like, do i hate the porn bot infestation? yes! do i think that a blanket ban on adult content and a big scorched-earth censor algorithm is the best way to deal with that problem? no, because i have a functioning fucking frontal lobe!
tumblr has done only the bare fucking minimum to stem the porn bot tide for years, and now it’s so extreme that it’s simply easier to burn the house down than to clean it. since this platform is not owned and run by fans, but by a for-profit corporation, they don’t see any incentive to do the hard work of maintenance rather than the relatively quick work of destruction.
the people who are doing the hard work of maintenance are over at ao3, and we’ve been over here on tumblr shitting on them and calling them abusers and sickos for archiving our content without judgement and taking us back in every time the platform du jour decides we’re more trouble than we’re worth. i’m serious: if you can spare ten bucks, send it over to ao3, because there is going to be a sudden emergency flood in activity over there in the next few weeks as people try to save their stuff.
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