#ao3 does not say 'if you want to use this website it's $9.99 a month

[imwritesometimes]

people saying 'just use an ad-blocker on ff dot net omg 🙄' are missing the point entirely but ok.....

if you allow ads and corporate bullshit on your fandom sites you are welcoming outside corporations to profit off your fan works and eventually dictate what will and will not be allowed on the site. yes ao3 has a yearly donation campaign and will take donations year-round. they also will not take down entire swathes of explicit fic just cause advertisers/corporations want them to. which I think would be more important to ppl since the explicit fic seems to be what everyone clamors for in the first place 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

servers aren't free. websites don't run on magic and fairy dust. lawyers are not on standby just out of the good of their hearts. grow the fuck up.

[babbushka]

Hi, sorry I sometimes have problems with my English and I tried to understand as best as I could what Tumblr Plus is, but there are still things I don't understand. If you don't mind, I'd like to tell you what I understand and ask some things I'm curious about. Can you correct me if there is something I'm wrong? You absolutely don't have to.

Creators can make money and we have to pay a certain price per month to see their special posts. Do we have to pay for each account separately or once a month to Tumblr? (Not that I'm going to pay, I'm just confused)

It's not okay to make money from fanfictions, but Tumblr still offers such an option. Won't they sue for copyrights? I don't know if it's okay to make money from gifs and fanart, but if not, why are they doing this Tumblr plus thing?

What is checkmark? Does it show you're popular/famous like on Instagram and Twitter, or does it show you have a paid account?

It's up to us to chose make money, right? (I guess it applies to users who have reached a certain follower. But still, it's up to us) Is our content at risk even if we choose not to make money?

I saw your post about the need to back up our content. Why would our content at risk with removal if we're not going to make money from it? They don't really sue, do they?

You can ignore me all you want, you don't have to answer! And I want to say that if your writings disappear, I don't know what I would do. Hope your blog and other blogs stay safe ❤

Hello! No worries at all my dear anon, I’m more than happy to answer your questions to the best of my knowledge. I’ll answer your questions in the order you asked them for better understanding :)

A creator choosing to turn on Tumblr+ would put all of their posts behind a monthly payment. This works like Patreon — you pay each blogger separately that you subscribe to, but you pay through tumblr (a horrible idea as your credit card information WILL be vulnernable to being stolen). So for example: if five blogs have Tumblr+ for $9.99, you will have to pay them Each 9.99 every month (a total of almost $50.00 a month) to see their posts.

You are correct, it is Not okay legally to make money off of fanfiction. We can sneak under the radar if one or two people get away with it, but on a massive scale like tumblr encouraging thousands of bloggers to make money off their fanfic/fanart/gifsets, they WILL sue for copyright. We have no idea why tumblr is encouraging this when they know the law.

The checkmark isnt actually a checkmark, it is a little lock near the bloggers url. This only means that the blogger has turned on Tumblr+ and is making you pay to see their posts.

It is up to us to decide if we want to turn on Tumblr+. Follower count has nothing to do with it, it isn’t reserved only for people with large follower counts.

Your content WILL be at risk even if you don’t sign up, because the lawyers will be going after Tumblr as a whole, not the individual bloggers. And if they go after Tumblr, the entire website could likely be shut down.

Trust me, they really do sue. They really do shut down blogs and websites for violating these copyright laws. The only protection we had against the lawyers was because no one was making money off the content. This removes that only protection. If it threatens their money, they WILL fight back at the platform. I have seen it in the past and I know they are not above doing it again — in fact, Tumblr is practically daring them to.

I don’t say all this to do anything other than give you guys the opportunity to seriously give feedback to tumblr and tell them how bad of an idea this is. And, to give everyone a chance to protect yourselves and your content.

I hope that this helped clear anything uo for you, and I’m send you all my love. Don’t you worry, I’ve got all my work backed up, and am in the process of uploading it all to AO3. Hopefully tumblr gets the hint and doesn’t actually make Tumblr+ a real thing.