Tag: fandom

thelanding:

Photoshoot inspired by the TJLC community, that in the middle of ups and downs gathered lots of evidences, analysis, metaphors and studies that pointed to a explicit concretization of John and Sherlock’s romantic relationship in Sherlock BBC. Despite the current course of queerbaiting the show seems to take, TJLC is still working and ramifying. Those three years of “conspiracy” served not only to produce more than 50 hours of video content on Youtube or countless essays and metas from Tumblr to Google Drive, but also to awake in its members a hunger for careful and attentive readings of fiction. “One day the true story may be told”, said Arthur Conan Doyle in his last words for Sherlock Holmes. There’s no doubt in that. And if destiny is fair, the story will be told by the hands of a TJLCer.
Get ready to believe and keep believing. TJLC has its own life and we’re part of it.

@tjlc @tjlc-support-group @tjlcpositivity @pearlrebs @inevitably-johnlocked @the-7-percent-solution @loudest-subtext-in-tv 

Another post unflagged as NSFW

How do you check to see if your posts/reblogs are flagged? Just view them on your dash? (Sorry for the dumb question, I haven’t been on tumblr for a few days and came back to find it all on fire.)

anotherwellkeptsecret:

That’s how I found out. I’m not sure how else you’d do it. Sorry I’m not much help!

Tumblr said they’d email people a list of the flagged posts? I think? But I’m not sure how much time you’ll have between getting that message/alert and December 17th.

They do seem to be pretty quick about unflagging posts once you send in to be reviewed

What does the fandom think about this?

I’ve gone through posts in my tags and I’ve found some that have been flagged but the user hasn’t been active/has deactivated.

What do you think I should do so that we don’t lose these posts?

Reposting with credit? Letting the posts disappear? Saving offsite?

A History of Fandom Purges

olderthannetfic:

megumithegreat:

tsuki-chibi:

whitmerule:

liz-squids:

pearlmaser:

elfwreck:

olderthannetfic:

unclutterme:

olderthannetfic:

I’m curious how many related deletions we can come up with.

  • 2002 – FFN bans porn
  • 2002 – FFN bans RPF
  • 2004 – FFN bans script format
  • 2005 – FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
  • 2007 – Strikethrough, Boldthrough
  • 2009 – GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
  • 2010 – FFN forums deleted
  • 2011 – Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
  • 2012 – major FFN crackdown on porn
  • 2014 – Quizilla shuts down
  • 2015 – Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.

… they deleted Fandom Wank???

Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.

  • 2007 – Youtube starts using its “content ID” system to identify (and block) works that include copyrighted material in their database.
  • 2009 – Greatestjournal shuts down, taking down fandom’s biggest collection of blog-style RPGs
  • 2012 – Megaupload shut down by FBI; some (many?) fanvid archives lost

I thought there was also some kind of purge at Deviantart, but I don’t recall the details.

I’d like to remind folks that there was literally wank last month about why do we need the OTW.

Well, this would be why: we sincerely believed in the internet values of a decade or two ago, which involved owning our own servers if we wanted to see our projects remain stable, in the long term, online.

Worth mentioning: Yahoo purchased GeoCities, and was behind the decision to shut all those sites down. 

Yahoo’s incompetence destroyed Delicious.

Yahoo owns Tumblr.

1356: 50% of monks.

People just… completely forget. I was there for all of the bans on fanfiction.net. You don’t know panic until you go to log in one morning and find out a bunch of your works have been deleted, gone forever, because some asshole arbitrarily decided that they wanted to ban something.

AO3 IS IMPORTANT. IT MATTERS.

I really hope this BS never touches AO3.  Jfc the internet is slowly rotting away as far as fandom communities are concerned.

More is more. Keep your own backups. Post to multiple sites.

But AO3 was set up by fandom olds who were tired of shit getting deleted. It’s about as safe as anything can be.

suzirya:

arkadycosplay:

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

– don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

– archive everything on your blog you want to keep

– tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

– tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

– go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

– support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

For example, here’s a post that explains and links for how to back up your blog

Also, go read the source policies and official Tumblr statements in addition to user analyses and reactions. It’s important to keep abreast of developments over time; staying informed is your power in this situation. Memes and reaction posts are funny and are a useful way to vent / provide commentary, but some of them create an inaccurate picture of what’s happening and should not be taken as evidence on their own of what developments have happened.

nevermindirah:

Shout-out to my fellow Fandom Olds who lived through Strikethrough/Boldthrough on LJ and knew this day would eventually come here on Tumblr.com also

Especial shout-out to the heroes at AO3 who designed their whole operation knowing that every other platform fandom used would pull this bullshit sooner or later

UPDATE *PLEASE READ*

1). Pillowfort is having some technical issues at the moment, but once it’s figured out I should be on! I’ll update here once that’s a thing as well as where you can find me on the internet.

2) The new NSFW filter shouldn’t affect me, since I keep it SFW.

However, it is affecting MANY fandom artists. If you follow any, please please consider supporting their move to a new site if they decide to. Can just be following them on the new site, joining their patreon or reblogging update posts.

3) I’ll be going through the process…the long long process….of backing up fan art that might be taken down on December 17th or after due to the new filters. I’ll be focusing on art that has a 95% chance of being flagged, and the user has deactivated or deleted their account.

Plan is to have a google doc or something similar with deleted art that can be accessed outside of tumblr. Old usernames will linked with the art, and current social media (with descretion as I know not all former fan art creators will want their work connected presently).

***MOST IMPORTANT THING***

4) if Tumblr’s move causes the site to implode in one way or another, I will have no choice but to leave. I won’t continue to work here if it’s for nothing. Again the plan would be to make google docs for people to access meta, theories, etc. And I’ll likely move to pillowfort and have that as my main camp for this blog. Unfortunately, I can’t save everything, there’s just too much. But I’ll save what I can, and what I deem the most important should I have to make a quick exit.