet! We hope to raise as much money as possible for the Art Therapy Project, because who doesn't love improving the lives of others in the name of Ink?

Until 🗓️ May 17th (when pre-orders close) you can enter a giveaway for one of these incredible coloring books featuring 50 pages and 30+ artists around the fandom! 🎉 One lucky winner will receive the FULL Ink Sans Coloring Book bundle, including stickers, the PDF, and one of the physical copies of your choosing! ❤️💛💙

🎁 The Grand Prize Includes: • A physical copy of the coloring book • A digital copy including all PDFs • A pack of Ink-themed stickers created by: nozapuns, edentornasunder, bones-on-skin, and eriscary • All expenses covered, including shipping 💫

🗳️ How do I Enter?: 1. Like and reblog this post (you get one entry per platform: Tumblr, Bluesky, and Twitter/X) 2. Keep an eye on this page for updates!

⭐ And that's all you have to do! Thank you so much for supporting the release of the Ink Coloring Book. It's all because of you (the creators!) all that we could raise all this money supporting families in receiving mental health services through creativity! Best of luck, artists!

Here's the full parade (so far)! Snag prints in my pinned post!

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Authors have until March 30th, 2026 (That is just 9 days as of this reblog, which I am posting on March 21st, 2026) to file their claim against Anthropic to be reimbursed up to $3,000 per work found in the list.

Please vote and reblog but please do not reblog with a comment in the text of your reblog

When you reblog please tag with the same FIRST tag as the person you're reblogging from

Feel free to reply that's not what I'm looking at and I feel like we need somewhere to yell.

Again, you're going to vote in the poll (answer with the count closest to the bottom of the post you're seeing), you're going to reblog without any text or comments to avoid making a new reblog thread but still check the spread of the post, you're going to tag the post with the same FIRST tag as the person you're reblogging from (feel free to add other tags if you want, but the first one should be exactly the same as the person you're reblogging from).

Vote for the reblog count closest to the bottom of the post you see

Reblog with no text in the body of the reblog

Tag with the same first tag as prev

Thank you for your participation in this experiment!

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

Artists, writers, people who make handcrafts and anything else creative and handmade THRIVE on engagement and feedback! This update will isolate them and make them blind to any feedback and support and engagement on a post should someone with more reach or popularity within fandom happen to reblog a post!

Already niche and small communities will feel barren and dead, getting any recognition within a fandom space as a small creator will get even HARDER!

It will also likely turn creators off from posting if not outright cause them to leave Tumblr! So many fandoms will die out so fast, people will loose the want to post and share their works when they don't see any engagement on their post or happen to find out a reblog from a more popular face is getting all the attention with them getting zero of the love!

TELL THEM YOU HATE THE NEW UPDATE

Use Feedback and tell them you don't want the reblog chain shattered like they've done

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

EXTREMELY BAD HOLY FUCK.