#verification check mark

[netscapenavigator-official]

The reason @staff probably hasn’t made the checkmarks turn into crabs yet is because they know when they do, someone is gonna go kicking and screaming to support about how it was such a waste of money and demand a refund. Like, hun, we paid for some deactivated sub-pixels. It was always that.

[tomatodiscourse]

i would like a check mark in the shape of a tomato. just so we know where we all stand

[fauvian]

what the fuck happened to tumblr in the last 4 years.. i

[rosewind2007]

Removal of verification badges is a largely manual process powered by a system prone to breaking, which draws on a large internal database - similar to an Excel spreadsheet - in which verification data is stored, according to the former employees. Sometimes, an employee would try to remove a badge but the change wouldn't take, one of the former employees said, prompting workers to explore workarounds. In the past, there was no way to reliably remove badges at a bulk scale - prompting workers tackling spam, for example, to have to remove check marks one-by-one.

I don’t care if this turns out to be untrue—in my heart it IS TRUE!

[sudhartech]

Twitter Blue Tick subscribers may now conceal their blue checks!.

Twitter Blue Tick subscribers Twitter Blue Tick subscribers may now conceal their blue checks!. Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is now renaming as X Blue, now includes the ability to conceal the notorious blue checkmark. Twitter Blue users have just discovered the ���Hide Your Blue Checkmark” option on the site and in mobile apps, which allows them to conceal the fact that they pay for Twitter and…

[newsbites]

What do Beyoncé and Pope Francis have in common? As of today, they are no longer verified on Twitter.

The social media giant began removing the once-coveted blue check verification from thousands of accounts on Thursday.

The move comes as owner Elon Musk attempts to overhaul the social media company to turn a profit.

[marisamakesthings]

Twitter really said “sorry you have to pay for 2 step verification”??? Meanwhile every other app insists on it for free. Really??!

They just keep digging themselves deeper huh?

[lokidokeyartichoki]

ur a Tumblr celebrity to me!!

Awww thank you friend

[kyra45]

Keys guide to scam spotting

Hi! I’m Key/Jess and I’ll be giving you a detailed explanation on how to spot scam accounts with commonly known examples such as what they do or what to look out for. All this information is meant to serve as a post that can be easily understood with information of my own and tips of my own. Any tips I give here is my own and any resemblance to other info is entirely a coincidence. I will make this post as accessible as possible for ease of readability so it is all plain text and no big letters beside the top so it has a title. This is mostly based around pet donation scammers but can be used to spot other scams as well.

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What is a scam post on tumblr? A scam post is when someone is using information that isn’t their own and claiming they need money but are using a stolen story as theirs. Their situation, while it is real most of the time, is actually from another site and isn’t their situation. Usually a search of it will show any posts but this works best if you used Google or another search engine. However, this process isn’t always reliable. Scam posts are posts that are not truthful and deceive users into donating by having stolen content.

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There are a few things to keep in mind that will help you figure out if an account contacting you is a scammer and usually, most of the time, you will find it is a legitimate person if you just kindly ask them for verification with any personal details removed. However, some blogs will never reply and may block you or ignore you because they don’t have any interest in proving who they are. It’s not uncommon for these scammers to wave away questions or turn off anon asks or asks off overall so no one can ask them anything. They may even turn off messages to further prevent any concerns being addressed and try to avoid suspicion.

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One thing to keep in mind is how the account contacting you would have located you. Do you have a popular post that’s breached containment? Did you share a post that may be trending or fandom related? Any of these may lead to someone contacting you an asking you for donations be it through asks or direct messages. If your DMs are closed, the account may send you an ask telling you to message them first because they are desperate and then when contacted they ask you for like a thousand dollars on the spot. If you wonder why I suggest limiting your messages, it’s because people don’t like getting these and will mark it as spam. Scammers also do this to avoid public confrontation. But know not everyone doing this is scamming.

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Another thing to keep in mind is how the ask was worded that the account sent you. Did it tell you to answer privately because they don’t want anyone calling them a spammer or because they would prefer you to message them instead? This is a very common type of scam ask and one that’s unfortunately extremely easy to get and see if you share trending/popular posts. Most often these are asks related to a sick pet by a blog that is only an hour old or a week old if you check the date of their pinned post. If they detect even the slighted doubt in your reply or question back? They block you.

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Lastly, it doesn’t hurt to also ask questions to the blog who contacts you and see if they can provide clarification on anything you may be concerned over. This can be showing more images with personal info edited out or explaining any discrepancies in the info they supplied. For example, it could be how the images their using don’t match up with their information or how the story their using doesn’t seem to make sense because it’s not collaborating with any specific details they had already given. It may also be the supporting link they supply doesn’t match up the currency they request because the county doesn’t use the specific kind of currency they claim to need. More so if they don’t give any currency conversion rates. You can also check for backdated posts by turning on timestamps and checking the date of the first post if it’s easy to locate and seeing if it matched the reblog date in ‘other notes’. Some accounts will make posts look older in order to be deceptive and make the account look older then it really is.

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Additionally, some scams are blogs who connect you saying they can help you but they want to give you a check and ask you to cash it or give them your banking information and phone number. These blogs are never legitimate people wanting to help you if your post has links that lead to ways to send support. Their are legitimate people who would help you that don’t ask for personal information using a blog that has no pfp, no bio, and has no posts. Treat these kind of blank accounts as bots. Report them and block them.

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In closing, it is necessary to research the information you see in some posts and accounts to make sure it is a legitimate blog and not a scammer trying to make a quick buck. Not every blog you see asking for help is a scam account and generally most of them can easily provide proof their legitimate such as having several close friends, a blog that’s extremely old with tons of posts, or provides plenty of information in their posts that clearly explains their situation and shows the images they use is their own and don’t resort to a temper tantrum when questioned or when concerns are brought up.

If you found this post useful, feel free to share it or add your own tips to it! This is just based around my own personal encounters over the months of compiling information.

[mishkatelwarriorgoddess]

Protecting any minors who happen upon my page

the purpose of this post is to set clear guidelines and expectations regarding this blog’s 18+ rule. due to the sexual nature of some of this blog’s content, minors are strictly prohibited from viewing, interacting with, and sharing any of its posts. to find out more about what this means and why this boundary is important, keep reading.

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erotica is allowed on tumblr.

as stated in the “adult content” section of tumblr’s help center, written adult content (erotica) is permitted on tumblr:

“Examples of exceptions that are permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery. Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, and nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations, are also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr.” [source]

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it’s illegal for adults to distribute explicit content to minors.

according to the united states’ justice department, the distribution of inappropriate content to minors is illegal:

“It is illegal for an individual to knowingly use interactive computer services to display obscenity in a manner that makes it available to a minor less than 18 years of age (See 47 U.S.C. § 223(d) –Communications Decency Act of 1996, as amended by the PROTECT Act of 2003).” [source]

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tumblr is a website where anyone 13 or older can make an account. it also permits explicit written content that can’t be viewed by minors. what’s the solution?

both erotica writers and minors have responsibilities to make sure all laws are being followed, and everyone’s being kept safe.

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blog owners must include disclaimers on explicit content and block any minors they knowingly come in contact with.

this blog commits to clearly marking any explicit content as such and providing a link to this thorough guide; additionally, on all of this blog’s main posts (navigation, masterlist, etc.) a generalized 18+ disclaimer will be included to make sure any minors who come across this page will see it.

this blog also commits to blocking and ceasing engagement with any other blog they find out is breaking age limits. blogs with a large following cannot be expected to check each and every blog that interacts with it for age verification, but should an explicit blog ever become aware of a minor disregarding their 18+ disclaimers, they must immediately take steps to block them and prevent them from consuming their content further.

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minors must follow guidelines.

by providing clear and concise disclaimers and blocking all minors they knowingly encounter, blogs with explicit content are doing their part to keep their blog in line with federal laws and minor free. for this to be an effective system at keeping minors safe, individuals under 18 must respect disclaimers when they see them.

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explicit content isn’t suitable for minors because they don’t have the capacity/understanding to consent to viewing such content; they absolutely do have the capacity to read and follow disclaimers.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Give us back the Tumblr Reaper app icon. Pretty please @staff ? I’ll buy more checkmarks if you do.

[marlinspirkhall]

If my body had Tumblr:

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🎭 vagus-nerve 🐾

Imagine paying for verification

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⏫ gratuitypituitary

Normalise headaches

🧠 mr-brain ✅☑️ follow

Wtf? un-normalise headaches! un-normalise them now!

✨ Adrenaaaaaaaathegland follow

Okay! Upping your dosage so you get a migraine immediately!

🧠 mr-brain ✅☑️ follow

NONONONONONO-

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🎭 vagus-nerve 🐾

something bad is happening

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🫁 Didyaheardiaphragm

Daily reminder that I'm Staff, and no-one is hyperventilating without my permission.

〰️ Alveoli follow

Um okay, but someone just sprayed an aerosol nearby, so we're going on strike.

🎭 vagus-nerve 🐾

EXACTLY! We need to STOP breathing regular and START getting ORGANISED. And you should feel BAD ABOUT IT!!!!

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🩻 16thvertebra

WHO'S TOUCHING ME???

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🧠 mr-brain ✅☑️ follow

Btw I didn't pay for verification. I was gifted these important internet check marks by my followers.

🎲 las-vagaaaaaas-nerve

What followers lol...

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🩻 15thand2ndvertebra

Screamiiiiing, no one knows it was me who started the headache 🤭

🦴 rib

Tbh the diaphragm has been pushing us hard recently, I would have caused a headache too

🦴 left-femur-official

Ummm @rib, your profile picture is cultural appropriation

💀 right-femur

honestly I think he's allowed to use it if it's funny

☠️ house-of-brainsier

Yeah. This guy gets it.

🦴 left-femur-official

OH WHAT THE FUCK??

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🟥 endometrium

where the fuck am i

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🌏 itsfrontalglooooobebiiiiiich follow

make up your mind... is it a tension headache or PMS?

🕵🏻 left-eye-socket

Yeah literally why am I always dragged into this bullshit. @mr-brain go fuck yourself

🧠 mr-brain ✅☑️ follow

You're literally supposed to love and support me through difficult times but okay

😱 central-nervousness

Bitch doesn't even have pain receptors and he's playing the victim...

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🟥 endometrium

Is this... My fault? No. It's the ovaries that are wrong.

[verifying-gimmick-posts]

Could you verify the blog @i-say-ok ?

I'm not sure if it is genuine...

My initial thought was to check every post and reblog on this blog to see if anything other than "ok." has ever been posted, however this blog has seemingly been used as a personal blog for almost a year now with well over 3,000 posts, so instead I just spent an hour scrolling through each month on the Archive page. My hope was to create a spreadsheet, but this is the best I could do in my time.

Semantically, you could argue that from their first reblog they said something other thank "ok", that being "ok." with a period, but it's obvious the goal of this blog is just to respond to everything with a variation on "ok" and not exclusively "ok" in lowercase with no formatting. However, they have in the past used words other than "ok" in the tags when contextually appropriate (f-slur in source). The full list of words they've said in the tags, according to the Tumblr Archive page from Dec 3 2022 to Oct 27 2023, are as follow:

bugs

cw

eyestrain

f

flash

flashing

long

minor

oo

post

slur

transphobes

tw

unreality

warning

Counting the blog name, they've also said "i" and "say".

In terms of variations on "ok", the blog has used:

Punctuation marks (question marks, exclamation points, ellipsis, variations and combinations thereof, etc) [secondary source containing post content instead of tags]

Differing capitalization

Repetition

Emoticon

Emoji

Ascii art, font colors, typographical symbols

Strikethrough

Differing text formatting

There isn't typically much to verify with gimmick blogs that are just doing a consistent bit compared to gimmick blogs claiming to present facts (thus the lack of verification status), especially considering how such aforementioned blogs work solely off of semantics and their own loosely defined (if any) rules. Despite this, I had fun navigating this blog in order to determine what the unspoken rules of "i-say-ok" are. For instance, "Okay" is not allowed. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

[1eos]

tumblr check mark users making fun of the tumblr ceo has a check mark on twitter when the tumblr check mark was inspired by the twitter checkmark and the tumblr check mark is even more embarrassing bc there's no genuine verification system so it's just a road side idiot dressed like a clown trying to shit on a rodeo clown. you're both clowns but one has a real job

[riepu10]

@whiteboarfilms.com So I gather there is no blue check mark on here. But the verification is my domain @whiteboarfilms which we are all familiar with. ‘Loyalty Binds Me’ Anything else is simply a fake account. All set.

Richard's Bluesky profile

[ressu-rection]

Astral, astral, astral

Yes! This is a fantastic way to connect with spouses, ancestors, deities and other spirits but some of us have ptsd, have a really difficult time with dreaming in general, or have adhd and can’t remember to write down the fact that we had a dream about finding an extra vape pod or all the other pieces of dream we had so…

Here’s all the decks I use in my day to day to more effectively communicate with my spouse and my family

This is also helps give verification to intuition as well, I’ve been tapped into those I communicate with, claircognizantly, since I was a toddler but my brain can get in the way and (often) be wrong, so the cards and asking the spirits outright has checked me numerous times and has helped fill in the blanks that my 3rd eye can’t. This is also great for those of us with impulsive thoughts that are easily confused with clairvoyance and for low spoon days where our frontal lobe is barely hanging on.

1) My yes or no tarot deck marked with answers from Sibyl. Why Sibyl? They are a fantastic resource for tarot info in general and their answers are more expansive. “No opinion, probably no, probably yes, cautious yes, cautious no, enthusiastic yes, profound no” etc. Not sponsored, just a fan lol

2) Regular tarot deck but with descriptions for easy access to meanings, elements and astrological associations

3) Feelings deck and Needs deck. These decks are helpful when they are clearly distressed but I can’t figure out what exactly it is that’s bothering them so when I pull a need/feeling, I know how to better help and/or give me more context to figure it out (they also have a version with descriptions if you have trouble with the definitions of emotions (I’ve had to look up the meaning of “contempt” numerous times lol))

4) Meme deck. I personally just use the picture cards tho. I use this for both “looking around the room” to see what’s happening with each of them or just to give me a loose idea of how they are reacting to what I’m saying. Also good for lightening a mood lol

5) “What’s the tea?” deck. This deck is fantastic for clarifiers! This deck can also tell my autistic ass when my husband is just pulling my leg which is more handy than you will ever know lol

You don’t need to rely on your intuition to fill out all the blanks, you don’t need to be a super psychic in order to have decently smooth communication with spirits, it’s okay and valid to have tools.

Etsy