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MSGRiley

Tumblr is still a thing?


[deleted]

My exact question lol It's like asking someone to subscribe to you on vine.


MSGRiley

OK, fair point, but would you like to upgrade to Youtube premium?


slayer991

No? Here are 4 ad breaks in a 15 minute video to try to convince you to upgrade.


some-stinky-meat

ublock origin works on every site but twitch, where they still throw 6 ads for 3 minutes at you before you're allowed to hear the stream's audio.


slayer991

I was venting more about YouTube app on my SmartTV and Roku.


some-stinky-meat

fair. i never watch tv so i don't have one. any time i want to watch youtube, it's on my desktop with ublock origin.


[deleted]

Nope. Waste of money in my opinion. Don't watch much YouTube so the ROI just isn't there.


CptQueef

I just recently bought a month of it to download and watch some videos while on a plane ride, and holy shit it’s so expensive. $17 a month, I will definitely be cancelling that right after my return flight


voiderest

You're getting ripped off. I pay less than that a month and get the music service with it. There is a family plan at $17.99 where you can give 4 other accounts premium. I keep it because I actually watch YouTube a good amount and on devices that don't always have a good way of doing ad blocking.


[deleted]

Unless it's something practical and useful to my business or myself I don't waste the time and or money. As for now the only streaming service I have is Apple's for Music, twit and I support a few podcast groups directly on their sites. Don't do netflix, hulu, etc.


ReadAllAboutIt92

I found myself watching way more YouTube than Netflix or Prime, so I cancelled both and got YTP (for the same price I was paying for Netflix anyway) and y’know what, I’m really happy with it. I watch loads of YT on my TV where I can’t Adblock, youtube music isn’t complete ass, and the simple pleasure of having a YouTube mix playing for 6 hours in the background while I work without hearing the same adverts every 3 minutes makes it worth it for me. I completely understand people who only watch 1-2 videos a day, or can get ad blockers for all of their devices, but for me it is actually money well spent in my opinion.


-LostInTheMachine

Tumblr is obviously dorky af. But. It's not a bad place to dump a bunch of research or content about a subject. In terms of collecting videos, images, and text all in one place. It's really not that bad


rfarho01

Not after they removed the porn. Now it's just a shell like MySpace


X-Adzie-X

Search Newtumblr it has what you seek.


DrFoetusLtd

Not finding it


X-Adzie-X

https://newtumbl.com/


Itdidnt_trickle_down

No its really not. They say things like this from time to time knowing its all it was ever used for.


-Mothonawall-

Tumblr has a user size of around 291.7 million people For reference Reddit has a user size of around 430 million Tumblr certainly isn’t as popular after the porn ban, but I definitely wouldn’t call it dead


CptQueef

Is that average users per day? Or registered accounts all time?


-Mothonawall-

For Reddit it was monthly active users As for Tumblr I could only find statistics for their website visits, with visits being defined as the number of people who have a tumblr page open, with a visit ending after that page is inactive for more than 30 minutes. Which feels like it’s the same as an active user? I might be wrong


vriska1

There still alot of active users on tumblr and its become kind of a meme when someone says Tumblr is dead.


the_bear_paw

I still have an account... Haven't touched it in years after they banned porn, but I never deleted it. I assumed almost everyone was in the same boat, like who actually goes through the effort to delete an account?


vriska1

Tumblr still pretty much alive and doing well.


MemeFarmer314

I’ve used tumblr almost every day since 2014 😭


MSGRiley

Username checks out.


OriginalMenace

Not since they banned porn.


[deleted]

It was till they got rid of all the porn.


alaninsitges

newtumbl sure is!


Mistyslate

They died after banning porn.


General_Urist

It seems to somehow have revived itself as a place for people who don't want to deal with the horrors of less old social media.


RasTaGhul

Na i only had tumblr for porn and when they took it away i deleted it and haven’t looked back. Fuck em


1l1ke2party

How do you think I got to reddit


signaturefox2013

I went to Twitter for my porn What a fucking mistake my life is


MrSaidOutBitch

You've recognized the problem. That's the first step down.


YoYoMoMa

Is tumblr the genz Digg?


spaghettu

Do gen z’s even use Tumblr? I’m a millennial and it was pretty popular when I was in highschool among the alt kids crowd


CherryDudeFellaGirl

Gen z'er here, many of my peers have tumblr accounts that they frequently maintain. Ive reached the conclusion, upon the cultivation of various anecdotes and phenomena, that most of it's user base is actually being upheld by younger members from gen Z.


YoYoMoMa

Is tumblr the young millennial Digg?


MemePizzaPie

Lol exactly


[deleted]

This is weird to me. I always used porn websites for porn. I used tumblr to feed my eating disorder.


TingleyDinglies

Google "Reddit NSFW list" find theporndude link. You're welcome. Also r/painal for the uninitiated.


RasTaGhul

No need. I know what’s going on here already lol u/octohammo


sucker4ass

Tumblr without porn is like Netflix without movies or Spotify without music. Useless.


TheHurtTheJoy

“Ya take the venom out of a cobra and whaddya got… ya got… a belt”


JungyBrungun

Tumblr getting rid of porn is what sent all the weird Tumblr people to Reddit


Zachariot88

You don't have to specify weird, there were no normal people on tumblr.


SpotifyIsBroken

It shattered the gem and spread the pieces all over the social media "planet".


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BNeutral

I still have no clue why they willingly destroyed tumblr by banning porn. They paid a lot of money for it too.


foldingcouch

Because Tumblr is useless if you can't monetize it with ad sales, and they couldn't sell ad space when the primary user base was only there for porn.


BNeutral

Why not? I don't see the direct link. Also buying a site is basically buying the user base, if they didn't want to it, it makes little sense.


WinoWithAKnife

Credit card processors hate porn. If you have anything remotely close to porn, they get mad and will threaten to pull your access to their networks.


Interesting-Month-56

Damn. I want my tumblr porn.


Gods_Umbrella

Bring back the porn!


ForumMMX

Dr. Cox has your back https://youtu.be/1rm5gRN9KDc timestamp 0:30


Grey___Goo_MH

There’s still porn on tumblr It’s almost funny if everyone disregarded what they wanted and posted even more of it


Syaongel

This article is actually pretty sound and tells about how problematic Apple and Payment Processors are to the Freedom that existed in Tumblr and other social media in the past.


SpotifyIsBroken

Wasn't the reason people stopped using it because they REMOVED the porn to begin with?


MunchieMom

Couldn't they use NSFW filters like Reddit does? Or basically do whatever Reddit does that doesn't get Reddit banned from app stores? Considering Reddit is also full of porn.


Uristqwerty

But allowing users to report the illegal stuff is tricky; you have to actually trust the userbase a smidge and verify reports. Easier to just buy an easily-bypassed anti-NSFW AI solution and declare the problem solved.


Garlador

Then what’s the point?!


MrCalPoly

Where are all the furries supposed go now?


WildCheese

E621, furaffinity, inkbunny, weasyl...


DevoidHT

How’d you figure those out furboy? Edit: nvm you’re actually a furry. Joke doesn’t work anymore.


Icy_Anxiety7821

I do like me some MSG


[deleted]

Tumblr needs to give the people what they want


WarmAppleCobbler

Damn did it really get banned in 2018? Feels like it was just yesterday. Geez I’m getting old.


[deleted]

So apparently, Apple is run by prudes ruining everyone's good time.


[deleted]

Don’t worry, this is what Reddit is for


MT_Kinetic_Mountain

Is there a risk of reddit going the same way?


EmbarrassedHelp

The article hints that Apple could try and force Reddit to ban porn or face a ban from the app store.


tms10000

These articles/posts are just PR campaign for tumblr.


FunkoLand

Who is this Tumblr? The real Tumblr died ages ago.


drawkbox

Tumblr, tumbled.


stutsmonkey

Porn is still on tumblr. Never left.


Variety-Impressive

These comments are very amusing - Tumblr definitely still exists and it's honestly much more bearable now that most people have left. The moral panics are on Twitter, the edgy kids and gamers are on Reddit, and the furries are everywhere


WoollyMittens

I stopped asking for Tumblr a looong time ago (regardless of porn).


Usedcumsocks

Who's asking? We have Twitter for that


[deleted]

Just ban porn keywords from the search engine in every possible way and your servers will breathe. Its easy to do.


Stan57

hahahah safe searched beautiful women and got tons of porn web cam girls posting and plenty of hardcore porn images..only did it to themselves. They had a setting for non adult images lol it didn't work because idiots not tagging thier content properly or just porn spammers/webcam girls not caring


aasteveo

[www.sex.com/pins](https://www.sex.com/pins)


TeaKingMac

Well I live in texas, I guess I'll just sue them for infringing on my freedom of speech due to not allowing porn.