Hey @staff, I keep getting emails warning me that I have “recently uploaded content onto your Tumblr, loopez, that has been flagged as adult content.” See the thing about that is, “recently” is a subjective and malleable term whose parameters are open to whatever arbitrary definition suits your purposes. You told everyone to cut it out as of December 17th 2018. So I cut it out as of December 17th 2018. I’ve shared precisely one post since that time, a simple “All My Friends Are Dead” graphic on December 20th, to satirically point out that pretty much the only people left reblogging my stuff are the Abby New York, New York porn bots, who are methodically searching out anything tagged #tumblr, #purge, #tumblrpurge, etc, and resharing them with links to what I can only assume are virus-filled hookup sites. (Countdown to them doing exactly that with this post: 3, 2, 1…)
Looking back over the month before that, the only thing I posted were reblogs of old posts of mine tagged with the subject matter #tumblr, in order to make the point that I’ve been around here for a while (Since August 2011) and also to remind everyone what tumblr once was in brighter days. Of these reblogs, a few have been flagged and hidden, but those were posts containing links to external pages (such as an article detailing the history of the .gif), so the problem there was more “loopez-presenting hyperlink” and less “female-presenting nipples”. You have to go back to November 20th - forty-eight days ago - to find a post which you redacted for pornographic reasons; a reblog of a collection of sensual watercolors by Tina Maria Elena Bak which I originally posted a couple years ago, and which, prior to deletion, had accrued upwards of 100,000 notes.
In short, dear @staff, I don’t believe that something from forty-eight days ago can objectively be described as “recent”. Perhaps when one is talking about the lifespan of sea turtles or the migratory patterns of tectonic plates, but not here within the context of a tumblr archive. Let’s set aside for the moment how shitty it is to let people do whatever they want for a decade, then suddenly and arbitrarily change the rules and retroactively punish people for doing exactly what you encouraged them to do for years and years. …and that is shitty… But the fact is, I haven’t posted anything “recently” - certainly not since you announced your rule changes and punishments - so I’m left looking at these emails as simply self-serving rationalizations for getting rid of my old posts. And hey look, you wanna delete them, go ahead, I can’t stop you, I’m not paying for anything here, it’s your world I’m just trying to post a nut. Just don’t try to make me swallow some bullshit excuse about them being “recent”.
…I said “nut” and “swallow”…
