As someone who uses Tumblr to curate my particular porn taste in a single feed that is not connected to browser history, I am upset. I have never posted a single thing to Tumblr nor do I "like" anything or reblog. I used Tumblr for its adult content. With that being said, I know plenty of people gay, straight, whatever, who use Tumblr in the same way. My thing is why can these geniuses take down the porn, but that can't seem to figure out hate speech and Nazi organizing? After December 17th, I will have no use for Tumblr and will likely delete it and move on.
As others have stated, Tumblr has been a great source for porn without having to dodge click-bait or sites with malicious code. I've heard some noise about moving to twitter, but its format just isn't as good as what Tumblr has/had.
I just recently started to use Tumblr for porn and it's been great - eliminated the chance of accidentally hitting a click-bait link trying to start a vid, had no pop-ups, and it had more amateur stuff which I prefer.
Everyone gay, straight, bi, polyambidextrous is going crazy. But I can't blame them. Tumblr has long been a great place to get pix and adult content. Tumblr is now flagging R-rated and even PG-rated content as "explicit." Many are noting that neo-Nazi, white nationalist, and white supremacist propaganda goes untouched by the staff. Also child porn and spam bots of all kinds are also go unscathed on the platform. Instead of actually doing the hard work of removing content that is actually offensive the management at Tumblr are simply going arbitrarily take down anything they deem to be "adult content." It's like setting fire to a building to resolve a hostage situation. I'm not convinced that Tumblr will get rid of porn. They've tried this before. This time it looks like the management is going for scorched earth policy. They may end up alienating the bulk of their users and by driving them off the platform. My suspicion is Apple is behind this. Apple deleted Tumblr app from their App store. Once that happened they started making this push to remove adult content.
Cyrus-Brooks