Anyone else getting a lot of gross clickbait spam on the tags they check lately?
@staff I hope you’re doing something, because 10 out of 15 posts being things like “you were pooping wrong all this time!!” when I’m just looking for cute pictures of characters is a bit fucking much.
Enormous amounts of gross clickbait. You basically get ten good posts, and then seas of clickbait spam.
I suspect tumblr’s just fine with this: clickbait means more clicks through which means more advertising views which means they profit. It’s really not about the user experience, here.
I resonate with your cynicism in my soul, but those are all a relatively small number of Russian tumblrs generating remarkable volumes of spam. Which probably means 1: they’re violating site policy 2: they’re part of a campaign run by cybercriminals to exploit Tumblr to either drive users to really bad porn sites at profit of the spammers, or to infect users’ computers with malware.
I doubt Tumblr’s on board with having their own resources abused for somebody else’s profit. Especially if it gets bad enough that it starts interrupting service.
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