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Flickr and Tumblr have more in common than just the inability to buy a vowel. If the kind of things I've seen on Flickr have been allowed to exist for years under the Yahoo umbrella, I can't imagine that Tumblr's risque content is in any danger.

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:O How deep did you go? I've never seen anything more risque than you'd see in a museum or art gallery on Flickr.

I found "compromising" pictures of a friend of a friend on flickr once. That having been said, it was shocking to find it on flickr, I can't think of any other time I saw content anywhere near that "vulgar". Certainly in my experience, flick is like .5% as "porny" as tumblr.

Tumblr has a massive amount of hardcore porn gifs and jpgs. Flickr does not.

Flickr has a massive amount of hardcore jpgs. That's where a lot of the images posted on Tumblr come from. Flickr just does a decent job of hiding it from the average user.

Here is a good (and mostly SFW as far as images) Flickr group that advises on how to work within Flickr's terms of service: http://www.flickr.com/groups/unsafe/

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