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An Issue...
3 years ago
Lately I've been dealing with a fear regarding my art. It always felt like the furry fandom had a problem with family friendly media, and recently I discovered a thing that terrifies me.
Apparently many people in the "babyfur" community seem to think kids should be kept away from baby furries or something like that.
I legitimately saw some post that said that thinking it's okay for kids to draw babyfur art, even if it's SFW is a "red flag". Now, say what you want about the babyfur community, but isn't SFW babyfur art just baby anthro art? Like, the same stuff that's in plenty of kids cartoons like Baby Looney Tunes? What separates it?
Frankly, it feels like a community of adults taking a concept away from children. Like, saying that children can't draw cartoon animal babies is ridiculous when THEY LITERALLY MAKE CARTOONS FOR CHILDREN WITH THAT CONCEPT!
I feel like someone will tell me "oh, but that's different". HOW?! I'm not being rhetorical either. I legitimately want to know the difference. I've seen babyfur art that looks EXACTLY like Nick Jr. stuff STILL be labeled 18+.
It really does scare me as an artist making a family friendly cartoon that even the most pure and wholesome concept like a literal BABY can ve called an "adults only" thing.
This isn't even a debate on the morality of the babyfur fandom as a concept, this is purely about taking away child friendly, and Hell, child ORIENTED concepts from children.
What is next? An adult cartoon fandom will come up and say that cartoons aren't appropriate for children?!
Apparently many people in the "babyfur" community seem to think kids should be kept away from baby furries or something like that.
I legitimately saw some post that said that thinking it's okay for kids to draw babyfur art, even if it's SFW is a "red flag". Now, say what you want about the babyfur community, but isn't SFW babyfur art just baby anthro art? Like, the same stuff that's in plenty of kids cartoons like Baby Looney Tunes? What separates it?
Frankly, it feels like a community of adults taking a concept away from children. Like, saying that children can't draw cartoon animal babies is ridiculous when THEY LITERALLY MAKE CARTOONS FOR CHILDREN WITH THAT CONCEPT!
I feel like someone will tell me "oh, but that's different". HOW?! I'm not being rhetorical either. I legitimately want to know the difference. I've seen babyfur art that looks EXACTLY like Nick Jr. stuff STILL be labeled 18+.
It really does scare me as an artist making a family friendly cartoon that even the most pure and wholesome concept like a literal BABY can ve called an "adults only" thing.
This isn't even a debate on the morality of the babyfur fandom as a concept, this is purely about taking away child friendly, and Hell, child ORIENTED concepts from children.
What is next? An adult cartoon fandom will come up and say that cartoons aren't appropriate for children?!
In my opinion cartoons should be placed into 3 categories, for kids, for young adults, and adult. The problem is that when two of those categories are combined it leads to bizarre fetishes. Like one issue I have with the community is that those fetishes get enacted on without limitations. Such as adults portrayed as babies. And often that fetish is labeled as babyfur. Though to be fair to you. What difference is your concept compared to something timeless as Rugrats which was literally about babies? The community can just be weird, especially when it gets defensive on something that is a fetish.
