-A few days ago, a moderator on Digital Art banned me for supposedly posting “furry” (anthropomorphic animal) art. My works are based on yokai characters (Japanese mythology), kemonomimi (humans with animal ears and tails), and beasts (normal and mythical animals). Nothing falls into the furry category, which is exclusively for anthropomorphic animals. And it should be clarified that I have been posting in that community for months without any warning or comment about my works. I tried to contact her through comments in another community she moderates (I barely use Lemmy to post, and I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this, plus I don’t speak English), but she decided to delete them and not speak to me.

(I won’t get into a discussion about this; if you don’t believe me, just look up the terms mentioned. Labeling everything as furry simply because it has an animal percentage is pure ignorance, and I’m fed up with the topic because I’ve explained and shown it a thousand times to some stubborn people. Please don’t try to convince me to use the word “furry” as something universal, because it’s NOT, and I know what I draw and what I don’t.)

  • forestbeasts@pawb.social
    129·
    3 days ago

    Banned for posting furry art?? WTF?

    (at least, if your stuff even is furry, which it sounds like it isn’t)

    Furry is in fact broader than anthropomorphic stuff, actually. I’m a fur, I’m a full-on wolf, any art of me is also furry art. :3 Even if it looks indistinguishable from a painting of an average wolf.

    That said, anyone who’d ban furry art like this (anthropomorphic or not) is just a dickhead. And probably anti-queer.

    Going “but I’m not a furry!” won’t really help you against the dickheads. The good news is, they’re dickheads, and they’re not worth your time to try to appease.

    – Frost

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1411·
      3 days ago

      That said, anyone who’d ban furry art like this (anthropomorphic or not) is just a dickhead. And probably anti-queer.

      It’s very often used as a smokescreen to mask queerphobia. I’ve always gotten bad vibes from Tywèle so would probably be best to steer clear of her and any communities she might moderate.

      And yeah I agree that there’s no point in trying to appeal to assholes like this, because once they decide something about you they’re not going to change their mind.

      CC: @UserChan__@lemmy.ml

      Edit: I don’t want to hear any bullshit arguments about how she’s trans and can’t be queerphobic. Trans people absolutely can be queerphobic. I also didn’t specifically say that Tywèle is queerphobic. I said she gives me bad vibes, and that anti-furry sentiment is often used as a smoke screen for queerphobia, which is true. I cannot say with any certainty that Tywèle is or isn’t queerphobic.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        93·
        2 days ago

        Peep the modlog. Tywele at least says it wasn’t them and they want to be removed as a mod from that comm. Plus this user’s posts have been being removed for 7 months and they just now noticed nearly a month after being banned.

          • UserChan__@lemmy.mlOP
            66·
            1 day ago

            I already explained how the log works; the modlog is only visible to the moderator. It has nothing to do with the public log, which anyone can see. The moderator already showed the modlog, but that doesn’t excuse her from the fact that she continues to justify the ban, even if she didn’t do it herself. She could remove it or tell the moderator responsible for the ban, and they don’t want to.

            But of course, I’m always the one defending myself, the bad guy and the “ignorant one.”

    • UserChan__@lemmy.mlOP
      118·
      3 days ago

      They’re confused because they lump everything related to animals into the category of furry, and it isn’t. I assume that since you’re a furry, you wouldn’t compare a human or demon with animal features to a furry (or even a therian), much less a normal or mythical animal. Furthermore, according to that moderator’s “logic,” a fairy and a mermaid (things she posts in her communities) are furries—that’s how ridiculous this is.

      • forestbeasts@pawb.social
        42·
        2 days ago

        Oof yeah 100%.

        I definitely wouldn’t consider fairies and mermaids furry, even by a stretch. I was mostly thinking “broader than anthropomorphic animals” in the OTHER direction (towards the realistic animal side), hehe. :3

        Patently ridiculous!

        (also yeah I’m therian myself too =^.^=)

        – Frost