I'm a bit bothered with how they operate here and how they are wotking things out. Hate to loose such loving people.

Honestly, I have no idea what the staff were thinking; did they REALLY expect the site's userbase to take kindly to being told "Drawing pokemon, digimon, and shortstacks is now a bannable offense?" I know the echo chamber they call a discord wouldn't see an issue with this - especially since 99.9 infinitely repeating% of their discord members are yes men who don't know the meaning of the word "no" - but they can't POSSIBLY have expected no pushback to being told "we're going to ban you if you draw pokemon, digimon or shortstacks."

What's worse is that they swore up and down that there was no blanket ban on species, and then gave a blanket ban that covers and EXHAUSTIVE number of pokemon, digimon, and generally small animals. Either the staff aren't on the same page here, or they ARE and are lying through their teeth; an in either case, it doesn't reflect very well on them. I don't know what they planned to achieve by pissing off this site's userbase, driving countless people away from the site, and killing any and all remaining trust in the people who are staying, but I hope it was worth it.

it is in Fa's hands, if the policy is abused to ban or drive off a respectable artist. I go with them.

They also ignored the 99% negative feedback in their discord feedback channel which they said would be open until they had an answer yet they shut it down and still no answer

In case it does come to that, where could we expect to find you?

I'll probably start a new deviantart account or something

Honestly I’ve seen so many great artists leave and it breaks my heart to see…

Can’t believe they’d do something so stupid like this