Editing Tumblr (section)

==Later history==
Or rather, that's how it used to be. In late November 2018 Tumblr found its app removed from the Apple store because of all the spambots. Spambots advertising porn, that have been doing so for years with no action to actually do anything about it until their money was threatened. Rather than crack down on spambots, Tumblr staff told their algorithm to start banning porn accounts with a lot of search-engine prominence. Naturally this only banned the actually good artists and didn't solve any of the problems, causing a massive backlash as artists scrambled to get unbanned. On December 3rd, Tumblr's corporate overlords announced they had learned exactly the wrong lesson and issued an ultimatum: Tumblr would be forever SFW, and the remaining porn artists had two weeks to GTFO. Following this, many NSFW content creators have taken Tumblr's advice, and have made a mad dash for greener pastures. The social justice bloggers will most likely return to Livejournal from whence they originally came, whereas the artists have spread to a wide variety of websites, vast majority going to Twitter, though in a strange turn of events has caused Newgrounds of all sites to regain popularity after over a decade of irrelevancy.

The aftermath of the Tumblr Exodus was massive and was felt throughout the site. As it turned out those NSFW artists didn't always make NSFW content, so when they left, the people who followed those blogs for SFW content also left, causing a ripple effect of mass leaving. Entire communities up and vanished from the site, leaving abandoned and deactivated blogs to the winds. In a macabre twist of fate, even after the supposed ban that was supposed to get rid of the pornbots, those bot accounts are still out and active. In fact, they are arguably worse now than before, now absentmindedly adding hearts to comment sections to try and pump their numbers. The algorithm in place to monitor for porn was and still is notoriously terrible, with things that are in no way related to porn getting flagged. Meanwhile, several [[Furry]] artists have figured out that if you drew porn that didn't necessarily involve genitals, or made the proportions so ridiculously exaggerated that they barely resembled any semblance of human anatomy, you could totally get away with posting porn. In other words, all their huffing and puffing about "females presenting nipples" only served to [[Fail| kill any interest in it being used as a platform for creators.]] Tumblr would eventually be sold to Wordpress for a paltry 3 million dollars, which is a sliver compared to the 1.1 billion Verizon bought it for. Having become all but defunct, Tumblr's remains stand as a testament to the failure of a bunch of short-sighted, greedy executives who did not understand their viewer base.