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A Journal so its a bad thing
2 years ago
Yeah i usually don't write any journals, cause why?
But here is a reason for me to do one now!
As you probably all have been known/noticed, there is a new Policy Update coming up on FA on July 1st.
The Issue here is, FA added the policy, of forbidding artists to draw "cute" characters NSFW AND/OR fetishize them in any way, i get the idea how they want to prevent underage porn drawings which is good, but the issue lies within proportions/anatomy, a prime Example would be Tom Nook from Animal Crossing. A Greedy ADULT Tanuki who runs a store but looks like a child proportion wise. so in theory youre not allowed to draw him 18+ or do any fetish stuff.
This is policy especially mentions Pokemon and Digimon Species, and you cannot imagine How many artists are affected by that change.
In my Opinion, i have aged up my characters enough to not have child-like anatomy but again, its subjective and there is a good Chance that my account and various other artists will lose their accounts by July 1st when the Policy is active.
So for the time being I will NOT post any new Art on my FA Gallery and instead move over to InkBunny and see how my FA Account holds up once its July, i can either keep my account or Art from at least 7 years will be wiped forever. it fucking sucks.
And i hate to switch around Platforms like that! I really love FA's UI and i also built a huge community there (thank you all so much again!)
and this is all on jeopardy right now. And im sorry if i get geniuenly pissed when people go and tell me and others "well then just don't draw said characters, its that easy"
statements like that makes my blood boil. also it is so VAGUELY explained in the policy rules its all depending on Moderators/Admins Opinion and every artist out there are on their toes in hoping to not get the account banned forever.
Sorry for the bad news, but i think its fair enough to let you all know what my plans are for now
INKBUNNY ACCOUNT CLICK HERE
I wish you all a good week and lets all hope for better times.
But here is a reason for me to do one now!
As you probably all have been known/noticed, there is a new Policy Update coming up on FA on July 1st.
The Issue here is, FA added the policy, of forbidding artists to draw "cute" characters NSFW AND/OR fetishize them in any way, i get the idea how they want to prevent underage porn drawings which is good, but the issue lies within proportions/anatomy, a prime Example would be Tom Nook from Animal Crossing. A Greedy ADULT Tanuki who runs a store but looks like a child proportion wise. so in theory youre not allowed to draw him 18+ or do any fetish stuff.
This is policy especially mentions Pokemon and Digimon Species, and you cannot imagine How many artists are affected by that change.
In my Opinion, i have aged up my characters enough to not have child-like anatomy but again, its subjective and there is a good Chance that my account and various other artists will lose their accounts by July 1st when the Policy is active.
So for the time being I will NOT post any new Art on my FA Gallery and instead move over to InkBunny and see how my FA Account holds up once its July, i can either keep my account or Art from at least 7 years will be wiped forever. it fucking sucks.
And i hate to switch around Platforms like that! I really love FA's UI and i also built a huge community there (thank you all so much again!)
and this is all on jeopardy right now. And im sorry if i get geniuenly pissed when people go and tell me and others "well then just don't draw said characters, its that easy"
statements like that makes my blood boil. also it is so VAGUELY explained in the policy rules its all depending on Moderators/Admins Opinion and every artist out there are on their toes in hoping to not get the account banned forever.
Sorry for the bad news, but i think its fair enough to let you all know what my plans are for now
INKBUNNY ACCOUNT CLICK HERE
I wish you all a good week and lets all hope for better times.
They say you should have thick skin when going online, but there's a difference between standing up for what you enjoy doing, and putting it out there for the world to dismantle. and this latest move is just another case of the mods encouraging witch hunts for art styles they personally don't like. Fair enough it's their website, but WE artists always have the right to clean up our galleries and leave to find a place that won't make discrimination a rule over a HORRIBLE interpretation of a "Law" that shouldn't have ever had anything to do with this site.
To this day, Inkbunny is the only website besides my own where I still have my whole gallery intact. it's the only site that allows me to have it intact.
I had like a few dislikes here on FA but those are usually blocked! I have not received any threats of sorts yet on FA
But yeah things were calm for awhile. The reason why there was no issues on Inkbunny is because most people moved there because they were bullied and didn't want IB to be the same. Plus I talked to the admin and site creator, he personally goes around listening to people and talking to them to make sure there's no issues on the site, unlike dragoneer. Weasyl by contrast with it's "Invite only" system kind of appealed to "Exclusionists" so when they opened the site and I finally joined...first thing I was told was "Can you not upload your awful art here?" it was a similar guy from FA as I recognized his avatar. Yeah, thick skin and all...but... again I don't have to waste my time uploading to places that just exist to ridicule people. What do I gain from appealing to these people? Nothing really. And all the friends who like my art I just share privately with them.
Ah but yeah, the UI is a bit weird, but... it's alright. Kind of hard to search for stuff though but I love the Favorites search system and thier tagging system is better.
What they're proposing is so vaguely defined that even art of Judy Hopps and Gideon Grey would be considered bannable under it.