I normally do not post journals of this kind as I prefer to stay away from discourse that can easily go into drama.

With that being said however... I have to talk about this new update. From what I gather, it seems that context of age and maturity of individual characters has been tossed out the window in an effort to combat child porn. While I can see why they are doing this, it is still way too unreasonable to consider all form of 'child-like' proportions as an offense and as child-like.

According to FA, chibi art is now seen as child porn, which is obviously not the case as chibi is a form of Super Derforming, aka changing a normal character down to a smaller, compact form of a more cuter appearance. However, the age of said characters in such instances DO NOT change, unless it is stated otherwise. And often than not, SDing a char does not make them underage. Chibi art and SD art are an art style that originate from Japan. While one could argue Chibi and SDing is bordering on child porn, discerning the individual's age and maturity should still determine if one is truly a child or not in such instances. Something that the FA staff has decided is not worth investigating anymore.

And seeing they will consider any Pokémon and Digimon with any resemblance of 'child-like' appearances or proportions as cub/child porn, without considering the ACTUAL age of the character, this is considerably unfair to those who rather have non-anthromorph characters instead of anthro versions of Pokémon and Digimon. But even if the Pokémon were to be made anthromorphic and 'aged up' as FA staff puts it, who is not to say that any admin or mod could look at any anthro Pokémon who hasn't evolved yet, like a Treecko, Charmander, Eevee or so forth and STILL consider them as cubs? What then?

My gallery mainly contain anthromorphs, but even now I do not feel safe as I have a few instances of non-anthro chars and some chibi art. However, in all those pictures they are at least 18+ years old, something I have always stated in this gallery, both on the front page and in individual submissions, as I am 100% against child porn. But according to this new policy, me stating the ages of my characters and whatever they are mature or not DOES NOT MATTER to the FA staff. If proportions are too close to a child, then according to the staff, that equals to child porn and thus punishable. First by one week, then PERMA BAN on the second offense. At this point, I may have to consider to purge my whole gallery to be safe, something I do not look forward to as I have over 740+ submissions to go through to save, back up, then delete.

What is completely worse is this: That this is akin to a massive carpet bombing a whole city in order to combat child porn. And this is not a clever solution; instead it punishes everyone. The pedophiles will just simply move on and look for other hunting grounds, but for the others this is not so. Some members of FA have been here since the beginning of FA's creation, and they have nowhere else to go. How fair is this move really in the end? Does this really punish people who upload child porn? Or does this whip everyone else for the actions of a handful of pedophilic assholes who think themselves above everyone else?

With all due honesty, I say that Dragoneer and the FA staff must reconsider their approach on how to combat child pron, unless they seek to blanket punish everyone, all because of a handful of idiots causing trouble by being a bunch of filthy pedophiles. This approach will claim many innocents as pedophiles, all because of a bloody body type appearance, disregarding the actual age and maturity of said individuals.