Tumblr Clarifies Stance On Porn

Due to conflicting reports as to whether or not they’d be blocking their users from searching for and/or looking at porn, Tumblr has issued a statement to set the record straight.

Long story short, gifs of Ricky Roman riding cock aren’t going anywhere.

Tumblr:

While there seems to be a lot of misinformation flying around, most of the confusion seems to stem from our complicated flagging/filtering features. Let me clear up (and fix) a few things:

1. Last year, we added “Safe Mode” which lets you filter out NSFW content from tag and search pages. This is enabled by default for new users and can be toggled in your Dashboard Settings.

2. Some search terms are blocked (returning no results) in some of our mobile apps. Unfortunately, different app environments have different requirements that we do our best to adhere to. The reason you see innocent tags like #gay being blocked on certain platforms is that they are still frequently returning adult content which our entire app was close to being banned for. The solution is more intelligent filtering which our team is working diligently on.

3. Earlier this year, in an effort to discourage some not-so-nice people from using Tumblr as free hosting for spammy commercial porn sites, we started delisting this tiny subset of blogs from search engines like Google. This was never intended to be an opt-in flag, but for some reason could be enabled after checking off NSFW → Adult in your blog settings. This was confusing and unnecessary, so we’ve dropped the extra option. If your blog contains anything too sexy for the average workplace, simply check “Flag this blog as NSFW” so people in Safe Mode can avoid it. Your blog will still be promoted in third-party search engines.

Aside from these fixes, there haven’t been any recent changes to Tumblr’s treatment of NSFW content, and our view on the topic hasn’t changed. Empowering your creative expression is the most important thing in the world to us.

Because there’s nothing more creative than James Jamesson cumming in his own mouth. Thank God, that and all these other gifs/images—which I just easily pulled up on Tumblr using search terms like “Sean Cody,” “Davey Wavey,” “Colby Keller,” “Mason Wyler,” and “Jake Bass”—are here to stay.

[images via Jake Cruise, Randy Blue (Colby Keller fucks Kevin Falk), CockyBoys (Jake Bass and Zach), Corbin Fisher, Davey Wavey, Sean Cody (Mitch and Tanner) and Next Door Buddies]

 

19 thoughts on “Tumblr Clarifies Stance On Porn”

  1. Anybody know where that TastyBro gif is from, third one from the top? The guy takes a massive load in his mouth? That looks hot I want to see that scene!

  2. I never do searches on tumblr. I jump from one tumblr to the other by clicking on the links provided beneath the pictures I like and bookmark the tumblrs I like (like the dudetube.com tubmlr). But yeah, that can be tricky sometimes and you see some questionable material (pictures of naked underage looking kids, scat, blood, or even gore).

    1. Why hasn’t David Karp and them fixed that, then? It’s hard enough relying on tags to find things, I don’t want to find potentially illegal stuff either.

  3. I will NEVER understand the popularity of ‘Jake Cruise’ or any of his videos in which he appears. I understand daddy fantasies, but Jake Cruise?!?!? Good god!

        1. He married a woman. I think. Wasn’t he from some other country? He probably was desperate to stay in the states.

          1. He’s from one of those Skandanavian countries, Norway or Denmark I think. I’ve heard one story that he walks around WeHo with his twinkie boyfriend, but more recently Colby Keller said he was married, to a black woman.

            G4P or not, that man was fucking hot, and he was more into gay sex than a lot of the G4Ps, even some gay and bi guys. Definitely one of my favorite performers of all time!

  4. Davey Wavey porn needed a warning it was gross, the jake Cruise photo was sweeter if that’s saying anything…:s

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