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Ah, Tumblr. Before TikTok and Instagram, this was the platform for our daily thoughts and thirst traps. Though you also might know it for Taylor Swift gifs ...

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The social media platform has updated its community guidelines to re-allow nudity and suggestive content, but not "depictions of sexually explicit acts."

[by Automattic Inc.](https://gizmodo.com/verizon-sells-tumblr-still-no-porn-though-1837181621), Wordpress’ parent company, for just $3 million. [a predictably terrible job](https://gizmodo.com/tumblrs-porn-ban-is-off-to-a-predictably-stupid-start-1830860708). [CozyCanadian Down & Feather Company](https://go.linkby.com/MZMFEDTB) The newly adjusted community guidelines seem to make good on that promise. “The Tumblr and Automattic teams are working to make [the policy] more open and common-sense,” he wrote. Specifically, “visual depictions of sexually explicit acts (or content with an overt focus on genitalia) are not allowed on Tumblr,” the new guideline says.

Tumblr has updated its community guidelines, allowing users to share content with nudity, mature subject matter and sexual themes by using a special label ...

[APPLE IPHONE UPDATES: WHICH ONE IS BEST?](https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apple-iphone-updates-which-one-best) [The social media platform](https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/orthopedics/technology) asked users to report content that doesn't appear to be appropriately labeled and said that it hoped the shift creates more room for artistic expression. [still don’t allow hate, spam, violent threats](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime), or anything illegal, and visual depictions of sexually explicit acts remain off-limits on Tumblr… [CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP](https://www.foxnews.com/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink) [Tumblr banned adult content in late 2018](https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-lost-a-third-of-its-users-after-porn-ban), reportedly leading to a dramatic drop in its page views, according to Mashable.

Social networking site Tumblr has updated its Community Guidelines which will allow nudity, but not sexually explicit images, on the platform.

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Tumblr announced that it will allow nudity back on its platform — just not “explicit sex.” This ends a torturous four-year boob-and-butt drought for the ...

Tumblr had been a haven for nudity and porn (for better and worse), so naturally, users were pissed. “I am personally extremely libertarian in terms of what consenting adults should be able to share, and I agree with ‘go nuts, show nuts’ in principle,” he wrote, “but the casually porn-friendly era of the early internet is currently impossible.” “I miss Tumblr (and I don't like Elon), so my hope is that maybe there won't be such a big difference in the size of their user bases in the future.” Less than a year after the porn ban, Tumblr was sold to Automattic, the company best known for the blogging platform WordPress. “I started focusing more on Twitter a little before the porn ban happened, just because there were more people on Twitter,” she told BuzzFeed News. We’re not here to judge your art, we just ask that you add a Community Label to your mature content so that people can choose to filter it out of their Dashboard if they prefer.”