antifaspiderman:

its actually really aggravating that any conversations about problems with tumblr always end up having to be all about fandom and peoples precious erotic fanfiction and fanart bc like “losing fandom history” is not an actual problem in the real world and constantly making it out to be some crisis makes all the complaints about this website seem like a silly gimmick to outsiders. no one pays attention to or cares about the actual problems with this website cuz the public face of the complaints is “fandom freedom is being threatened” and its annoying that that remains the case bc people always hijack the situation to make it about fandom bs.

like its apalling that articles about tumblr give barely a sentence to acknowledge that there were cp rings and pedo positivity blogs operating in the open on tumblr. of the most recent batch of news many only briefly mentioned how much the newest update is going to affect sex workers before dovetailing into paragraphs about fandom artists and the “november purge” (which lmao a lot of those artists were not deleted out of the blue they were notified and it was bc of underage nsfw fanart, p much everyone i follow who was actually deleted by accident got their blog back) and the na/zi problem is only being brought up as a zinger about nipples when there should be articles about radicalization on tumblr the same way journalists have written about facebook and youtube.

like its just so frustrating. the entire website is not all just for fandom. there are sitewide problems that have nothing to do with fandom. the way these problems are being addressed currently is fucking over people who make a living from adult content with adults for adults only and it has nothing, i mean nothing, to do with fandom. any crossover is because everyone on the website is being affected by their terrible algorithm lmao not bc fandom is being targeted.