I’ve seen several people who couldn’t get their blogs back because they had nsfw of canonically underage characters, even if they’re aged up. The email response is: As per the policies you agreed to when creating a tumblr account, we do not allow inappropriate content involving or depicting minors on tumblr. Creating new blogs or accounts with this same subject matter or content will result in immediate account termination. This termination is final, and replies to this message are not reviewed.

‘several’? interesting. I know of one person with a blog of this description who was hit with this termination message (jaspurrlock), and I don’t know what steps they may have to try to get their blog back.

if tumblr is indeed purging blogs for explicit images of fictional minors, let’s try to get some information flowing here so we can piece together a rough idea of what kind of fictional content is no longer permitted by tumblr’s abuse staff. is it sexually explicit artwork of any character that could arguably be considered canonically under 18? Is it artwork where the characters have the (somewhat subjective) appearance of being ‘young’? are they deleting shota/loli artwork archives? or is it more or less random chance that any one artist will get their account terminated?

if you have more information, it would be great to get specifics about what kind of content was on the blogs that were specifically terminated for “inappropriate content involving or depicting minors on tumblr” and what steps have already been taken.

• which blogs were terminated for this? are you certain they tried appealing and were denied? 
• about how many followers did the affected blogs have? did they have a significantly-sized hatedom of people who would mass-report their content?
• was the content flagged as adult or no?
• what was the canon age of the fictional minors being depicted? 
• was the art explicit (visible genitals)? were the characters drawn in ways specifically intended to invoke prepubescent bodies (i.e. no pubic hair, or lacking other signs of pubescence)?

• was it realistic or cartoonish?

• were any of the characters portrayed therein from a live action show where the characters are played by actors who are minors?
• were any of the affected blogs posting written works rather than drawn artwork?

I know this is a lot of questions, but there’s a lot of things to wonder about if tumblr is moving this direction. and if tumblr won’t lay down lines about what’s allowed and what’s not, we have to guess at them.

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