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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by catalogia on Friday October 18, 2019 @01:52PM (#21293542)
Tumblr was dying the moment they began relying on nsfw content. Like a soaking wet arctic explorer who feels warm because his body has begun shutting down bloodflow to his limbs. The sensation of thriving/warmth masks the reality; that the situation is already incompatible with survival and it's only a matter of time before he collapses, no matter how great he feels in that moment.
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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by djsumdog on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:35PM (#21293929)
They still had large communities of people independent of porn; lots of left leaning, LGBTQ audiences .. lots of young adults and high school kids oddly ... but they had always allowed NSFW content, so that segment kept growing as well. It's hard to separate the two at that point.
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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by catalogia on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:42PM (#21293994)
And that's what did them in. It was inevitable from the beginning, what happened was only a matter of time. Porn kills monetization and having a userbase that insists on having porn will consequently kill your platform. It may seem to be running smoothly for a while, but that's just borrowed time.
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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by djsumdog on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:10PM (#21294229)
hmm .. so do you think Reddit is going to hit the same issue soon? I wonder if Reddit will ban all NSFW subs within the next year or two.
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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by catalogia on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:30PM (#21294390)
It's not clear to me how important porn is to reddit; it's possible reddit could ban porn without upsetting most of their users. Not every site with porn is doomed.

In the long run though, I expect reddit to ban porn. It might be a few more years, there are a lot of factors in play, including the patience of their investors and whether or not an influential media company decides to do an exposé on reddit hosting amateur pornography without vetting peoples' ages and/or hosting professional pornography in violation of copyright law.

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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by lonelappde on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:18AM (#21297446)
It's bizarre that porn kills things that seem to only die when the porn leaves, and the most successful non porn content is softcore porn.
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Re:Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associ... by thescribbblr on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:00PM (#21294148)
Why NSFW contents became problem for both Tumblr and now Imgur? Anything specific?
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