The best thing about tumblr is that by making its unpopular political views well-known, it has defended the site against being gentrified.
Hilariously, probably the most marketable thing about Tumblr was in fact the porn, and then they got rid of that.
I havent been on tumblr except to browse since like 2014, but my understanding is that since the porn ban the culture has chilled out and that bullshit like the ace exclusion discourse blogs (and other queer discourse things) and the antishipping wars have chilled out and people are more normal. Those things started after i left (only the first murmerings of queer discourse, and while shipping wars existed they werent as moralized) so i missed the era other than a few rabbit hole dives.
Thats gotta be a coincidence though how would banning porn cause that lol.
There's a pretty big wave of ace exclusion on right now :) Tumblr is currently not normal at all, there's also a nice trend of calling trans women pedos on there atm. The porn ban mostly means trans people get their pics removed, and pro-trans posts also get yeeted for violating community guidelines
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Must be a corners thing because friends I have on tumblr have told me that ace discourse blogs have died down and just stay in their own corners mostly. And ive seen myself that lots of former ace discourse people have gone "we lost that battle i dont talk about that anymore" and shit.
So thats interesting. Sorry youre seeing that though
And yeah ive heard that about the porn ban.
I feel like I'm totally out of the loop, and am both afraid to ask what the "ace discourse" was, but also extremely curious.
"Are otherwise cishet asexuals part of the lgbt community (and its always lgbt, because they reject more inclusive labels)"
The 14 year-olds on tumblr simply stopped being 14. I saw a post by the girl that organized dash con and she was like 17. As an adult she is confused why people gave her money
banning porn caused a lot of users to move to twitter, leaving behind only people who were maybe a bit older and a bit more set on their social media, which in turn meant that the population left on Tumblr is now slightly older, more mature and probably themselves past the point of getting dragged down in ship wars and such
I'll remind you that plenty of the people running horrid communities were well into their adulthood, over 30 and such. My hypothesis is that as the site lost popularity, those toxic people feeding off these "wars" moved on, and with the people most stoking the fires gone, the site got to be more chill.
