What Happened to Tumblr: Why Adult Content Mattered | Video Essay 

I think the other thing that made tumblr so special back in the day that they have still retained is the lack of celebrity involved. Anyone could be anyone due to anonymity but in addition you as a user couldn’t see how many followers other people had. You had no idea if the person you were following had 100 followers or 50k (unless that person told everyone). In doing so I feel like it had less of the clout chasing problem that sites like Twitter and Instagram have now.

As someone who lived through this, the problem wasn't about explicit content, it was bots, and censorship of art. There was a big art community, and they didn't appreciate their work being deleted. Not only that, the filter was very bad, removing innocent posts. This was never an abundance of lude content; It was between a bad idea, to fix a common problem, that directly shafted it's biggest community.

“Only about 10% of users were underage” *me and all my friends that signed up at 12 setting our account’s age at 18* 👀👀 only 10% of underage people honestly inputted their age lol

People probably don’t remember, but tumblr was pretty much the first website that used tags to search for themes and topics. I remember how mindblown I was when my friend first introduced me to it, back like 16 years ago, and explained that I can just search for a word, and it will find all posts that anyone from anywhere across the world has written on tumblr and put that tag on. Back then, that was an inconceivable idea.

It sucks because laws that seek to target "trafficking" are never actually about trafficking, it is always just about advertising, puritanism, and controlling marginalized non heterosexual sexuality. These laws don't actually give a damn about trafficking, and in fact tend to do more harm and put more people in direct danger.

I'm not the target audience for this content as I've never used Tumblr before, but I am a chronic video essay enjoyer. This was a wonderful, entertaining, and informative piece to consume and I hope the algorithm feeds this to many others so they get to enjoy it as well.

tumblr IS kicking, however, the idea of tumblr, the mark of nostalgia, in our adolescent years is gone. besides that, regardless of nsfw ban, it somehow is alive and doesn't need to have twitter or instagram numbers to keep its niche alive.

I miss good Tumblr. The porn ban killed so many art blogs because the bots could not tell what was in the picture and simply flagged it.

Let's be clear, while it was totally about queer people, it was also a *lot* about fandoms and people wanting to post sexy pics of characters and that being much of why they were there. Shipping is a powerful force, and it was cracked down on, so the shippers left. There are a *lot* of shippers.

As someone who was on tumblr since before the ban, and also draws and writes queer, disabled smut stuff as a queer, disabled woman: Thank you. This is so important, but I also feel quite hopeless right now. Most of the little bit of community I have is on these sites, I can't leave them (I do however refuse to give them one cent)

ao3's model as a charity works really well for creating a good queer space. But its just a text site; the operating and storage costs are far higher for sites that need to store images and videos.

Beautiful job articulating what made Tumblr so special, thank you. And now i'm crying, remembering how much of a sanctuary it used to be & how much was lost... I always just lurked without engaging because i was shy & had a lot of shame, but the adult & queer content there meant a lot to me. The adult content ban happened the same year i came out as queer & finally accepted myself, so i never got to actively be a part of any of those communities, which i regret to this day. Especially since i still haven't been able to find or become part of any queer communities...

I hate the "there's other sites for porn" argument since aside from the issues on the consumer side, it's just flat out wrong on the artist side. The only places where artists can grow if they post NSFW is just Twitter and Pixiv. Like, every other major blog platform doesn't allow it last I checked

I think the porn ban did hit the fandom communities, especially the writers and artists. I wish there was an alternative

I only joined tumblr recently and I joined specifically for queer kink spaces. They are definitely still there, though it does make me wonder how different it would be if they hadn’t made that move

Promoting the blue checks has dramatically changed Twitter. Most of the blue-checks are Elon Mush stans: so shitty opinions bubble to the top of every remotely controversial post. I have not used Twitter in 2 weeks because they also started logging you out if you blocked more that 250 blue checkmark posts in 15 minutes. Such mass-blocking is easy: because the shitty opinions are all clumped together. Prior to my last forced logout: it had spent hours reporting hate speech. Reporting takes time, so you don't hit the forced logout threshold when blocking. The hate speech on that site is fractal. Bigots will helpfully link to another hate thread in the comments.

As a pron artist, it is really sad to know that if twitter goes to shit, Tumblr won't have my back

These websites are essentially community resources held hostage by companies. Like with the issues with Twitch and Reddit trying to monetize better lately. There really is essentially no way that these corporations can monetize their platforms without losing their userbase, meaning that social media might die out without finding a way to eliminate money from the equation.

I still think of my favorite niche tumblr nsfw blog. I haven't found a place where someone curates images in that specific niche since. Tumblr's culture and structure was such a good way of finding a niche blog, then mining their likes/follows for similar things.

The moment this all happened with Twitter, Tumblr nearly immediately relaxed its adult content rules and let butt pics on the site IIRC

I want more social media companies to study the failure of Tumblr and take that as a case study and a warning. People want and love things that are hard to monetize. OnlyFans nearly found out the hard way that when you build your business catering to a very niche audience, you need to think long and hard about how useful your platform is to anybody outside that audience. Just because something is successful in one corner does not mean it can succeed in the whole room. It is kind of funny that for all the things Tumblr did really well, it was the adult content that tied all those things together. People contain multitudes. An artist who does NSFW art will also do a lot of very beautiful family-friendly stuff, too. Some people put together some extremely beautiful mood pages. Fun fact, naked bodies are very **aesthetic** and can fit a mood page very well! Just because some uptight conservatives think unclothed boobies are evil, doesn’t make it so.

Looking back at it I'm grateful that I had Tumblr as I was learning about my sexuality as a gay person, especially when it comes to porn and self esteem. Mainstream porn was and is still today largely dominated with the ideal gay male trope, of masc4masc "regular guy" image of what an acceptable gay male should be. Tumblr helped showed and educate that your masculinity expression isn't the be all end all of your worth as a gay male. And that you have a safe space to play outside of that and find people who are like you or see value in your expression or content. It's made me feel much less pressured by societal and inner community expectations. And I like to think that it was like that for a lot of gay young men and queer people too.

Tumblr had this strange ability for you to feel you knew somebody's mood and loneliness from the rhythm and aesthetic of the nsfw material they were posting. Gentler people found each other through the ether of nsfw, because anonymity meant one 'taboo', sexual yearnings having been broken other taboos about people's daily lives, their deepest hurts and cares were already on the table, open to be shared. I still have most of my Tumblr friends. The frisson of sexuality acted as a disinhibition to intimacy, caring and friendship same as a warm haze of alcohol. Of course a lot of people did not act this way but it was very possible to navigate once your defences were up.

You made me nostalgic for the days i used tumblr😅I grew up in a small village and using tumblr was the first time i've seen representation of queer people just living their lives and existing in the real world. i have no idea how much longer it would have taken me to realise i'm queer if i didn't have that chance to see and interact with the content. From what i remember there was also a lot of mental health related content. To this day, best advice i've ever seen relating mental health comes from tumblr and it was someone saying that when you joke about being terrible you start to believe it. It was at the time when self-deprecating humour was very popular and it's genuinely one of the most helpful things i've seen.

Thank you for making this. I was an early adopter of the platform and while the site had its issues, it was huge for me in exploring my identity and desires as a gay woman. It is troubling to realize how effectively fosta/sesta has altered the internet. Anti-sw legislation working in tandem with the present moral panic about "groomers" and a culture of censorship has managed to shift the window so far to the right that even many young progressives seem to have absorbed anti-sex ideology.

The problem with Tumblr, Twitter and all the rest is that giving everyone a voice and letting them just say what ever they want to the rest of the world is not a long term solid business model. Tumblr and Flickr died because they tried too hard to control content, twitter is dying because it has not done enough. Its like smoking, in the long run you cannot make a sustainable cig business, no matter what people do governments are going to come after you because your profit is coming at a cost. We need to develop better models of enabling communities without depending on profits.

I’m still on Tumblr, after basically spending about a year away from it, and I can tell you that the content and feel of the site has changed dramatically. I don’t see as much diversity in body type posts anymore, there are still Queer, Trans, BIPOC, and Disabled users, but it seems less in number. Some users I considered friends fell off the map completely post-ban, a lot of artists I followed got split up into different smaller social media sites that just didn’t have the user base to generate as much content as pre-Ban tumblr. I still see Porn on occasion but it is less diverse in race, body type, sexuality and gender than it used to be. The flagging system feels completely arbitrary. And it may just be me, but it feels like there are more anti-trans blogs now, like bigoted blogs were a problem before on tumblr, but now it seems like those users got emboldened after a lot of Queer and Trans users left post-ban. It’s still kinda chugging along, but it hasn’t recovered 4+ years after the ban. Tumblr did so much to help me discover my Trans identity and sexuality, seeing other trans femmes post confident selfies and talk about how they felt about their bodies made me less Dysphoric in mine. It’s just really shitty because when our lives are so tied to the internet due to social marginalization, taking that space away is like cutting us off from our home. For many users, pre-ban tumblr was a safe place for them to be authentic to themselves in a way they couldn’t in their public lives. It’s not completely devoid of connection, I still talk to friends on there, but it definitely is a shell of its former self.

Tumblr was where I discovered a ton of my likes, dislikes, preferences and kinks. It's also a place where a lot of my radical leftist journey took place. It was a valuable resource for cishet people, too

Man, I wish Tumblr never banned that. Imagine how advanced we would be in the future.

There's this really interesting article by Ellis Hamburger called "Social media is doomed to die" which also talks about the clash between a social media's bottom line and its users and how the balance changes over time from the platform's inception All in all great video!

you’re point about the proliferation of specific language for queer identities being linked to tags actually blew me away. as a young queer person who used the site a lot (mostly during 2014-2018), i saw the proliferation first hand. they kept getting more and more specific, and i always thought it was a case of these young queer people not having an irl queer community, and not “touching grass”, so the made these meaningless micro identities. as i grew up, i realised there is nothing inherently wrong with micro identities, and if people find it helpful for better understanding themselves, then that’s great! but i never thought to link the need for specificity to the tagging system of tumblr! anyway, great video :) keep doing you!

I regrettably only really discovered the full depths of Tumblr about a year before the bans... but it was probably one of the most influentially important years of my life.

I was on Tumblr for many years before the change. Even in the early days of the anti-nsfw content, a photo I posted of plus-sized women in swimsuits was flagged and deleted. Many of my posts fell prey to this, and it was always the plus-size or queer stuff that was flagged incorrectly.

Thank you so much for this video! I was a tumblr user when the big ban went into effect and it banned a lot of my art which was sfw, but I had NO idea how deep the issue really ran! This video was so enlightening!

Tumblr is a devastating case study in not listening to its userbase, yes, but tumblr is still so very much alive, and as an inclusive NSFW content creator there, it's also a great case study in mass non-compliance.

I've recently been thinking a lot about how I miss tumblr. After its downfall I was on Twitter for a while...but well. I don't know of any space like it. I miss my fandoms so much. But it feels like we were pushed off the internet. And now everything is fading away. It's so sad. Random strangers on the internet/tumblr have done more for my mental health, confidence, self acceptance and whatnot, than anyone else. I'm in a place where I would really need that kind of support again. But it just was taken away.

Also commenting for the engagement, but this topic was very well discussed. Due to the current state of tumblr and the now worsening state of Twitter, I have been off social media a lot more than I used to be. In certain aspects, that's good for my mental health, but it has also kept me out of touch with a lot of the social connections I had on those platforms. I have sadly seen others since go quiet or leave the platforms outright because of the changes you discussed. It's just unfortunate there are not many alternatives that provide the same security and community (and not to mention archive/history) that tumblr used to have, since there's no way in hell anybody within the LGBT+ community can find respite on a platform like Facebook. Too much toxicity is capable of being spread on Twitter and Instagram because of their more shared public nature, and it's annoying when I see idiots who search-mine keywords and tags for things they personally don't like and feel the need to insult/harass. Sorry for re-iterating some of your points, but this current state of the internet is just frustrating. Here's to hoping that positive and progressive changes will happen at some point, even if it is unlikely to happen soon. Thank you for this video though.

i really miss the times without crazy algorythms. the content on my feed was so much more interesting, it was easier to stay in your bubble and not get targeted etc

I hate how the adult content ban is often framed as just being about porn. As an artist who posted a lot of drawings/painting of artistic nudity right around the time the ban hit, that shit really sucked. High key killed my blog.

My god do I miss the days of Tumblr. It was my only source of community and acceptance as a teen and seriously changed my life. It’s so sad other teens won’t get to experience the loving, albeit dramatic, community that is Tumblr.

So I like to listen to (and occasionally look at) video essays while I’m out walking. Imagine my surprise when you mentioned my town by name as a place you might say hi to your neighbors, as I had already said hello to several people while out walking!!!! I was already really enjoying the video, but that shoutout easily pushed me over into also subscribing.

This makes me actually very sad. Kinda in a similar way deviant art was for many people tumblr was unique in the way fandoms and art was presented on there as well as how easy it was to find others that have the same interests or fandom ( the tagging system was just amazing on tumblr) and yes especially the nsfw art side was tumblr was just different then other social media communities. And the thing that makes me the most sad was that nothing really replaced tumblr like everyone thought it would. Yes everyone flocked to Twitter but it’s not the same. Nothing is the same about it. From the tagging that made it so easy to connect and find other with similar interests to the communities that formed on there. It’s even more sad to realize Twitter is the last place to even let you openly have nsfw on its platform (talking about art mostly) or to be able to reach a huge group of people in that way. ( for artists and to a extent fandoms) I really hate the way the internet has gone. I nothing about it is fun anymore. Extra: also yes porn can be found anywhere but queer/gay smut/art is not that easy to find or post anymore except for mabye once again twitter

Algorithmic punch! (Well researched, sourced, and presented in a way I could understand as an outsider. Thanks for all the hard work you put in.)

Idk why the algorithm serves me this but I’m so glad

I miss old Tumblr. It was a little too left for me. But I still loved it. Now, I just like it. I check it maybe once or twice a month. Versus before, I would be on it for hours daily.

my god, im such a sociology nerd. i audiably yelled "yes" when i heard you bring up langdon winner 😭 i recommend ppl to read that article

Why there isnt a movement asking brands instead of posting a rainbow in pride month… that they advertise in content the lgbt comunity like/want/need? They post rainbownized pictures for your money but demand that you be erased from your own circles and comunities…

As a person who was there the whole time (and still is) Traffic on tumblr has slowed down so significantly. Its still very queer and weve been getting bogged down by excessive bots, posts don't travel as quickly and information is shared slower in comparison to other social media like tiktok. Our ads have gotten significantly better though, and as soon as musk took over twitter Tumblr immediately took the shit out of it by poking fun at twitters shitty changes. Idk who is in charge of tumblr now. But they have gone back to focusing much more on the userbase and using merchandising based on tumblr exclusive culture ie: the new tumblr dumpsterfire tea light Also the porn ban wasnt just against queer folks, there was a running meme that the algorithm they used to ban content also flagged images of dunes 😂

I enjoyed this video, I never got to experience Tumblr as at the time I thought it was not interesting. I have one criticism for this video, I do not like the weird noise at the beginning, had to skip past it. Thanks for making this window into the world I never got around to learn about!

Brilliant video essay! Liked and subbed! This is so well-researched and articulated! This is a brilliant ode to how influential and important Tumblr is to the LGBTIQA+ and sex worker community. Your opening is so well-edited, and I love the visuals popping up and the sound effects! Great analysis of the medium of Tumblr vs other social media. Your discussion of corporations' potential responsibility to their users or culture is great. Really great critique of corporations' profit over people model. I love that you have your sources and script with in-text citations in your description!

How the hell does this video only have ~250 views?!?!?! Fantastic video essay!

I've been on Tumblr since 2012. When the flagging bots came about they were slapping things down everywhere no matter the content. People were running experiments with posting random colour combos and textures to see what would get pinged. While I never left Tumblr, the move of frustrated artists going to Twitter caused me to pick up using it frequently despite having created an account years earlier but never having used it before then. The biggest kicker on top of everything on Tumblr was the fact that despite getting rid all this individually curated content the moderation didn't get rid of the bots that were still posting stolen clips and selfies.

This was extremely well presented and an absolutely amazing watch!! It was incredibly informative and as someone who wasnt aware of Tumblr in its prime this was an extremely eye opening watch. This video and especially your channel deserves so much more viewship, you can really feel the passion in your work and I'm very excited to see what you work on next!

Such a clear, hi-quality essay. I’m very impressed and appreciative. Thanks so much, please keep it going!

I'm so glad this video found me in the algorithm. This was so informative and well discussed.

enjoyed the video and thank you for talking about this i never heard of this before in this detail just whispers of what tumblur was like before i joined and started viewing tumblur compilations you deserved more views and subs

Edit: 26:05 I'm glad this was talked about, I just wrote my comment before finishing the video because I was afraid if I waited to see if you talk about it later on, I would've forgotten my wording lol. But yeah, this video explains exactly what I was thinking so I appreciate it. 8:56 Okay, it was highlighted but can we talk about the "female-presenting nipples" please??!!! I'm sick and tired of this fucking disgusting sexism. This needs to stop, it's not okay. Stop. Objectifying. Women. And don't get me started on "female PRESENTING"... Extremely concerning. So literally ANYTHING perceived as "feminine" is bad or sexual, AS USUAL. You know there are tribes and stuff around the world where women just walk around shirtless, just chillin'. It's all about how people PERCEIVE things, and we need to stop perceiving things dubbed "feminine" as bad or sexual. (Also stop perceiving inanimate objects such as clothes, makeup, razors, deodorant, "perfume/ cologne", colors and more as "fem/masc" at all, but that's another topic).

A lot of the big video essayist slowed down a lot post-lockdown and this was a really interesting dissection of a part of the internet I wasn't personally involved in. Look forward to seeing more from you!

Only five minutes in, the quality and conveyance of information is superb. Thank you so much!

Interesting! I missed out on just about all of Tumblr, but a couple ideas you mentioned reminded me of writer/philosopher Sara Ahmed's books, most specifically _What's the Use: On the Uses of Use_ + _Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others_ but also since you mentioned moving cities often, she co-edited another book related to that: _Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration_ Just found your channel 🎉 subscribed

Exactly the video essay we need. Thank you so much, seriously

very good video. i wasn't really around for the heyday of tumblr, but learning about what once was saddens me quite a lot :( it's such a shame that platforms and queerness are so diametrically opposed. otherwise the editing and structure are wonderful! it's shocking you don't have way more subs... subbed and liked regardless :) - Kamaki of the machine spirits (fae/faer)

Wow this video is so incredibly well made and you have such a wonderful presence on camera when i when to subscribe and saw 300 i was shocked 😮

As someone who never really used the site this was really informative and well made! You could very easily become my new favourite youtuber! Your hard work is evident in the finished product! I can see you going far on here if you keep at it:)

Congrats, Kenz! This is a great explanatory video essay and really solid argument.

This was an excellent video essay and deep dive! I learned a lot and I think you did a really great job discussing this topic in a really nuanced and informative way. I think your video also opens up a larger discussion (which you touch upon at the end with Twitter) about how we’re all at the mercy of the CEOs of these platforms and what steps we can take (if there are any) as users to demand better functionality/user experiences, especially when it comes to alternative communities

It was porn on Tumblr that helped me understand disphoria. The ban lost me as a user forever.

so much of what nuked the community was the uncertainty and major functionality issues that came after the nsfw ban. lots of people were willing to hold out and see if we could still make it work, but when pictures of deserts and desserts were getting flagged it was hard to still have faith. i ended up not really using tumblr anymore around the end of 2020 after things slowed down and i lost my hyperfixation on the fandoms that were keeping me around, and only logging in again near the end of 2021/beginning of 2022 to find the site not only still kicking but in some ways thriving again. with so many of the most argumentative users having fled to twitter and the rise of video essays and a more analytical culture there seemed to be much more space for nuance and empathy in discussions of media and politics, as well as an almost universal embrace of cringe. it's definitely not what it was in its heyday, and we definitely still have reasons to distrust the management, but with the twitter and reddit exodus it really seems like someday soon tumblr will be the digital city of choice for a surprising amount of the internet. 😂

Great video! I was shocked when I went to subscribe and saw how underrated your channel was for the quality of content you provide! Keep them coming :)

Great essay, thanks for posting. I've come to think that what we need is an entity who provides forums etc. as community services for the public at large and for specific segments of it (like Tumblr for queer communities up until the ban) and operates as a utility, that is, charges at cost for the usage of resources so it does not go into the red. One would pay say $10 a year for accessing the service (there could be a goodwill pool that accepts donations and applies them to waive said fees for the less fortunate), plus, the service commits to never change the terms of service. The one aspect that could break this model would be having to pay people for policing and removing illegal content (as in, graphic stuff involving minors, people trafficking and the like). For something as big as Tumblr circa 2017 or Reddit circa 2022, that would involve tons of human work which some will volunteer to do but you cannot build a lawsuit-proof system just off volunteers.

intended to just check out the first 5 minutes of this for now, and to come back later, but ended up staying for the whole thing. as an active tumblr user and since about 2015 i really appreciated this reflection on the importance of so much community that was lost, has managed to endure only in smaller ways, and feels like it may be starting to bounce back again but remains smaller and less stable than before

i love video essays so much and watching this felt like watching someone who's been doing this for years, i went to subscribe and saw how small your account was, the quality and just everything was amazing, i thought you'd have minimum 100k, keep o doing you cause no doubt youll grow fast, this is such a hard hobby/job to have but can i just say you are slaying it, all the best from one of many many fans

whoa, just saw that this is ur grad thesis - i just KNOW you got a good grade! amazing 💗

I'm gonna be so happy when you get the recognition you deserve, meanwhile, I love this video and how beautifully you executed this. Much love :)

As an experiment I posted a number of images I took in the British Museum (largely Roman art) and the National Gallery (art) showing the human body and Roman deities. They all got taken down. These are museum specimens which anyone, including children, can see. I guess this is partly due to the perverse US morality where showing violence its fine, but the human body is not. Then I got banned.

Finally a tumblr deep dive 💗💗 good work🧚🏾‍♀️

It's always fun learning about these old social media sites.

Amazing analysis and presentation. Thanks for making the video and sharing your work!

Thank you for covering this, important part of a few different intersecting histories. I was contemplating making something covering this among other things in a sort of pornography historian thing with a focus on decentralization of production/distribution, setbacks to that end via tumblr ban, how that differs from PH purge, sex positivity, counterculture, etc but you did a better job than I could have.

Thank you for your diligent research and care about these topics! As a niche fetish artist who is transmasc and deals in erotic fantasies that can get pretty dark,(though always content tagged and warned), I have been extremely worried about the future of twitter. My sort of art is not welcomed on many art or social media platforms, even the ones that allow do nsfw. This becomes it’s own kind of isolation especially when my content and other queer people who make hardcore bdsm art, is treated like it is the same as actual abuse as per the rules of the platform. Which is, to put it mildly, pretty upsetting and frustrating.(Cough* patreon*cough)

"Nuance" is our word of the day. Many corporations aren't familiar with the term, seeing as the common policy of monochromatic vision leads to wide extermination of anything less than sparkling clean, regardless of its impact on whatever they're power-washing.

Tumblr was like 90% porn. That's like youtube getting rid of everything but shorts.

congrats on hitting the algorithm!!! commenting for interactions

Thank you! I've been on tumblr since... 2012/2014 (somewhere in that zone), and I wasn't aware of just how important some sides of it were to people. It's still one of my fav "social media" sites - with a nice, curated feed that ENDS. Very important. Queueing stuff up was cool, too.

Such an interesting piece of recent queer internet history, thank you for sharing!

This video is amazing! I can’t wait to see what more you post! I really agreed with all of your takes

I was already sold, but the taco bell DONGGGGG at 25:30 really brought the whole video together. Subbed.

Great Video!! Thank you Kenz!!

i should be studying but instead im watching a 40min video essay about tumblr history lmao also! i just found your channel and saw you made a video about our flag means death (which i loved)! excited to watch that one too. you've gained a subscriber :D

i loved this video and feel like a lot of the information (at least towards the end) can apply to what's been going on with Twitch lately. they keep making changes that go against what's best for their creators (and sometimes audiences) because it benefits the advertisers. it sucks because that's the main way to support those creators unless they create accounts on different platforms for people to tip/donate/etc., so it's not as easy to try to use money to show Twitch what people think. taking the money away from Twitch ends up taking money away from the creators in some ways.

I didn't know much of the pre yahoo Tumblr, but the time I spent there was memorable.

Love this! It's interesting seeing my teenage tumblr obssession in retrospect😂

This has me mourning Tumblr all over again. Without it, I probably wouldn't have worked out I was queer (or would have seriously delayed my realisation), and wouldn't have found the inner joy I now have. After Tumblr, I started spending more time on Twitter, found community again, and... well, history rhymes. (This was fantastic, and I'd subscribed before it was half finished ❤️)

This essay was so well put together that I clicked on your channel hoping to find a hundred of similar videos! Now that's quality content, hope you'll continue on this path and more people will see that 💛

this video was super engaging and well made! just subscribed. can't wait to watch more of your content in the future :-)

Great video essay. Thanks for the learning.

You make a great point in the intro regarding people being able to access porn allowing them to see themselves in others. I wish everyone understood how important that is for all marginalized communities. The same concept is valid when dealing with the general public. Their blinders keep them from intellectualizing even their own sexuality. Good work.

great video!! i’m excited to see your future content

I’m 7 minutes in, and i love how there is a bell ringing sound every time a new topic appears because i legit started looking away and THE MOMENT i did that the bell rang and i was immediately hooked again lmao

I grew up on tumblr it really helped me figure out where I fit in the lgbtq community as well as connect with so many communities that shared similar interests it really is so disheartening to see how tumblr has fallen and see the ripple affect it has on other sites after tumblr went to shit I moved to Twitter and the downfall has slowly begun