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NSFW

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27 articles accelerating

NSFW has appeared in 27 articles since 2016-03. Coverage peaked in 2025Q3 with 6 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Bluesky, Tumblr, Stable Diffusion, Apple.

Articles
27
mentions
Velocity
+200.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+2.833
velocity change
Sources
12
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-08-01
Wired 9 related

Video game industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content

Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired :

2025-07-27
Engadget 10 related

Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters

It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the one remaining devel...

2025-07-24
The Verge 16 related

Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam

The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much like Valve and Tumblr before it.

2025-07-11
The Verge 11 related

Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts

The Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification.  —  That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous.  —  www.thev...

2024-06-03
TechCrunch 4 related

X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content “provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed”

The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other.

2024-03-16
TechCrunch 1 related

Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updates its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing policies of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal

Somehow marketplace owners are not allowed to disclose who is threatening to pull the plug behind their negotiations.  —  It is not like they are threaten by a 3-letter national agency and secret cour...

2023-06-21
The Verge 6 related

Reddit suspended some moderators after they changed their subreddits to NSFW as “incorrectly marking a community as NSFW” violates its content and mod policies

Reddit has started removing moderator teams managing subreddits that switched the labeling on their communities to Not Safe For Work …

2018-12-04
The Verge 42 related

Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17

Tumblr will ban 'female-presenting nipples … Heather Kelly / CNN : How Tumblr's adult content crackdown could alienate users Andy Meek / BGR : Tumblr is banning all adult content in a major shift for ...

2017-10-29
Engadget 10 related

Patreon's recent crackdown on adult content worries sex workers and creators of erotic art

NSFW Warning: This story may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts.  —  On October 17th, crowdfunding website Patreon amended the terms of its acceptable use policy as pa...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 16 Techmeme articles mentioning NSFW, dating back to October 2019. The biggest stories include Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and... and X plans to soon filter all NSFW content in Communities by default and says admins can set.... Frequently covered alongside OpenAI, Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, Grok, and xAI. Coverage has shifted toward safety themes and away from consumer, developer.

Key Moments

2025Q3developer -67pts; consumer -67pts; research -67pts
2026Q1safety +100pts; consumer -33pts; funding -33pts

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