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A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize.

On that note-

LUGUBRIOUS

[adjective]

mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner.

Etymology: Latin lūgubri(s), “mournful”, akin to lūgēre, “to mourn”.

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@didoofcarthage one of the best art blogs in Tumblr has been flagged as nsfw!!!

The new changes are unfair. Art blogs that flagged as nsfw have less privileges as sfw blogs. Its can’t be searchable and the tags are useless.

This is a complete mess not just for the flagged blogs but also for the Tumblr as a platform. Less engagement, less traffic, less popularity and of course less position as a social media website.

@staff, please kindly unflag the blog.

Kalachakra Mandala A Rare Thangka Depicting A Kalachakra Mandala. Mid-15th Century. Central Tibet, Ngor Monastery. Distemper On Cloth. 72 x 60,5 cm, 28 3/8 by 24 1/8 in. (via Sotheby’s)