



While we all mock Tumblr for gutting themselves, seen HERE is one such example, we should remember that many hentai artists relied on Tumblr for their livelihoods. I decided to reach out to some of the artists I’ve spoken to to check in with them, see how they’re doing.







First up is GZone, the creator of a great Danny Phantom hentai game.







GZone: Hmm... I can't really say much since I don't use it for posting NSFW pictures for quite some time now.

But I am still very disappointed in their decision, and I feel like they might regret it at some point in the future.

Tumblr was the platform where I found the most followers and people, who actually liked art which gave me a lot of motivation to do what I am doing now. I can remember how it was when I got a shout out from a fellow NSFW artist, whose work I always liked. Moments were my personal highlights back then when I was using Tumblr only for a few months at that time. I always enjoyed getting the feedback and appreciation for my art on Tumblr. It is a shame that I can't use it in the same way anymore.

Well, about the question of how I am going to deal with the whole situation now? I am going to try to use twitter more often to communicate with my followers instead of Tumblr.

I am not sure if Twitter is allowing me to display NSFW content on their platform but it will be at least a nice change.







Kasaix: So Twitter is your replacement for Tumblr?







GZone: Yeah, it is.







Kasaix: Nice. I'm glad you found something. Tumblr really did mess up on this one. It's like everyone's racing to censor people, like Sony and Steam have been doing on their platforms.







GZone: I am not very familiar with what Sony and Steam are doing since I rarely use those platforms but I agree, Tumblr messed up.







Kasaix: Sony has been forcing developers to censor their games. Senran Kagura 7 was delayed because of this. Steam has been blocking games entirely, even with appropriate warnings.







GZone: That's very sad to see happening.

Hopefully, Patreon is never going to do the same mistake as Tumblr and bane NSFW content entirely from their platform.







Kasaix: That will be a dark day indeed. Many designers like yourself rely on it for funding. PayPal might be a good alternative though, but it's not as regular as Patreon.





This might cheer you up a bit

https://doujins.com/blog/failure-tumblr-s-adult-algorithm-targets-sfw-art-932﻿







GZone: Yeah, I saw some of those posts before but I didn't know that they even flagged their own post. That's hilarious.







Kasaix: Yes it is









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Now, what about Witchking00?







Kasaix: What impact has the Tumblr purge had on you?







Witchking00: Tumblr has been for me a very big help to grow up, get to more people and to share my pictures without problems with nsfw to a biggest audience... I even choose Tumblr to be the replacement of my deleted website Hentaicolors.com (I had to delete it i was getting several problems with that website)... now that Tumblr is not allowing NSFW content has been an issue for me... cause all that big community that we have been creating there during the last three or four years cannot continue... but we have to be positive... even if this is bad for us (NSFW ARTISTS), there are other websites that can be also a replacement for Tumblr... like NEWGROUNDS, PIXIV, etc... also thanks to that I decided to open a public discord channel where I am having more much personal contact with the people who like my job and this is something great! Everyone is welcome to join :). So yea is bad that tumblr not allow our adult content but has give us a chance to discover other better ways ^_^

Before post that take a look to the grammar mistakes i guess there are some

^_^







Kasaix: Do you want to provide a link to your discord?







Witchking00: https://discord.gg/pZPejxR﻿







Kasaix: This might cheer you up a bit https://doujins.com/blog/failure-tumblr-s-adult-algorithm-targets-sfw-art-932﻿





Wow your discord has a lot of people







Witchking00: Hehe yeah is joining a lot of people

The Tumblr algorithm it sucks XD







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I hope EvulArt is doing okay.







EvulArt: Meh I’m dealing fine. Tumblr wasn’t my main website anyways







Kasaix: Ah that's good.







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Please tell me Jadenkaiba is okay!









Jadenkaiba: Hmmm i think mine is still active







Kasaix: Really? The sweep passed you by so far.







Jadenkaiba: xd







Kasaix: What site are you eyeing for a replacement to tumblr?







Jadenkaiba:

i had some

pixiv

hentai foundry







Kasaix: Oh, so you're covered, you had those sites as backup





This might cheer you up a bit https://doujins.com/blog/failure-tumblr-s-adult-algorithm-targets-sfw-art-932﻿







Jadenkaiba: XDXD







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ttrop, please tell me he’s doing fine.







Kasaix: Has the tumblr purge affected you? If so, what have you been doing to handle it?







ttrop: Tumblr was my main source for putting out my content, and archiving it. Sadly my page was deleted off with many others before the announcement so I lost the chance to do any form of announcement to my followers on tumblr. So after the purge is was almost like I started back at square 1 needing to rebuild what I had once built.







Kasaix: That's terrible. I'm sorry that happened to you.





ttrop: well i wasn't the only one so i can't be a baby about it too much







Kasaix: This might cheer you up a bit https://doujins.com/blog/failure-tumblr-s-adult-algorithm-targets-sfw-art-932﻿







ttrop: hahaha

this will cause none nsfw artist to also leave

i am trying to rebuild on twitter

been posting there often







Kasaix: Nice. I hope you can get back to where you were before.







ttrop: thanks working hard on it haha







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Please tell me John Joseco is fine. He’s an artist among artists!







Kasaix: I know you had at least two tumblr accounts for your art. One was Human Daring Do, and she was in that shower getting off for years. Haha







John Joseco: oh yeah she's dead now

I say the whole thing sucks. It was very easy to upload multiple pics at the same time.







Kasaix: It really does suck. Do you have an alternative to Tumblr in mind?







John Joseco: I have HDC







Kasaix: I know. I thought you primarily used HDC for more complete work, and Tumblr for MLP and sketches.







John Joseco: oh yeah but I don’t have much now. I can use DA for naked stuff

but not much else







Kasaix: Did you lose all the stuff you had on tumblr, or did you keep backups?







John Joseco: I backed it up

I’m planning to redraw some of the old pics







Kasaix: Nice.

This might cheer you up a bit https://doujins.com/blog/failure-tumblr-s-adult-algorithm-targets-sfw-art-932﻿







John Joseco: oh yeah I know about that lol







Kasaix: haha







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How about CuteSexyRobutts?







CSR: hello

i see it as a risk that comes with the job, you use the popular nonsense social media platforms and live and die by them, i also predict porn will be the next thing to be purged by the centralized internet pages after they are satisfied with their political crusade, so i expect it to get worse





Kasaix: Has the Tumblr purge affected you?







CSR: it was my main platform and i lost a 95k followers page, I'd say so







Kasaix: I'm so sorry to hear that. Have you found a suitable replacement site?







CSR: Fortunately my twitter grew very fast before the tumblr died, so it wasn't too bad for me

those who had 90% base on tumblr but didn't pick up traffic elsewhere must have been damaged the most, i was like 60/40 tumblr twitter spread







Kasaix: A great loss, but not a total loss. That's some small comfort.







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How about Anew? He should be fine, right?







Anew: It's a real shame. I used Tumblr, and it was practically my main place to connect with my fans, especially after Deviant Art made posting pretty difficult as well. So now I've got a number of fans who I may lose touch with,, as they may not like to use any other service I'm on. I understand why Tumblr made their decision, and I don't feel personally attacked, but I am still disappointed it had to go this way. Though I'll just move on, as I've had to before.







Kasaix: Was it a huge loss in connecting with fans, or are you active on other sites like Twitter and Facebook?







Anew: I have Pixiv and Hentai-Foundry as my other sites I was already using. I also opened up a Twitter. However, Tumblr I had roughly over 4,000 followers on, Pixiv, my next closest site, is only at about 2,000.







Kasaix: That's a deep cut then. You may not feel personally attacked, but Tumblr most certainly personally targeted artists like yourself, impacting their livelihoods with their puritan cleansing.







Anew: I definitely feel bad for adult artists who were using Tumblr as a source of income with commissions and such. Though I see what Tumblr did purely as a business move, rather than a personal or moral based decision.







Kasaix: Well, this should make you feel a bit better. https://doujins.com/blog/failure-tumblr-s-adult-algorithm-targets-sfw-art-932﻿







Anew: Luckily the attempt to return improperly flagged content is supposed to be easy. Yet it is pretty ridiculous that it isn't working very well





