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Trouble Ticket Response
2 years ago
I finally got a response back from the Trouble Ticket I sent to the FA mod team almost a month ago, back when the new upcoming rule change was first announced.
The results are not good.
Contextual size difference between adult characters is now a problem, if one normal-sized adult is shown with an even taller adult. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50660134/ My piece of Lilac and Merga, two canon adults, has been flagged by the mod team as art that needs to be removed, which signifies to me that the issue is that Lilac is smaller than Merga, even if she's drawn with adult proportions AND is canonically an adult in both the art and in her original game. Meaning basically anything I've ever drawn with size difference must be removed as well.
Basically all of my Digimon art needs removal, because the most anthroporphic piece I've done of Impmon got flagged as a problem. None of that will be able to stick around, and I'll have to do a big purge of Pokémon art as well when the time comes.
The biggest kick in the face, though, is that Leo got flagged. A page of Leo the Magician involving him having sex was stated that it needs to be removed as soon as possible, since it's not only in violation of the upcoming rule, but in violation of CURRENT rules.
My own character, MY creation, my most important thing on this entire damn site, is now a problem because he's too short.
So, awesome. And because I need to maintain an FA account and the old Klonoa incident from two years ago means that any suspension would make me a "repeat offender", I can't even leave some art up in protest. I have to play it as safe as possible, which means yes, it all has to go.
The worst part is, though, despite Leo being flagged and Lilac being flagged and Impmon being flagged, one of the pics I sent in did NOT get flagged. That pic being another size difference piece with one of my imp OCs, Mythril, who is even shorter than Leo and was in a size difference situation as equivalent to the same ones that got Leo and Lilac flagged. And for the life of me, I cannot understand what in the world could make Mythril safe and the other characters unsafe. Which means that I can't trust the idea that Mythril CAN be safe, or some of my other stuff that didn't get flagged. I have to go as scorched earth as possible, because things still feel so unclear and up-to-whim that the only way to be safe is to remove absolutely ANYTHING that can cause problems.
So, that's what I'll be doing. As far as the art itself goes, a lot of it will be available on my Inkbunny gallery, and most of my recent stuff has also been reuploaded to e621 as well by others. The problem is, a lot of it is old art that ISN'T on e621, and isn't art that I'll be reuploading to the new sites I'm working on like Itaku and Weasyl and whatnot. Some of it even involves humans, so there's some pieces that are literally nowhere else but FA that I'll now need to delete. And the same thing happened last time during the Klonoa incident too, where a few things that were FA-exclusive had to get removed.
To make up for it, I'm going to go through everything I remove, and compile it together alongside the art I removed back during the Klonoa incident, and put it in a small downloadable pack on my Google Drive or something. That way, at least it can still exist someplace in a convenient package for FA viewers, and can still have a chance of being reuploaded to places like e621. My art didn't start getting regularly reuploaded to that site until about 2019-ish, so that's about 3-4 years of art that isn't there that could have a chance of being lost forever, and I'd prefer that not happen even if I don't want it on my new fresh galleries.
Leo comics will be the exception, since they're readily available on Inkbunny and eventually, I want to put together some sort of better method of reading those comics anyway, outside of any current art gallery sites.
As far as new uploads in the future go, I just recommend following my Inkbunny once more: https://inkbunny.net/Ultilix
And to follow the new accounts I have listed in this journal: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10567377
Once the new galleries are up-to-date, they'll be updated concurrently with new art alongside Inkbunny.
I won't be leaving FA, but as far as new uploads are concerned... they're going to be extremely limited. If nothing else, because I don't feel like I want to support this place very much anymore, even with art that would be entirely fine to put here.
Sometime within the next few days, the purge will be occuring, since I'll need time to put things together and figure out what in my entire gallery needs to be removed. If someone wants to go through my gallery and reupload as much as they can to a site like e621 or just save it to their own hard drive, the clock's now ticking and this is your warning.
The results are not good.
Contextual size difference between adult characters is now a problem, if one normal-sized adult is shown with an even taller adult. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50660134/ My piece of Lilac and Merga, two canon adults, has been flagged by the mod team as art that needs to be removed, which signifies to me that the issue is that Lilac is smaller than Merga, even if she's drawn with adult proportions AND is canonically an adult in both the art and in her original game. Meaning basically anything I've ever drawn with size difference must be removed as well.
Basically all of my Digimon art needs removal, because the most anthroporphic piece I've done of Impmon got flagged as a problem. None of that will be able to stick around, and I'll have to do a big purge of Pokémon art as well when the time comes.
The biggest kick in the face, though, is that Leo got flagged. A page of Leo the Magician involving him having sex was stated that it needs to be removed as soon as possible, since it's not only in violation of the upcoming rule, but in violation of CURRENT rules.
My own character, MY creation, my most important thing on this entire damn site, is now a problem because he's too short.
So, awesome. And because I need to maintain an FA account and the old Klonoa incident from two years ago means that any suspension would make me a "repeat offender", I can't even leave some art up in protest. I have to play it as safe as possible, which means yes, it all has to go.
The worst part is, though, despite Leo being flagged and Lilac being flagged and Impmon being flagged, one of the pics I sent in did NOT get flagged. That pic being another size difference piece with one of my imp OCs, Mythril, who is even shorter than Leo and was in a size difference situation as equivalent to the same ones that got Leo and Lilac flagged. And for the life of me, I cannot understand what in the world could make Mythril safe and the other characters unsafe. Which means that I can't trust the idea that Mythril CAN be safe, or some of my other stuff that didn't get flagged. I have to go as scorched earth as possible, because things still feel so unclear and up-to-whim that the only way to be safe is to remove absolutely ANYTHING that can cause problems.
So, that's what I'll be doing. As far as the art itself goes, a lot of it will be available on my Inkbunny gallery, and most of my recent stuff has also been reuploaded to e621 as well by others. The problem is, a lot of it is old art that ISN'T on e621, and isn't art that I'll be reuploading to the new sites I'm working on like Itaku and Weasyl and whatnot. Some of it even involves humans, so there's some pieces that are literally nowhere else but FA that I'll now need to delete. And the same thing happened last time during the Klonoa incident too, where a few things that were FA-exclusive had to get removed.
To make up for it, I'm going to go through everything I remove, and compile it together alongside the art I removed back during the Klonoa incident, and put it in a small downloadable pack on my Google Drive or something. That way, at least it can still exist someplace in a convenient package for FA viewers, and can still have a chance of being reuploaded to places like e621. My art didn't start getting regularly reuploaded to that site until about 2019-ish, so that's about 3-4 years of art that isn't there that could have a chance of being lost forever, and I'd prefer that not happen even if I don't want it on my new fresh galleries.
Leo comics will be the exception, since they're readily available on Inkbunny and eventually, I want to put together some sort of better method of reading those comics anyway, outside of any current art gallery sites.
As far as new uploads in the future go, I just recommend following my Inkbunny once more: https://inkbunny.net/Ultilix
And to follow the new accounts I have listed in this journal: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10567377
Once the new galleries are up-to-date, they'll be updated concurrently with new art alongside Inkbunny.
I won't be leaving FA, but as far as new uploads are concerned... they're going to be extremely limited. If nothing else, because I don't feel like I want to support this place very much anymore, even with art that would be entirely fine to put here.
Sometime within the next few days, the purge will be occuring, since I'll need time to put things together and figure out what in my entire gallery needs to be removed. If someone wants to go through my gallery and reupload as much as they can to a site like e621 or just save it to their own hard drive, the clock's now ticking and this is your warning.
What an absolute pity this whole situation is, I've always looked forward to seeing new pages of your comic come up on my FA feed. Much as I have had a decent experience so far on Itaku I'll definitely miss that, still can't begin to fathom what they were thinking with all this :/
It's already antiquated and now they've developed a superiority complex
Hope these new changes finally sink the site and something decent can take its place.
And they clearly don't give a shit. Which tells me that someone up there, one or several someones, considers themselves the Grand High Arbiter Of Pornographic Morality, and that they think it's their right to decide what the artists intend over the actual intents of the artists. Which means FA isn't a safe place to post, period, no matter what you post, because you're subject to the whims of what they're feeling.