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Someone’s been reporting Undertale AU blogs for no reason. If this blog goes down, I will be fighting it.

Signal boosting this because it’s important. I’m already taking steps to backup the IF blog, but I’m wary of sharing the url just yet due to this mass reporting spree.

This is not okay. Not in the slightest. Several of my friends’ blogs have already been struck down.

Okay, gonna add to this that I know that The More Things Change, Epictale, the original Team Switched blog, Mamar11, and several smaller askblogs were hit by this. I’m sure there are others, too. It doesn’t seem to be strictly restricted to sprite comics and seems to be specifically hitting Undertale blogs. If you know UT content creators, I suggest warning them just to be safe.

I wonder if part of this has to do with updated Tumblr terms of service in some other countries increasing the minimum age for users. I saw some posts about it awhile back warning people that it was upcoming. 

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! This could actually be the real cause of at least some of the terminations. I did some looking, and here’s what I found…

“The updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy go into effect
on 25 Ma‍y 20‍18. If you continue to use Tumblr on or after 25 Ma‍y
20‍18, you are agreeing to the updated Terms of Service and our use of
your data as set out in our Privacy Policy. If you don’t want the
updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to apply to you, you can
delete your account and stop using Tumblr. Please note that under our updated Terms of Service, users in the European Economic Area must be at least 16 years old
(or the lower age that your country has provided for you to consent to
the processing of your personal data) in order to use Tumblr.“

We are not 100% sure yet, but if this is the real cause, then this is still hugely important for any European content creators and fans. Have there been other posts about bloggers under 16 getting terminated? I’m trying to find info but am not sure where to start looking.

Basically, we should consider this as a possibility! After all, this did start happening on the 25th of May.

IMPORTANT UPDATE. PLEASE READ!

We have word that other blogs outside this fandom are being suspended. Blogs run by European users under the age of 16. One such blog was Jesterartist. While this does not explain blogs like Team Switched or Epictale being shut down, it is entirely possible that at least some of the terminations are a result of the new European ToS.

I think at this stage, we need to shift to reaching out to young content creators and encouraging them to save/backup their content. There are a LOT of young users in this fandom who could be affected by this, if they aren’t already.

Unfortunately, this is not something tumblr can really change. It is based in European laws. I did some research, and it is affecting other websites as well as tumblr. Here is what I found…

‘1.   Where point (a) of Article 6(1)
applies, in relation to the offer of information society services
directly to a child, the processing of the personal data of a child
shall be lawful where the child is at least 16 years old. Where the
child is below the age of 16 years, such processing shall be lawful only
if and to the extent that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.

Member States may provide by law for a lower age for those purposes provided that such lower age is not below 13 years.

‘

Now, some websites are simply changing the way data processing works for users 13 – 15 and requiring a parental proxy. Tumblr seems to have decided it does not want anyone under the age of 16 in Europe. You can see the full details here.

I am not here to dispute this with tumblr, but I am here to give you all a warning that they are not backing down on this. Instead of giving people time to save their content, they are just automatically suspending accounts from European countries that are too young. One of my friends lost a lot of art because he’d only saved it on his tumblr. Please reach out to young content creators at this stage. We may have had the initial cause wrong, but this is still very important.