I'M FAT, SO WHAT? by Venus Ashu

well, I'm seething: right after singing the praises of the new Community Labels update, I added a mature label to my VegasPete love scene set to test it out.

within minutes, the post went from being in the tags- where it's been for months- to being flagged.

this is the example Tumblr gave in their own post (edit: they took. it. down. I-) in what kind of adult content was acceptable, as long as it's under a Mature label:

"a graphic 50 Shades of Grey edit."

you're telling me that VP's sex scene is more graphic than 50 Shades, which features whips, toys, tits & ass galore? I really don't want to go there, but based on a couple other flags myself & mutuals have gotten, it feels like a fair question to ask: are enthusiastic portrayals of sex only acceptable when they're hetero?

I could've left that post as it was, but I wanted to show my support for the change & out of consideration for my followers who maybe don't want to see spicier stuff.

at least for now, Community Labels seem to be a formal way for creators to volunteer content they'd like flagged & not much else.

also, this cracks me up (again, from Tumblr's own post):

What if I have a ton of posts with community labels? Like... all of my posts. Will I get in trouble? No, simply having a lot of posts with community labels won't get your blog terminated or anything like that. We may even thank you for diligently labeling your posts 💖 [I'm feeling very thanked, Tumblr!]

update: 45 minutes later & I already won the appeal, the post is supposedly findable & if I didn't have hellsite trust issues before, I sure as hell do now 🙃 moral of the story: label at your own risk.

Hiii! How are you? I hope you're doing alright!

I saw your posts about these Community Labels Mature and I wanted to know what they are. I only saw Tumblr added a filter for mature content, but I don't know what the Community Labels Mature are. I don't have too many mature content of my own on my blog, but I reblog many. If you can, would you, please, explain this to me so I can apply it to my own blog?

I'm always well to get the chance to talk with you, Saturno!

I think you have answered part of my question why more people are not using the new labels. People just don't know because Tumblr did not explain things much for such a big change and I had to hunt up the Help Center article on Community Labels myself. And here is more about it with an illustrative screenshot when I accidentally triggered a review on a post by the very kind and understanding Smileysuh. I think we should be getting to a place where all Mature content is well marked but during this not-always-working-well transition it should be the choice of the author.

As a reader who Tumblr knows your birth year makes you 18 or older, you want to make sure Mature works are allowed by your settings to keep seeing posts by the authors we love who have marked a work Mature. The setting to see every rating was turned off by default for everyone when the feature went live on September 26, 2022.

As a reblogger of 18+ work like me, Mature works should be able to be designated on the reblog. My account on desktop with the "new" editor in Beta shows that option but everything I have reblogged does not keep that label and defaults to the Everyone status. It is not supposed to be like that. If the author already marked Mature on the original post that is done for us and can not be removed.

As a writer with sometimes adult material, look for the new options in the tag line when composing a post on desktop with the "new" editor. I don't see this as an option on mobile yet. The default says Everyone but can be changed as needed to Mature due to Violence, Drug or Alcohol Abuse, and Sexual Content. If everything was working as it should, you could go back and edit the rating on the older works that qualify for the Mature rating. That does not work for me, though others have been able to.

I have had success flagging the post I wanted marked and Tumblr staff rated it Mature for me. They should not have to do that so I am hoping all the glitches will be fixed letting us revise on our own someday. I would like people who read at work or wish to limit Mature material for any other reason to be able to trust things marked Everybody actually are that instead of the current default where everything is marked Everybody unless successfully marked Mature.