OKAY so I saw this a few days ago and was like “whatever” but then I smashed my phone in a car door, had to clean up some dead baby bunnies in my yard, and have just generally NOT had a good week. I’m fucking spooked and I’m reblogging this twice to get the universe to stop.
I ignored this too and then i got kicked out of my house. Also reblogging twice.
one of the most annoying things is making OCs cause like, i’ll develop their character and design but slowly they become their own thing entirely and i’m just holding the scraps of who they were supposed to be and instead they’re basically running away naked across a field while flipping me the bird
i think someone i follow just turned into a bot???????? like since last night all they’ve posted are reblogs of fishy linked posts titled “Hot Girl Online” originating from the same deactivated blog and reblogged via another obvious bot blog. i’m losing my mind. they were a real person a day or two ago. what happened
I’ve been seeing this a lot, like a post that’s clearly a bot post shows up in my recommended posts and I go to the blog to report/block in and the first couple of posts are the spammy bullshit…and then the rest is…pretty much what you would expect from a typical Tumblr blog…
yeah someone else reblogged this and said in the tags they’d noticed bot posts on their dash too… so it’s obviously a thing. i already knew bots regularly seize deactivated urls for use, but these blogs don’t appear to have been deactivated before being seized, which is somewhat concerning. part of me wonders if the massive droves of people leaving for other social media in wake of the 17th have just left unprecedented numbers of urls open for swiping, or if something more sinister is happening here. it seems possible that they’re actually taking over active and/or archived accounts, but it’s unclear how they’d go about that, so i’m not jumping to any conclusions yet.
definitely unsettling though. i hope this mystery gets solved soon. i’ll be keeping a much closer eye on my archived blogs in the meantime
okay so it seems the most likely culprit has been found (thanks to other users more bot savvy than i)
basically it’s what happens when people end up giving permissions to fishy linked accounts and services like “2mblr” promising to back up their blog or give them unfollow notifications or whatever, which inadvertently gives the service permission to make posts and hijack the user’s account for bot shit. if this happens to you, it’s actually a relatively easy fix as long as you still have access to your account
essentially you just need to remove the linked service and you should have full control of your blog again. to be super safe you could also change your password after regaining control of the account, but i don’t think that should be necessary.
anyway, if you (like me) don’t have any linked 3rd party accounts, you shouldn’t have anything to worry about at the moment. if anyone you follow starts posting bot shit, try to contact them to let them know what’s happening and how to fix it. always be wary of giving your info to any 3rd party services!
All of these posts link back to original posts of other blogs, I mostly made this for myself but decided to make it shareable, please respect the following:
If you click through to ANY of these posts, even if you don’t use them, reblog them individually if you’re going to like/reblog this post.
The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW.
This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.
So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST.
Times are listed above depending on timezone!
This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over!
