Nudity comes back to Tumblr, but sexually explicit images still banned
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At a time when Elon Musk has just begun fiddling with Twitter's knobs in attempts to make it more money, the possibility that Tumblr could rise back up as a profitable social media giant simply by allowing some users to post nude pics again is a prospect that has left many Twitter users nakedly giddy.
Tweets garnering tens of thousands of likes may be joking when they call Tumblr's recent announcement-confirming that it would no longer restrict content featuring nudity, mature subject matter, or sexual themes"-a death blow" to Twitter, which many users are already threatening to abandon. However, it appears Tumblr's decision could lure Twitter users away.
Earlier this year, The New Yorker reported that Tumblr was already attracting a younger demographic that other social platforms like Facebook and Twitter want to attract. And other tweets reacting to Tumblr's announcement received just as many likes simply out of enthusiasm for the return of nudity on Tumblr, seemingly indicating that some of the users who fled Tumblr when it banned adult content in 2018 would be willing to come back.