The wanton destruction of fandom space

[navelgazed]

Okay, yes, that's a bit dramatic. But I found out today that pillowfort is going to be taking the road of not allowing any sort of sexy art of anyone that looks like they could be under 18 or would be on the cusp, which in theory is...whatever, but in practice, they even said that due to the stylistic nature of anime, cartoons etc., that would be impossible to enforce without extreme prejudice, especially if they're planning on being the 'replacement' for tumblr, so to speak. And I just... *facepalms* Dreamwidth is looking more and more like an attractive alternative despite being web 1.0. And that's saying something.

I was also thinking about starting a McElroy products community on here to talk about their podcasts and whatnot. Let me know if there would be any interest?

Comments

[cabalsruin]

agreed on the impossible to enforce part.

honestly, i’ve been letting this stew and it just makes me angrier the more i think about it.

it partially feels like a huge bait-and-switch, like a lot of their kickstarter and promotional material was based on an anti-censorship platform. but now that they’ve hit their kickstarter goals and have drawn in people fleeing the tumblr purge, they come out with this new policy.

And considering how much of a hot-button issue underage content is in fandom recently, I can’t imagine this never came up before. It feels super shady and dishonest.

And their policy is super vague too. They don’t have an age cutoff, so people affected don’t know what to avoid. They’re not going to check canon ages, so what about characters from fantasy that are Older Than They Look. what about kinky shit like macro/micro. if you draw art that looks underage but you put a disclaimer saying “everyone here is over 18” is that fine? if you just say you’re drawing nsfw of a character with kallman syndrome is that cool?

furthermore, htf do you determine the age of a character that’s not drawn in a realistic style? they’re not real????

[navelgazed]

Preeetty much all of that, yeah. I figure when their policy starts getting enforced, either they're going to drop it once it gets to be too much of a hassle or people are going to leave en masse and ask for their refunds.

*sighs* I wish there was still a platform that had the image-sharing capabilities of tumblr that wasn't...like that. I know it's partially the government's fault, but it still really sucks.