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FA Policy Changes Opinions!
2 years ago
Just some drama posting.
Seen some differing takes on the matter and not sure if mine will do anything since the changes really don't affect me, and I try to avoid associating my content with the subject matter in question (IE cub shit) as much as possible.
I see it as good intentions, but with a weird disconnected angle to it since it hurts artists who try to stay on model with impacted characters, and if someone is drawing cub shit it's gonna be posted to Inkbunny. Hell, I could see someone like Crittermatic being in some warm water because of Chip, and to a lesser extent Cookie. But even if they may fall under the newly worded guidelines, I personally have never considered them to be cub. I don't think many people do.
I've seen it argued that this won't do anything to combat csam and like, yeah, that's what Inkbunny has built its audience on. It's all there if you want it. FA changing the guidelines will never do anything to stop that shit from existing because of places like IB, or (parts of) U18Chan, or Twitter, or the very open upload policy on e621. I doubt the admins/mods think this is going to change the landscape of furry art sites. if anything it's just to sanitize the image of this website for a potential buyout. (I doubt there's going to be a buyout, but if there is I can say I called it)
For what its worth, Inkbunny is about 5x as usable as FA, and the video support, multi image upload, (mostly) working tag and blacklist system are attractive to atrists, but the audience that makes up the Inkbunny comunity is actually not worth it imo.
Intent matters. Context is important, and these newly worded guidelines ignores that for an "Eye of the Beholder" situation. Which always goes over well, and is never inconsistent.
But speaking of context; Why the actual fuck does the age limit for depictions of pregnant individuals, start at 13!!!??? Also, why is vore involving minors allowed? I'm not sorry, but vore shouldn't be on the list of acceptible fetishes for minor inclusion. Not on this website at least. Because again; Context!
I've also seen it said that kids shows have vore in them. Sure, some kids shows have depictions of vore in them, but very rarely is it anything beyond a punchline to a joke. Seeing a character's silhouette standing upright in the middle of a snake is not the same as a slow, methodical swallowing of a character with extreme detail put into making the mouth as wet as possible. Those multiple panels of someone sliding down a dragons throat is not comparible to the shit they have in kids shows. You could play it off as humour, but most vore is not made for humour. Need I reiterate about Context and Intent?
The guidelines just aren't consistent within the same journal. You can't say "Don't fetishize Minors" and then follow with "...execpt in these situations"
So go draw some humans transforming into pregnant Eevees while getting vored on their 14th birthday. But don't fetishize minors.
Seen some differing takes on the matter and not sure if mine will do anything since the changes really don't affect me, and I try to avoid associating my content with the subject matter in question (IE cub shit) as much as possible.
I see it as good intentions, but with a weird disconnected angle to it since it hurts artists who try to stay on model with impacted characters, and if someone is drawing cub shit it's gonna be posted to Inkbunny. Hell, I could see someone like Crittermatic being in some warm water because of Chip, and to a lesser extent Cookie. But even if they may fall under the newly worded guidelines, I personally have never considered them to be cub. I don't think many people do.
I've seen it argued that this won't do anything to combat csam and like, yeah, that's what Inkbunny has built its audience on. It's all there if you want it. FA changing the guidelines will never do anything to stop that shit from existing because of places like IB, or (parts of) U18Chan, or Twitter, or the very open upload policy on e621. I doubt the admins/mods think this is going to change the landscape of furry art sites. if anything it's just to sanitize the image of this website for a potential buyout. (I doubt there's going to be a buyout, but if there is I can say I called it)
For what its worth, Inkbunny is about 5x as usable as FA, and the video support, multi image upload, (mostly) working tag and blacklist system are attractive to atrists, but the audience that makes up the Inkbunny comunity is actually not worth it imo.
Intent matters. Context is important, and these newly worded guidelines ignores that for an "Eye of the Beholder" situation. Which always goes over well, and is never inconsistent.
But speaking of context; Why the actual fuck does the age limit for depictions of pregnant individuals, start at 13!!!??? Also, why is vore involving minors allowed? I'm not sorry, but vore shouldn't be on the list of acceptible fetishes for minor inclusion. Not on this website at least. Because again; Context!
I've also seen it said that kids shows have vore in them. Sure, some kids shows have depictions of vore in them, but very rarely is it anything beyond a punchline to a joke. Seeing a character's silhouette standing upright in the middle of a snake is not the same as a slow, methodical swallowing of a character with extreme detail put into making the mouth as wet as possible. Those multiple panels of someone sliding down a dragons throat is not comparible to the shit they have in kids shows. You could play it off as humour, but most vore is not made for humour. Need I reiterate about Context and Intent?
The guidelines just aren't consistent within the same journal. You can't say "Don't fetishize Minors" and then follow with "...execpt in these situations"
So go draw some humans transforming into pregnant Eevees while getting vored on their 14th birthday. But don't fetishize minors.
When a site says that a character with smaller proportions (while being obviously adult based off their actions/attitude/way of life) is morally wrong and bannable while literal children being eaten and/or killed is okay because they said so, the amount of hypocrisy in that statement alone is baffling.
But again, they may act like they care about all the artists in their site but they obviously don't, so for them it doesn't matter how fair or consistent the rules sound.
I still recommend you open a new gallery while you still have an audience to market to.
Furaffinity, in an attempt to navigate a very grey-zone in porn, has really pushed people out of their lanes here. Sacrificing all of your community so you can feel better about the Riolu Paradox is definitely profit-motivated, it may ironically be worse as nothing is being said about minimum accountholder ages in the US permitted as low as 13. Something is rotten here.
Like...holy shit dude, wanting to draw something on-model and not give it bizarrely proportioned limbs in order to satisfy this new height requirement is not "pedophilia". Having concerns about how this new ruling is going to be enforced when there's no guidelines beyond "whatever gives a mod bad vibes at the time" doesn't make you a pedophile. Rocket Raccoon is a canonically short character, I'm not going to turn him into a generic bara himbo just to satisfy some new arbitrary rule.
Speaking of, shortstacks and smaller characters like your Rocket Raccoon might also be sussed because of this whole "body to head ratio" thing that there's no consistent ruling on. It might be obviously adult to you, but to some ban-happy FA mod who actively looks for any excuse to issue warnings and bans, they could easily have a problem with it. It doesn't matter what the majority views a character as, sadly. All it takes is a mod going "This looks underage" and you're done.
Also I don't give a shit if it makes weird, terminally online people on twitter mad at me, I will use Inkbunny, because if I don't want to see something, I can blacklist it, instead of being blasted with hyper fat scat eating porn when I look up a character tag like here on FA. About the content..well..better they look at drawings of animal people than the real thing, in my opinion, since drawings can't hurt anybody. Plus as a CSA survivor, it's literally impossible for me to give a crap about the morality of drawings. I lived through the real thing, a drawing doesn't come anywhere close. If a person or the content they post on Inkbunny upsets me, I can also click "Block Submissions" on their page to make sure that even if they don't tag it properly, I still won't see anything they post. FA requires a third-party browser addon for that option. It's been 18 years, for fuck's sake.
Also, some people are acting like this is going to revive FA and finally put an end to all the "disgusting content" when there's several active zoophiles on the staff who have been here since the beginning. This is just banning content the mods don't like while letting their fetishes slide.
This whole thing is a dumpster fire.