I literally did not believe this was a real thing until I just tried it.
Holy cow.
I have spent the last two weeks increasingly irritated with (what has seemed to me) the dramatically alarmist attitude about the shit that’s going down with tumblr but….damn.
Like, I still don’t think it’s over. I still don’t think this is the end. But that’s a far larger speed bump that I anticipated. Tumblr, what the fuck.
“Dick pic” is also gone. “Pictures of dicks” gets you Dick Grayson.
“Fuck” and “fuck off” will get blogs with those word in the description, but no posts.
Several slurs are gone – fag, slut, whore; probably others. “Dyke” is still in, though, as well as “fag hag.” (I’m aware that whether or not those are slurs depends on the community.)
This is a sign of a platform that Does Not Care about its users. Not because they’re blocking terms they’ve decided are offensive or connected with illegal activity – because they won’t tell you that some terms can’t be searched, won’t tell you why the posts have been removed from search, won’t let you know whether or how your blog will be affected.
Chronic pain, as mentioned, is gone. “Pain” gets this result:
Followed by normal search results. (Note: 7 Cups of Tea, at least, is a commercial site; the “trained active listeners” are random users who’ve completed a few questionnaires.)
@thebibliosphere Joy joy joy joy joy…. If your wondering about a sudden slow down on your traffic
My traffic hasn’t slowed down because I use my own tag for my chronic health stuff, though a couple of my posts about chronic pain are gone.
Other than that my nsfw stuff is still intact. This purge has been random as all hell.
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