Talk:Tumblr NSFW Content Purge

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useful links?

--aethel (talk) 03:32, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Gif Compression

I think it would be nice to include the gifs from this gifset but they're too big to upload onto Fanlore and I don't have the software to make them smaller. - Hoopla (talk) 23:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Use this tool https://ezgif.com/optimize/ For the first gif I had to use 150. Will upload and link here.MeeDee (talk) 00:43, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Here: Ezgif-4-aff2ac458765.gif https://fanlore.org/wiki/File:Ezgif-4-aff2ac458765.gif

Deletion of Falice Tag

Tumblr deleted the Falice tag on Tumblr, this is the tag for the FP/Alice ship from Riverdale, this effected many blogs who use the tag, to the point of having to use an alternative ship name. I want to record this, but I am not sure whether to add it on this page, the FP/Alice page, or both. Suggestions?

-- Kingstoken (talk) 15:11, 02 December 2018 (UTC)

There are many ship tags affected (I've heard about JayDick and SteveTony) so it might need its own section on this page. -- Baycitybomber (talk) 15:29, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
We usually put it on both the ship page and here.MeeDee (talk) 16:32, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Anyone up for finding some protest gifs and fanart for this page?

I made an archive link for each one (I could only get Wayback to work on one, WebCite on none of them, so I went with archive.fo/archive.is. If anyone can improve or add to the archive links, please feel free.).
Do we want a section on the main page for the links, with some examples actually displayed? Or a subpage to the main page with links and examples? Or something else entirely? Or some other rendition? Also, it's a dirty job, but does someone/s want to find some examples of gifs and such from fans who approve/are happy about the purge/ban? --MPH (talk) 16:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC) Added: And thank you for finding all of these! :-) --MPH (talk) 16:07, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
These are *great*. You can see that I added a couple of images from the earlier days of the purge, and there were more than I wanted to add, but it was hard to choose from all the great art/gifs, and obviously I didn't want to overdo it. I think these definitely warrant either their own section with a gallery, or a subpage. I'm not sure which would be best, so I'll defer to more experienced editors on that front. --enchantedsleeper (talk) 10:44, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Fanlore message inclusion?

If folks don't think Fanlore's post should be included in the "welcome" posts from other sites, then go ahead and remove it. Or maybe add a note to it? " (message to fans encouraging them to document their fanworks and experiences)" or some other tweak. Or rename the section "Other site reactions" or something else. I'm good with whatever. --MPH (talk) 14:09, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Has Tumblr blocked Archive.org?

I tried to archive some tumblr posts on archive.org earlier, and every time ended up archiving this "Request Denied" message.

Since Mrs. Potato Head said (in the "Anyone up for finding some protest gifs and fanart...?" section on this page) that she wasn't able to archive most of those tumblr posts using the wayback machine, and since I never had this problem Monday-Thursday of this week, it may not be an isolated problem/just me/a coincidence. --Bikedancelaugheat (talk) 07:50, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Tumblr staff blocked archiving attempts, see https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge#Assistance_with_Archiving -- Baycitybomber (talk) 08:07, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
I was successful with an attempt this morning, though it took about ten minutes for the archived page to load. (If Tumblr is actively blocking and thwarting archiving attempts, then I'm trying to wrap my head around trying to figure out a way in which Tumblr isn't evil.) --MPH (talk) 17:11, 16 December 2018 (UTC) Added: This is what I use: archive.fo/archive.is. (I saw on Reddit that Tumblr was blocking archive.is but not archive.fo. in March 2018: [Censorship Twitter is blocking tweets with archive.is links : KotakuInAction]) --MPH (talk) 17:20, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Workaround or unblocking of Archive.org? + Where to discuss mass tag eradications?

I haven't tried using Archive.org to directly capture copies of tumblr posts since it stopped working for me weeks ago, but I was astounded and delighted this afternoon to realize that if you have Xkit, and the Mirror Button extension to it, and you're viewing a post in the dashboard view (which is the only way the Mirror Button pops up), then it CAN SUCCESSFULLY BACK A TUMBLR POST UP TO THE WAYBACK MACHINE. In fact, it does even better and actually captures the link FROM the blog you're accessing, so in other words, it will appear in the Wayback Machine as it would on the original poster's blog! YAAAAS!

Meanwhile, to prove this worked (for at least me), and providing a convenient segue into the other thing on my mind not mentioned here, please check out this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190207223523/https://thebibliosphere.tumblr.com/post/182633494701/coldpapernightmare-hjbender-raeseddon

That is a fresh reblog from today, successfully saved to the Internet Archive, notice. It's a reblogged thread, taken from the blog of Joy Demorra, a popular blogger and writer of both original paranormal erotica, and fanfic in various fandoms (including Discworld and HP), who it should be noted, is a former LJ user who was there during Strikethrough/Boldthrough (so needless to say she's keeping up with this stuff and signal boosting).

If you actually read this post in particular, you will notice it records that we're seeing a new wave of censorship on the part of tumblr - namely, they appear to be deleting or blocking a whole new swath of tags, including some that had little or nothing to do with the "adult content" they're trying to ban and remove from the platform, including anything that so much as mentions words like "horny" or "porn" (so, "fashion porn" and the meme tag "horny on main" would be blocked entirely), or anything that uses the word "sexual" (including "sexual health" and "sexual orientation" despite those being supposedly allowed subjects in the TOS!), and, perhaps most disturbingly, this includes several words/tags commonly used as trigger warning tags, such as "suicide" (and, by proxy, with the "sexual [anything]" ban, "sexual assault"). It also seems to include non-sexual "obscenity" words, such as "shit" (which means the term "shitposting" literally isn't usable as a tag anymore, apparently).

One notable point of criticism, by the way, was that white supremacy/neonazi related tags and several nasty racial slurs seemed at last check to be still usable and searchable even as "sexual assault" and "shitposting" and "food porn" were all blocked. I guess time will tell if that stays consistent, or if either some of the other tags get unblocked (like #chronic pain did after significant protest) and/or the nazi tags get blocked too.

Either way, this seems to be a dramatic doubling down on the policy, and it significantly impacts tumblr's functionality, especially for fandom content creators (who in addition to having to go back to the citrus scale, basically can no longer tag accurately for content or trigger warnings without having elaborate workarounds), not to mention consumers of fandom content like fic or fanart will have their ability to find fic/art content or curate their dash severely hampered, so it seemed worth pointing out that we're seeing a surge in other tags being (seemingly very suddenly) targeted as well. Vorpalgirl (talk) 23:17, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Vorpalgirl, I'm going to add a section for the new tag blocking. Much of what you wrote above could fit under it. May I add it, and you (and others) could tweak it?
Your discovery of the archiving is an excellent one. I hope we can go forward on Fanlore with it. :-) MPH (talk) 23:29, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Tumblr Official Response to the Protest

Could someone locate staff response to the protest and add it to that section?

Also if known, statistical/financial info regarding the effect the protest had? Statistical info about how many blogs were affected? People's responses to what they encountered after the ban would be most welcome. --MPH (talk) 16:04, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Paywalls and NSFW art

I wouldn't know where to start if I wanted to verify this, but I feel like after the tumblr nsfw ban more artists chose to paywall their NSFW completely and only share censored/cropped versions publicly. Patreon actually allows nsfw but only if it's patron-locked and not in a public post.

--MyDesperateRomance (talk) 14:05, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

2019 and 2021 updates

I added a section for the 2021 tag bannings that are happening at the minute. I put it under the empty section related to 2019.

Two questions - does anyone have information on the 2019 tag bannings? And, is this the right place to put the 2021 update? It seems a little out of place as the next sections are naming the purge, log off protest and staff respond. All of those happened well before 2021 and I'm wondering if the page would make a little more sense if it was more chronological. Let me know what you think (and if anyone has links for the 2019 purge) --Auntags (talk) 11:20, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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