-Hello, I’d like to know if anything can be done about an unjustified ban in the Digital Art community. I shared my art for months, and it didn’t break any community rules, but I was recently banned under the pretext of posting “furry” content. However, my art is based on fantasy beings like beasts, yokai, and kemonomimi—nothing that falls under the furry category. I won’t use external apps to communicate with the community moderator (I barely know how to use Lemmy and I’m not interested in downloading anything external, and English isn’t my language), so I left a comment on a post, but she hasn’t responded or lifted my unfair ban.
Unfortunately, Digital Art doesn’t want furry or anthro art.
Since English isn’t your first language, you may not be aware that “anthro” art is when it’s part human, part nonhuman, which is why your art keeps getting taken down. You may have better luck on !artshare@lemmy.world
Disclaimer: I do not mod either of those communities and can’t do anything about this.
In fact, the confusion is common. But furry refers to anthropomorphic animals, bestial refers to purely animalistic beings, kemonomimi refers to humans with features like ears and tails, and demons are similar; none of these fall under the furry category.
Furry: An animal with a human body and mind. Kemonomimi and demon: Humans with slight animalistic features. These include kitsune, werewolves, and even oni.
I suspect that you consider your avatar bestial, but I would consider it anthro because it’s a canine doing a human thing.
I don’t know how finely the mods split the hair, but animals acting like humans is a commonly accepted form of anthro art, because it’s mixing human and nonhuman traits. Wikipedia even calls that famous Dogs Playing Poker series anthropomorphic, and it would presumably be likewise banned if it were digital.
Hahaha, my profile picture isn’t my art. My beastly art is animalistic, not antro. And my other drawings are yokai and kemono, humans with small animalistic features, like horns, ears, and tails. Here’s an example of beastly art.
Huh, yeah. I wouldn’t consider that furry or anthro.
English isn’t my language
This is where the confusion is coming from. Everything you mentioned is considered furry art in English. There may be a distinction in your native language but there isn’t in English.
That’s still a very common fallacy. If you don’t believe me, just search or read my comments. Don’t use misused popular labels; I’m tired of explaining it. And no, the same applies in any language; the fact that you shouldn’t search for or call everything “furry” is another matter.
In English, furry means anything on the spectrum from anthropomorphic animal to a human with animal traits. Any animal trait at all makes it furry. Any anthropomorphic trait in an animal also makes it a furry.
Your profile picture is furry art, because it’s an animal with the anthropomorphic trait of tool use. The Warrior cats series is a furry series, because it’s about house cats with the anthropomorphic traits of language, culture, tool use, etc. The art you posted in the other comment in this thread is furry art because it’s art of humanoids with animal characteristics.
Everything on that spectrum is furry.
You can argue about it all you like but you’re simply wrong.
Following that absurd logic, a dog fetching its leash or an otter using a rock to crack open a clam are “furries.” It’s ridiculous. Holding an object in their mouth is a natural physical ability of canids; they aren’t using hands, they aren’t walking on two legs, they don’t have human anatomy. It’s a wolf doing something a wolf can do.
Level 1 (Humanoid/Kemonomimi): 95% human, 5% animal. (Not furry).
Level 2 (Anthro/Furry): 50% human, 50% animal. (This is furry).
Level 3 (Feral/Creature): 5% human (mind), 95% animal (body). (Not furry).
That final phrase, “you can argue all you want, but you’re simply wrong,” is the tactic of someone who’s run out of arguments and is just too lazy to learn about something they clearly don’t know. It’s a way of ending the dialogue because you can’t refute my visual examples. If you want to keep arguing about something you haven’t researched, that’s your problem. I’m leaving it here because, honestly, it’s exhausting.
I’m not trying to argue with you, I’m informing you of how this word is used in english-language spaces because you are using a definition which we do not use in english-language spaces. I defined it for you and explained to you the way it is used in english-language spaces, so if you want to keep using your incorrect definition you’re going to keep running into this problem.
To dispel further confusion, here’s an example of yokai and kemono: purely human form with small animal features like horns, ears, a tail, and claws. Not furry, which is an animal in body and mind, being completely covered in fur, scales, feathers, or anything but human skin. Beasts are merely normal or mythical animals.
I believe you are an artist, who uses their own hands, and this is already an incredible miracle… This is wat Thank you, heartfelt, for being and artist!
Meanwhile, please consider sharing about it at !modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org; it must be a misunderstanding. I had a relatively similar case, but still no response, too: https://lemmy.world/comment/22144335 (Yet, Lemmy is sure a place, too… where you may get inhumanly banned…)
Please don’t worry much, it will be alright… You just keep doing what you do, practice, and draw/express your experience, brilliance!
Something whispers, that you’ll be eventually fine and successful.I checked the first link but it seems to be abandoned… thanks for the support anyway, not everyone appreciates art in all its forms.
You can try calling out the mods at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I’ve seen mods reverse course after being called out before but some become more stubborn
I’ll try.
You could try messaging the mods on Lemmy. You can click on the mod’s profile and send a message to them. You do not have to leave lemmy. There’s not much others can do though. Even messaging the admins might not get a response. I think there are kemonomimi communities on lemmy you could try sharing your art to.
According to the direct message, it’s not secure, and I’m not going to create an account on other secure messaging apps. I already said that.
It should not matter if it is secure in your case. The only ones who can read your messages are your server’s admin. That message is just telling you not to talk about sensitive things via PM, but messaging a mod about your issue is not sensitive. It is more secure to PM the mods than to make comments and posts about your issue.
I’ll try, although I have no expectations.
