Like newTumbl, BDSMLR closely replicates the Tumblr design. (GIFs that continually loop through the action dominate posts on all these sites.) They can also search on anything–really, anything–that catches their fancy to find other blogs or posts. NewTumbl and BDSMLR closely follow the Tumblr design: Users can quickly start their own post using text, photos, audio, or video. “The same curatorial options are available on Pornhub as they were on Tumblr and users can enjoy the same personalization with us, including the ability to customize their personal feed, create playlists, generate GIFs, and more,” it said. PornHub didn’t say more about a possible Tumblr acquisition, but emailed a long statement making its case for already being an NSFW haven. Pornhub’s vice president Corey Price told BuzzFeed that the company was “extremely interested” in buying Tumblr.
In early May, the Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon is looking to sell Tumblr, which it picked up in its acquisition of Yahoo in 2017. (I made several unsuccessful attempts to reach the people who run BDSMLR.)Īll these startups are miniscule compared to NSFW behemoth Pornhub, which reports over 110 million daily visitors. But BDSMLR has grown rapidly into a universal porn site, going from about 87,000 global visits in October 2018 to 9.4 million in April. It originally focused–as the name implies–on the bondage, dominance, sadism, masochism, and related fetishes. Tumblr imports are also possible on BDSMLR, which may be the biggest winner yet of Tumblr’s NSFW ban. Sharesome is one of several sites with the ability to upload those archives. So blog owners can still access all the original files. The company says it only hides adult content from public view ( a slow, ongoing process), rather than deleting it from the database.
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Tumblr allows users to download all of their content to an archive file. Sharesome can also import old Tumblr blogs. “They’re all welcome on Sharesome to post both NSFW content (our bread and butter) and SFW content they may enjoy.” The site has about half a million users, says Bold. (Sharesome quoted me an estimate of 3 million visits for May.) “We have pornstars, cam models, illustrators, writers, amateur kinksters, cosplayers, and so on,” wrote Sharesome CEO Tudor Bold in a Twitter DM conversation with me. It’s reaped similar growth, from roughly 79,000 to 2.7 million global visits from October to April. In comparison, a startup called Sharesome has focused on adult content since its launch in January 2018. Sharesome’s top members often direct viewers to other sites where they can pay for premium content. (All of these sites make clear that posting illegal content, such as child pornography, is prohibited.) “But we know that right now, probably 90% of our users are here for adult content.” “We would like to be a complete site, from kittens all the way up to anything legal,” says Abramson. Like the original Tumblr, newTumbl isn’t meant to be exclusively for porn sharing. Site owner Andrew Kunkle tells me that the site has about 20,000 users, despite spending “$0 on advertising.” For instance, xstumbl, also founded in December 2018, had about 45,000 global visits in April, per SimilarWeb–down from its peak of about 109,000 in January. Still, it’s a long way from zero visits in December, and more than some other sites have experienced. Though billed as an NSFW Tumblr replacement, newTumbl intends to evolve into much more, says cofounder Dean Abramson. But at least three other sites appear to be blooming. Natural selection has weeded out many of them, such as the flopped Cumblr. Like a fire that clears out miles of forest, Tumblr’s porn ban has created an ecological niche for new not-safe-for-work (NSFW) friendly sites to take root. That’s despite Tumblr’s return to the App Store in December. and internationally, according to analytics firm SimilarWeb–from 558 million to 376 million monthly visits globally. From the pre-controversy month of October 2018 through April 2019, it’s dropped by about a third–both in the U.S. Meanwhile, Tumblr’s web traffic has–er, tumbled. (Imagery that just barely hides private parts seems to still be allowed.) The ban prohibited not just hardcore porn, but even the humble female nipple. That kick-started Verizon-owned Tumblr to enact a policy change it says was already planned: a blanket ban on virtually all “adult content” images and videos (but not text)–starting on December 17, 2018.
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