Here's a thing about how Tumblr works:
When an account is deactivated, it normally does not affect images in their posts, in reblogs and such. So ancient posts can live on, with images intact.
However if the user is terminated with prejudice (aka "nuked"), ALL their uploaded images are removed. (This was presumably designed for spammers and such)
So if you see a post like this:
This doesn't mean the image itself violated any rule! Yes, this is a misleading error message.
Tumblr has terminated-with-prejudice many transfems, and every time I see people reblogging their their posts going "what's wrong with this post, Tumblr? It was just a INNOCUOUS THING!"
The tl;dr is that if the user is deactivated, the "this image was removed..." error is misleading. Everything they uploaded was removed, regardless of content.
(and yes Tumblr should stop banning transfems. They have already been sued about this, and lost)

















