foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open)

But yeah, nothing significant has been walked back; this still absolutely demolishes Subscribestar's feasibility as a NSFW platform. I am still operating under the assumption that once these terms start getting enforced, I am getting banned and will lose a significant chunk of my income.

If you draw fatal vore, you need to understand that your stuff is eventually going to be classified as unwilling/noncon/glorifying violence.

Talk to the hypno community about how nuanced platforms are about nonconsent. So like, just understand that. It's going to come for you.

For what it's worth, the changes around anthro characters change nothing at all about anything I've written about my own decisions. It's still a violation of Subscribestar's rules for me to link to the platform.

The majority of vore is still unwilling and could be banned from this platform.

im so happy to have people who want to play the other part, to be the one doing these bad things to me. And I know from experience these are people who would protect me and take care of me irl. The dark play comes from love

Even before this change, Subscribestar was banning IRL performers from its platform, even though their policy did not explicitly ban them.

A *victory* would be Subscribestar acknowledging that and ending that policy.

Not this.

Does it really matter to you if a policy destroys the entire furry community on a website, or just 50% of it? Does that feel like a victory? It doesn't to me.

Especially not if the majority of furries go, "well it's just 50%, I guess we don't need to treat this like its as much of an emergency."

When I was warning about this before the 2024 election, I had multiple furries who told me that things that have happened in the past year could not happen.

I've been told by furries that VPN bans will never happen. I remember being told that Steam banning games was fine because Itch existed.

If we're losing ground, that is still LOSING.

We've been at this for too long and lost too much ground already and every time it happens we'll get one or two concessions max and everypony just kinda prices it in and goes, "well okay I guess this is the new status quo."

If you think that a company that bans digitagrade legs and then says "well fuck that's too far, I guess we'll just ban watersports" is safe to hitch a business too, I don't know what to tell you.

We have to start making progress on making platforms *more* permissive. We have to start taking ground.

And it is a loss of arguably one of the only remaining platforms that allowed for safe monetization of even a subset of broader kink material.

"Good news, they're only going to cut off one of my fingers, not two of them" - there's no reason to be happy about that.

I am not going to celebrate for even one second the continued erosion of every single platform, when it is clear that Subscribestar is actively testing how far they can push the line.

That is not a victory. It is is a significant loss.

The standard of what is "acceptable" for a platform to start banning has only increased. Subscribestar adapting what is essentially the same system as Patreon even if they roll back the most absurd parts *is not a victory*.

A victory is Patreon loosening it's rules, Paypal loosening rules.

Just to preempt potential discourse:

"They rolled back changes and it turns out now that they're only banning-"

Fuck no. As long as we keep losing ground on NSFW censorship this is going to get worse and worse until we start moving in the *opposite* direction.

Some of the safest, kindest critters that I know in my communities are also into some of the darkest stuff - sometimes even much darker than I can handle.

So there are many things I find upsetting, but not every make-pretend game that's upsetting to me is immoral. That's not how morality works.

In fact, what I often find is a lot of make-believe games (whether sexual or not) are often not intended to mimic reality at all. Vore is not realistic. Most porn isn't.

Porn is very often deliberately unrealistic - it is the *subversion* of reality that makes porn so fascinating.

Sometimes when you see media that's upsetting to you, your mind might jump to "but who likes that? Doesn't it say something about them that they enjoy it? That they indulge the fantasy because they want the reality."

But that's very often not true! Both girls and boys like to play witches nowadays.

And pretend things can be frightening or upsetting, they can make you feel repulsed or angry or sad - and those feelings are valid - but it doesn't make it not pretend.

Unfortunately, when we lose sight of that, it can make it easier for real people to do real terrible things that hurt others.

You have to be able to understand that play-acting make-pretend IS make-pretend. having a healthy relationship with any artwork or role-play starts with that fact. It helps us set up boundaries, it gives us a frame of reference to tell when behavior is actually bad. <3

I don't talk down to anyone who is upset about fiction. God knows I have my own share of media I can't watch or talk about because it bothers me to see. Not just that I don't like it, but that when I see it, it hurts. It makes the world feel wrong.

But I do expect critters to know the difference.

"Girls AND boys like to play witches now. And when you feel like you'd like to play something a little bit scary, a witch is a fine thing to play."

The Wicked Witch on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1975) - Mr. McFeely Explains YouTube video by Swift Fox Media

In case it's helpful, Mr Rogers explains some of the differences between actors and characters <3

"It's helping me just to see you get into these things. To know that you're a real lady who got dressed up to play this part."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oglo...

Max (he/him, a transgender Eevee) is lying down with his ass and pussy on full display. His cunt is plump and dripping, quivering in anticipation - it looks like he's in heat. He spreads his legs and looks back at you, inviting you.. "F-fuck... God I just get so fucking horny thinking about you calling a bunch of US Senators.. via bad internet bills dot com or direct using the numbers listed at senate dot gov slash senators slash senators dash contact dot h t m." His anus puckers, a single drop of moisture hangs down from his slit. He's so horny, he needs release right now, he needs to watch you dial that phone while he touches himself. His whole body is wriggling in anticipation of you being an informed citizen who takes a proactive interest in politics that affect your community.

Did you know that Congress is currently mulling over a host of Internet censorship bills, including age-gating regulations, KOSA, and most disturbingly, a potential repeal of Section 230?

#furry #FurryNSFW #PokemonPorn #FurryArt

Individual websites will not save us. Running from platform A to platform B will not work as payment processors and legislation will simply follow our trail

You have to speak out against censorship and surveillance legislation. Its the source of all of this.

Call your reps

Digitigrade legs are specifically called out as not allowed, if you draw NSFW of an anthro with the normal furry leg shape (ie the large paw reverse joint) - my reading of the ToS at least is that you are violating policy.

Yeah - I suspect that they will not be consistently enforced, but.. I think very often there's an assumption that vanilla NSFW will make it through these kinds of bans.

If they are enforced, that won't be the case here. The majority of NSFW furry artwork including anthro stuff will not be allowed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that Fanbox requires explicit content be censored *everywhere*, not just on the platform?

Would I be required to also censor my artwork even when it's posted to public galleries off of the site?

It's not something I'm ruling out, but it's not something I'm particularly optimistic about right now.

Will Subscribestar do that?

I don't know, but I don't take it as a given that they won't. And while I am looking at this kind of thing, it's just very very difficult to (on a platform that is already a fraction of the size of Patreon) build an income when I have to keep my page a secret.

This is a thing I've looked into - the difficulty is that it makes it extremely difficult to advertise any of these platforms. It takes a lot of advertising and linking in order to build up any kind of following on these sites.

Patreon/Kofi have been known to do link crawling to find artists.

Thanks again for everypony who supports me, drawing furry art is a dream come true, and I'm committed to making this career work long-term <3