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Keep reading for a heartfelt goodbye from Ugly, Ugly Emptiness, a Tumblr blog I loved ...

(All images via Michael Stokes)

Months ago, I wrote about how Tumblr was absurdly censoring the physique photography of Michael Stokes.

Now that the platform has decided to ban all erotic content — see here — starting December 17, you can be they'll lose users in a mass exodus to ... well, anywhere else.

In the meantime, check out some of the imagery (again, by Stokes) that Tumblr definitely thinks is too hot to handle:

(Image via Tumblr)

In response to complaints that its platform allowed child pornography to run rampant, and instead of addressing that problem surgically, Tumblr's CEO has announced the social media platform will ban ALL pornographic imagery.

In a lengthy post — which could be entitled WE TOTALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHO USES US — the new changes were laid bare, and will take effect December 17:

First, if you work at Tumblr Trust & Safety, you're bad at your job. (Image via Tumblr)

Gifted fine-arts photographer Michael Stokes, the go-to guy for physique imagery that is not just cut, but a cut above the rest, is stumped after Tumblr — a veritable Wild West of hardcore and selfies of young people of indeterminate age — removed his chaste Kickstarter video for being too sexy.

(Image by Michael Stokes)

Stokes has already been harassed by Facebook over the fine line between nudity and nekkid dudes.

Keep reading for the too-hot-for-Tumblr video ...

VIDEO: Married parish prez Mike Yenni admits to sexting 17-year-old guy, asks to keep job.

Former Miss Utah—an unlikely state where Hillary is surging—recalls “gross” unwanted kisses from Trump.

If Hillary sexually harassed men like Trump sexually harasses women ...

Miss Teen USA 2010 says she was told Trump “doesn't like black people.”

To win the title in almost a decade - I was forewarned prior to meeting him that, "Mr. Trump doesn't like black people. So don't take it..."

— Kamie Crawford (@TheRealKamie) October 12, 2016

My dirty Tumblr is particularly filthy lately. (Work Unfriendly — A Lot)

http://boycultureblog.tumblr.com/post/150594925599

Meet Gavin Grimm, who is 17 and transitioning from female to male in high school — AFTER THE JUMP ...

Thomas Calabro on my new fave Tumblr. (With a correct link finally.)

Robert Conrad's backstory

A new Tumblr launches, dedicated to captured—in a sexily low-tech way—all those hot men 'n' boys who give you boners in reruns.

I've seen most of these males on MeTV and other nostalgia stations, even if I don't know all of their names. (Robert Conrad being an obvious exception!)

Love a good list: Check out Tumblr's list of top LGBTQ stories of 2015.