As of this morning, my tumblr – hellenlefay.tumblr.com – no longer exists.  One minute it was there, the next it wasn’t.  I tried opening the dashboard and it said my blog had been terminated, and I could contact support if I didn’t know why this happened.

Um, of course I had no idea why this happened!  If you’ve ever stumbled onto my tumblr, it’s very obvious I’ve put quite a bit of time into the design and content.  I wouldn’t intentionally do anything that would get me removed!  In the recent past I updated my blog to be listed as NSFW, even though I only post pg13 pictures, just in case I was reported for being considered adult content but not listed as such.

So, why was I terminated?  Not warned, not suspended, but my entire account deleted?

Spam and affiliate marketing.

This is the reply I received from Mathieu inTumblr Support:

We’ve terminated your Tumblr account at hellenlefay.tumblr.com for spam or affiliate marketing.  Per the policies you agreed to when creating your account, Tumblr prohibits such activity.
Don’t put deceptive links or dubious code in your posts.  That includes using Javascript to inject unwanted ads in blogs, or embedding links to interstitial or pop-up ad services.  Don’t use deceptive means to generate revenue or traffic, or create blogs with the primary purpose of affiliate marketing.

Let’s break that down to address each point.  First off, I typically post 1-5 posts per day, so that’s hardly spam.  It can’t even be argued that I’m spamming other people through their Ask or Fanmail boxes, because I rarely use them.  Or mine.  As for affiliate marketing, that is not something I’ve ever gotten into.  I truly admire the girls who put the effort into running a successful affiliate system, but really really really I can’t, so no affiliate marketing on my Tumblr.

Deceptive links or dubious code – anything I’ve ever posted has been extremely obvious about where the link goes.  For example, if it says “Clips4Sale”, guess what?  It links to my Clips4Sale page.  Shocker!  The only sort-of-sneaky code I had done was when I put in endless scrolling and disabled right-clicking on my photos.  😉  The last point, about using deceptive means to generate traffic, really threw me… I guess showing my butt is a deceptive way to increase traffic?

The main purpose of my tumblr was promotion – I posted photos of myself and links to my websites.  My posts were PG13.  I was tagged as NSFW as a precaution, because hey, I have some hot friends who post some very hot photos, and I like to reblog them once in a while.  I linked to my profiles on other sites, both on my tumblr blog and in my posts.

My entire account was terminated without warning or suspension.  If you have a tumblr account, PLEASE reblog this post for me – so that maybe a few of my followers will come across it.

This isn’t just happening to me, it’s also happened to a couple of my camgirl friends.  They were terminated without warning as well.

If you’re a camgirl (or really any adult industry person), be aware that tumblr can and will remove your entire account if they don’t like what you post or where your links go.  A few camgirls I speak with have said they will be switching to Blogger; they recently announced they will no longer be accepting adult content on their blogs either, so keep that in mind.

Certain links are also being censored.  Try linking – or even just writing as text – “extralunchmoney.com”.  It will tell you there was an error with your post.  That seems to be tumblr speak for “you can’t post this”.  I tried a few other sites: clips4sale.com, kinkbomb.com, and mygirlfund.com, and they all seem to post just fine for now.  However, a few girls have mentioned that any post containing links will not show up in the dashboard any more.  I don’t know if this is just for blogs marked “nsfw”.

Sharing my posts here isn’t quite as easy as on tumblr, but tweeting my links or sharing them on your social networking sites does help me!  As always, feel free to share this and comment!