Next time you’re browsing LiveJournal’s top community, you might get more than an eyeful.
Oh No They Didn’t! (ONTD), LiveJournal’s largest celebrity gossip community with upwards of 100,000 subscribers, has just lifted its two-year ban on nudity. Users are now free to post photos and animated GIFs of nude celebrities—sans clothing or censors.
The community’s owner and maintainer, Brenden Delzer, clarified that the ban would only be lifted for images posted under a cut. In other words, people browsing at work wouldn’t happen upon any NSFW images unless they deliberately clicked “read more” on a post preview.
“As long as it’s under a cut, nudity can be uncensored in posts,” he wrote.
Delzer’s announcement follows an April Fools’ stunt in which, among dozens of hyperbolically unbelievable new rules, the community maintainer announced a stricter ban on nudity that would prohibit even censored nakedness.
“Even though yesterday’s post was an April Fool’s joke, I wasn’t kidding! There’s still a major change coming to ONTD… effective starting today,” Delzer wrote.
Incidentally, nudity has played a big part in ONTD’s rise to fame. The site’s first and most notable exclusive occurred after a community member leaked nude photos of musician Pete Wentz. After the 2006 scandal, ONTD became reputed as a blog for breaking celebrity gossip.
The Wentz exclusive occurred four years before the ban took effect. Now that it’s been lifted, there’s no telling whose genitals the site will post photos of next.
Photo by Sage Ross
