-It might seem silly to ask, but I was banned from the Lemmy Digital Art community for a very unfair decision, and before posting anything here, I want to know if my type of art would be accepted. I don’t post anything explicit or considered offensive; it’s just character art and my own fantasy.
I haven’t made furry art, but the moderator of the Digital Art community banned me using that as an excuse. My art posted before the ban consisted of kemonomimi and yokai, my own selfship with an oni, and I also draw bestial creatures without human features—none of that falls under the furry category. I was probably just banned because the moderator disliked it. It seems art is selective based on taste, and there were literally no rules against selfship or purely bestial beings.
To be clear, my comment wasn’t meant as any sort of judgement against furry art or any art which mixes traits between humans and animals or other non-humans
Haha, I didn’t mean to misinterpret it, I was just recounting what happened in another community. I like furry stuff, it’s just that I haven’t posted anything of that nature because of the accusations I was making there. Sorry if some words are translated incorrectly, I use a translator.
This was what made me think you were trying to make some distinction between what you had posted and the way I referred to it - to maybe further clarify, I didn’t mean it in a sexualized furry art sense.
Thanks for the context on using a translator, it can certainly make things more difficult, I do think we’re mostly saying the same things, but:
I think many English-speaking people would include this when they say “furry art” which is probably why the mod said that.
I tried to look at the posts from lemmy.ml, but it looks like they were removed in a way that I can no longer visit them from the modlog either.
Kemonomini are simply humans with ears and tails. “Beastmen” are people who can transform into creatures depending on the abilities the creator gives them (for example, a kitsune or my avatar, a werewolf). Furry refers to anthropomorphic animals, and even within furry communities, this distinction is made. So the ban was unjustified.
I’m not sure if I should post my social media links here because of spam, but you can find me on DeviantArt as “Usser-Chan”.
In the english-speaking world, all of those categories are subcategories of “furry.”
You don’t have to be part of the community to know the differences. It’s even made clear in other languages. People joke that anything with animal characteristics is furry, but they’re not.
It’s not a joke, that’s just a definitional thing. In English, if it’s ambiguous enough to argue about it, it’s automatically furry.
hell, it’s “furry” even if it’s scales, feathers, or a fourth thing
As someone who likes “furry” art, but isn’t deeply part of the community, I think these are in-group vs. out-group issues: within the community, people understand the lines between each, but outside, people lump all of these together under the furry umbrella. I understand the differences you’re talking about, but as mostly an outsider, at a glance I wouldn’t have considered them “not part of the greater umbrella of furry art”.
Yes, the confusion is common. What I mean is that even if I were “furry,” there were no rules about that. I always read the rules before joining an art community. I think the moderator made it up out of dislike or they never put it in writing lol.
The sidebar of digitalart@lemmy.world (not federated here) does currently say:
But what I’m into isn’t furry by any definition.