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Well, not exactly banned, but they have a report button for feedism in SPECIFIC now. As someone who has been on the site for upwards of a decade and made a lot of my lasting friendships there in the feedism community, including friendships with better writers than me that I consider my mentors, this is a HUGE slap in the face. I know it's just one website, but it super duper sucks.

crazy how they justify feedism obscene by just saying it’s glorification of overeating.

It’s a dark day in Mayberry.

Old reference that no one will probably get.

I’m super bummed! I have been making some really nice connections with people on tumblr, and I just hope my account doesn’t get banned. I don’t want to lose my tumblr friends. 😞

Feedism can include fat people enjoying their bodies. It is not EQUAL to that. That's not how that works. Not all fat people are feedists. Not all feedists are fat people. Stating that tumblr allowing feedism to be reportable content means that they are moralizing fat people as a whole... is EXTREMELY harmful to fat people. Fat people's bodies are not solely for sexual spectacles. That's you stating that fat people ONLY exist in the vacuum of fetishism.

When a website has content policies - whether or not I agree with their standard or execution - it isn't about morals. It's about *liability.* Feedism is NSFW, full stop. Feedist content, regardless of what is or is not included, is exclusively for mature audiences. That's true everywhere. If minors and vulnerable adults access that adult-only content and are harmed as a result, that's on Tumblr. That's why those policies exist. Tumblr is not an adult-only site.

Moreover there IS a lot of parallel if not outright equation of disordered eating and feedist content. Some feedists really *are* quite disordered in their eating. That's just an objective truth. Even if the content is fantasy based or not, the fact that it's structured very similarly to other EDs (body focused, checking, extreme behaviors, value scripting around ones' body, and CAN cause harm to ones' body)... they're gonna lump them together because that's content that ONLY adults should consume and engage in.

This is the banning female presenting nipples thing all over again. I was told a lot of weird things go nuked like sand dunes and pictures of food.

Having interacted with ... certain members of this community ... I can understand why feedism is seen as a form of self harm, abuse, or disordered eating. I have spent the past 3 years yelling at these people.

But feedism is not inherently these things. By this logic, BDSM is inherently abuse, but most people understand it's not.

Yeah, I can see something like this happening. A fat person posts a picture of a taco or themselves enjoying said taco. Then they get reporting for feedism. Someone has a body positivity account? Reported for feedism.

I can see this being used against the ED recovery community. One of the things I see them to is show off their weight gain or talk about gaining weight positively. Some troll would 100% report them for feedism.

They have in the past but it was a general ban. Now I hear it has been localized. Not surprised. Would just leave the site at this rate.

I already explained where the line is. The content is SOLELY for mature adults and it exists on a site that is NOT exclusive to adult viewership. That's the line.

It's not about your feelings. And fat people =/= feedism. Continuing to center ONLY your experience in it devalues fat people as a whole. Because you're then saying that fat people MUST be feedists, and that's not the case.

I'm not saying this as a theory. I'm saying this as someone who's had to moderate content before. It's not about you, it's about liability.

Not all fat people are feedists. Obviously most of them are not. But fatphobia is irrational and draws no distinction. Look at the comments of any picture or video anywhere of any fat person doing literally anything, and you'll find every fatphobic comment imagineable. If those people realize they can now report some of that content, they will do so.

It won't matter to them that there's a distinction between regular fat people and active feedists. Most of them believe obesity is a personality flaw by default. Make no mistake, there will be people who abuse that feature by reporting fat people they don't like in bad faith. If moderation is done with bots, as is increasingly the case, many won't understand context clues enough to tell the difference.

And I can imagine what it would be like for a plus-sized content creator posting body positivity content to try helping with their self-image issues having some of that content pulled down because it promotes obesity. That would be immensely discouraging.

Put your 4D goggles on (tehee) It’s banned because, the hidden elites want to control your bodily autonomy.

How can you be sold a product if you go against the status quo?

Weight gain is only acceptable if it is rooted in trauma or if you can be marketed to.

Tumblr pushes hateful rhetoric while banning something that actually encourages self love.

This isn’t simply about banning because it’s explicit, but because it no longer follows the narrative we’re expected to follow.

It’s literally under self harm which is not true. It’s self love.

The site is full of so much NSFW content anyways.

Tumblr is just a sinking ship of a bygone era anyways!