Tumblr has begun to erase all of its adult content since Monday, December 17, it's a microblogging platform that allows its users to publish texts, images, videos, links, quotes and audio.
Thousands of queer users of Tumblr are leaving the web to protest against the ban on the pornography platform, which began on Monday, December 17.
The campaign, which uses the hashtag #logoffprotest on Twitter, began at 5 a.m., UK time, and lasted 24 hours.
Its organizers have written that if the virtual strike doesn't result in the lifting of the ban, they will encourage their supporters to send emails and tweet the Tumblr staff to participate in another protest this week, and then, if all the other options don't work, to delete your accounts.
Tumblr fulfilled what was promised. As of December 17, any pornographic content that exists on the microblog site will be blocked.
Photos, videos, illustrations, GIFS, including nudes, genitals, female nipples, erotic content, real or simulated sexual relations, won't longer be able to be seen in this social network, which for years had become an alternative space to house material for Adults.
You can never omit the FEMALE nipples, that was what personally was what bothered me the most
Nudes will survive in works of art, whether in pictures or paintings, school books or scientific manuals, or images that portray everyday actions that should be done with little clothing, such as breastfeeding or swimming. Everything so that the application of Tumblr can return to Apple, after it was removed for allegedly inciting child pornography.
For millions of Internet users, this decision means the definitive closure of "the largest library of pornography in the world", which has caused thousands to move their accounts to another platform. And most agree that there is an ideal place for it.
"So, all that Tumblr nonsense may finally force me to use my Twitter account. Never used it before, so it may take me some time to figure things out, but hey ... hi. Here's what i do." wrote the illustrator @Lesimeck, who used Tumblr to publish his erotic works and now does it in 280 characters.
Twitter has much more relaxed rules regarding pornographic content compared to other social networks, such as Facebook or Instagram.
In the rest of the spaces just mark the content as "sensitive" to comply with the rules of publication.
So, some predict, Twitter will become in the next few months a kind of Tumblr II.
