At the time, the micrblgging site announced a new policy that would remove all sexually explicit posts, which didn’t sit well with audiences and content creators, who soon found refuge in OnlyFans.
The truth is that since then, the boom around the platform has been lost and now everything seems to indicate that the service would be finding a route to return to those glory years.
In recent hours, from a blog entry, Tumblr announced the launch of a new feature called Community Labels (something that translates as Community Labels), through which this type of explicit content could return to the service.
According to the platform itself, the idea of this new feature is that “everyone on Tumblr can fully express themselves and at the same time have control over what they find on their boards.”In this way, through this new labeling function, users will be able to classify the topics of a publication into three categories that could be considered sensitive.
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The categories proposed by Tumblr are the following:
- Drug and alcohol addiction: contains discussions of substance abuse or the experience of addiction.
- Violence: Contains violent or graphic content similar to what you might see in an age-restricted movie.
- sexual themes: contains sexually suggestive themes, such as erotic writing or images.
So in the first category we could have scenes from a tape showing an overdose, in the second explicit war scenes and in the third a “graphic edition of 50 Shades of Grey”
By tagging the content, it will be hidden, faded or displayed normally, depending on the preferences of each user.
In this way, everything indicates that Tumblr will have a greater openness in the publications, with which more explicit content is at the door. Although this is a reality, Tumblr states that it will not allow lewd bots on its service:
“This does not change our content policies – spam, hate content and porn bots are still not welcome in the community. It is also important that we comply with the rules of the app store, which means that we must ensure that adult content is only accessible to people who are old enough and have opted in to see that type of content.
What remains to be seen is the use that users will finally give to this new function and if in practice these policies that now seem to have certain cracks are respected.