Second Life Flickr User Posts Semi-Nude Protest Against Flickr's Coming Changes Blocking Nude Images from Unpaid Accounts

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When I saw this pic from Sparklebottom Lasertits I laughed and knew exactly her point. Flickr has made some unpopular changes in the past year to encourage people to subscribe. As she writes in a long comment attached to this image: 

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Flickr will be making some changes to free accounts soon. Namely, free accounts will no longer be able to post moderate or restricted content. [I.E., images with nudity or porn. -WJA] That will now require a Flickr Pro subscription. There are other changes, but that is the biggest one driving Flickr’s business model from this point forward. This is the change I wish to address...

Flickr needs to make money. I get it. How? I don’t know. Will their current plan work? I very much doubt it. I’d like to see the data in a year or so from now to see the revenue they make from converted accounts compared to how much they lose from members quitting the platform completely. They may think that losing free accounts is not really a loss, but regardless of whether their customers pay or not, losing customers is never a good thing...

Read the whole thing here. I too hope Flickr finds a way to make money because it would really suck if they shut down. I think you can tell from her name that Sparklebottom is not shy. I love her stream but it took a while to find some Google-friendly pics. 

For more thought-provoking pics, click here:

This untitled pic is a clever way of capturing the idea of perspective in understanding people. Frankly, not just people. Say a rock falls off a balcony. If you’re inside, you don’t even know it happened. If you’re underneath it, you might be angry about it or frightened, or even hurt. If you’re above it far enough, it may look like something minor. Where you are in relation to another person is a similar phenomenon though complicated by even more factors than angle and distance but also gender, ethnicity, and age. 

While I am not really sure what’s happening in this image, I love pictures with chat balloons. And who knows, perhaps if Marie Antoinette wore a minidress, she could have kept her head. 

Sparklebottom Lasertit’s pjhotostream is one to be enjoyed far from the eyes of coworkers and children. But it will be enjoyed. She wears her humor like other people wear clothes. Perhaps that is why she seldom wears clothes, all the humor using up all her attachment points. She does some portraits and other lovely photos such as Strum which I wanted to point out because she offers there the info that people can watch her livestream photo editing process. 

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Comments

[Sparklybootie]

What a super sweet article. I really appreciate this. I love hearing your observations of my photos and how they resonate with you. It's fascinating. You make what I do so worth it. ♥

[Sytharia Jinx]

Flickr has always been a place that a person was free to drop their creative mind and not worry about having their hands tied. For them to make this move all those people will move to another platform where their are freely able to continue to do so without having to pay to be creative.