Tumblr loses 150 million users in just 2 months after porn ban.

[ljtryout]

#Tumblr's adult content ban is hurting the site.https://t.co/anqQqSXhKA
- HYPEBEAST (@HYPEBEAST) March 15, 2019

- Last december Tumblr decided to ban porn against suggestions. People praised the initiative to end pedophilia but banning every single kind of nude is not the answer.
- The 'porn algorythm' was a mess, flagging posts that had no

Comments

[ms_mmelissa]

I'm still on there but I definitely have noticed a loss in traffic and that posts no longer get nearly as many likes and reblogs as they used to.

It sucks, I love it as a way of sharing images, but their algorithm is legitimately shitty. Also I hate that they've banned nipples even in a non sexual context (and I've still seen plenty of porn since the ban).

[brandon198403]

Yep! Agreed

[weighty_ghost]

the only porn i ever randomly came across is those weird manips of actors/actresses that pop up (sometimes not even under the right tag) and thankfully those disappeared but I still don't quite understand how porn randomly pops up for people

[ms_mmelissa]

It doesn't randomly pop up for me, someone I follow posts like... arty porn. Like total nudity and sexual acts but photographed really prettily. I don't particularly like it but they're not an exclusive porn blog and I like a lot of their other stuff so I keep following them. Also every time I see their art porn on my dash I realize that the algorithm is still messed up so it's kind of usual to keep track of that way.

[gabzillaz]

mte

[imabadkid]

Agreed. And imho Tumblr had a lot of potential but the entire site is an unmitigated mess.

[kegarawashii]

different groups of the userbase seem to be affected differently. i have a marvel blog and i noticed a drop in fandom activity in about 2015, but not so much after the porn blog. e.g. in 2014, a graphics post would get 10k notes in a week, now nothing i post ever makes it past 1k. people are hoarding likes instead of reblogging and no one uses fandom tags anymore.

my spn sideblog, on the other hand, is having a reniassance. nothing kills that fandom.