-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.)

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m assuming you’re being a smartass because something got lost in the translation.

    Furry, in the context being used here, is not centuries old, and that’s what I was saying you’re trying to apply your own definition to, not the word yokai, which is more than centuries old.

    What matters here is that the community you were banned from is using a fairly common usage of the word “furry”, as well as “anthro”.

    Both of those words, in the context of art, in English, mean something other than what you think they mean.

    A drawing of a yokai, even something that’s otherwise not animal like, could still look like furry art because there’s a style involved. When that’s the case, it’s easy for a given image to get caught up in that rule.

    Your art style looks like furry art in the example you gave here. The second one of regular animals doesn’t, but the first very much matches the style that the community has a rule about.

    While you (and I) may disagree about the rule being applied well, it is being applied consistently by the moderator in question.