Last week, Los Angeles artist Cali Rockowitz discovered an interesting gap in Bumble’s shirt regulations. After blocking her numerous attempts to upload photos on a bralette, the company told her that her suit would be allowed only if she posed with him outside and if it was a plausible bikini.
Buzzfeed, which posted photos and comings and goings with Bumble representatives, reported that Rockowitz uploaded an application to Instagram portrait in sweatpants combined with a simple black bralette, set in a sunlit art studio in front of a canvas. On December 9, the company sent a standard message explaining that underwear is not allowed on the platform. After another attempt with an alternative image from the same session, in which her hair mainly covers the bralette, a representative told her that she was “fully authorized to have a bikini or shirtless photo”, but only in the plein aire. “If you’re indoors, it looks a lot like underwear,” they wrote. After Rockowitz posted about the ordeal in her Instagram stories, Bumble removed another photo of her months old a blazer and pants, with bralette replacing the shirt.
Bumble does not explicitly detail his justification for your guidelines, but the internal rule is part of the 2016 Bumble statute written on bathroom selfies, an attempt to rise above Tinder.
“In 2016, we banned selfies in a shirtless bathroom mirror in response to feedback from our Bumble community,” wrote a representative in a statement sent to Gizmodo, adding that “our research showed that profiles that include these types of photos were the ones that more have been changed. ”(A lexit swipe is the bad one.) Bumble added that the policy applies to all genders.
“Swimsuit photos are acceptable if you are outdoors, by the pool or on the beach, as you are in a natural environment to wear a swimsuit,” continued the representative. In other words, you can only show your sternum if your intention is pure.
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Rockowitz editioned the photo of bralette and suit, so she seemed to be in front of Pgiza yramidas and Mount Rushmore, but Bumble maintained his position, noting yet that they could detect the trick.
“This photo was photoshopped, it was not originally taken outside,” a representative told her by DM.
It seems unlikely that Bumble is eager to open the floodgates for less chaste images., as platforms have spent years in their complicated efforts to police breasts and nipples and their context. Bumble bet your reputation for being the SFW app and, last year, the founder of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd Supported a Texas policy that prohibited unsolicited cock shots (“obscene” shots).
Gizmodo has contacted Rockowitz for comment and will update the post if we receive a response.