So I just now saw that Inkbunny made some policy changes in regards to 3D models on the site. That I'm seeing this now and reading some of the comments and replies make it *seem* like they deliberately were trying to hide them. They say that they "sent out emails to let people know of these changes" but should understand well enough that not many people will see it. All other furry art sites announce changes on their site itself with big announcement screens, instead of a barely noticeable new news journal on the homepage under all the submissions.
Then comes the change itself, it was clear to me that the staff is pro-AI with their one policy change years ago in regards to allowing genAI on the site. Then I read a comment of one of the staff saying that the majority of users are against genAI, so then I do wonder why they even allowed it to be here in the first place. But these changes make their hypocrisy clear. 3D modelers having to do the same thing as genAI people for some odd reason. Out of the blue, saying that "these rules are more open now". Even though it doesn't seem like there was any rule about that to begin with. And hiding that reasoning behind "no, it was the screenshot rule", makes this more apparent.
I don't know how I feel about all of this to be honest with you. This makes me want to abandon this site altogether and go to other sites like Furtastic and the new SoFurry. Why can't they be transparent and don't see what users think about changes before doing anything? Why can't they make it clear when changes occur? They even say they "talked for half a year about these changes", when it doesn't seem like they ever talked to the users and instead use this wording to mean "only us staff and moderators talked about this for half a year" but not even making it clear that this is the case. It just feels like they don't want to state the obvious, how biased towards AI and against its users this all is.
Their wording is all over the place, trying to avoid to mention specific things, contradict each other and themselves. I'm sure they know that these kinds of sites who allow cub art are rare, so it feels like they know they have a monopoly in that sense. And reading that one comment from a staff about KammyKay making their own site came across as passive aggressive to me.
I do wonder what future policy changes are going to happen. If writing or music comes next and Inkbunny will turn into an AI art site instead, if it isn't already one. There's a reason e621 made e6ai to separate these two parts of the internet.
Not sure what the staff is going to do about me voicing these opinions, but I hope I'm free to voice my displeasure like this, because I haven't really talked about how I feel about this site this openly yet.
I'd like to know what you guys think about this and what you think I should do. And let me know if I'm wrong in any of this. This is just what I read and understood.
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