So about this new rule thing
You know, it’s kind of unsurprising it turned out this way. More often than not, staff generally tends to be very out of touch with their consumers. I’m taking my time figuring out what to do with this account and looking into potential alternatives.
You still can find my work on FurAffinity and e621 (under the artist tag of patohoro). Feel free to suggest any alternatives (like Twitter, albeit this platform not being the most preferable platform). I also have things on rule 34 and pixiv, but the former is just a gallery and the latter is completely outdated (and censored).
For SFW content, there’s the @lenienavelante tumblr and deviantART.
Anyway, here are some lines from Tumblr’s article regarding new policies on adult work:
Starting Dec 17, adult content will not be allowed on Tumblr, regardless of how old you are.
Adult content primarily includes photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any content—including photos, videos, GIFs and illustrations—that depicts sex acts.
I don’t know how you can mangle this around for illustrations to be excluded in any form or way, but I’ll keep going.
If your post has been flagged as adult, it will be reverted to a private setting viewable only by you.
Then there’s no longer a point in uploading if I share my work just with myself.
Blogs that have been either self-flagged or flagged by us as “explicit” per our old policy and before December 17, 2018 will still be overlaid with a content filter when viewing these blogs directly. While some of the content on these blogs may now be in violation of our policies and will be actioned accordingly, the blog owners may choose to post content that is within our policies in the future, so we’d like to provide that option.
So aside from people that were following me, I will theorically have to link my Tumblr from another page to make use of its social aspect... right? Also, my work is probably not within their policies, so I can’t actually post new content, practically turning it into an archive at best.
The avatars and headers for these blogs will also be reverted to the default settings.
I hope I get the circle one at least.
So there you go, plenty of reasons why it’s probably best to not use a social platform with very shaky lines and policies simply because it was a kneejerk reaction to their (mediocre) app being pulled from the store.
If you have any alternative platforms you’d like to suggest, let me know, I guess?
