Changes to Artconomy's Content Policy
4 months ago
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Read their blog post here - https://artconomy.com/blog/updates-to-our-content-policies-as-a-result-of-recent-legal-changes/
I won't rewrite the whole article, as it's best to read it firsthand with the full information and context provided, but I will give the most pressing cliff notes and a few personal thoughts. I'm disabling comments because I don't think a discussion would accomplish anything besides furthering my own frustration. The situation is what it is, no matter how much any one of us effected by it dislike it. All I can do is move forward and work around the limitations set forth.
Effective July 15th, Artconomy is forced to change it's content policy to ban certain kinds of content. From the blog post:
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- Any submissions with art that ‘appear to depict a minor’ without clothing covering their physical sexual characteristics or in explicit situations.
- This includes any characters which are canonically older but have a body type that could be confused with a child.
- This also includes non-human characters (human-like minor characters were already banned.)
- This also includes drawings of real adults, even those who gave permission to be drawn, who developed less emphasized sexual characteristics.
- Characters who match the above features and whose contents isn’t directly sexual but which features excretory content are also affected.
- Any products which advertise selling or commissioning content of this nature are included
- Invoices cannot be issued, references may not be uploaded, and deliverables may not be sent through the site which would run afoul of any of the above. We cannot process payments for creation or distribution of works that would violate the law.
Essentially, if it looks like a minor, even if it isn’t one, it will be removed. This will not affect:
- ABDL submissions (keyword being ‘adult’ here)
- Adult-proportioned characters wearing fetish clothing like school uniforms
- ‘Aged-up’ renditions– that is, drawings whose main canonical stories places them as young but are drawn as an older version/with adult proportions
- Text only content, such as prose and poetry.
Artists and commissioners have until July 15th to clear their own galleries of any existing such content before any direct enforcement.
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I'm no stranger to having to treat NSFW cub art differently, even if it's still frustrating that this art topic is targeted more than any other. But I'm freshly and more intensely frustrated that this legal change in particular means that petite, flat-chested adult characters in drawings are no longer valid as sexual beings. The focus on breasts being the thing that makes you a legal adult is just... *deep sigh*
I think the blog post put it best; "Much like other legal changes recently, these changes have downstream effects not anticipated by lawmakers or supporters. They require subjective interpretation and for sites, no matter how small, to act as deputized censors and content police. And due to their subjective nature, they literally cannot be enforced consistently."
Sorry for the somber business post, but I wanted to make sure we're all on the same page going forward. I'll be going through and tidying up my gallery, and figuring out how to take future commission orders for the effected content. Rest assured I'm not going to just quit drawing anything, the process will just be different is all.
I won't rewrite the whole article, as it's best to read it firsthand with the full information and context provided, but I will give the most pressing cliff notes and a few personal thoughts. I'm disabling comments because I don't think a discussion would accomplish anything besides furthering my own frustration. The situation is what it is, no matter how much any one of us effected by it dislike it. All I can do is move forward and work around the limitations set forth.
Effective July 15th, Artconomy is forced to change it's content policy to ban certain kinds of content. From the blog post:
[Start Quote]
- Any submissions with art that ‘appear to depict a minor’ without clothing covering their physical sexual characteristics or in explicit situations.
- This includes any characters which are canonically older but have a body type that could be confused with a child.
- This also includes non-human characters (human-like minor characters were already banned.)
- This also includes drawings of real adults, even those who gave permission to be drawn, who developed less emphasized sexual characteristics.
- Characters who match the above features and whose contents isn’t directly sexual but which features excretory content are also affected.
- Any products which advertise selling or commissioning content of this nature are included
- Invoices cannot be issued, references may not be uploaded, and deliverables may not be sent through the site which would run afoul of any of the above. We cannot process payments for creation or distribution of works that would violate the law.
Essentially, if it looks like a minor, even if it isn’t one, it will be removed. This will not affect:
- ABDL submissions (keyword being ‘adult’ here)
- Adult-proportioned characters wearing fetish clothing like school uniforms
- ‘Aged-up’ renditions– that is, drawings whose main canonical stories places them as young but are drawn as an older version/with adult proportions
- Text only content, such as prose and poetry.
Artists and commissioners have until July 15th to clear their own galleries of any existing such content before any direct enforcement.
[End Quote]
I'm no stranger to having to treat NSFW cub art differently, even if it's still frustrating that this art topic is targeted more than any other. But I'm freshly and more intensely frustrated that this legal change in particular means that petite, flat-chested adult characters in drawings are no longer valid as sexual beings. The focus on breasts being the thing that makes you a legal adult is just... *deep sigh*
I think the blog post put it best; "Much like other legal changes recently, these changes have downstream effects not anticipated by lawmakers or supporters. They require subjective interpretation and for sites, no matter how small, to act as deputized censors and content police. And due to their subjective nature, they literally cannot be enforced consistently."
Sorry for the somber business post, but I wanted to make sure we're all on the same page going forward. I'll be going through and tidying up my gallery, and figuring out how to take future commission orders for the effected content. Rest assured I'm not going to just quit drawing anything, the process will just be different is all.
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