"Your content has been..." to no-ones' surprise...
7 months ago
I think a lot of people reading my last journal realized how unhinged I sounded. I am fairly mentally stable nowadays, whatever impression I give off in things like that. That journal was the result of about 30% sleep deprivation and 3-4 months of about 70% websites and people letting me down or actively fucking with me in multiple ways. There's only so much any brain can get before they snap. So uh, in this journal I will try to calmy state the facts as much as I can after getting a coffee into my system...
So I woke up to a website and the people running it letting me down... >w< WHOD HAVE SEEN THAT ONE COMING?!
"Your content has been removed because it violates our rules which state:
Content lacking artistic merit is not permitted on FA, and includes such items as:
Content modified to be generally unviewable through use of filters, blurring, or censorship."
As you can imagine, everything I watermarked is now removed. Funny. Funny... All I did was put a slightly dark filter over those pictures and the watermark itself. I wouldn't call that "generally unviewable." I wouldn't say that hides the clearly "artistic merit" that I must've imagined putting hours and hours of my life into those pictures!
It's almost like, just go out on a crazy conspiracy limb with me here, that you didn't remove those pictures because I watermarked them... But maybe because they told people to actively go and view those works on a far less shitty malicious outdated site then yours?
Choose to believe what you believe, I can't twist your arm. ^^ I choose to take this as confirmation that FA wants your whole soul or they're not buying.
Well I'm not selling.
I have a couple of paths I could take going forward from here. None of them involve my work going up in its entire form. I could reapply the watermark in way that might be viewed as less aggressive? I could crop pictures so you're only seeing part of them and have to go elsewhere to see the full thing? I could, "in a hilariously timeless fashion" revert all my pictures to 1280xwhatever? You know FA doesn't want to move into the future, why should I with it? There's no guarantee that this wouldn't happen a second time.
So uh, right now I'm leaning more on the side of logging into my old accounts and nuking every single submission I ever put up on this site so hard that I'm not sure even furarchiver will be able to find a trace of them again.
DO NOT reply to this journal telling me "you do what you want to do." like some of you did on a previous journal. Cause I spent 4 months deciding what I wanted to do if I came back, and FA went "ACTUALLY LOL!" the moment I tried. So if you say do what I want to do... That's what I'm doing. You want me to actually put the effort in, try this again and risk another strike (like I care anymore ^^') then speak up about it now. Otherwise, consider this the final warning to FIND ME ELSEWHERE. I have linktree now, I have a discord, I have several much better sites my work is going up on in the future.
Do not say I didn't give anyone AMPLE WARNING.
So I woke up to a website and the people running it letting me down... >w< WHOD HAVE SEEN THAT ONE COMING?!
"Your content has been removed because it violates our rules which state:
Content lacking artistic merit is not permitted on FA, and includes such items as:
Content modified to be generally unviewable through use of filters, blurring, or censorship."
As you can imagine, everything I watermarked is now removed. Funny. Funny... All I did was put a slightly dark filter over those pictures and the watermark itself. I wouldn't call that "generally unviewable." I wouldn't say that hides the clearly "artistic merit" that I must've imagined putting hours and hours of my life into those pictures!
It's almost like, just go out on a crazy conspiracy limb with me here, that you didn't remove those pictures because I watermarked them... But maybe because they told people to actively go and view those works on a far less shitty malicious outdated site then yours?
Choose to believe what you believe, I can't twist your arm. ^^ I choose to take this as confirmation that FA wants your whole soul or they're not buying.
Well I'm not selling.
I have a couple of paths I could take going forward from here. None of them involve my work going up in its entire form. I could reapply the watermark in way that might be viewed as less aggressive? I could crop pictures so you're only seeing part of them and have to go elsewhere to see the full thing? I could, "in a hilariously timeless fashion" revert all my pictures to 1280xwhatever? You know FA doesn't want to move into the future, why should I with it? There's no guarantee that this wouldn't happen a second time.
So uh, right now I'm leaning more on the side of logging into my old accounts and nuking every single submission I ever put up on this site so hard that I'm not sure even furarchiver will be able to find a trace of them again.
DO NOT reply to this journal telling me "you do what you want to do." like some of you did on a previous journal. Cause I spent 4 months deciding what I wanted to do if I came back, and FA went "ACTUALLY LOL!" the moment I tried. So if you say do what I want to do... That's what I'm doing. You want me to actually put the effort in, try this again and risk another strike (like I care anymore ^^') then speak up about it now. Otherwise, consider this the final warning to FIND ME ELSEWHERE. I have linktree now, I have a discord, I have several much better sites my work is going up on in the future.
Do not say I didn't give anyone AMPLE WARNING.
So, just an FYI, I actually DO follow you on those less toxic sites and I can fully agree with the way you've been handling things here. Namely because if I get back to posting my own work I fully plan to do it on other sites and to not post here going forward even though its BY FAR my biggest following because I don't want to feed the beast that wants me gone.
I noticed you said you plan to remove your old things from your old galleries: does that mean you're planning to make them available on less terrible alternatives? My biggest issue with that is... there are lots of old works by you that I rather enjoy and I'd rather not lose them just because FA wants to be dumb with their rule-set.
Besides that... Yes. I am planning to reupload quite a lot of old stuff on my new account/s when I can get into the headspace for it. I don't have thousands of pictures like some artists do but its still not something that happens overnight. ^^'
That would be stupid for FA to oppose that. FA does not own the writers to the artists name or art.
Not sure why I even glanced back to answer this comment, but if memory serves you've always been nice to me. Appreciate that in the end. See you round, maybe.
So you won't loose me yet there, buddy. *winks*
I’m honestly not sure what to say, but I feel like I need to say *something.* I’ve been lurking hear for a few years, I’ll admit it. I like your art, and was honestly kinda sad to see you leave your original account. Personally just into suiting stuff tbf, but there were plenty of things you made that I liked. Honestly, I’m not sure who it would hurt more, FA or the people who like your art to take all that stuff off. If I shouldn’t say “do what you want, then I’d have to say that, personally, I don’t want it all gone. It’s always felt bad to me to see hundreds of images gone with the press of the button, with no way for the people who liked them to see them again. There was Twitter, I’m aware, you made great stuff there too for a bit (the snep Khajit was my favorite, sorta liked my headcanon that it ‘stole’ the wearer, but I digress)! I tend to stay away from Twitter tho, I’d rather not join that little circus, and seeing the deleted account (and all art associated with it) I’d guess you dislike the site even more now. In the end, I'm not whether sure me or anyone else on this platform can convince you otherwise, I genuinely wish I could provide something better, but what is there to say? Not sure if this will just end up as another mean voice in the image, but that’s not my intention! I want to help, I want to provide some solution to where you can upload all of your art, I want a solution where you can store all of your art somewhere else but still leave FA like you want. I can only think of discord and Weasyl but you’re basically already doing that (Low key tho, the only way I see FA being forced to reconsider is if a bunch of users got together and cancelled their FA+, sorta like D&D beyond subscriptions). You probably see this as a big nothingburger, and I don’t blame you, but I felt like I had to say something before it all went away. At the very least, maybe a Google drive link or something might help? Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking. In the end, I guess I should just say thanks for the contributions you made. You have my utmost sympathies and I want to help however I can, but I’m not really sure if there’s anything else I can do, but please, if you can find it in your heart, please put all the old art somewhere where we can still view it. You already know my preference. But know that it would be for the people who still care about you, not someone doing all this to you on the site. For all the crap on here, I believe that there are people on here that still care about you, including myself. That said, if this is goodbye, I hold no contempt or anger and wish you a fond farewell.
Hugs and best wishes,
Paulthedragon
(creative, I know…)