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It’s Time to Leave: My Departure from FA
3 years ago
“This has resulted in an immediate escalation to a 1 week suspension, a FINAL WARNING NOTICE (4th Level Offense), and the removal of the listed submission.” - The Admins of this site
As you may already know if you talk to me regularly, I was recently suspended for a whole week from this website. Three images were removed for “depiction of minors”, and the appeals team was really unimpressive - it took them several days just to tell me “We’re right, you’re wrong, kay bye”. I didn’t really care about the removal of the submissions, but being thrown into a week suspension over images that have been uploaded on FA for about 5 years just rubbed me the wrong way. Between this, and the total lack of technological advancement of the platform, I’ve made the decision to remove all my submissions from the site. It truly is a pain to upload between here and my other main account on InkBunny, and I really don’t want to experience this undue stress over whatever else the clowns on this site will deem a depiction of a “minor”. I’ll admit that Neo is often drawn really chibi/cutesy, but no minor has a penis like that, and I’ve told people over and over again that he’s supposed to be of sexual maturity.
I was tempted to just delete the account altogether, but I’ll admit that there’s creators on this site that aren’t on IB, and I still want to be able to watch the awesome talent on this site. I also have some fond memories ever since my transition from Furotica Addicts Anonymous to FurAffinity back in 2006. I still remember when my poetry from National Poetry Writing Month would get comments and reads, as did my erotic fan fiction. I really found some awesome folks through the community here as well, so this decision is one that makes me pretty fucking sad - I’ll be honest.
But I’m not going to be treated like a child (ironic) over some “admin” snooping over submissions from years ago to punish me today. There’s plenty of other submissions on this site that would violate the extremely vague charge against me; and I’m sure the people working this site are doing it for pennies from the likes of IMVU ad clicks or whatever, but I feel like if a submission is actually old, and the “behavior” hasn’t been consistent in recent time, just delete the fucking images and move on. Why push your user base away from you without a chance to rectify? This is what YouTube creators must feel like when they get copyright stricken… I’m just glad my livelihood doesn’t depend on being present on all these platforms.
I’m sure most people won’t even read this journal, though I do promise this will be the last thing I submit to this site, so I wanted to express my full feelings and apologize for anyone who wanted to see more from this account and doesn’t want to find me on InkBunny (same username as here). I may also start using my Twitter account more, though I have mixed feelings about doing that since Twitter is a whole other bag of worms…
Farewell FurAffinity. It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for reading.
PS: What's funny, I was deleting all my submissions and I noticed that the images I got banned for were uploaded twice, and the moderator only cited me for the ones that linked to an IB account. So it appears that it's been a witch hunt for references to IB creators.
As you may already know if you talk to me regularly, I was recently suspended for a whole week from this website. Three images were removed for “depiction of minors”, and the appeals team was really unimpressive - it took them several days just to tell me “We’re right, you’re wrong, kay bye”. I didn’t really care about the removal of the submissions, but being thrown into a week suspension over images that have been uploaded on FA for about 5 years just rubbed me the wrong way. Between this, and the total lack of technological advancement of the platform, I’ve made the decision to remove all my submissions from the site. It truly is a pain to upload between here and my other main account on InkBunny, and I really don’t want to experience this undue stress over whatever else the clowns on this site will deem a depiction of a “minor”. I’ll admit that Neo is often drawn really chibi/cutesy, but no minor has a penis like that, and I’ve told people over and over again that he’s supposed to be of sexual maturity.
I was tempted to just delete the account altogether, but I’ll admit that there’s creators on this site that aren’t on IB, and I still want to be able to watch the awesome talent on this site. I also have some fond memories ever since my transition from Furotica Addicts Anonymous to FurAffinity back in 2006. I still remember when my poetry from National Poetry Writing Month would get comments and reads, as did my erotic fan fiction. I really found some awesome folks through the community here as well, so this decision is one that makes me pretty fucking sad - I’ll be honest.
But I’m not going to be treated like a child (ironic) over some “admin” snooping over submissions from years ago to punish me today. There’s plenty of other submissions on this site that would violate the extremely vague charge against me; and I’m sure the people working this site are doing it for pennies from the likes of IMVU ad clicks or whatever, but I feel like if a submission is actually old, and the “behavior” hasn’t been consistent in recent time, just delete the fucking images and move on. Why push your user base away from you without a chance to rectify? This is what YouTube creators must feel like when they get copyright stricken… I’m just glad my livelihood doesn’t depend on being present on all these platforms.
I’m sure most people won’t even read this journal, though I do promise this will be the last thing I submit to this site, so I wanted to express my full feelings and apologize for anyone who wanted to see more from this account and doesn’t want to find me on InkBunny (same username as here). I may also start using my Twitter account more, though I have mixed feelings about doing that since Twitter is a whole other bag of worms…
Farewell FurAffinity. It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for reading.
PS: What's funny, I was deleting all my submissions and I noticed that the images I got banned for were uploaded twice, and the moderator only cited me for the ones that linked to an IB account. So it appears that it's been a witch hunt for references to IB creators.
i'm so sorry for that, you was here from the begining this website!
I've stopped linking to IB and haven't received a warning for several years now (although I'm also curating my uploads far more aggressively, and I nuked about 20% of my gallery)
I currently upload my art to about 11 different platforms -- all of my art goes to ArtConomy, InkBunny, Itaku and Twitter, the "unquestionably over 18" stuff also goes to FurAffinity, Newgrounds, Pillowfort, SoFurry, and SFW stuff also goes to DeviantArt. Everything also goes to Pixiv after I censor it and translate the tags/descriptions to japanese. It sounds like a lot of work but PostyBirb makes it super easy
Also I appreciate your perspective on this. I think it's really scummy of FA to punish people for the mere mention of IB. They should be upfront about it and just say "No referring to IB" if they care so much about it.