Rules on FA such as today's change are based solely on the personal feelings of the admins not on reason: You don't need to be creating anything even slightly sexualish as long as they feel you are... just as a character doesn't need to be a cub to be banned, if they don't like how you draw proportions in your own art style. I say some of this from personal experience, it truly is that bad.

Wish you could also post to Inkbunny which is the only art site for the fandom we still trust: I'm only still here because like you there are several artists I can't find elsewhere. Eka's also banned me for wrongthink over a social / political subject and I don't know if she'll ever unsuspend me, but at least there's technically a mirror and not being exclusively on FA.

I've actually never really looked into Inkbunny, so I have no idea how it is. Is it just FA but looks different?

it permits cub art, but doesn't allow any nsfw humans on site

Like FA but better. Both in technical terms like features and aspect, not to mention how it's ran. They have a rule about not allowing human characters in NSFW situations, otherwise no limits on the rest apart from a few technicalities. I do believe it's the second largest after FA, I use it primarily as it's the only one I feel I can trust these days. If you decide to move to it I'll be happy to watch you there as well!

Unfortunately its not a site i can recommend if you wanna post Iolite stuff: Human stuff is banned in the rules, if it contains anything nsfw. And vore definitely counts as nsfw. :/

Yeah that's a pretty odd rule, I think that turns me off of the site by itself, even if I wont be doing explicit NSFW things. It's kinda the same deal as with this with them banning things based on how they feel at the moment

I can't say this with certainty and you might want to ask the admins there for clarification. But IIRC the rule only applies to anything sexual / explicit, I believe Inkbuny understand something like vore isn't actual porn in and of itself. At the very worst still, you can post any non-human stuff there and mirror the rest elsewhere, it's what several artists I follow do and it seems to be working out for them.

I think that'd be a bit too much micromanagement for me, I'd rather not limit my things too much since I already have a lot of people asking for me to just put ALL of my things in one place so they don't have to search around for it hah

One thing I will say about IB: While it's true they ban human stuff, they're actually pretty reasonable about it. The only reason they do is to cover their butts with their site host; it's sort of a middle ground they've reached with their provider and it's been maintained well this way for years. Also, it's totally okay to post cropped/censored human images up as IB submissions, and then link to the full image elsewhere in the description. That's been officially allowed for a long time; it's just a matter of not showing the explicit human stuff directly on IB.

basically this, just don't post genitals and it's fine afaik

Not entirely; as I understand it, it also has to do with what their advertisers do and don't like. If they're losing advertisers over something, they're within their rights to handle the problem. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be much for taking things on a case-by-case basis and treat oversight the same as intentional disobedience and punish it accordingly.

You are correct there: Advertisers running your site for you is part of why Youtube has become a digital North Korea and you're afraid to upload anything there (even with ads disabled). I don't know who FA gets its ads with but if it relies on that, yeah this is going to be a factor in a world where advertisers are pressure tools for everyone's personal ideology. Surprised most companies advertise on a site with NSFW content at all, it's gotten so far even that little is generally an issue now.

I guess FA has to choose between its creators and its advertisers; They're probably going to learn the hard way saving a few ads is pointless when there won't be any more people to see them. Though in this case I doubt it was advertisers who approached the admins and said "add this new policy", it seems to be activist admins hijacking the site again.

Remember. Anyone who calls a lewded drawing of a fucking mewtwo child exploitation is hiding the fact they worship it and have terabytes of it on their device.

Gotta love how every once in a while, a little article pops up about that one fanatical child protection activist who yells at hentai getting caught after doing something questionable with a real child then a lot of NSFW photos of real kids were found on his computer. Patterns... gotta love them.

Yep. Gonna happen with at least one FA mod and we gonna be yelling to reset the clock.

I was always saying in the past that vore without any sexual content is not NSFW material, but this clearly changed.
Even though it is my opinion that vore does not need to be a sexual fetish, just a general fetish, the current viewpoint of the fandom is clearly overwhelmingly arguing that it is NSFW no matter what.
(My opinion might be influenced because in germany violence is more censored than sexual things, the exact opposite to the USA.)

According to 2.7 of the upload policies from FA "Minors may not be fetishized". This is clearly also targeting vore. And it does not say sexual fetish, just fetishized.
So as soon someone reports based on the new policy change, and the admin agrees to it it can mean trouble for you.

Side note: You can even get banned on patreon for vore too, bc they think vore is a sexual fetish, as they once stated unwilling vore = rape.
Though on that subject my information might be outdated. Or only counts for public things. No idea. Still be careful.

For FA and patreon both... no reports = no problems. And that is exactly the problem; The vague text, where you don't know, and it's up to the admin if you get banned or not after a report.
One time your art style might be okay for a species, the other time maybe not.

I can not recommend Inkbunny as it is fandom wide known to be "the" page allowing cub porn and one of the main reasons why people opt out for it.
Posting there might bring a bad light over you as an artist in general. I'm not saying I would see you as a bad person if you do, I see friends going there who are clearly not into it, but I'm saying some people will just based on supporting the webpage with traffic. Depends on your opinion if this is important to you or not.

When I would be you, I would get a few example links of your artwork of things you would worry about looking too minor anatomy related for them and post them in a trouble ticket like the journal said. Or just asking if vore without any sexual content is fetishising for them or not and see if it is a problem for them. If yes, you should remove themes like that, and only post artwork going with FA rules from now on.

I do not really have any interest in any human looking content, but it would be a shame to see you fully go away or being banned from FA.

Amazing how the masses can grow to openly accept an obvious falsehood that goes against the very meaning of a word; For something to be sexual content, it needs to actually involve a sexual action... yet because it must fit their narrative of hating everything, they now claim random everyday things are sexual if they want them to be. Patreon probably doesn't officially know what vore is as much, if it's obvious enough they might get the idea in places... Furaffinity being of the fandom is used to it and gets away with doing more trash to it.

Inkbunny has tag blacklisting: Anyone who doesn't want to see cub there can easily do so, it's just the platform doesn't police what you see for you as it's not anybody's personal thought police... yes there's the "no humans" rule but that's out of necessity to keep the platform safe from those lunatics. Otherwise if anyone gets upset at an artist for the site they choose to post their content on because it doesn't commit their desired censorship, good riddance: If anything it helps filter out people you typically don't need watching you. Those who want to make everything about their hateful ideology toward others and live in their puddle of mud can stay on the little that will be left of FA after this.

But yeah: Based on my estimation of what the admins are planning, he will be banned on FA if he stays. He draws many characters with large heads and large eyes, that's likely what they're going to be targeting as a whole: Either he only creates in the platform's approved art style, or my bet is even he'll be included in the purge with many others.

I'm still not going to support a page who clearly open allowes any kind of clear straight in your face cub porn. Regardless if they have blacklisting or not.

Ah. Well I respect your choice, feel as I do about any of this cancel culture and thought control stuff. I believe Weasyl and Sofurry both still ban that content, so if it gets too bad you'll have those at least. Difference is at least they enforce their policy on cub stuff rationally, IIRC they have a basic one you need follow but they don't cross the line beyond what is needed like FA did. There's going to be a segmentation of the community in a few different directions for sure after this.