So with the recent tumblr purge this blog is basically done for, which makes me pretty sad. This has been a serious blow to any artists out there on tumblr. I have spent countless hours, days, weeks of time here writing both regular RP and smut RP in the past, and now I might watch it all disintegrate before I can ever properly back it up. Tumblr’s formatting has always been REALLY poor for backing up RP, so you can imagine my sadness about this. It’s December, peak holiday season for many of us, and Vampy and I have to travel to see family during the death date of tumblr’s mature content. I just don’t have the time to save everything on all of our accounts. I can try my best, but things will likely disappear under my nose before I can recover it.
Over the last few years I’ve been really concerned with lost media. It’s a huge problem our generation is facing. Things can be deleted in an instant and gone forever. VHS tapes with vintage television shows and commercials are in the garbage. Some of the only recordings of media are in a landfill, being unappreciated. At what point do we step up? At what point is archiving fandom content a violation of the artists personal content or a violation of copyright, versus a preservation of media? People really need to discuss lost media more often. We’re losing fandom history here, right now, and what can we do about it? People are scrambling to keep their things together in a sea of misflagging by tumblr’s automated system and there’s not much info on what can be done about it. It’s very frustrating.
All tumblr had to do was listen. We tried getting the CP banned, we tried getting the actual fucking nazis off of here, and what do we get? Over seven years of blogging and art and general content, flagged and to eventually be deleted. I’ve had to ask people to backup the account of an artist that is deceased, okay? Where the actual fuck do we draw the line?
Either way, my main account is @thatfilthyanimal so if this one goes up in smoke somehow, find me there. It’s been lovely RPing here for the time I did, and you all made some pretty dark times in my life awesome. Thank you. <3
