Hey Folks,

I mostly wanted to keep this area as a gallery of my work where I don't speak much because for the longest time my mental state led me to saying things I didn't mean. It was a relatively low barrier place with some exceptions but atleast they were consistent. I have already made effort to avoid posting sonic characters because I have heard the mods have a bias against them, but the new policy feels like a carte blanche to ban myself and artists who draw like me.

Given the new policy update obviously myself and every other artist who like to draw shortstacks, pokemon, digimon, simple cartoony characters, heavily stylized characters, etc, very worried about our future here. I don't exclusively draw characters that may hypothetically violate this policy but I have many friends who have pikachu sonas who are at risk of being purged.

I will be one of many to say this: I have never drawn characters with the intent of depicting children in a nsfw context. If it were possible I would happily remove any online visual, audio, or otherwise depiction of anyone for any reason who is under the age of 18 in a second, and I feel as though until the internet has stronger barriers between underaged individuals and adults that predation will continue to be an issue.

Of course with all that above the only people willing to condemn me for acknowledging that this wont work as intended are coming from a position of bad faith, and that is from a position of charity to the staff. In a more cynical sense this is likely an overcorrection with the hope of purging anyone who falls into a "gray zone" because its easier to do mass purges than take time to ensure whether each creator actually is malicious or not.

So, from now moving forwards I expect unjustified bans en mass as having a policy this ambiguous means its up to moderator opinion which has been a scourge of unjustifiable decisions made, contradicted, and plenty of reasons to suck up to admins so they are less likely to smite you because some artist with a larger follower count launched a hate campaign against you (I speak from personal experience, the hate campaign not the sucking up). Once the initial fanfare dies down I'm willing to bet the policy will remain but wont be as "enforced" as much so if I get banned I'll probably just wait a year and remake.

TL:DR: The policy is way too ambiguous and will ban innocent people. If I'm among them so be it. It will be a shame to have my original artwork purged but I don't have the time or energy to sift through everything. I will still be active on twitter (unfortunately) and IB (which has more features than FA AND allows you to have a cutesy art style) and posting in whatever discord servers I'm in and people reply to when I post.

P.S. In more positive news I have a pretty large backlog of art to upload. Fingers crossed none of it trips the alarms.