About That Tumblr Purge...

By now it's probably no secret to anyone who uses Tumblr for their ABDL browsing that the app has gone on a bit of a kink purge bender recently. 

According to Tumblr, its app was removed from Apple's app store after child pornographic images were found site-wide - including images not currently uploaded to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's database. That may mean many things, but likely means images containing child pornography that are being introduced to the world via Tumblr. 

Tumblr, it appears, is taking this seriously - and may be targeting kink-related blogs containing pornography - child or not. From their statement: 

We’re committed to helping build a safe online environment for all users, and we have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to media featuring child sexual exploitation and abuse. As this is an industry-wide problem, we work collaboratively with our industry peers and partners like NCMEC to actively monitor content uploaded to the platform. Every image uploaded to Tumblr is scanned against an industry database of known child sexual abuse material, and images that are detected never reach the platform. A routine audit discovered content on our platform that had not yet been included in the industry database. We immediately removed this content. Content safeguards are a challenging aspect of operating scaled platforms. We’re continuously assessing further steps we can take to improve and there is no higher priority for our team.

To that end, several ABDL blogs have been deleted without warning recently, and I've heard reports that site moderators are going back through old videos and removing them, sending out the ubiquitous 'terms of service' email. 

Newly announced, also, is a content filtering change for iOS. Users of the iPhone and iPad apps may be surprised to find that their default settings have been set to block out NSFW content in 'safe search'. Where this was once able to be set within the app, it can now only be changed in the device settings themselves. 

Want to update your settings so that NSFW content comes up in your feed? Follow these instructions and/or check out the screen shots below: 

Device Settings > Tumblr > Safe Mode > 'Don't Hide Anything'

This is important because we suspect that some of the blogs being deleted are ones which contain 'explicit content' but which have not flagged themselves as being explicit. 

Still, at the end of the day, any blog is at risk for a 'takedown'. If it happens to you, check out their support page for steps to dispute the deletion. Let us know how it goes!