I am going to be doing an experiment with it before I decide whether I'll keep it.
If you've been a regular reader of this blog, you know I have a major problem with Tumblr. I've posted about it before. Several times, actually. Against it, each time. I even likened it to gang rape. And a guest entry writer, DiaperWhiz, wrote an entry on it, too, that was fairly neutral.
Our community, I know, has a love/hate relationship with Tumblr. I've seen the posts on every diaper site in existence. And I've been emailed by more of you about this single issue than any other.
Some people love Tumblr because it's a virtual treasure trove of ABDL pictures, including pictures ripped from the internet before some of our current crop of little ABDL scenesters were out of diapers the first time around. We have some trolls in our community who have been saving every ABDL picture they've come across since the floppy disc was how files were stored. They've kept these files, and now they've finally found a place to post them all.
Stands to reason many in our community would be upset. For those who have had their pictures stolen, of course, there is outrage. Pictures that you posted on a diaper site requiring a password/login to see have been jacked, lifted, and repositioned, posted on a non-ABDL site that many of your families and non-ABDL friends browse on the regular.
Even some of us who don't post pictures, or haven't had them stolen, are upset. Some of us are old enough to remember when there was still a bit of honor amongst ABDLs. With only a few sites, the trolls and thieves would be called out quick. Nobody wanted to be viewed as a thief, so you'd occasionally find someone using a diaper picture they'd stolen, but they'd be called out and either delete their profile (or at least the pic) or be deleted by a moderator. Tumblr... no mods.
Some of you have hit me up outraged because so much child porn has been posted along with ABDL pictures from some of the biggest offenders. You may not mind that diaper pictures are posted - even some of your own - but you resent the fact that some of those depicted are children in diapers. I do, too. And so, apparently, does Tumblr... they've gotten better about deleting sites that are posting obvious child porn. Thanks, Tumblr. And thanks to all of you who don't post, or enjoy, that stuff.
I came out against Tumblr early, and vocally, after hearing from a few collegebabies upset about their picture, including one who was actually pretty devastated. He'd sent his pictures to a Daddy when he was 15 and the Daddy had either posted them or shared them. His appearance in the four years since hadn't changed all that much, and the pics on Tumblr would be obvious to anyone that they were him. He was angry and wanted to prosecute someone. Anyone.
And thus, the problem with Tumblr.
But in the past few months I've started to notice something.
Some of you have been blogging on Tumblr, but for real.
You're not posting pictures you ganked from someone else's diaper page - you're posting your own.
Some of you are even writing blog entries.
Tumblr is an easy platform for you to use. And, as a result, there are some good ABDL blogs going up.
I noticed this after I posted some blog entries here from Champ. Champ has a Tumblr blog - [http://lilboychamp.tumblr.com/] - and posts some of the best entries I've ever seen.
When I began blogging in 2008 there were very few ABDL blogs on the internet. Most were essentially dead links. People didn't blog because, to be honest, getting readers was hard. People just gave up.
Tumblr makes getting followers easy and fun.
It makes people want to blog.
And while I've seen evidence that it is allowing a mixture of ABDLs and non-ABDLs, I'm torn about the effects of that. Part of me fears this. As part of the 'older guard' of ABDLs, I am old enough to remember when our community was very closed and didn't want to be found out.
But as someone who has diapered dozens of non-ABDL's (long story), I'm certainly not 100% averse to it myself.
And as someone who has recently begun checking out blogs on the Tumblr platform, I have to admit: some of the people I'm seeing pictures of I've never seen before. And so many of them make our fetish/community look damn fucking good.
Seeing so many pictures of normal people wearing diapers? It might just be a good look for us.
Still not sure.
But I'm going to try it out.
I'm not going to repost stolen ABDL pics, which is how Tumblr became popular in the first place.
And don't worry: unless you specifically give me permission, any photos you've contributed to my blog will not be re-appearing on Tumblr.
But I will be posting there, including some of my older stories, and some new stuff.
Everything will still appear here, so don't stop coming to Abysitter.com.
But check out my Tumblr link, too.
This year I'll be putting out some entries that will be a part of my guide, including important entries on age (keeping it 18+ and age discrimination) as well as an advice column. I'll also be doing another contest.
If Tumblr has become a site that will bring me a wider audience of real ABDLs - and it seems to have become that, as opposed to the fakesters and photo stealers of 2012 - than I may just become open to it.
Send your thoughts to my inbox: abysitter@gmail.com.
Follow me on Tumblr.
And here, too haha. (See the column to the right).
And if you have a real Tumblr blog full of fresh, new content all your own - and you don't reblog every stolen picture you see - send me your links for an upcoming blog post.
