Now, to be completely honest, I was originally going to use the much more neutral title of "I Might Have to Stop Diaper Art for Awhile" as that was much more objective and neutral in regards to the situation I am currently dealing with concerning what's happening on FA. However, when I began thinking back to all problems this platform has been having since 2021, I began to notice that a lot of these problems not only were just flat out NOT present back when IMVU was still running the site, but also began appearing direct result of Dragon taking back control of the platform, with many of them seeming to be results of the changes Dragon and his team have made since then. Because of this, I decided to just go ahead and shed light on how FurAffinity under Dragon is nothing but an absolute mess of a platform with arbitrary, vaguely worded rules that are enforced entirely based on a particular admin's opinions about your art and what they think of your content, people getting banned entirely because the Admins don't like them or view them as "Undesirable", and strange Tech Issues and other events that FA immediately goes out of their way to not only NOT answer questions about it but also to delete your posts, art, or even comments for so much as making light of them, as well as the future of both my own art and the platform as a whole.

Though I have brought this up numerous times in the past in regards to FurAffinity as have many other people as well, under Dragon, what were once reasonably fair and unbiased rules became replaced with rules that are arbitrary in overall application and nature. Their broad and vague wording makes it so that they can change the interpretation and enforcement at any time they so choose, resulting in situations where content that was allowed one minute could suddenly be considered "Suspicious Activity" literally one minute later, as well as situations where content can be removed simply because an Admin has a different interpretation of what's acceptable and/or what a particular rule means. It also makes the system incredibly open to abuse and enables Admins to ban someone simply because they have a personal vendetta against that person or doesn't like the content they produce. Like, say you and another user had a particularly nasty fight in the past or had many issues in the past an have a strong dislike for each other, and one day that person got recruited to be an Admin for FA. With the way that FurAffinity's rules are worded, there's nothing stopping that person from banning someone's account and then claiming there was a violation despite the ban being purely out of personal spite or dislike for someone's content. In other words, that person is now fully capable of banning you out of their personal vendetta, and there's noting that you or anyone else can do about it as the vague wording of these rules in itself enables this abusive behavior, with this arbitrary open endedness contributing to many people's bans since 2021 alone.

And as if you thought the deeply arbitrary enforcement of the rules and open Admin Abuse that FurAffinity is already known for as of late wasn't bad enough, there are many instances of people getting banned off the site just simply because the Admins deem them as "Undesirable" or even because Dragon himself simply views them in a negative light. Like, just flat-out banned with no explanation given to what they violated or anything. In particular, this seems to happen most often often to LGBTQ Accounts, as well as those who are from countries like Ukraine (yet FurAffinity will openly platform Pro-Putin Accounts), and that alone says a LOT about FA and what their staff (or at least Dragon) believes. Now, I've seen other such platforms have similar biases towards or against other people based on who they are and their beliefs, but it's not NEARLY to the extent that FurAffinity has taken it to. In fact, with how far FA has gone, they have set a new precedent in this regard, and not in a good way.

Though the site has had its fair share of Tech Issues every year to be totally honest, there was one of them in 2021, the Black Box of Death to be exact, that really stood out above all the rest not only for how strange the issue itself was, but also because of FurAffinity's response to the issue and how they handled discussion of it. You see, when the Black Box of Death happened, FurAffinity barely even mentioned anything about it except for a series of generic replies, causing people to begin speculating on what was going on with the site. And to be honest, I initially thought it was some kind of error on CloudFlare's end given how the message mentioned them directly. This quickly changed, however, when FA immediately began removing posts and Journals addressing and asking questions about the problem, even banning people in some cases. Now, at first, I became incredibly confused about what FA was trying to silence any discussion about the Black Box of Death incident and going to the extent of banning people for doing so, even thinking that it might've had something to do with the legal controversy that CloudFlare was under at the time. Little did I know that the horrifying truth would come right out in December of last year when FA announced that they would be implementing a Filter System into the site, confirming my worst fears that, indeed, the Black Box of Death was little more than an initial test run of this new system. In other words, things are gonna get really scary really soon if they actually manage to implement this, and many people, not just ABDL Artists, are going to get banned or severely affected.


The Future - Am I Leaving the Art Scene?

Though I will be doing significantly less diaper stuff than I did in the past just simply because of how hard FA is coming after that right now, I might still do some Toon Stuff and other types of art instead even if I won't be as involved with Diaper Related Content as I used to be. I will also still be active on the platform and doing Transformation related stuff as well, at least until they start coming for that stuff as well which I don't doubt they of course will very soon.