Now me? I’m a NSFW blog. I occasionally reblog raunchy fanart and pretty pictures of scantily clad hot people. This means that:
If people are browsing in Safe Mode (which is the default, CHEERS TUMBLR) and are not following me they will see nothing of mine in the search or tags.
Let me be clear: NOTHING OF MINE.
My whole blog is flagged as NSFW even though I mostly reblog stupid comics of tv characters failing to use stairs. So for every one NSFW post I have that these Safe Mode users don’t want to see, they’ll miss the nine other posts I make about werewolves in pink knitted sweaters.
Pretty shit huh? Oh wait, bro, it gets better.
That’s blogs flagged NSFW. Blogs flagged Adult have it INFINITELY shittier.
Porn-intensive blogs have ZERO visibility beyond the dash. Unless a user is following them,they are invisible. Even reblogs are tetchy because with the new restrictions, anyone reblogging NSFW content runs the risk of being flagged as NSFW themselves and thus might not take the risk.
So porn blogs: crippled, basically. No dicks and o-faces for you, tumblr users. But how’s this for another, infinitely more terrifying, approach: all those sex-ed blogs? All those beautiful how-to-masturbation, body-positive and sex-positive blogs? Under the current definitions:
You guessed it: they’re Adult. If they’re not flagged as such by the blog owners themselves, tumblr can do it for you:
“If you’re not sure how you should flag your blog you can leave it unflagged, but keep in mind that it may be flagged automatically.” (x)
So there you have it.
Fuck. Basically. Everything.
PS: Anyone wanting to turn Safe Mode off (because hey, if you haven’t checked yours yet, it’s totally on! YAY!):
Hit your settings icon
In the left hand menu hit Dashboard
And uncheck the “browse tag pages in safe mode”
It’s nowhere near a complete solution, but it’s as much as we’ve got right now.
* Or I’m assuming you’ll be able to? This feature is greyed out for me atm. A+ rollout of functionality there, tumblr.
i checked, and it does NOT have me automatically in safe mode. and i don’t remember ever unchecking it?
I have thought something was wrong when I couldn’t find anything in the search results… I have disabled safe mode long ago.. but ever since the ‘cookie’ rule from EU and the following update from Tumblr everything has turned sour.. I can’t find anything anymore. I can’t find a fix..
This must be why their search results have changed from no longer having that option to turn on and off 18+ content blogs 🤔🤔🤔
so it appears the stevetony tag got purged on Tumblr? When you try to go into it, it returns nada. I have no clue why this is – purely speculation this has something to do with the recent hasty cleanups that resulted in blog deletions, etc etc. I really don’t know, and I don’t know if there’s a way to bring it back.
In the meantime, it appears the “stony” tag still works, and so does “stevextony” although I know that’s not as popular on Tumblr.
if you tag something stevetony, it will go nowhere. your followers will be able to see it, and that’s it. the tag/search page does not exist anymore basically. “stony” still works, and “stevextony” could be an alternative.
If anyone has anything to add or etc, feel free to chime in.
You know, it’s always Hydra-punching season for Steve!
Captain Neverever 