2018·The platform era
The Tumblr adult content ban
A platform deleting the culture that lived on it, and losing a third of its traffic in three months.
You might remember it as Tumblr purge, December 17 Tumblr
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What this was
Tumblr announced on 3 December 2018 that from 17 December it would remove adult images and video. The automated sweep flagged a great deal that was not adult at all, and the communities that had made the site what it was left. By March 2019 Similarweb estimated Tumblr had lost thirty per cent of its traffic.
It first appeared in 2018, during the platform era.
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- What happens
- Tumblr announced on 3 December 2018 that from 17 December it would remove adult images and video. The automated sweep flagged a great deal that was not adult at all, and the communities that had made the site what it was left. By March 2019 Similarweb estimated Tumblr had lost thirty per cent of its traffic.