And those sites are still out there, if you dig through the subdomain rankings.Īnd let’s get real here: Tumblr’s own content guidelines have long stated that it’s A-OK with porn. But did it scale on top of porn? Of course it did. No longer are adult sites the majority of the top destinations on the network. Today, Quantcast’s Tumblr subdomains’ stats show that content has diversified quite a bit. Several years ago, that was probably true. It’s been said that Tumblr’s secret to success is its adult content. I guess women really do prefer recipes and shopping to hot, hot sex? Then I found some other boards. (The section, I said.) But seriously, even searches for a certain “c” word return pictures of chickens. But guess what mommies like to post? (hint: it’s not T&A) Still, the section itself is very small. Apparently, there, porn means food porn, art and kind of silly posts (Kermit watching a nature show with frogs doing it, e.g.). A search for pornstar gets a little dirtier. Pinterest, I first thought, was much cleaner. (To get to the raunchier stuff, you have dig into the tags and accounts of the users posting the images).

Plus, all those pictures are tagged with other words that can lead you down the Instagram rabbit hole of shame. But then someone told me about #pornstagram, and yep, there you go. Depending on when you query it, the #porno tag is either pretty lame or shows full-on nudity. There’s no #porn or #sex on Instagram, at least not that which you can query up by tag, that is. That’s why it’s interesting how the three social services far on other NSFW topics. When is a photo art, versus something encouraging a disease? Searches reveal this is still a popular topic for its users.Įven Instagram isn’t immune to this community, which is incredibly tough to police. Pinterest, which enacted a similar ban on thinspo and other self-harm imagery, a month after Tumblr did, has also apparently had a tough time keeping thinspo off its site. Sadly, these are mostly fashion industry photos, so what can you do? And yet today, thinspo searches on Tumblr bring back hundreds of posts of jetting collarbones, ribs poking out, thighs that don’t touch, and more. Tumblr seemingly took a more proactive stance in its bans, announcing it would apply the policy on a blog-by-blog basis.

This includes the cult of the “thinspo” posters, who like to find “inspirational” imagery encouraging and celebrating their anorexia-induced starvation. After all, Tumblr houses, like, a lot of porn.īoth services aim to help their members find platforms for self-expression, one through pinning images for inspiration, the other through blogging, and both have also had to fight unwanted content on their networks.įor example, both Tumblr and Pinterest recently implemented changes to their Terms of Service banning self-injury and self-harm. I was just curious about the type of not-so-mommy-friendly content that might be popping up on what’s now the third-most popular social network after Facebook and Twitter. Wow, Pinterest’s porn section is fairly tame.

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