Well I’m sure you guys have heard the news by now about Tumblr telling me and many of my artist friends that we are no longer welcome on this site and need to leave..
One of my favorite things about this site was being able to do the Ask Me Anything sessions with you guys, it let me connect with you guys more than I ever thought I could.
So uhm..would you guys like to join me for one final Song Ask Me Anything?
I’ll keep answering questions until the site forces me out on the 17th.
It’s been an absolute joy interacting with you guys, and I’m gonna really miss it.
I’m on Deviantart, Furaffinity and Fwitter under the same name as here. My twitter is still under construction and my furaffinity hasn’t been updated in years.
(@raikovjaba) I post my all doodles/sketches there, the format is not ideal as a gallery but if you want to support my drawing endeavours and see exclusive stuff before anyone else, that’s the place! also memes
Only 5 more days until my favorite platform becomes my most hated social media platform. Around August 2017 I lost 22K followers on Instagram which was a lot for me at the time but also saw it coming; since it was a platform that never allowed sexual/adult content in the first place.
Now a year had passed and I curated 23k followers here, thinking I had found my place. A place where I could safely share my sexual themed content, a place where I could not only share porn but even get personal with my followers. Which is something no other platform combines or could even offer. In which universe could I create a site that combines both alternative fetish porn but also my passion for games, my battle with health or even answer burning questions about sexuality and fetishism publicly; making it a non-embarrassing topic. There’s no site, app or platform that offers this unique relationship with your fans…Yet.
Tumblr has allowed nudity on the site from the start in 2007..and instead of going forward Tumblr, and many others to follow; are taking multiple steps backwards. It’s almost like having a significant other, at first complimenting you on your naked body and then suddenly telling you it’s disgusting and you need to cover the fuck up!
I’ve been on Tumblr since 2010 and I’ve been around with this one since 2016. Since 2016 I’ve not only started my own adult clip shop which has been my pride and joy ever since but I’ve had the worst years I could possibly imagine. 3 family members died in the span of 3 month’s, my mother got diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin B Lymphoma, I’ve been mistreated by my landlord and most of all got ill myself in 2018 and currently awaiting my auto-immune diagnosis.
I always try to stay positive but I do want to remain honest - that’s why I don’t hide these thing’s and would rather explain them shortly to my followers without creating a pity party - but an understanding of the situation, and why posts will be slower then usual or why I’d even take a break. Tumblr has helped me through those hardships. I was able to communicate about it in a responsible manner with my followers, so they would know I didn’t suddenly disappear. The results were beyond my imagination; I’ve had so much support , people even sharing their personal stories with me and that all thanks to a platform that allowed the best of both worlds. I can’t thank everyone enough that has had the patience to put up with my slow phase and support me through those hardships.
How would I be able to put all those subjects into Tweets without people getting annoyed, how could I fit these stories unto Instagram without it saturating my content, how would this even fit in a sub-Reddit where people subscribe to one subject threads, how unprofessional would it be if I’d share the stories on PornHub since “they allow artistic and personal timeline posts”. All of the above wouldn’t work and I don’t have the funds nor time to create my own blog, Tumblr was perfect in that sense.
I feel betrayed and even embarrassed for the staff. Thinking that conforming to the norm and taking 5 steps back will get them on the good side of advertisers ( and plead to get their buggy app back in the app store.) Tumblr was such a special platform and a leader in its category. Instead of trying to fit the mold they should’ve continued to break it.
Another slice of realism; a site needs investors/advertising or even a product to sell, which we all need to realize. I’m pretty sure Tumblr uses a lot of bandwith, has staff that needs to be paid for…but their current plan isn’t the way. What’s the point of finally having advertising if that’s most likely not even within your users’ interests or even worse; the platform dies and you just have a site with commercials running, bills to pay and all 11+ years of effort down the gutter… I ‘m sure that there were lot’s of alternative stores DYING to advertise on Tumblr, clothing, games, accessories, porn, romantic novels, doujinshi’s, hentai, self help sites, sex positivity brands, and so fort…
What I’m trying to express is that there were alternatives, it shouldn’t have been this way. You can’t give people 14 day’s to move years worth of content, just because you, as a company made major mistakes.
They came for Craigslist personals first because that’s the oldest trick in the book: Sneakily taking down the ‘perverts’ under the guise of vague, high morality goals and working slowly up from the bottom, picking off larger and larger targets. Few people cared about CL because of the stereotype of scary unwashed creeps trawling for sex online. That wasn’t so familiar or cute so it was fair game.
Tumblr is biting at the ‘artists’ heels and suddenly there is a bit more noise, because artists aren’t supposed to be treated like shit, are they? However even now the hair-splitting over what’s porn and therefore garbage and not-art shows that attitudes are not so different. It’s still the same divisive, dangerous us v.s. themmentality that is so easily exploited.
This is why when people tell me I shouldn’t worry about this because ‘my art isn’t porn anyway’ it makes me angry. It means so much more than drawings or a silly blog. This is about people being slowly phased out of their freedoms, rights and agency. History has shown time and time again that whenever power wants to make a crushing move backwards, it comes for what it declares ‘obscene’ first. People are raised to be scared and ignorant of sex so it’s an easy gateway. When they come cracking down on sex is when we most need to pay very close attention. They are not protecting us.
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