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Definition of "porn" is too much different for Pornhub and Tumblr. For former, it's kafkaesque-lovecraftian movies with Hollywood-level effects depicting impossible forms of multi-person sexual intercourse, for latter it's usually just photos of women with uncovered breasts.

I can't remember seeing "real porn" on Tumblr.

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There was plenty of hardcore porn tumblr. But I agree, many of people posted softcore on their main blog, but it was rare to see hardcore reposts on someone's discourse blog.

My ex-girlfriend was a pretty active pornblogger on Tumblr(her own content and reblogging other stuff before it got shut down), believe me there was a pretty big porn community on there, although it's broken down into pretty specific niche categories(like DDLG, CNC, BDSM, etc), but within those niches there's lots of active content creators that are pretty well-known within their little Tumblr social circles.

warning possible triggering content ahead Example, this one guy ran a blog called "Rapebait Academy"(CNC fetish, Google if you're interested I'm not gonna get into that here) where he could post pictures and videos of him with the girls he would meet of Tumblr and what they got up to together(with their consent of course). And anyone who was involved in that little community on Tumblr knew the guy and who you were talking about if you mentioned his name, or at least his blog.

So there's definitely people interested in making content on the platform, people interested in consuming the content, and there's always gonna be people willing to pay out the nose for personalized niche specific content, which will be easy given how Tumblr is a directly creator-to-user platform.

There is clearly a market for tublr style porn, and it is a market that most of the industry refuses to touch.

Pornhub is leveraged to overcome most of the difficulties in that market, which makes tumblr more valuable to them than it is to most companies.

Put another way, most buyers would proceed to (continue to) destroy a significant portion of tumblrs value in order to be willing to operate it. Pornhub would not.

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