"This is an ongoing learning experience for us on how to prepare to handle announcements like this."

There's no good way to ban art, you fools. It will always be miserable because you're inflicting misery on a community.

We are not here for you.

You are here for us.

Forced mass deletion is you, failing us.

You learned absolutely nothing from last time you demanded people erase their own art. Like it's not enough to have mods wandering through and deleting celebrated posts by deciding "this artwork from seven years ago is against the vague standards we just made up." You make them tell people to delete it themselves. "Or else." Fuck that. Who in your team has betrayed you, by telling you that's a sane interaction? You should start with a goddamn apology! You know you're asking people to review the central reason they use this site and then destroy some portion of it, forever. You still don't have some "private" setting where someone can look at their own no-longer-available posts. I'm glad to hear you finally implemented some level of undo, but it's not available to us, and it sounds like you can't promise it exists.

None of which would excuse forcing artists to pull the trigger themselves. But the whole process is intolerable. There is so much room to be less awful! if it's all stick, no carrot, then of course the people responsible for the entirety of your business's contents have opinions on where you can shove it.

"TL;DR -
- The rule isn’t new and hasn’t changed.
- Enforcement is being expanded to include Pokémon and Digimon."

Oh sure, no change, just expanding to new things anwhat the fuck do you think change means?! You even admit there's been some itty-bitty adjustments to this arbitrary censorship throughout the years, right before saying oh yeah by the way there was a secret internal policy that's now getting dumped. Even in your zeal to erase content from your content-sharing empty box, you privately recognized it would be a fucking nightmare to police inhuman cartoon characters for looking too cartoony. And now you're shocked, shocked!, that people are giving you backsass for embracing that nightmare anyway.

Every site for niche randos to post stuff gets so big they start gouging away parts of their foundation and then acts surprised when they suddenly collapse.

But it's fine, apparently - so long as people cut off the right beloved memories within the next ninety days, they won't be severely punished. It'll just be a normal post-facto crime! We'll only catch a swift boot in the ass if some anonymous moderator decides a doodle of vaguely humanoid imaginary animals from the world's largest game franchise looks too on-model... at any point in the future, subject to capricious rule adjustments, how dare you question us.

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