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2 years ago
Go on. Admit it. You want me to say it. You want me to say I was wrong. You want me to cry and beg and come crawling back to this website to suck the dick of your almighty purple overlord. You would LOVE it.
A few weeks back, I quit twitter. I saw something on there, I won't address it directly, but one of my comics uploaded hits it a little on the nose. Surprisingly had nothing to do with daddy elum either! THOUGH ITS NOT LIKE HE'S STOPPED BEING A PATHETIC MANCHILD! But it was finally the breaking point for me, much like here. The moment I realized I would never have any kind of social career there. That no-one can save that abhorent site. That the majority of people on there are sick. You can take the X out of the twitter... You can't take the TWITTER out of the twitter. It's gone, let it burn, and let the people who propogate it burn to ash with it.
And during all of that, I did have a moment of self reflection and venting where I had to admit that yeah... Somehow, against all odds, furaffinity, the cult run morally bankrupt website you choose to make the face of this fandom... Somehow is a less hateful hurtful condesending place then twitter. Somewhere I would honestly rather upload to then twitter.
...
And I will be fucked if I give furaffinity that victory.
You want me back? You want to celebrate? Well you're getting a big fat spoonful of PHYRRIC cause I will be damned before I trust this site complacently again. I've talked about them to a mixed extent before now, but lets go over my official groundrules for return:
1: I'm not returning for social interaction. If it happens, it happens! But I'm not coming back BECAUSE of how socially bereft the alternatives are to seek out comments and "stand by for validation." I need to stop chasing that high and I will. It only demoralizes me when no-one touches my stuff.
2: No more descriptions. The only thing you are getting in the descriptions of these pictures is the link to my linktree. Maybe another link for crediting someone if required. That's the only relevant thing this site deserves to know about me and what I do.
3: No more tags. Again, maybe I'll add the occasional one to spice up the variety of life and all that, but I'm not here to be FOUND anymore. If you find me more power to you, but these sites put in the bare minimum of effort into their dogshit interfaces, so why shouldn't I?
4, and this is the big one so lean in close class: WATERMARKS. I'll tell you what, I'll be nicer here then initially planned. I will put most things up for 1 day UN-watermarked. 1 Day. Roughly 1 Day later, roughly cause I'm terrible with schedules... They go up watermarked. And they STAY up watermarked. And yes, the vast majority of what went up today on FA/DA will be watermarked tomorrow. If you don't have anything other then furaffinity... better start downloading!
And with that, maybe you noticed a pattern across all 4 of those: nudging you with the ever so plushy soft force of a sledgehammer with a claymore strapped to it... ANYWHERE but here. It's okay. I do get it. My alternatives are hardly bastions of social interaction right now...
"And if you're looking for someone to blame, you need only look in the mirror."
I said i would never stop people seeing my full body of work, and I intend to keep that true. But you're gonna have to step outside of the familiar bubble the purple people eater put you in to do it. If you can't be bothered to do that, if you are so determined to stay on this collapsing dinosaur of a last gen website run by imbeciles who will fuck you six ways from sunday the next time it's convenient...
That's not my problem anymore.
I assume you can READ it in my words. It's been 5 months. I am still angry. Just as angry as when all this started 5 months ago.
2024's gonna be FUUUUUUUUUUUUN.
A few weeks back, I quit twitter. I saw something on there, I won't address it directly, but one of my comics uploaded hits it a little on the nose. Surprisingly had nothing to do with daddy elum either! THOUGH ITS NOT LIKE HE'S STOPPED BEING A PATHETIC MANCHILD! But it was finally the breaking point for me, much like here. The moment I realized I would never have any kind of social career there. That no-one can save that abhorent site. That the majority of people on there are sick. You can take the X out of the twitter... You can't take the TWITTER out of the twitter. It's gone, let it burn, and let the people who propogate it burn to ash with it.
And during all of that, I did have a moment of self reflection and venting where I had to admit that yeah... Somehow, against all odds, furaffinity, the cult run morally bankrupt website you choose to make the face of this fandom... Somehow is a less hateful hurtful condesending place then twitter. Somewhere I would honestly rather upload to then twitter.
...
And I will be fucked if I give furaffinity that victory.
You want me back? You want to celebrate? Well you're getting a big fat spoonful of PHYRRIC cause I will be damned before I trust this site complacently again. I've talked about them to a mixed extent before now, but lets go over my official groundrules for return:
1: I'm not returning for social interaction. If it happens, it happens! But I'm not coming back BECAUSE of how socially bereft the alternatives are to seek out comments and "stand by for validation." I need to stop chasing that high and I will. It only demoralizes me when no-one touches my stuff.
2: No more descriptions. The only thing you are getting in the descriptions of these pictures is the link to my linktree. Maybe another link for crediting someone if required. That's the only relevant thing this site deserves to know about me and what I do.
3: No more tags. Again, maybe I'll add the occasional one to spice up the variety of life and all that, but I'm not here to be FOUND anymore. If you find me more power to you, but these sites put in the bare minimum of effort into their dogshit interfaces, so why shouldn't I?
4, and this is the big one so lean in close class: WATERMARKS. I'll tell you what, I'll be nicer here then initially planned. I will put most things up for 1 day UN-watermarked. 1 Day. Roughly 1 Day later, roughly cause I'm terrible with schedules... They go up watermarked. And they STAY up watermarked. And yes, the vast majority of what went up today on FA/DA will be watermarked tomorrow. If you don't have anything other then furaffinity... better start downloading!
And with that, maybe you noticed a pattern across all 4 of those: nudging you with the ever so plushy soft force of a sledgehammer with a claymore strapped to it... ANYWHERE but here. It's okay. I do get it. My alternatives are hardly bastions of social interaction right now...
"And if you're looking for someone to blame, you need only look in the mirror."
I said i would never stop people seeing my full body of work, and I intend to keep that true. But you're gonna have to step outside of the familiar bubble the purple people eater put you in to do it. If you can't be bothered to do that, if you are so determined to stay on this collapsing dinosaur of a last gen website run by imbeciles who will fuck you six ways from sunday the next time it's convenient...
That's not my problem anymore.
I assume you can READ it in my words. It's been 5 months. I am still angry. Just as angry as when all this started 5 months ago.
2024's gonna be FUUUUUUUUUUUUN.
What cult?
They are always toxic, always too noisy to get a word in, and the mods are always a little bit tyrannical because they have to deal with dipshits on a regular basis who start spamming porn or swastikas on general chat.
So can you please just explain what's wrong because this website isn't very toxic if you stick to the website itself.
Twatter though? Even before Elon took over it was a cesspool. He's just made it more of one and I'd be happy if all the artist there left.
May, FA puts out their new AUP, and bold facedly call several artists I know (and myself) the P word and say we'll be banned when it goes into effect. They spend weeks doubling down on this. So almost everyone I know leaves for twitter! And what happens? Elon blows up twitter 5 times in a row just as we make the move. So we all come running back! Not me. Not at first. I was ready to scrub this place from my memory forever. Starting to wonder if I should've stuck to my guns there.
Did we just forget? It seems like most people I know that's exactly what happened, or they just assumed FA didn't have the actual manpower to follow through on their policy, so lets all just come back and upload like normal! Who cares if they said NSFW artists like us were abhorrent and accused us of drawing things we don't draw and said we should be thrown in the gutter for it? All water under the bridge now, oh look more pokemon suit porn!
Sorry, my brain doesn't work like that. I can't just forget something like that. I'm not coming back with gumdrops and lollipops and begging for forgiveness from the FA mod team. I'm coming back swinging at them.
Yeah that was stupid.
This is the result of 4-5 months of shattered expectations and peer pressure. Of watching everyone in my audience go "pick a spot and go there nick we'll follow you!" only for me to pick one, it to go up in smoke, and for everyone to come running back to this site. All the popfur artists back and uploading like normal to this site which showed open contempt for them and what they do with their little purge 5 months ago. "But you gotta be there nick it's the only place with an audience!" A good chunk of new followers I talk to don't even realise I HAD a discord server until they see the link here! Like it or not this is a hub, so fine, I'm here. But I don't have to show it or its creators one drop of respect after how they've acted.
The alternatives were to not come back, to not have an audience, or to walk away from this fandom. Think I should've picked one?
Furthermore I'm asexual and sex averse. I'm also otherkin. I'm trans. I'm a practicing shaman. Do you really want to have this conversation about abandoning a Fandom or not with me? Because it sounds like you're really angry and bitter about this.
I've got people, I've got close friends, who want me to try and make this work. I've also got a few friends, like you, who think this is unhealthy for me and I should never have come back. Got a little voice in my head saying that about nowish. >.> I'm trying to find that middle ground of staying on here, but not silently pedalling the crap from the mods. If you can think of a better solution, I genuinely am all ears! But right now, it seems to me lighting a fire under someone's ass is the only way to get anything done this year. Myself included.
I wanna hug you
Thank you. >///<