• Pornhub Is "Extremely Interested" In Acquiring Tumblr
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I know none of the artists I know would ever come back. Tumblr has perpetually lost their trust.
And then they will ironically impose even stricter rules upon it as soon as it's purchased, only allowing to either post pictures of tiles or of tree bark while having explicit porn adverts on the sides.
I hope they do and they rename it breddit. Fuck that's even better
Ah yes, first you ruin tumblr by getting rid of all the lewd stuff, and then a few months later once you realise nobody cares to use your shitty platform anymore you sell it! Hope Pornhub manages to buy it.
From what I've heard, the current options aren't really that good(newgrounds, twitter, etc)
Just gonna repost what I posted here Surprising nobody, Verizon is selling tumblr after fucking it up --- I actually think that if they reverted the no-nsfw changes and gave the interface a GOOD AND RIGOROUS overhaul, that they could fix it. They need to put some serious effort in it, but it certainly isn't impossible. There still is a hole that needs filling. Most artists fled to Twitter, and while they allow NSFW stuff, the more extreme stuff is obviously not allowed. And the horrible compression on there forces people to link to external sites like Mega.nz and stuff. Same goes for Newgrounds. Most of the extreme and weird stuff is not allowed there. And they also have a rule that you can only post 3d stuff if you are the person that created the actual 3d models. So there is no place for the majority of the people who specialise in SFM smut. Pixiv is too Japanese. Not to mention their draconic censorship laws that mandates putting black bars everywhere. But first. Fix that atrocious interface please. It's utter and incredibly wafting decomposing rancid moist horseshit.
that's the spirit!
I like Newgrounds a step above Twitter cause I dont have to browse though reaction pics and replies to find art that im interested in.
Nah I only follow art, design and aesthetics blogs
I'm very interested to hear specifics about this, but not enough to have it in my search history. Please tell me more.
Incognito bruh
This will be how Canada saves the internet.
I hope they won't plaster explicit and unblockable porn ads all over the site if they buy it
Hey, if you're on discord, you can send me a PM if you want. I'm totally cool with telling you more.
What's wrong with Newgrounds? I know that Flash died and Youtube supplanted them but honestly it still feels like a more thought out site than most of the things that have come after it.
that's the entire point of the media tab though https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/297971/b663b7f5-eed1-4d41-8448-6e7afbbb1baf/image.png Newgrounds is just not a serious art platform, and has a fraction of the traffic twitter has and tumblr had. I doubt building up exposure there works at all. I know one single artist who made a page on it, he posted for a week and stopped. Twitter is fine imo but not the best either. DA is garbage, insta has zero community/interaction, doesnt let you download art (i'll never get over that, building a reference library of your favorite artists is essential - for the same reason, fuck twitter's .jpeg-large). Artstation is just a platform to get jobs, not an art community. I wish we had a western pixiv, there's a real hole when it comes to art platforms. The power of twitter for artists is retweets, replies, and yes seeing what the people you follow likes sucks most of the time, but for exposing you to new art it's actually very good. Your posts can explode very fast and it happens directly in people's feed, rarely through tags. Even with reblogs, growing a following on tumblr was almost completely down to luck and very successful artists on other platforms often struggled to get a tumblr started. Exposure through tags was fucked by bots, exposure through the feed was limited, and it didn't have notifications tab like twitter - navigating from blog to blog through who's interacting with your posts is way less fluid. Everyone having a different blog layout was also bad, imo art should always be in the same layout and presentation on everyone's page for the sake of the viewers.
Newgrounds doesn't seem very good for lesser known artists. In order for your stuff to appear on the art portal you need to be "scouted" by someone else whose also been scouted, so you either need to know somebody or get lucky and have some random person scout you. Plus you can't use "copyrighted material" which includes copyrighted 3D models so that's like 99% of SFM/Blender/ect stuff. (I guess that only applies to the art section though, the movie section is full of SFM stuff) Can't imagine very many people go to NG nowadays anyway.
Basically this but with any content. The vast majority of people I know who used Tumblr have pretty much quit using it since all of this went down, myself included.
I doubt that creators would not rush back to a porn-friendly tumblr which actively modifies its features in the interest of keeping said creators happy.
It's annoying because Twitter is too disposable & instant, but sites like DA are just too dry and static for posting everything from wips to 10 second shitposts. Tumblr had that comfortable spot of being interactive, orderly, and connective.
even if you weren’t on tumblr for nsfw content, you’d invariably have a friend who was, or a friend of a friend who was, or a friend of a friend of a... etc. tumblr may have been “the porn place” for a lot of users, but it was a social media platform above all else, and aimed primarily at artists. when a subset of these artists were forced to leave, everyone else jumped ship in a staggered chain because they wanted to follow their friends.
The porn ban also transformed the social perspective of the website. Before the ban it was a website for ALL art/blog/curation that people knew ALSO had a lot of porn. Kind of like the internet in general. After the ban, it could only be known as "the website that banned porn", and since so many users left in such a chain reaction, it became truly "the porn website that banned porn". No SFW artists/blogs/etc would want to join up with such a platform if they depend upon a clean social image, where before the ban their membership was within plausible deniability.
Yep, I used it for gamedev stuff, didn't have a massive audience but it existed. I know other people who have been screwed over by the really awful detection system so I don't bother. It's a shame, I god damn hate twitter but there's no other place to post stuff.
supposed to put something negative after calling them scum
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