Last week, Los Angeles artist Cali Rockowitz discovered an interesting loophole in Bumble’s shirt rules. After blocking her numerous attempts to upload photos to a bracelet, the company told her that her outfit would only be allowed if she posed in it and a plausible bikini.
Buzzfeed, who posted photos back and forth with Bumble representatives, reported that Rockowitz first uploaded an Instagram-friendly portrait in sweatpants paired with a simple black strap, sitting 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 film, in which her hair mostly covers her bra, a representative told her that “she is allowed to have a bikini or a shirtless photo”, but only in the open air. “If you’re inside, it’s too much like underwear,” they wrote. After Rockowitz posted about Calvary on her Instagram stories, Bumble deleted another month’s photo with her a blazer and trousers with a strap replacing the shirt.
Bumble does not explicitly detail his reasoning in its guidelines, but the inner rule is part of Bumble 2016 statute written around bathroom selfies, an attempt to rise above Tinder.
“In 2016, we banned shirtless selfie mirrors in response to feedback from our Bumble community,” a representative wrote in a statement to Gizmodo, adding that “our research has shown that profiles that include these types of photos were the most slippery left. ”(A lsliding through eft is the bad one.) Bumble added that the policy applies to all sexes.
“Photos of swimsuits are acceptable if you are outside by the pool or on the beach, because you are in a natural setting to wear a swimsuit,” the representative continued. In other words, you can only show your sternum if your intention is pure.
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Edit Rockowitzed bralette-and-suit photo, so it seemed to be in face Pthe pyramids of Giza and Mount Rushmore, however, Bumble clung to his position, still noticing that he could detect the trick.
“This photo was photoshopped, initially it was not taken outside,” a representative told DM.
Bumble seems unlikely to be eager to open the door to less chaste imagesbecause the platforms have spent years in their complicated efforts to polish tits and nipples and their context. Bumble he bet his reputation being the SFW app and last year, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd support a Texas policy that banned unsolicited photos (“naughty” photos).
Gizmodo has contacted Rockowitz for comments and will update the post if we hear back.