Something is happening on Tumblr again.....

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Do you still remember "Ask Princess Molestia" and how it got taken down?
Well, something similar is happening again now.
Jaxonians askblog "Ask Fapplebloom" got hit and shut down by Tumblr and it wasn't even the first time.
The reason according to Tumblr was, that his blog violated the community guidelines in regards to the "No inappropriate content involving minors" rule.
Now, it's true that his blog is basically about Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle who opened up a brothel in their clubhouse and who await all types of customers there.
But it was not violating the guidelines in any way, since the blog was not only purely satirical, but also never showed sex scenes.
More detailed than some suggestive language and scenes after the "action" (without visible genitals) did the blog never become.
There was never a single strip that showed "minors involved in something inappropriate".
Aside from this, the minors in his comic are horses from a cartoon show, which makes it kinda silly that Tumblr treats his blog as real child porn.
It's unfortunately one of these cases again where Tumblr just takes something down that disgusts the staff personally and where the rules get construed by Tumblr in favor of it's aversion against certain blogs.
What Tumblr does here is not something morally right, it's rather a suppression of freedom of expression as well of Jaxonian's artistic freedom with his blog.
Why do I write this journal now?
Jaxonian is asking for help in this case:

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He asks us to write to the Tumblr support and to speak up for his blog in hope to get it back.
If you're a fan of his blog, please write a message to the Tumblr support, tell them that you are not fine with it that his blog got shut down and demand that they backpedal on this and give him his blog back.
And even if you're not watching his blog, even if you have an aversion against Foalcon yourself, please think a moment about it and consider writing to Tumblr's support.
Tumblr is suppressing artists and doesn't even care about it's own rules; if it does not like a blog, it takes it down no matter if the blog is violating the rules or not.
With that unpredictability, it could happen to any blog; if you have a blog on your own, even yours could be the next.
But not if enough people show Tumblr that this behavior is not right and that it has to overthink it's policy about blogs.
And especially not if we show Tumblr that we don't just sit there and silently watch anymore.
Even if you don't approve of his blog's content personally, please step up for the freedom of artists on Tumblr by contacting their support.
You can contact the Tumblr support here:

www.tumblr.com/support

If you write the support, please make sure to emphasize on it why his blog is not violating the guidelines:

1. It's completely fictional.

2. It's only satirical.

3. Minors are not depicted in any inappropriate activities on his blog.


Please support Jaxonian and try to help him out of this desaster, he needs us now and it's a good deed for every other artist on Tumblr too!
Together we can do it! /)
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Jonathan432's avatar
I fully agree with the ideas Tumblr hates freedom of expression/Artist Freedom. I made my own post around your Journal/Fapplebloom getting terminated over posting Fiction stuff.