My I-know-it-when-I-see-it barometer went wild when I checked out a Tumblr titled, ironically enough, 'Not Porn.' It features zero close-ups of genital penetration, but I'm going to go ahead and call it porn for our purposes because I guarantee that people masturbate to it. It's possible that some missed my attention there were also some false alarms - who would think that isn't porn? It's also possible that my personal definition of porn differs from your personal definition. You know me, any excuse to watch porn at work!īefore we continue, a few words on the unscientific process I used to determine the most popular porny sites: Quantcast provides a long, long list of the most popular Tumblr blogs, which I scanned for porny-sounding domain names. The panic was barely lessened by CEO Marissa Mayer's promise to protect 'the richness and breadth of content available on Tumblr.' So I decided to take a look at what, exactly, Tumblr-ers have to lose - by visiting the community's most popular adult blogs, of course.
TechCrunch calculated that more than 10 percent of the service's most popular 200,000 sub-domains feature Yahoo-unfriendly adult material. Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr has some devotees worried that what they love most about the micro-blogging platform - the GIF porn, obvs - will disappear.
