• autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    6 months ago

    I havent been on tumblr except to browse since like 2014, but my understanding is that since the porn ban the culture has chilled out and that bullshit like the ace exclusion discourse blogs (and other queer discourse things) and the antishipping wars have chilled out and people are more normal. Those things started after i left (only the first murmerings of queer discourse, and while shipping wars existed they werent as moralized) so i missed the era other than a few rabbit hole dives.

    Thats gotta be a coincidence though how would banning porn cause that lol.

    • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      There’s a pretty big wave of ace exclusion on right now :) Tumblr is currently not normal at all, there’s also a nice trend of calling trans women pedos on there atm. The porn ban mostly means trans people get their pics removed, and pro-trans posts also get yeeted for violating community guidelines

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      6 months ago

      The 14 year-olds on tumblr simply stopped being 14. I saw a post by the girl that organized dash con and she was like 17. As an adult she is confused why people gave her money

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      banning porn caused a lot of users to move to twitter, leaving behind only people who were maybe a bit older and a bit more set on their social media, which in turn meant that the population left on Tumblr is now slightly older, more mature and probably themselves past the point of getting dragged down in ship wars and such