But then someone told me about #pornstagram, and yep, there you go.
Depending on when you query it, the #porno tag is either pretty lame or shows full-on nudity. There’s no #porn or #sex on Instagram, at least not that which you can query up by tag, that is. That’s why it’s interesting how the three social services far on other NSFW topics. When is a photo art, versus something encouraging a disease? Searches reveal this is still a popular topic for its users.Įven Instagram isn’t immune to this community, which is incredibly tough to police. Pinterest, which enacted a similar ban on thinspo and other self-harm imagery, a month after Tumblr did, has also apparently had a tough time keeping thinspo off its site. Sadly, these are mostly fashion industry photos, so what can you do? And yet today, thinspo searches on Tumblr bring back hundreds of posts of jetting collarbones, ribs poking out, thighs that don’t touch, and more. Tumblr seemingly took a more proactive stance in its bans, announcing it would apply the policy on a blog-by-blog basis. This includes the cult of the “thinspo” posters, who like to find “inspirational” imagery encouraging and celebrating their anorexia-induced starvation. After all, Tumblr houses, like, a lot of porn.īoth services aim to help their members find platforms for self-expression, one through pinning images for inspiration, the other through blogging, and both have also had to fight unwanted content on their networks.įor example, both Tumblr and Pinterest recently implemented changes to their Terms of Service banning self-injury and self-harm. I was just curious about the type of not-so-mommy-friendly content that might be popping up on what’s now the third-most popular social network after Facebook and Twitter. Wow, Pinterest’s porn section is fairly tame.