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3 years ago
For legal reasons, I won't say anything pointed or defamatory in regards to the discourse with FA, affiliate sites, or any persons relating to those sites' administrations.
But I will say - as a community, we need to hear and heed victims when they come forward about abuse.
It bears acknowledging that there are thousands of artists that depend on widespread exposure which sites like FA provides for their livings as commission artists.
I do think that as a community of creators and consumers, we should support each other in doing better than FA.
I've spent the last few years spreading my work archives to various multiple other art sites to ensure widespread accessibility to the content I've made, and there's more sites still that I'll continue doing that for as well.
I'm moving off FA. Check my Trello for my alts.
I don't look down on artists that need to depend on their greatest exposure options for survival - we aren't the problem here.
But I do welcome and encourage us to come together and select new and more accountable online spaces, with accountable administrative figures.
The process of a community migrating platforms is gradual.
It won't happen overnight, but we can determine where we base our dependency on a platform for exposure and collectivity.
Expand and try multiple new plats, promote the ones we like, and gradually move on to them.
I understand this has been a topic that's come and gone repeatedly over the last decade.
People have done as I am now, saying "this is unacceptable, we should move", and then nothing much happens.
I get how and why that'll happen again, but I'm doing this anyway.
Don't let victims in our community go unheard, and don't turn a blind eye to or excuse those that enable or perpetuate harm.
Our community - the Furry community - holds an incredible and unique quality in the way that we're each-others' greatest fans, and not corporations'.
We furries are each-other's news, entertainment, inspirations.
Our community aesthetic and interpersonal dynamics, though at times having been pandered-to by corporations, have still never yet been utterly commandeered by corporatism like any other fandom out there.
We can't let ourselves fall to the trappings of unaccountable figures in control.
As funny or ironic as this next line might sound, the greatest strength of the furry community is in fact how "human" we've achieved allowing ourselves to continue to be.
Our community will fall apart if we don't heed the victims that speak up among us (yes I know I said the thing, just listen ඞ), and if we don't hold accountable or separate from our malefactors.
If we don't act when one of our members is in need, we'll lose our community.
Closing words and TLDR;
I'm moving away from FA and I'll try to make sure everyone can find my work most other places there are to look.
No shame if you can't do the same right now, survival comes first.
Let's please remember to heed and help victims in our community.
💜
But I will say - as a community, we need to hear and heed victims when they come forward about abuse.
It bears acknowledging that there are thousands of artists that depend on widespread exposure which sites like FA provides for their livings as commission artists.
I do think that as a community of creators and consumers, we should support each other in doing better than FA.
I've spent the last few years spreading my work archives to various multiple other art sites to ensure widespread accessibility to the content I've made, and there's more sites still that I'll continue doing that for as well.
I'm moving off FA. Check my Trello for my alts.
I don't look down on artists that need to depend on their greatest exposure options for survival - we aren't the problem here.
But I do welcome and encourage us to come together and select new and more accountable online spaces, with accountable administrative figures.
The process of a community migrating platforms is gradual.
It won't happen overnight, but we can determine where we base our dependency on a platform for exposure and collectivity.
Expand and try multiple new plats, promote the ones we like, and gradually move on to them.
I understand this has been a topic that's come and gone repeatedly over the last decade.
People have done as I am now, saying "this is unacceptable, we should move", and then nothing much happens.
I get how and why that'll happen again, but I'm doing this anyway.
Don't let victims in our community go unheard, and don't turn a blind eye to or excuse those that enable or perpetuate harm.
Our community - the Furry community - holds an incredible and unique quality in the way that we're each-others' greatest fans, and not corporations'.
We furries are each-other's news, entertainment, inspirations.
Our community aesthetic and interpersonal dynamics, though at times having been pandered-to by corporations, have still never yet been utterly commandeered by corporatism like any other fandom out there.
We can't let ourselves fall to the trappings of unaccountable figures in control.
As funny or ironic as this next line might sound, the greatest strength of the furry community is in fact how "human" we've achieved allowing ourselves to continue to be.
Our community will fall apart if we don't heed the victims that speak up among us (yes I know I said the thing, just listen ඞ), and if we don't hold accountable or separate from our malefactors.
If we don't act when one of our members is in need, we'll lose our community.
Closing words and TLDR;
I'm moving away from FA and I'll try to make sure everyone can find my work most other places there are to look.
No shame if you can't do the same right now, survival comes first.
Let's please remember to heed and help victims in our community.
💜
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