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The Minority Opinion on FA Rule Changes
2 years ago
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Hello and welcome to the Unicorn's Bookshelf.
Hello friends,
I'm just going to give my two cents worth on the FA policy changes that are such a big topic of late.
First of all, I get it. Change is hard. It can be scary. Especially when it's a change in the rules. Things could be affected that aren't the "intended target." However, I'm going to state the seemingly minority view that maybe these changes are a good thing.
Now hear me out.
I think most people will agree that protecting children is a good thing. There are a lot of things on this site that children have no place it. Let's be honest, there's a lot of porn on FA. Just the way it is. That's fine. Draw what you want to draw and write what you want to write, but I think most people will agree that children should not be in porn. The new rules are specifically targeting characters with "childlike proportions" which I get covers a lot of character designs. There's fear things like chibis will be affected. Consider also, though, that even an adult character, should they look somewhat like a child, really serves to encourage those who might have sexual interest in younger people. Do we really want to support that, even by proxy? Sure, the art can be cute, but do we really want to visually tell the world "hey, if it's cute it's okay." A bit of a generalization, but think about it.
I will also point out that the policy change is already largely already in effect and has simply been expanded to include some specific character design groups that previously had a loophole. ALSO ALSO, the rules are specifically targeting characters with child-like proportions in sexual situations: "Such characters need to be aged-up accordingly (proportions changed to that of an adult) to be allowed in submissions containing sexual situations." So...child-like characters shouldn't be in sexual situations. Surprise surprise, right? This line also tells me that younger characters in nonsexual situations are probably fine.
So, as with so many other things, if you're already keeping the "minors" out of the sex, you're probably fine. And if you have some young looking characters involved in sexual themes...maybe it's time to consider aging them up again. Or maybe just NOT doing that. In the long run, it's not really what we want, anyway. Not if we're honest.
I encourage you to look over the update post again and pay attention to the details: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10552819
I now return you to your regularly scheduled art.
I'm just going to give my two cents worth on the FA policy changes that are such a big topic of late.
First of all, I get it. Change is hard. It can be scary. Especially when it's a change in the rules. Things could be affected that aren't the "intended target." However, I'm going to state the seemingly minority view that maybe these changes are a good thing.
Now hear me out.
I think most people will agree that protecting children is a good thing. There are a lot of things on this site that children have no place it. Let's be honest, there's a lot of porn on FA. Just the way it is. That's fine. Draw what you want to draw and write what you want to write, but I think most people will agree that children should not be in porn. The new rules are specifically targeting characters with "childlike proportions" which I get covers a lot of character designs. There's fear things like chibis will be affected. Consider also, though, that even an adult character, should they look somewhat like a child, really serves to encourage those who might have sexual interest in younger people. Do we really want to support that, even by proxy? Sure, the art can be cute, but do we really want to visually tell the world "hey, if it's cute it's okay." A bit of a generalization, but think about it.
I will also point out that the policy change is already largely already in effect and has simply been expanded to include some specific character design groups that previously had a loophole. ALSO ALSO, the rules are specifically targeting characters with child-like proportions in sexual situations: "Such characters need to be aged-up accordingly (proportions changed to that of an adult) to be allowed in submissions containing sexual situations." So...child-like characters shouldn't be in sexual situations. Surprise surprise, right? This line also tells me that younger characters in nonsexual situations are probably fine.
So, as with so many other things, if you're already keeping the "minors" out of the sex, you're probably fine. And if you have some young looking characters involved in sexual themes...maybe it's time to consider aging them up again. Or maybe just NOT doing that. In the long run, it's not really what we want, anyway. Not if we're honest.
I encourage you to look over the update post again and pay attention to the details: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10552819
I now return you to your regularly scheduled art.
Also, chibis still look obviously adult imo. It's the ones that are super feral or pokemon-lookin' that are gonna be the real challenge. How do you know you're dealing with an actual adult if the OC is a pikachu?
Again, far as I can tell, a character can be however old or young as they want as long as they're not doing anything sexual or "adult." Pikachu could just spend the day on the beach making a sand castle with his squirtle friend and probably be just fine.