Please scroll your blog for falsely flagged content.

mazurah:

Especially if you’re a blog that produces original content. I just scrolled my entire blog history looking for stuff that had been flagged, and the stupidest stuff had been flagged. Like landscape screenshots that had a lot of pink and peach color to them, like sand dunes. Go to tumblr.com/blog/yourblogname to scroll your blog, because blogname.tumblr.com does not allow you to see the option to request a review for flagged content.

Actually I’m encountering a glitch when I look at blogname.tumblr.com where it shows me ONLY the content that has been flagged, but without the option to request a review, so if your blog looks weird to you, you might be having the same glitch, and it might be helpful for some people in identifying what has been flagged. Also double check and make sure that your blog hasn’t been flagged as explicit by going into settings, visibility.

Remember, tumblr isn’t deleting anyone for posting nsfw content, they are just turning that content to private, and potentially making your blog private. You can contest this. Even if you do get deleted, you can contest it and they will restore you. They’re only trying to delete bots.

I read the new rules thoroughly, and my understanding is that no photographs of real humans showing boobs or genitals are allowed, but that drawn or painted pictures and artwork that contain genitals and boobs are allowed so long as they are not so photorealistic that they might be mistaken for a photo. Additionally, no pictures, whether photos or artwork, of sexual acts are allowed, but written works featuring descriptions of sexual acts are fine.

To summarize the new rules:

• No photos of boobs or genitals.
• No photos or artwork with sex.
• Artwork/not-photos with boobs or genitals is fine (as long as it’s not photorealistic and doesn’t depict sex.)
• Written descriptions of sex are fine.

I didn’t have anything flagged that didn’t have a photo in it.

As far as I can tell, it looks like they’re using a neural network (an AI) to flag content. This works by feeding the neural network a ton of pictures of porn and then turning it loose on the website and telling it to flag anything that looks similar to the porn they gave it. I’ve read about neural networks like this before, and they’re buggy as hell. They are most infamous for flagging pictures of sand dunes as porn, but they will also flag things that have a lot of pink/peach color to them and that have a lot of curves. They also tend to be programmed to be racist due to the overwhelming quantity of porn depicting white people that they’re given, so they often fail to recognize porn depicting people of color.

If you’re just a fandom blog and not a porn blog or a nsfw artist, I encourage you to stick it out. Tumblr is still the best place for fandom, and I would be very sad to see all of my fandom friends leave. I’m not going anywhere.