There are three major issues with @tumblr's decision that have very little to do with porn. Firstly, Tumblr's audience skews slightly female and overwhelmingly queer, taking a space to explore sexuality away from communities that don't otherwise really have one. #riptumblr 1/
Second, there is a butterfly effect to consider. As the people who produce non-adult content, but consume in part adult content, jump ship they take their contributions to the platform with them. This makes people who consumed the non-adult content that's lost also leave. 2/
Thirdly, there are issues determining what "adult" even is. Reports are circulating that #transgender bloggers are being told that their material is adult because of their transness. I can't verify these reports, but their existence shows users don't trust Tumblr as arbiter. 3/
Moreover on points one and three, the queer community being labeled "adult" on account of their queerness is a common practice for homophobic platforms to "quarantine" queer voices and supports the narrative that queerness is a purely sexual concept. Spoiler, it isn't. 4/
And there's a fourth point I want to address, more directly linked to the porn: #sexworkers. Tumblr has until now been an amazing platform for women who choose to make money from their sexuality, especially in the form of pornography. This is legitimate work. 5/
Tumblr offered these workers a place to operate with little stigma, the importance of which cannot be understated. It offered a platform with a community that understood and respected these women which is exceedingly rare in a patriarchal internet. This shames those women. 6/
Lastly, the "male-presenting nipples are okay" thing is just a fucking insult to a largely feminist and sex-positive user base. Either you don't know your audience or intentionally took a dig at their values here, and either would be a cardinal sin for a service provider. 7/
So you're going to join the likes of MySpace and LiveJournal as boneyards. And unlike them, you didn't lose to changing landscapes but to your own idiotic attempt to make Apple love you again and get in on that Facebook ad revenue. #riptumblr, you have no one else to blame. 8/8
