I know, as a community, furry fandom is meant to be inclusive. It *lives* on the works people feed into it.
However, it is clear that fact utterly vanishes into thin air when one wants to step the thin line between enjoyer and creator. I've said countless times, countless, that it is *really* skewed on draw-only artists, with 90% content that does not adhere to it being isolated and/or removed.
Since then, 56 people (I have counted) had the chance to have content, tailored for them, when the vast majority of them didn't have economical resources to request others to do so via payment.
This is beneficial for the 99% of the community, as it creates more emotional connection from the fans to the fandom.
However, it is not for the remaining 1%, unluckily, the most powerful 1%. Other people who are here to earn money may seem their income reduced (Note the irony, I do post ~15 videos a year if I'm lucky), and that's not something they are willing to sacrifice for the sake of the fandom.
There's enough proof to think that new clause was cooked to attack me. I perfectly stated in my profile "Edited own rigs have been made for many models" (Which is true), but, as I supposed, they didn't even look into that.
It seems they aren't also capable to see that in the blender animations, where all the fur, new rigs, and even in some cases, fixed skins, are made of my own.
They didn't even let me a minimal reaction time to change the descriptions accordingly.
But this is not all.
You'll see there's no AI content either. I stated *Everything* You need to reproduce the images, and all images or either have the ComfyUI workflow in them (Just drag and drop), or I had to photoshop errors, IN WHICH CASE I always add in the comments to ask me ANYTHING you need to know about them. You all know I'm against monopolizing AI resources from previous conflicts I've had, and I've already had the respective long talks about that.
But, of course, they didn't even pay attention to that. Making justice was not their objective. Taking me down was, one way or another. It is market mind, after all.
What can I say? As we grew up, as a community (Coercer is all of you, as this was all our feat, not only mine, by a long shot), something inside me already told me it was a matter of time something like this happened, because, it turns out, we got to be uncomfortable enough to some of the big ones that control part of the fandom go finish me.
Is it a moment to be sad? Not for me. Not at all. I am proud this happened. A guy who NEVER passed art classes in grades 1-6 got to put in a tight spot someone powerful enough to do this. And what's more important, doing so helping others. And that's something almost no one in the whole fandom can say, newbies or veterans.
I'm not going to act as a morality cop saying what's right or what's not for the fandom - after all, I'm in no position to do so. But, if you now were to start creating in the fandom, would you like your content being censored because it doesn't meet "3D", "AI" or "Quality" standards? Give it a spin. This didn't happen in the past.
Is this what the fandom has become? Form where I come from, a fandom is a place where people can express themselves *freely* about their interests without being *judged*. And, for me, having to constantly meet whatever standard a random guy pulls out of his hat is pretty judgemental, if you ask me. And, of course, a clear opposite to inclusion.
The fandom used to be a real fandom like it should be in 2010-2015, when I got into furry, if only on the receiving end. As I know most people following furry (and by extension, reading this now) are somewhere between 18-23, it is logical you didn't meet that stage of the fandom, as you were mere 10 year olds since then, but, I am REALLY sorry you didn't. It is nowhere near that anymore, sadly.
Do you think 99% of your life has come to worse in these last 10 years? You do. I do. The great majority of people do. Ones say it's the pandemic. Others will say it is the raising of far left/right.
However, I have another theory. It is the sick competitiveness modern world put us in that basically FORBIDS us to have healthy relationships with each other. It is rotting the world. It explains why politicians each time are more and more violent with each other, why there is more wars now than almost in any moment of the 21st century... In the modern culture, destroying is more valued than building, and that's why we are, as a whole, in this sink we're at now.
This idea took time to pay off, and we thought this was a healthy way of thinking. Turns out, it is not, and it's now when we see it. I'd like to think it's not too late to go backwards, but right now, I can't see the light. I am afraid of where will this all end. Not only for me, but all of us.
I am just another insignificant victim of our way to live. A speck of dust. Be warned.
Coming back to the topic that concerns us, this is *almost* the end of my long stay in the fandom. Unless there is a solution or some other place we can move to that allows us to be undisturbed, I can't really do anything to come back here. For all the people reading this, any help or guidance is HIGHLY appreciated.
As I said, at least 50% of the content, I wasn't even asked and/or informed for what EXACT reason it was removed. In fact, some of the deleted posts had the whole info in the description and in the metadata. This is not a 'lawful' ban, and so, I really doubt making any change will stop whoever is wanting to finish me look to another side. I just came here, and 100 submissions simply volatilized. It was like that.
There you have all videos, so you can go and download what you liked, to keep that content with you forever.
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If you have read until here, you utterly deserve to know the real me. It is about time you know. (Except my real name, that is), but that will be on the next journal i'll start writing now.
well, if i remember correctly there will be a new site up and running soon, i'm not sure how top of the line it is, but they seem to have been putting in a TON of work to get it running and ergonomic (no FA jank/simplicity) though i'm not sure if it's on Inkbunny level, though it's not perfect either by any means ergonomically, compared to say a booru like E621
well, if i remember correctly there will be a new site up and running soon, i'm not sure how top of
