Photograph: Courtesy Nyx SerafinoĮlsewhere in the statement, D’Onofrio added: “We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. In a statement Monday, D’Onofrio said: “Without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.” It’s saying, ‘We don’t want you here.’”Īccording to Tumblr’s chief executive, Jeff D’Onofrio, Tumblr will remove all adult material and ban all content including photos, videos or gifs that depict sex acts or “show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples” from 17 December. “In particular, it feels like a big middle finger to women, to sex workers, and to queer kids. “There are so many different people that this impacts in so many different ways,” said Ysabel Gerrard, a lecturer in the UK’s University of Sheffield specializing in social media and society. “I realized,” Serafino told the Guardian, “I wasn’t alone.”īut with the microblogging site cracking down on pornography later this month, Serafino and other Tumblr users like her are concerned about what such changes could mean to the marginalized communities who have found, within Tumblr’s more tolerant stance toward legal adult material, a safe haven to explore and establish their sexual and gender identities.

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