After eight years, this site will no longer be updated due to tumblr’s 2018 terms of service update which bans “inappropriate content.” I just received another notice that a post had been taken down, it’s a photo of a shirtless DeShawn Stevenson getting a tattoo. You can see it here.

All future NBA Tattoos updates will take place at nbatattoos.com. I’ve just started working on it and cannot figure out a way to automatically upload the hundreds of tumblr posts to the new site so it’ll be a bit of a slow process at first. There are already a few updates on new players (Bol Bol’s Squidward tattoo!) and a lot more to come.

NBA Tattoos is a mostly-fun hobby and I appreciate that it has been a positive place to talk about something that I care about. I like seeing everyone’s posts but my interaction has been pretty minimal. For the people hit hardest/undermined most directly by tumblr’s decision, this is a much bigger issue. I hate that tumblr has dismantled so many networks where people built support systems, felt less isolated, learned about others and themselves. I can’t begin to imagine the decimation of tumblr sites that has taken place if a shirtless photo of DeShawn Stevenson can be grounds for removal. So it’s a bummer that I have to do this work to move the site but a much more profound and upsetting bummer that so many people no longer have the community they’d spent years building.





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