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GIFs weren't the only way Tumblr fans expressed their porny love for their favorite "ships" (relationships) there was fanfiction, fan art, and photo edits compiled into "sets." Fans queered a TV show that wasn't canonically LGBTQ at all. What can - or should - we learn from porn? Sometimes, faceless porn GIFs served as fantasies of mainstream celebrities or characters. Seconds from a porn scene were extracted from their original states and rendered however the editor wanted: slower or faster, black and white or oversaturated.
"By snipping out super short moments and decontextualizing that from the rest of the piece, Tumblr porn - GIF porn - allowed fans to read into the grain of what the original porn was saying," MacDonald explained. Actual explicit videos were often turned into GIFs, too. GIF porn was a cornerstone on Tumblr overall, whether connected to television or not. And that was really where the Tumblr fan community became pornographers themselves."
"The fans on Tumblr had the ability to make things erotic that were not initially intended to be erotic," said MacDonald. By, say, GIFing a glance between two characters (like the brothers on Supernatural), Tumblr users decontextualized moments and rendered them sensual. Porn often bled into Tumblr fandom communities. Maggie MacDonald, researcher at the University of Toronto The fans on Tumblr had the ability to make things erotic that were not initially intended to be erotic. This porn was, by contrast, more loving, more queer, or even just a bit "weirder." Tumblr was a place where people - especially queer teens - could view porn that wasn't on what MacDonald called "straight sites" like Pornhub. student at the University of Toronto researching pornography platforms. "I really associate Tumblr with fans and fandom," said Maggie MacDonald, a Ph.D. The latter would oft delve in pornography themselves. Indeed there was Tumblr was home to much "SFW" art and writing, "aesthetic" content, regular ol' shitposting, and fandom communities. There was so much explicit content on Tumblr, pretty or not, that Noire didn't know there was anything else on the social network. "Most people might not even label it 'pornography.'" "People actually put some time, energy, and effort into something beautiful that might have just been erotic art," Noire continued. While it's possible to find such stylistic content elsewhere, it boomed on Tumblr. The term "Tumblr porn" is sometimes akin to "pretty porn," or explicit images with soft lighting and exquisite posing. "There was a certain aesthetic" to Tumblr porn, explained sex worker and porn performer King Noire, who used Tumblr alongside his partner and fellow performer, Jet Setting Jasmine. There was nowhere else on the internet like Tumblr - and, unfortunately, due to current and potential legislation, that's likely to stay the case. Prior to Tumblr's "adult content" ban in 2018, a swift decision by the company to remove all sexually explicit posts, the site was a hub for sex workers, queer kids, and anyone else who wanted to display their sexual interests alongside different aspects of their personality. "I just…built everything, my following and everything like that by myself," she said, "just running a Tumblr blog."įor Raphael and many others, Tumblr was a place to express not just sexuality, but an "alternative" sexuality not popular in the mainstream at the time: tattooed porn, LGBTQ porn, and fetish porn, sometimes inspired by a beloved TV or movie. Then, in 2010, she joined the microblog site Tumblr - and she found her audience. "I didn't fit the beauty standards of the porn industry back then," she told Mashable. When porn performer Arabelle Raphael entered the adult industry over a decade ago, she found it difficult to find work because of her tattoos.
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