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Incident #04AEA4 · 17 JAN 2026notable
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Tumblr adds that purchased Paid Services can be removed; minimum age set to 16 in Australia, 14 in South Korea

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Tumblr's terms now say that buying a Paid Service gets you a 'limited, revocable license', and that a purchased service may later be removed and become unavailable, for example when a feature is deprecated, to comply with law, or after a rightsholder demand. The minimum age is now 16 in Australia (as well as the EU and UK) and 14 in South Korea. A joke line was updated from Playstation 4 to 5.

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  • Tumblr now says Paid Services you purchased are a 'revocable' license and lists situations (deprecated feature, legal compliance, rightsholder demand) in which they may be removed.
  • Users in Australia now need to be 16 rather than 13
Evidence · 3 of 3 quotes matched in source
In certain situations, such as when a feature is deprecated, when needed to comply with law, or in response to a demand from a rightsholder, a Paid Service you previously purchased may later be removed from the Services and become unavailable for further use by you.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
When you purchase any of the Paid Services, you are purchasing a limited, revocable license to use particular for-pay aspects of the Services in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
The Minimum Age is (i) thirteen (13), (ii) sixteen (16) for users in Australia, the European Union, or the United Kingdom, (iii) fourteen (14) in South Korea, or (iii) eighteen (18) for certain features.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
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