When social media and blogging website Tumblr announced at the start of December that it planned to permanently ban adult content and nudity from next week, it was a shock to millions … and not just because they had forgotten the site existed.

The Verizon-owned online platform, which has been around since 2007, still has a large, active and vocal user base, including numerous Australian artists, who are now wondering where they can showcase their work to an increasingly prudish online world.