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Implementing "Vague" as a Rule
2 years ago
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https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10552819
So I don't know if FA is just trying to kill itself the way Tumblr did, but ya'll are making the dumbest decisions right now. I am so sick of using the term "prevent minors from being exploited." It's a fucking DRAWING. It's NOT real. It doesn't exist! It doesn't think, or feel, or get hurt! It's segments of lines and color that has tricked our brains into thinking it represents something that's alive, but it's not! Stop thinking things that aren't real have human rights! If it's straight up cub or loli shit, like wearing a diaper... I get it. Don't upload that shit here. But there is WAY too many vague examples that could get us in trouble.
There's not too many policy changes I've been stressing on up to this point... but this one really hits home. Half of my damn catalog could be considered """underaged""" purely based on look or CANON. Midna, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Sailor Moon, let us not forget the Disney Princess debacle.... Am I going to need to purge my gallery of all of these submissions because some asshole might be like, "Um actually... Raven from Teen Titans is canonically 14... so um, yeah, no, you need to take that down even though you clearly drew her with massive titties and a taller frame, fuck you!"
What about flat chested characters? What about characters that just so happen to be short? Sorry to all women who aren't tall and don't have big tits. You should have known better and got taller and also grew your tits bigger you fucking freak. Go back to grade scholl until you grow up. I suppose all shortstacks are now on the chopping block. What about the polar opposite against the "1000 year old loli demon" debate? Such as the gems from Steven Universe who are born as full grown women? If you're gonna ban canonically underaged characters you should also ban all the gems too, seeing as how they don't age and are canonically newborns through the entire series. Am I thinking about this too hard? Oh it doesn't matter if they LOOK like adults it only matters if they look like kids. Okay. Stop pretending drawings are real!
At the end of the day you're not actually trying to "prevent minors from being exploited." You're just trying to make your image look better for advertisers because everyone is fucking terrified of being labeled a pedophile. It's a death sentence at this point. "Oh you have an OC that's short and flat!? CHILD PORN!!" It's fucking disgusting that that's the first thing someone's brain will go to. What the fuck does that even say about you? I have literally seen 30 year old cosplayers get death threats on Twitter for being short. Despite being 30, they are short and so are children, therefore this woman is a child. Stop trying to look sexy, child woman. This shit needs to STOP....
I can only hope that this is the usual FA shit where they're just pretending to care, but actually don't give a fuck and are just throwing this out there for brownie points. But if this becomes something equivalent to a YouTube or Twitter purge... then I guess it really is finally time to move onto greener pastures if they even exist. Thank you for making this your priority, FA. Any word on GIVING US FUCKING MP4 OR WEBM UPLOADING YET!?!
STOP! PRETENDING! DRAWINGS! ARE! REAL!!!
So I don't know if FA is just trying to kill itself the way Tumblr did, but ya'll are making the dumbest decisions right now. I am so sick of using the term "prevent minors from being exploited." It's a fucking DRAWING. It's NOT real. It doesn't exist! It doesn't think, or feel, or get hurt! It's segments of lines and color that has tricked our brains into thinking it represents something that's alive, but it's not! Stop thinking things that aren't real have human rights! If it's straight up cub or loli shit, like wearing a diaper... I get it. Don't upload that shit here. But there is WAY too many vague examples that could get us in trouble.
There's not too many policy changes I've been stressing on up to this point... but this one really hits home. Half of my damn catalog could be considered """underaged""" purely based on look or CANON. Midna, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Sailor Moon, let us not forget the Disney Princess debacle.... Am I going to need to purge my gallery of all of these submissions because some asshole might be like, "Um actually... Raven from Teen Titans is canonically 14... so um, yeah, no, you need to take that down even though you clearly drew her with massive titties and a taller frame, fuck you!"
What about flat chested characters? What about characters that just so happen to be short? Sorry to all women who aren't tall and don't have big tits. You should have known better and got taller and also grew your tits bigger you fucking freak. Go back to grade scholl until you grow up. I suppose all shortstacks are now on the chopping block. What about the polar opposite against the "1000 year old loli demon" debate? Such as the gems from Steven Universe who are born as full grown women? If you're gonna ban canonically underaged characters you should also ban all the gems too, seeing as how they don't age and are canonically newborns through the entire series. Am I thinking about this too hard? Oh it doesn't matter if they LOOK like adults it only matters if they look like kids. Okay. Stop pretending drawings are real!
At the end of the day you're not actually trying to "prevent minors from being exploited." You're just trying to make your image look better for advertisers because everyone is fucking terrified of being labeled a pedophile. It's a death sentence at this point. "Oh you have an OC that's short and flat!? CHILD PORN!!" It's fucking disgusting that that's the first thing someone's brain will go to. What the fuck does that even say about you? I have literally seen 30 year old cosplayers get death threats on Twitter for being short. Despite being 30, they are short and so are children, therefore this woman is a child. Stop trying to look sexy, child woman. This shit needs to STOP....
I can only hope that this is the usual FA shit where they're just pretending to care, but actually don't give a fuck and are just throwing this out there for brownie points. But if this becomes something equivalent to a YouTube or Twitter purge... then I guess it really is finally time to move onto greener pastures if they even exist. Thank you for making this your priority, FA. Any word on GIVING US FUCKING MP4 OR WEBM UPLOADING YET!?!
STOP! PRETENDING! DRAWINGS! ARE! REAL!!!
What is probably most concerning is that this vagueness paves the way for users and admins to abuse this.
Not especially well thought out. They were bad enough on this already. At least they're getting a shitload of pushback.
SoFurry I've never used so I'll keep that one in mind. Thank you.
Weasyl sucks. I don't like this sites layout. I was using it for a very brief time during the whole "FA doesn't have folders" era.
I've seen many artist use postybird. I do not wish to ever use them because they always include that extra bit in the description about it being uploaded using Postybird. No thanks.
I also used Pillowfort and Itaku for a minute, but both of those sites I didn't really like either. It's very difficult for me to get into different sites but thanks for trying.