Lashawn Jenkins is back! Ms. Jenkins knows a lot about rocky relationships – and this month she talks about the one between Tumblr and porn fans
As far back as 2012, Tumblr users had begun reporting that blogs containing NSFW gay porn content were being summarily deleted. Then in August of 2012, Tumblr publicly declared its support for all forms of expression (including porn) and explained that its recent rash of porn site deletions had been the unfortunate result of “an overzealous heuristic.” Tumblr then claimed that they were in the process of reviewing their records and restoring all of the sites that had been erroneously deleted.
After Yahoo acquired Tumblr in 2013, there were again reports of NSFW gay porn blogs being deleted. Many longtime Tumblr fans were worried that Yahoo had plans to “clean up” Tumblr by getting rid of all the smut. To quell such fears, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer assured the press that even Tumblr blogs which were not “brand safe” would be left alone. Mayer kept her word (more or less) and Tumblr left most of its NSFW blogs intact. Instead of deleting them, Tumblr simply de-indexed them – and then told all of the automated web crawlers from Bing, Yahoo, and Google to start ignoring anything that had a NSFW tag. To give you a sense of the massive scope that was involved, 12 million NSFW blogs all disappeared from Tumblr’s search results during a single day last July. In addition, Tumblr’s popular Erotica section was phased out – and selected search terms (including #lesbian, #gay, and #bisexual) were blocked on Tumblr’s iPhone app.
News of Tumblr’s new, unofficial embargo on porn (and especially gay porn) quickly became a very hot topic. In response to the growing tide of negative PR, Tumblr subsequently released a statement explaining that the blocking of all the NSFW blogs from search results had been the result of a software glitch. (Sadly, no anthropomorphic adjectives were used this time.) As for the disturbing keyword-blocking, Tumblr explained that away by saying that certain innocent-sounding keywords (such as #gay) had an especially high tendency to lead to NSFW search results – which is verboten for apps at Apple’s iTunes Store.
Some people are still boycotting Tumblr, but overall Tumblr seems to have arrived at a provisional truce with its large contingent of porn fans – with each party doing its best to stay out of the other’s hair. In addition, less porn sites are being deleted. Whether or not you actually believe Tumblr’s official narrative about everything that has transpired, the situation seems to have worked itself out, at least for the moment. As always, Tumblr continues to be one of the web’s best sources for free, fan-curated porn – and Google appears to be indexing Tumblr’s adult blogs normally.
According to Tumblr, the company is presently working to create more advanced content filtering systems. In the meantime, you can use the #lgbtq keyword in place of #gay if you should ever want to use Tumblr’s iPhone app to search for non-adult, gay-related content (the stuff that has been vetted by Tumblr’s community editors, that is.) If you’d prefer to bypass the filters and view NSFW Tumblr search results on your iPhone, simply forego the Tumblr app and use your mobile web browser instead. Sign in at Tumblr.com, make sure that your account has been set to allow NSFW material, and then do your NSFW searches that way.
To get you started, we’ve compiled a list of popular gay porn Tumblr sites. If you find one here that you enjoy, try clicking on the names of its followers and look to see what other blogs they are following. Sometimes that can be the best way to discover new Tumblr porn.
• PicOfTheGay.Tumblr.com/archive
• Tearoom-M2M.Tumblr.com/archive
• AdventuresInGroupSex.Tumblr.com/archive
• CreamTheJeans.Tumblr.com/archive
• HotHairyNastySexy.Tumblr.com/archive
• Guys-Self-Pics.Tumblr.com/archive
• FuckYeahRimming.Tumblr.com/archive
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