So there’s a problem with America.
Let’s be real, like, before you start calling me a flag burner or other inane, embarrassingly
ignorant things, hear me out.
Criticism is okay, you should criticize everything, it’s how you learn and others learn to be
better.
A country’s social norms are no more above criticism than we are here at Treesicle.
Im particularly speaking about censorship.
It’s wrong, and I stand by that.
Censorship is used in place of education and acceptance, rather than actually dealing with
a concept, or an image, or a youtube video about some silly game.
People in power would simply rather block it so it can’t ruffle any prude, conservative,
fear mongering feathers.
Because those people are loud and annoying and belligerent.
That being said, this video will be family friendly because well…..
I dont have another option or way to get this to people if it’s demonetized and suppressed.
So let’s get into the main subject.
We know what censorship has done to youtube, I can still taste the soap they washed my
mouth out with, but as social media sites grow larger so does the demand for soap, y’know
what I’m sayin mane?
And at last the cleansening has begun, with none other than tumblr.
So PREPARE YOURSELF!
For a story of what would happen if four chan was entirely made up of emo kids from myspace
circa 2004, for a tale of a wretched hive of scum and villainy being washed squeaky
clean forevermore, and for a lesson in the abuse of power.
This is the story of Tumblr, the story you never knew.
Intro:
On Dec 17th 2018 tumblr will ban all adult content.
The site was the brainchild of David Karp and Marco Arment.
They wanted to create something called a tumble blog, and since it hadn't been done yet, they
did it and well, it worked.
I still dont know what a tumble blog is tho.
Tumblr was an instant success!
75,000 users in two weeks, leading to a tight knit community.
By 2012 the site started using paid advertising and in 2013 it was bought by yahoo for 1.1
billion dollars.
Which was a bad idea cause they lost like 400 million on it but whatever, Yahoo is a
dinosaur anyway, get a gmail Ryan, Yahoo sucks.
Yahoo was then bought by Verizon in 2017, landing Tumblr in the hands of one of the
biggest offenders of net neutrality.
By the end of that year Karp left his own company to the dogs.
I’m gonna be real with you, I never liked Tumblr.
It always felt like a huge party I wasn’t invited to, but (I never wanted to go anyway)
so i stayed home and ate a whole bag of cheetos and drank a six pack instead.
A six pack of chocolate milk!
I told you this video was family friendly!
Call me barney!
Anyway, it’s true.
I don’t consider myself a tumblr fan or expert by any means but for the sake of the
recent controversy over tumblr banning all adult content that you may have heard I made
the decision to do a deep dive.
Perusing every nook and cranny, talking to friends who frequent it and...well now I know
some things.
I’ve just given you a brief history on how the platform came to be now let’s get into
what makes it tick.
There’s a lot of hate that circles around Tumblr and honestly there’s good reason
for it.
Also all these pictures of ponies are getting to me.
But yeah, the hate… basically what it boils down to is this: What you like, what you do,
is represented by the loudest members of your community.
And it may just be me, but i have a theory on loud people.
They are loud to cover up their stupid, it's like “Hey, if I’m super loud and aggressive
about this no one will notice how flawed and irrational my logic is!”
And Tumblrites are stereotyped as being loud, obnoxious, fascist, horny, social rejects
who have zero ability to communicate with normal human beings.
Sorry normal Tumblr person, that’s reality, you think I like telling people I’m a Youtuber?
You know what people see in their heads when they hear “Youtuber”?
You’re not alone.
That being said, pockets of Tumblr are where the seedy underbelly of the political left
lives.
These particularly toxic corners thrive on recycled self aggrandizing confirmation of
their own beliefs.
If you want the same toxic thing but on the other side of the political spectrum, just
go to 4chan!
I would know, I grew up on it.
However there is a LOT of good that comes from Tumblr.
It’s a place where people that are disenfranchised can reach out, find others, and be together
in a space of their choosing to communicate their thoughts and feelings safely.
It's one of the best places to go for hmmm, how do I put this… education regarding your
nono pieces, what to do with them and how to do it safely.
Basically, the best thing about Tumblr was the worst thing about tumblr, it was free.
Not in price, but in spirit.
And also in price.
Underneath all the ponies, the extreme leftist fascists, people claiming to be literal fairies
and the desperate attention seekers, Tumblr has been responsible for a huge majority of
the internet content we love.
Because it was open and individualized Tumblr brought a wellspring of art and ideas, language,
and well, memes.
There is TALENT on Tumblr, all over the place, individuals who make what we do look like
peeing in a sandbox.
You know, you just gotta wade through the animated tentacle gifs doing naughty things
to get there.
Honestly I don’t mind though.
Speaking of tentacles, that was one of the best things tumblr had going for it.
No not the tentacles themselves, but the adult content.
And also the tentacles.
See, people are strange.
We like all sorts of different things.
Some people like ponies, some people like feet, some people like a squid and ayane from
dead or alive trying to procreate.
Some people (I kid you not) like all of that together except all the participants are made
out of bubbles like that weird dream sequence from dumbo.
I know that’s oddly specific, but I found it on Tumblr.
If it was adult, and it was messed up, it was on tumblr, rule 34’s most talented home.
And we aren't just talking animated stuff, i mean i’ve seen some people I know let’s
say, in their birthday suit, cause of tumblr.
That never woulda happened otherwise!
It was the cool thing to do a few years back, don’t ask me, i dont tumblr.
Accept when I do.
Tumblr is gross, it’s annoying, it's the essence of cringe, but it’s also beautiful,
funny, and well, terrifying at times.
Its tumblr, it's the internet, and its life.
Or well, it was.
Remember the intro, when you called me a flag burner and then i told you that you were dumb
and then you kept watching the video cause you like it like that?
Well yeah i made that point for a reason.
Like Youtube, Tumblr is being censored.
Really badly too.
The idiots flagged their own flagging announcement!
And just ‘cause I'm not personally a fan of the platform doesn’t mean i can’t appreciate
the value it brought.
A few days ago it was announced that Tumblr would be banning ALL adult content, and naturally
people are... upset.
See the thing about adult content is that it's fine..
There's nothing inherently wrong with it.
YOU might not like it, but that's your opinion (and my opinion cause youtube is my daddy,
and daddy hurts me when im bad).
Opinions are subjective, meaning they aren’t right or wrong, it’s just a feeling you
have and absolutely no one has to care.
And most of them don’t and never will, because they have opinions too, it’s kind of what
makes us human.
Get it?
Anyway, adult content is labeled that way because it’s considered “too graphic for
children” that’s fine, there’s legitimately some things you don’t want kids to see so
they can preserve some semblance of innocence, or whatever.
But to take a community that thrives off of expression and then censor said “expression”
is wrong.
Part of what made tumblr unique is that you can have your animal crossing fandom, but
you can also have all the twisted bdsm hanging from your chest dots video side by side and
sprinkle in home drawn hentai and an article about how elon musk is going to remove gravity
and suck out our atmosphere.
Tumblr was a melting pot, it was also a place where people felt they could expose themselves
and be proud, it thrived on its ABILITY to create adult content in all forms, whether
its users chose to create it or not..
Tumblr is an app, anyone who has that app gets it willingly and should educate themselves
on it beforehand.
If you don't want your child seeing something on Youtube or Tumblr, simply don’t let them,
or just don’t have children at all, that’s worked for me so far.
Much of the censorship issues we have are because of inept parents who depend on companies
to do their work for them.
But that in turn ruins everything for everyone else who’s just trying to get their comes
on.
Or make a joke about sweater yams in a fnaf vid. dont worry though, this may all be her
fault, but i still love your mom.
Now that I’ve gone on a tangent about what Tumblr is, and how all the free expressive
and often naughty goodness makes it tick, let’s bring it back to reality.
Ope there goes gravity... wait, i mean how and why Verizon is ruining everything.
In november 2018 some pictures slipped through tumblr’s filters that depicted what your
parents do when they lock their door and tell you to go away, except it wasnt your parents
it was chitlins i tell ya chitlins!
This is what's claimed to be the reason for the mass censoring.
Surprisingly, Apple is also largely responsible in for the change in policy.
Turns out apple doesn't like dirty pics of kids, makes sense, thats a big ole nono.
Exactly what these pictures depicted is unknown, but something slipped through the site’s
filters.
All platforms have filters, youtube included, but they’re automated algorithms and are
not full proof.
So instead of working with tumblr, apple removed the app from its store, and as of this video’s
release, it’s still not back.
This removed all apple users mobile access to the website.
So tumblr freaked and did, well, this.
Now apple throwing their big banana around was part of this issue but there is also verizon’s
OATH agreement which yahoo and inevitably tumblr fall into.
Marni walden, verizon’s exec VP explains that “Oath’s strategy will be to place
the same content — whether articles, videos or ads — in multiple locations to reach
the widest possible audience” There’s a phrase in there I want you to
burn into your brain: “widest possible audience,” you know who likes the weirdest stuff on the
web?
The most marginalized, socially outcast, and disenfranchised people.
The people that needed tumblr the most.
The problem isn't that i can't find videos that would make my mom grow a mustache anymore,
(though i mean, let's be real that sucks) it's what these new censorship algorithm changes
are doing to tumblr and its community.
Don't get me wrong, i'm okay with not seeing pony on foxxy love while sonic the hedgehog
watches and buzz lightyear films, but as we all know (adpocalypse) these algorithmic filters
can either be total trash, or at least take a while to become effective.
In the meantime creators suffer.
Demonetization Algorithm.
Things are and will be censored that have no right to be.
Adult art, queer imagery, particularly say, a pic of two shirtless men kissing… etc.
this is ruining the careers of thousands of artists and they may have to go to DEVIANT
ART!
It’s like if tumblr was dropped as a baby two times instead of just once!
I kid, I kid.
I love deviant art.
BUT THERE’S SOME WEIRD STUFF ON THERE TOO, MAN.
But do you know how difficult it is to move platforms?
Twitch.tv/Treesicle How hard it is to get your fanbase to come with you?
Every weekday at 3pm.
Or to simply click a link (buy our shirts on pixelempire.com/treesicle) It’s nigh
impossible.
In an interview Tumblr CEO and possible pizza spinner Jeff D’Onofrio said “There are
no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content.
We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment
possible for our community.”
Welcoming environment, more like, profit maximizing environment.
A place where you can express yourself to the point of hiding coke cans inside your
organs is about as welcoming as I can imagine.
Basically, tumblr isn't banning the good stuff because of an incident with their filters,
its to maximize profit and they would rather ruin the safe place of marginalized human
beings than deal with the risks of maintaining them.
Instead they’d rather make it into another stale disneyland ride.
Same thing that’s happening with Youtube, whats next?
Xvideos?
Bad dragon?
Don’t take that from me.
We all poopy on tumblr because it’s easy.
Because the most vocal part of it’s user base are kind of the most annoying people
on the planet.
Because it's the land of bronies and fnaf rule 34 and people who literally think they’re
faeries and that that's somehow a gender.
But underneath allllllllllllll that sonic fan art is a place where people who felt alone
found others like them, a place where you could get in your birthday suit and share
some naughty vids, disgusting heathanistic fan art, and pics of your feet.
Or learn about the facts of life, discover what it means to be queer, or how to empower
yourself as a woman, even if you don't have lady parts!
Some adult imagery can be necessary simply to explain those things, even anatomy pics
are being removed.
Tumblr is but another haven removed in the name of the widest possible audience, maximizing
profits and basically putting the dew piston to the little guy while he bites the pillow.
Tumblr was considered a safe place, but now we know how fragile that is, nowhere is safe
when you’re up against people with money.
Eventually our generation will be the ones with the majority power and seniority, so
maybe start thinking about what’s important to you.
How much money is enough money?
How large of an audience is large enough?
Is 441 million bloggers not enough?
Is that not WIDE enough to respect?
I may not like tumblr, you may not like tumblr, but its user base is largely 18-29 year olds,
that’s our generation, tumblr was our app (sorry i think i almost just seized out there
for a sec) and it's being destroyed for profit under the guise of an underaged photography
shoot scandal.
Wake up sheeple.
That’s the story of tumblr, the story you never knew.
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Was that good daddy?