Tumblr’s First Year Without Porn. ⇒
8 December 2019, late at night
It’s interesting to see the stats on just how prevalent porn was on the site.
While porn creators belonged to tightly connected subgroups, they were linked to the rest of Tumblr’s network “with a very high number of ties,†and their productions “spread widely across the whole social graph.†In other words, they weren’t quarantined in some illicit corner of the site—they were woven into its basic fabric: The average Tumblr user in the sample followed 51 blogs, two or three of which tended to be specifically pornographic, and another two of which tended to be “bridge†blogs, run by users who were particularly likely to reblog porn.
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