#tumblr purge 2: electric boogaloo

[azrithart]

Hey! Since tumblr is pulling some dumb decisions, come find me at:

Instagram

Twitter

Discord as azrith

Webtoon (for my comics)

I may even dust off my old dA.

Friends, mutuals or anybody that wants to be friends, hit me up! Happy to have you! :D

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Update - since tumblr and twitter are competing for who can build the most unusuable website this week, nix the message about posting less!

(Still feel free to friend though! :D)

#azrithart #azrith rambles #azrithart links #artist links #tumblr’s dumbass decisions #the great artist purge part 2 electric boogaloo

[5ummit]

PSA regarding tumblr’s latest Censorship Nightmare

For those of you who haven’t seen this announcement, tumblr recently made some changes to the iOS version of the app, purportedly to comply with Apple’s content guidelines. These changes took effect on Dec 21, starting in version 22.5.1 of the iOS app. As some of you may recall, Apple’s strict guidelines were the driving force for the infamous Great Purge of 2018, which coincidentally also happened around this time of year, but it seems banning all of the female-presenting nipples wasn’t good enough for Apple.

Below is a summary of the important changes. Note that these changes technically ONLY affect those using the iOS app. If you’re accessing tumblr through a different app or operating system (Google Chrome, Android app, etc) it won’t affect you directly but it will affect your followers who use iOS so you should definitely be aware of it.

The list of banned tags has been expanded. As before, there’s no way to know which words or phrases have been banned until you try searching for them, in which case you’ll either get no search results or the following message: “This content has been hidden because of potentially suggestive or explicit content.” You may think this doesn’t concern you if you don’t post explicit material, but do not make the mistake of expecting the banned tags to be logical or reasonable. I've already encountered multiple completely innocuous posts (random fandom gifsets) that seem to be hidden on iOS for no discernible reason.

Blogs that have been flagged as explicit can no longer be viewed. Previously, flagged blogs just had their posts hidden from searches, but if you knew the username you could still visit it after clicking through a warning about sensitive content. Now you can’t access it at all.

Likes and reblogs from blogs that have been flagged will no longer show up in your notes. This one won’t affect most people’s user experience as much as the others, but it does mean you may be missing notes. It’s unclear if likes and reblogs from flagged blogs will still count towards the overall note total (and only be missing from the activity feed and note viewer) but I suspect that’s the case.

THE BIG ONE: ANY POST TAGGED WITH A BANNED TAG WILL NO LONGER SHOW UP ON YOUR DASHBOARD. Previously, if you tagged a post with a banned word or phrase (even if the words were used inside another tag), that post would not show up in searches, but your followers would still be able to see it on their dashboard. Now those posts are hidden from your own followers as well. This includes both original posts and reblogs. And if that wasn’t bad enough, here’s the real kicker: even if you don’t tag something with one of the banned words, if the OP used a banned tag, any reblogs of that post will not show up on anyone’s dashboard (on the iOS app). The only saving grace here, and I hate to even call it that, is that the blocked posts are still visible if you visit a blog directly or if you have post notifications turned on.

As usual, tumblr was extremely unclear and evasive about all of this in their official announcement. Not surprising, of course, since if more people were aware of these new draconian tactics I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be more of an uproar about it. Tumblr claims that these changes are somewhat temporary and that they are currently working on something that will allow for a less restricted iOS experience, but they refuse to say what that something is and when it will be implemented. And let’s just say, considering their track record, I’m not hopeful.

All of this is horrible and infuriating for many reasons, but the worst part is how insanely counterproductive it is to creating the “safe” environment tumblr (or more specifically Apple) supposedly wants.

Tags have always been used for both blog organization and filtering purposes. Tagging posts with triggers and content warnings is a common practice that gives users the ability to filter out content they may find upsetting or just don’t don’t want to see for whatever reason. By choosing to ban a bunch of unlisted “sensitive content” tags, all they’re doing is encouraging people who want to share that kind of content to come up with alternative less well-known tags or simply not tag that content at all anymore if they want it to show up on their follower’s dashboards, thereby making it more likely for someone to encounter it when they didn’t want to.

So really, with all of the alleged concern for safety and “protecting the children,” all they’ve done is make tumblr less safe for everyone. Typical.

UPDATE (Jan 11, 2022): An optional toggle setting now exists to disable these changes. Please follow this tutorial to allow “sensitive content” on the iOS app.

#just when you think tumblr can't get any worse #hellsite (derogatory) #sorry for the long post #but this was important #tumblr #PSA #my words #tumblr purge 2: electric boogaloo #wendy's help desk

[i-wanna-be-a-cowboybaby]

aww tim cook is afraid of us? that’s adorable

#ios #tumblr purge #tumblr purge 2: electric boogaloo #ttalk

[littlemisscancer]

in the small likelihood that this blog gets removed[probably because sometime forty years ago there was 1 naked lady on here]. here’s what i can be found

hell

twitter

eh.

steam

im already at least 100x more active on my twitter than this crumbling website.

#DM me for the discord though #a moment with brunnea #tumblr purge #tumblr purge 2 electric boogaloo now in stores

[millesbianforce]

One of my female presenting body parts who must not be named talking to the other one

#sksksks #tumblr purge 2 electric boogaloo #tumblr purge

[crackmonkeytrash]

These blocked tags are fucking stupid but you still not gonna catch me moving sites lol

#xae talks #tumblr purge 2 electric boogaloo

[just-pineapple-responses]

Just curious, how many shower thought (response) blogs are there? I just dived into this side of tumblr (not gonna make any posts its fun to read though) and I'm already losing my mind

Well there is

The. Literal. Sun.

Plasma...

S p a c e

ALL HAIL THE LIGHT

The void. It shall consume ALL.

A typewriter incase anyone wants to write their will before they die

Also some ink, not related to the typewriter

Also some words, I wonder who'll use them

A hat with no maker and a maker with no hat

The pen is mightier than the sword. It just so happens that this one is evil. Luckily I can summon multiple

Anyone order some coffee?

Ooo, an author

The literal embodiment if of fanart

A fork, nom noms

B҉ r҉ o҉ k҉ e҉ n҉ 

Soap

Soap(for hair)

Toothpaste

🄵🄰🅄🄲🄴🅃

Towel

Bath mat

Washcloth

Bathtub

Bathwater

𝔹𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕓𝕠𝕞𝕓

Bubblebath!

One (1) bath boi

Some M͓̽o͓̽l͓̽d͓̽ (anybody got some strong disinfectant?)

Nvm, the mold has already caused a plague (gettit?) (although user misspelled it)

Nevermind, there's already a parasite here

Mirror

Door!!!

Some curtains

A denim jacket

Blackout

Rainbow

✨ Magic ✨

*Tree poses to assert dominance*

Coconut

(obviously me)

I think popeye dropped a tin of spinch and it became sentient?

Tost

Hummus. dip tost?

Criss Cross applesauce

Wibbly wobbly Wibbly wobbly jellyo

Mmmm océan s o u p

Some poison, a great addition for my soup

Smol bean

Potat

Shower magpie who I haven't seen in a while

Bird (brain)

Frog(×2:Electric Boogaloo)

An axolotl!

Ferret

*looks at smudged writing on hand. Squints. * a raccoon

Stinky bastard man (I just had to put the two next to each other)

Rat.

Becometh crab 🦀 (x2: Electric Boogaloo)

Nya~

Edgy Nya~

Tripod of dog

Brain

Nina i found one of your neurons (if you understand this reference, good job you)

A rotted brain, keep it away before it infects us all, I only have 2 braincells left

Did... Did someone drop their spinal cord?

The almighty binch

The titanic

Narrator

Water based introspection

Existential crisis

Dumbass

Also a pacifier (get it because they're also called dummies and their name is dummy)

A foolish thought to say a sorry sight join the shower community (as you can tell we did Shakespeare in English so many times i pretty much can recite everything lady macbeth said)

ADHD

Ominous

Anonymous

Anxious 🥺👉👈

Some edgy bastard

A person of culture I see (although obsessed with tweed for some reason)

1 Dapper boi

Sarcastic

nice

All smiles and sunshine

HAPPY! (why isn't there yellow 😔)

Affection (Derogatory) (I'm sorry I just felt like it)

~Petty~

Idiot

Disaster

Chaos and Order

Comebacks

'vanishing'

Defences

Threatened

Op is on drugs

All the F s

And F-general

Get out of the shower

Shower responses

Dry

The horny and the simp

Shower sins

Thower shoughts

I take quick showers

Shower thots

Last responder *countdown music*

You have shower thoughts?

Your shower thoughts are stupid

Wtf shower thoughts

Another shower responder

MORE

Just shower responses... responses

Response shower

NO SHOWER! only thought (×3)

Mmm, showery

Penny for your thoughts?

Hello darkness my old friend...

Llawyer

Beepbeep

Prussia

Haywire!!!

furry OwO

A Pigeon got in through the door, who left it open?

I'm feeling devious

You're looking glamorous, let's get mischievous, and polyamorous

Gay is stored in the ass

Gay

Trans

*opens door and walks through with you exaggeratedly* Fellas we got the whole LGBTQIA+ community right here

Enby

Hahaha gender go brrr

Lesbian

Lesbian-thot

Lust

Someone who thinks it funny to clown around

Joker (derogatory)

Haha straight

Dead inside

Some supervillain idk

News. Literally a shower news style responses

r

I cannot believe that I forgot Her Greatest Majesty, the Queen. All Hail Royal

Isaac newton?

M megamind?

Fiftieth

Crackhead

Some Phoenix Wright kinnie

What is a Dean Winchester and why does he have a tentacle fetish?

Well well well, if it ain't a homestuckian

Did someone kill/rob The Doctor or something, their TARDIS was left behind and its blocking my pretzels that I left in the shower

Mined crafts uwu

Well well well, if it ain't- *accidentally makes eye contact and is then killed by some unknown shadowy creature holding what seems to be some sort of cube of dirt*

GOTTA GO FAST

Mishamishamishamishamishamishamisha

Gen Z and ready to throw hands with OP

Not puki

Nom noms

Dip dap

Kensa

B͓̽u͓̽n͓̽g͓̽e͓̽r͓̽ ..........

Someone broke their space bar or something

It's time to d-d-d-d-d-dshower

The magical deity of sleepovers

DON'T FALL ASLEEP. NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU-

The muffin man genuinely left drury Lane for this

Txmblr

Moonlit nights on a winters day, stars glimmering gently

A child?

🟥

The fae. Just all of them. Every single one.

Crocus? (What on earth does that mean)

*sings* baba blacksheep have you any wool? Because if not you will be killed (this fits the tune perfectly. If not I have failed in everything)

The theatre itself is here... Somehow

Ahoy-hoy

boo

REEEE- *epic geometry dash gameplay to DanTDM's old intro music*

Yardale, not to be mistaken for riverdale and differs to lawn ale or front porch ale or even meter ale

I'll finish this list later

It's gonna be a long one folks

I'm including a ones that haven't spoken since ages ago because

Boy howdy there's new ones tell me who I'm missing now

Please stop thank you very much this is too many i keep having to add to this any new responder must kill a responder to continue the purge shall claim y'all as I will win i recently started watching Danganronpa

Seriously though everyone after mirror must have a battle royale it's too much i doubt all of you will even last longer than today also happy birthday me -dated:28th- do you even realise what sort of commitment you've made to sell pieces of your soul for entertainment and ability to make such epic retorts each and every post?! I sacrifice many souls DAILY to be throwing such bangers into this stuff y'know?

We have a tap guys we can finally wash our hands of all the blood of our enemies

Seriously though who left the door open I don't want a Pigeon pecking at me (the mishapocalypse got them lol)

So many responders so little time before the end of the world

If I'm missing someone please tell me very thank

There are not enough colours for me to assign a different one to each person 😔 also, wtf is on there twice on purpose

WorldHealthOrganisation IS MISSING (note: you may have a joke in place of name or under a category of names)

So there's lore without me?

ALL HAIL THE LIGHT *moth noises*

Okay now there's alternate timeline versions of responders for the benefit of myself they ain't going on the list bud

There is an incorrect role play blog quotes blog and I am crying. Not of laughter. Just wiuwhdhsjhshjxjabjsjdhdjsj

If any new people join I will go back to causing shower wars for the sake of killing you all I'm done I have snapped my laptop is updating 3 times in a row

I will commit crimes.

Does being a shower responder or role-playing seem encouraging to people to join this "community"? Because I'm pretty sure it's the latter

#ShowerThoughts blogs #Asks #As you can see I'm trying to organise in order of inanimate to animal to concepts to water else #*whatever else #And now rp blogs wow

[dinna-kain-fit-im-cad]

I like how the community's response to Tumblr Purge 2: Electric Boogaloo is to make horse plinko memes

#quines shit #horse plinko #tumblr #yeah :/

[nat-a-nat]

Tumblr Purge 2: Electric Boogaloo

#mine

[fandomtrashfox]

Tumblr’s blocking a bunch of words, huh? Cool. Can’t wait for this to turn into Tumblr purge 2 electric boogaloo.

[babilano-celentano]

If you don't think that Trump and his minions, you being one of them, isn't fascism, then you truly are depraved. Spouting off about eliminating people will get you no where partner. You don't know exactly what is hidden in the minds of the people who will also defend what is right. Your Trump is a con man and is so close to being like Hitler was. Look where that got him!

Sometimes I go to the blogs of people that wrote stupid things on the posts of the conservative/downright fash tumblrs that I follow and try to mirror/provoke them with inane comments like ‘Down w/ the Free Press & the Cabal’ or ‘Long Live Capitalism, Death To The Workers!’ (yes, i know & i believe the argumentative theory of reasoning is right on but sometimes i just don’t see why not. at least I made some of these fools google their claims) This person apparently had trouble seeing the forest through the trees when i quoted Himmler’s Posen speech in the notes of a post calling for Breakdance 2 - Electric Boogaloo and the purging of the fascist &/or communist left.

Trump sure is a con man but, despite some striking similarities between the current situation and Germany in the 20′s, he is nothing like Hitler. Yet. Don’t get your knickers in a twist over this guy. Just make sure all your friends are voting this time, partner;)

#trained marxists #lol

[thestarryskye]

I guess the end is near and stuff

Well, this feels just like my last day on Miiverse, everyone was either freaking out, or posting literal porn to try and piss off the mods. It was really something. I myself was sharing tearful goodbyes with everyone I knew there. Erza, Anonymous, and even that adorable little kid whos name I can’t remember (what I do remember is that he was 6, and he loved Mario Kart, and my shitty drawings)

So, as I said there

“It’s the end of the world as we know it

It’s the end of the world as we know it

It’s the end of the world as we know it

and I feel fine”

#logoff2018 #tumblr purge #purge 2 electric boogaloo #almostinamoat.txt

[plate-noise]

tumblr purge? more like g+ shutdown 2: electric boogaloo

[5ummit]

Attention Content Creators

There's a new Situation and because of this Situation I can't even tag anyone to spread the word. I was recently informed that, as of about 18 hrs ago at this point (Jan 1st, 1pm EST), NO NEW POSTS are showing up in ANY tag search on ANY browser/app. I've checked this to confirm.

Myself and many others have noticed that posts have been taking a very long time to show up in tags these past fews days (my last post took about 5 hrs). Yesterday around 2pm EST staff reported they were aware of the issue and were working on a fix. This new development appears to have started around 7pm EST, which leads me to believe it’s a result of the “fix” that’s currently in progress. Unfortunately this has made the already bad situation impossibly worse in the meantime.

I have no idea how long this will be an issue but you may want to hold off on posting any new content until it’s sorted out.

- - -

UPDATE (Jan 2, 1:30am EST): This issue has been resolved.

#feel free to reblog this post to help spread the word since I CAN'T FUCKING TAG ANYONE #just when you think tumblr can't get any worse #hellsite (derogatory) #tumblr purge 2: electric boogaloo #tumblr #PSA #my words #wendy's help desk

[5ummit]

Update on the Banned Tags Situation

According to the official tumblr @changes blog:

Staff is currently reviewing the list of banned tags (which of course should have been done BEFORE releasing the update) thanks to everyone who contacted support and made posts about it. However, they also say “we expect the review process to really pick up in January,” aka don’t expect any changes overnight.

More importantly though, the longterm solution to the Apple Censorship Issue has finally been confirmed: “a web-based toggle that would allow folks to opt into allowing sensitive content in the iOS app.” This seems to be the same solution that Discord recently employed to allow access to NSFW servers that Apple originally banned on their app entirely earlier this year. This means that, to view posts with banned tags or blogs that have been flagged as explicit on the iOS app, you will have to access tumblr through a browser first and opt-in. This should be something you only have to do once though.

While not ideal – since people using the app will have to be made aware that this option even exists somehow – this is probably the best outcome if tumblr wants to keep functioning as it has been in the past and still provide an app for iOS users. And look, I don’t want to get my hopes up too much, but with this solution in place they might even be able to (at least partially) walk back the Original Purge and allow us to see... [gasp] female-presenting nipples again.

#it's not much #but it's something! #tumblr purge 2: electric boogaloo #tumblr #my words #wendy's help desk

[5ummit]

It looks like tags pages have been frozen across the entire site for at least half a day now - on desktop AND mobile. I've checked multiple tags/variations, and they all have the most recent post somewhere around 6pm central time yesterday, nothing after that. So basically, if you post ANYTHING at all on this site, it won't show up in any tag. Not sure what caused this or when it will be fixed, but I figured it would be helpful for people to know about it.

HOLY SHIT.... you're right

just when you think this hellsite couldn’t possibly be any more hostile towards content creators tumblr says “hold my beer”

#thank you SO MUCH for letting me know about this nonnie #I just checked and it's been about 17 hrs since ANY tag has updated #tumblr was really like 'you thought a ban on a few tags was bad?? you ain't seen nothin yet ALL tags are banned now' #and now there's not even a way to spread a psa about this #F*CK ME #hellsite (derogatory) #tumblr purge 2: electric boogaloo #tumblr #asked #wendy's help desk