more tumblr nonsense

[mercuryhatter]

I just logged back in to my tumblr account to delete it and found that, after I manually unmarked it as explicit several days ago when the site was freezing me out from the messaging and ask functions, that it had been remarked as explicit permanently. (At least as permanently as the shitty code will allow, I'm aware of the glitch that lets you undo this.)

I had marked my blog as adult content at least a year ago, possibly more (I forget when exactly I created this incarnation, as I've had like seven tumblr accounts since 2010). My reasoning was partially the fewer people who can follow me the better (I'm just Like That) but also partially that I knew I posted about things like my mental health crises and other text-based topics that I didn't want the responsibility of teenagers seeing. I had never reblogged or posted sexually explicit image material to my blog.

I don't know if they re-flagged it because it had been flagged before and me turning off the flag meant nothing to them, or if the robots went wild on my selfies and other vaguely flesh-toned images. I didn't bother to find out because I was just there to delete the thing anyway. But if I needed validation of my decision to leave tumblr... well, lol.

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[mercuryhatter]

Update: I checked my old email account that this blog was hooked up to and apparently I had several video posts removed for violating community guidelines. I can no longer see these posts because the blog is deleted, of course, but from the urls I can intuit that they included pictures of last year's Halloween decorations and a video of my cat.

[bluebaron]

holy fuck elemi, what the shit is tumblr on

[mercuryhatter]

cats and being spooky....... are bad

[bluebaron]

of course. the forbidden things: nipples, and cats, and ghosts. heaven forbid you ever post about ghost cat nipples.

[mercuryhatter]

don't worry, my ghost cat is male presenting

[mirawonderfulstar]

Oh lord. I logged back into tumblr and my blogs are all fine but I unfollowed a Massive amount of people so I can spend less time on there. I scrolled through my whole dash back to where I went to bed yesterday in like 20 minutes. I don’t think I’ll delete it just yet but I feel you so hard about the responsibility of having teenagers follow you, that’s my constant struggle with running the Good Omens sideblog. I don’t want people seeing me as a Presence, you know? Tumblr fandom can get super toxic super fast and I don’t want any level of exposure.