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4 years ago
I know a lot of people will have questions for me about this, so I wanted to make sure all of you know what's going on.
Recently, Fox's account was temporarily suspended. The reasoning given is that someone reported him for posting live action pornography (as opposed to the drawn pornography that makes up half the site) to his page. The video in question was one that was posted on both his and my page at one point - a fursuiter stripping down to their undersuit. Fully covered with no nudity or sexual contact (actual or implied) - just doing a striptease. After appealing the decision, word came down that FA considers ANY live action content that is meant to arouse to be full-on pornography and a breach of the site's ToS, whether it's legally considered pornographic or not.
I disagree with this decision on multiple fronts - according to FA themselves, violations should have been met with warnings before a page is suspended (which did not happen); according to US government regulations, this is no more porn than a Sports Illustrated swimsuit magazine would be; I constantly see ads for actual porn (GrowlBoys, etc) on FA and they don't have a problem with that; and to suspend someone who's been active on FA for years and depends on it for income for a questionable violation with no prior warning isn't exactly a nice thing to do. I'm furious.
But at the end of the day, it's FA's decision on what they want on their site, and I depend on them just as much as Fox does. I literally can't afford a ban. So I'm removing all video and photo content from my page - all submissions that contined links (except links to my patreon, where the content is allowed without issue and has its own age verification process) will have them removed and will be moved to scraps. If you are/were a patron and want a copy of the links from back then after it's gone, the best I can do is point you there, and hope you can still find those links - I will no longer link any fursuit content that even IMPLIES that I have a sex drive to FA. Between this and FA's (thankfully reversed) decision to ban sexualized audio, it seems the comic is really going to have to be my main focus here.
Of course, even saying anything about this carries its own risks... but I don't want to just abandon all my content without at least explaining how I feel about it.
FA, please don't kick us while we're down and ban me too. Life's hard enough without all this.
Recently, Fox's account was temporarily suspended. The reasoning given is that someone reported him for posting live action pornography (as opposed to the drawn pornography that makes up half the site) to his page. The video in question was one that was posted on both his and my page at one point - a fursuiter stripping down to their undersuit. Fully covered with no nudity or sexual contact (actual or implied) - just doing a striptease. After appealing the decision, word came down that FA considers ANY live action content that is meant to arouse to be full-on pornography and a breach of the site's ToS, whether it's legally considered pornographic or not.
I disagree with this decision on multiple fronts - according to FA themselves, violations should have been met with warnings before a page is suspended (which did not happen); according to US government regulations, this is no more porn than a Sports Illustrated swimsuit magazine would be; I constantly see ads for actual porn (GrowlBoys, etc) on FA and they don't have a problem with that; and to suspend someone who's been active on FA for years and depends on it for income for a questionable violation with no prior warning isn't exactly a nice thing to do. I'm furious.
But at the end of the day, it's FA's decision on what they want on their site, and I depend on them just as much as Fox does. I literally can't afford a ban. So I'm removing all video and photo content from my page - all submissions that contined links (except links to my patreon, where the content is allowed without issue and has its own age verification process) will have them removed and will be moved to scraps. If you are/were a patron and want a copy of the links from back then after it's gone, the best I can do is point you there, and hope you can still find those links - I will no longer link any fursuit content that even IMPLIES that I have a sex drive to FA. Between this and FA's (thankfully reversed) decision to ban sexualized audio, it seems the comic is really going to have to be my main focus here.
Of course, even saying anything about this carries its own risks... but I don't want to just abandon all my content without at least explaining how I feel about it.
FA, please don't kick us while we're down and ban me too. Life's hard enough without all this.
I am not a fan of flexing the stop hammer without a chance to comply with a questionable complaint.
FA's ToS decisions continue to baffle me, especially when the aftermath forces many artists to jump through hoops or clean-sweep their content.
I'm so sorry you guys had to deal with this, it's so unfair.
Might as well just ban everything, and have artists post splashes of color. Except red, cause red is too violent. '-'