i'm taking over the system .ᐟ

A few weeks ago, a small but higher-than-normal number of accounts were mistakenly suspended. The suspensions were quickly reversed, but our response wasn't good enough, and we want to say more.

We're sorry it took us this long to address this. Trust and safety issues are difficult to discuss publicly, and we can’t share details about specific individuals or how our systems work without exposing Tumblr to bad actors. But caution led us to say too little, too late.

We’ve heard from members of the trans community on Tumblr that they were disproportionately impacted, and that deserves a direct response. According to 3rd party researchers, Tumblr’s userbase has the highest proportion of LGBTQIA+ folks on social media, so it makes sense that when something goes wrong, those communities might feel that disproportionate impact.

One thing we want to emphasize is that we do not moderate people's identities. We moderate behavior. We know that identity shows up across a Tumblr profile in many ways, from followed topics to the flags people put in their bios, and more. However, these signals play no role in how our moderation systems make decisions. We monitor those systems for evidence of bias and take corrective action when we find it.

We understand that the communications sent to affected users, and our broader silence to the community, didn't meet the standard people expect from us. That feedback is fair, and we apologize. We've updated the messaging sent to people impacted by these incidents. We are also overhauling our process with a goal of responding to mistaken suspension appeals within 24 hours, and have instituted an ongoing internal review of how suspensions and appeals are handled.

Going forward, we're committed to finding a better balance: being more transparent with our community about issues that matter, even when we can't share everything.

Tumblr belongs to everyone. We take that seriously, and we intend to earn back your trust. We are not afraid to have tough discussions with you or make updates based on your feedback, though on occasion, it might take some time.

To the people whose accounts were affected, and to the members of our trans community who felt targeted: we are truly sorry.

Pants That Could Smelt Steel

you arent allowed to kill ppl

murder wont solve your problems

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

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Sephiroth's loneliness is not really widely talked about within the fandom. But most of his tragic complexities center around this core theme of loneliness and social seclusion, beginning with the loss of his mother and the dehumanization through his father/respective father figures. Every connection abandons him. Every precious instance of security or community is temporary. Sephiroth deludes himself into believing that the cycle of loneliness will be broken by embracing his connection to Jenova. In truth, Jenova can't give him what he wants. She can't offer that perfect sense of security, safety, or attachment that he so desperately clings to. Sephiroth is STILL alone. But now he's fully internalized his own dehumanization and has carved a new persona from it accordingly.

Sephiroth the villain cannot be abandoned because he refuses to let anyone else inside. He cannot be dehumanized because he has already accepted himself as the monster. He will destroy the world before it has the chance to hurt him again. He will allow himself to believe that, in becoming God, he will absorb enough power to construct a new sense of creation and community in his own image.

But how does one CREATE a community when it's only ever slipped through your fingers? How can you create what you've never really known?