The internet is home to a plethora of destinations offering adults-only content. But soon, Tumblr won’t be one of them. The microblogging platform announced Monday that it is banning adult content. In ...

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Tumblr was never explicitly a space for porn, but, like most things on the internet, it is chock full of it anyway. Or at least it was. On Monday, to the shock of the millions of users who had used ...

Rumors of a Tumblr comeback have been bubbling for a couple of years—think a pair of Doc Martens here, a splash of pastel hair dye there. Now, Gen Z is embracing the platform as a refuge from an ...

Tumblr's NSFW ban comes at great cost to the community and little gain to the company's long-term prospects. In February of 2005, the microblogging and social networking site, Tumblr, officially ...

For years, Tumblr had been the most freewheeling of the major social networks. While Facebook could be unnecessarily prudish–like removing posts that included artworks and historical photos with ...

Tumblr entirely suspended all of the content which features nudity and adult content back in 2018 as part of its crackdown against minor sexual exploitation. This year, the popular microblogging site ...

Off the top of my head, I couldn’t remember exactly why my fellow Tumblr users were predicting the platform’s death in November 2018. The adult-content ban, a monumental event in the site’s history ...

Blocking, known as ignoring, a person on Tumblr prevents him from reading your posts on his dashboard, prevents you from reading about his actions in your dashboard notifications or notes, and ...

Tumblr may have introduced ads to user blogs several years ago, but it's now happy to take them away for a price. The social media site has launched an ad-free option that removes the marketing from ...

Tumblr lovers across the world are in for some big news: the social networking platform was sold by Verizon, according to The Wall Street Journal. Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress, was ...

With the 2020 election coming up and growing concerns about bad actors using social media sites to spread misinformation, Tumblr is launching an internet literacy campaign to help young users spot ...