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Time Elapses. The Past Recedes. Do you do the Dinosaur?
Furry artist from the internet, ancient and seasoned at the eon-spanning age of 32. I've been around on Furaffinity.net forever, watch me there too, maybe consider donating dosh to me over on kofi or SubscribeStar, I am unemployable.
All characters are over 18, by the by, and you should be too to visit this page.
PS: A random SFW account, no relation to me, of course.
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in reply to @RunawayDanish's post:
Wow, holy shit that policy.
What exactly is now forbidden?
Young humans and anything that looks vaguely like a young human in NSFW contexts.
You have not clarified anything!! What does "young" even mean!! Is 20 young? Is 17 young, but not 18? The phrase "looks vaguely young" means less than nothing. Is that just anyone without visible face wrinkles?? Are all depictions of college students engaging in sexual activity banned, since they look vaguely teenaged, which could mean young???
A completely unenforceable policy, which means it is free to be enforced in the most bad faith manner possible
i mean, it's e6. creating bizarre unenforceable policies is sorta their thing. if you go to the site's own tag definition for 'young' it explains that it means 'characters that clearly physically appear to be underage,' but then once again falls back on 'tag what you see not what you know' to say 'yeah idk what counts either just do it'
It honestly feels that vagueness is baked into these policies. 'We want to ban this, but hmm, is this too much if we word it this way? No better to be blanket then we can judge case by case, that seems fair' kind of thing. Then again there was FA with the flip flopping on Pokemon at certain stages until it was deemed better to ban it altogether.
It certainly sounds like it's toeing the line of wanting to comply to outside pressure but trying not to offend everyone.
They admitted later in that thread its because of their business partners, not any law changes
I saw a lot of back and forth here, but their initial post does directly shove the political environment into focus. I think that advertisement guidelines will always be a factor but they still note changes overall and business partners, which really means Bad Dragon whom own the servers for E621.
You'll note that they don't cite AdSense or other large advertisement elements, the bulk of adverts on E621 are manually approved and I think only vaguely rely on larger advertising focused infrastructure, but y'know, Furaffinity's policy change was "totally not because of advertising" and it still reflects a trend in growing cultural and legal change.
Oh I know, I just ultimately view them saying "politics" as them knowing a large majority of the site will absolutely accept that, and rage at w/e.
It isn't a hard bet for sure, I think skepticism towards site management is healthy. Broadly speaking places like Pixiv started banning US IP addresses from seeing their non-kosher user uploaded illustrations, something that sent ripples through the larger anime/manga/hentai scene, which is so big it makes furries look fucking niche XD
God for REEEEAAAAL that whole saga was insane, all because the western users couldn't shut their yappers