I know it’s tempting to leave and migrate to Twitter or Deviantart or whatever place to put your content due to the new policies, but DON’T. Let me explain why:
when your space is invaded, do you leave and let them take it? or do you stay because it’s YOUR space.
Leaving Tumblr won’t solve anything. As nonchalant as the staff is, if we leave, the new policy will stay in tact and NOTHING will be fixed.
We have to stay right here and tell the staff to go fuck themselves (Not literally, don’t harass the staff with threats or something) and do whatever we can to let them know their rules ain’t shit. Fix it.
it could take awhile. Weeks, a month, but we HAVE to kill this new policy.
Make petitions, videos, posts, but DO NOT LEAVE TUMBLR until they learn how to fix their shit.
@staff could you actually fix your shit instead of flagging and deleting every depiction of humans regardless of context. I have a blog where pictures of people who are hugging, driving, or just modeling clothes have been flagged and I assume are set to be taken down. I never comment on anything but this is lazy bullshit.
Leaving is a good plan B. Digging in and forcing change would make a good Plan A.
Remember the ruckus that got raised from Patreon’s unilateral policy changes? Same basic principle. And while some might dispute that analogy based on Tumblr being a free platform, I say it is a very similar situation. If Tumblr alienates a large enough population of its users, causing them to migrate to other platforms, they lose potential advertising revenue and personal data that they can sell to third parties. It is in their financial interest to keep people using this Rube Goldberg Machine of a website for a while yet.
ALSO remember how 2 years ago when youtubers were losing a lot of their videos from unfair copyright claims, they posted videos under the hashtag #WTFU (where’s the fair use) to call out youtube for letting that shit happen. YES. INSTEAD OF PACKING THEIR THINGS AND LEAVING, they actually DIRECTLY responded to youtube’s nonchalance to raise awareness.
SAME BASIC PRINCIPLE.
DON’T LEAVE TUMBLR
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