"Same-sex romantic content will be far more likely to be remove" meaning the art of Steven Universe of the gems and content in general will it be removed and content from the new She-ra, which both shows does have lbgt and queer themes in them?
this wonât be official policy or anything but it will probably be the aggregate effect, yes.
why does this happen, you ask?
because the site rules are enforced by humans, and humans ⌠are not very good at being 100% fair or unbiased. (at least, not when weâre acting in large numbers. any one person could be good at it, but the likelihood that most of a group is good at fairness drops as the group gets bigger.)
thus, Even when weâre trying to be unbiased:
material thatâs potentially in violation of the tumblr TOS featuring subjects that are not âdefaultâ (NOT straight, cis, perisex, white, able-bodied, healthy, etc) have a greater chance of being noticed and reported. itâs more âvisibleâ because of a combined effect of âthis might be a violationâ and the brainâs increased awareness when something is âout of the ordinaryâ. if straight-cis-white is âordinaryâ: things that arenât straight-cis-white grab our attention, and are that much more likely to be scrutinized for violations of the TOS. (see: fandomâs tendency to go after media that isnât mediocre whitebread content for failing to be âgood enoughâ.)
this is severely compounded by:
 a lack of internal awareness of privilege/bias/etc amongst those who hold the majority opinion. (itâs the majority opinion because the majority holds that opinion.) if the majority is biased against something, that thing is more likely to get reported as a problem by people who donât even acknowledge that theyâre biased against it.
people who will participate in deliberately biased & malicious reporting. thereâs plenty of people who are openly racist, openly homophobes, openly transphobes, etc. you think they wonât take special time to go after TOS violations from content that they openly loathe? because they do - and they will continue to do so.
why this happens in America/on American platforms in particular:
at the admin level: in America, the higher up the management ladder you go, the more likely the people making the decisions are straight white cis guys who do not have a strong awareness of their own privilege and/or bias against people who donât share their privilege. Â These are the people who will be responsible for writing & enforcing the rules for nsfw content at Oath and/or Tumblr. they are likely to be unconsciously biased towards content that they personally like and against content they personally donât like, so in aggregate, their decisions will be more likely to favor straight white cis guy tastes & enjoyments.
at the cultural level: America is obsessive about keeping sexual content from âthe childrenâ than violent content, because our cultural values are very much rooted in puritanial Christian morality. We also still have a lot of racism, homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, sexism, etc. baked directly into our culture. so if something can be concievably argued as a threat to preserving the innocence/sexual ignorance of a puritanical, white Christian kid, then it has much higher potential to be flagged as n sfw. (of course, this means LGBTQ+ content (romantic or otherwise) and non-white content is more likely to be tagged as in violation of the TOS.)
tl;dr: even if every single person moderating tumblr was acting with the best intentions, trying to be 100% fair and reporting/acting without bias, the drift will be towards creating a sexually chaste, LGBTQ+-unfriendly, white-centric, and cis-bodied/perisex only space as everything else gets reported more often as a problem and purged off the site.
thatâs why censorship enforces baked-in privilege in brief, folx.
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