sugaryviolet:

unnecessaryfansmut:

strawberryoverlord:

chibigingi:

ryuokowolf:

zandolaf:

this is a bit of an emergency
BAD NEWS AHEAD
If you use Tumblr, backup your stuff right now and make a post redirecting your followers to another account, Twitter or something like that
Apple removed Tumblr from the App Store because their porn bot problem got too big, and they don’t allow explicit NSFW apps
Tumblr, like the galaxy-brained geniuses they are, are going on a spree and deleting lots of NSFW blogs
Even famous artists like cutesexyrobots and eigaka got their blogs purged, so ACT QUICK

@eemamminy

Blogs arent getting deleted on purpose and yall need to stop starting mass panick literally right now cause its annoying

thats a relief

While it’s a relief that it was a glitch, it doesn’t really excuse things. In the end it doesn’t matter if it was on purpose or not. Hundreds (if not thousands?) of artists got their livelihoods stripped away in a few hours, and goodness only knows how many will actively contact support and have their accounts restored. Who knows if all will even get their accounts restored?

The fact we can have our accounts deleted without warning or notification en masse at the blink of an eye, without breaking any rules, should be reason enough to have backups of everything… and not put all our eggs in one basket.

The fact this happened at all is awful!