
Dillocircus 

Moderator
cub appreciator
Are robots portraying animals not considered furry on this site anymore? Is the term “furry” now only applicable to organic beings?Mostly unrelated but I feel like talking about this, I’ve been sharing Worms art on E621 and a few things happened:
- a worm parody of the Sailor Moon meme was taken down because it was “human only” (this is the same website that deems essentially human species like kemonomimis and Hylians relevant, the hypocrisy is astounding)
- someone tagged some pictures as “not furry”, even though worms are LITERALLY ANIMALS who also seem to fit their definition of “feral”
- I found the score system in the context of Worms art is completely meaningless: effort/quality doesn’t matter, but crossovers and boobs do.
The “not furry” content is not forbidden. I just had overlooked the guidelines as they are written:
Franchise and content tags
not furryThe “not furry” tag is for images that do not directly contain furry content. This tag must be placed on all images that feature:
- Non-furry images in furry settings/series, like a page of a comic about furry character and a human that only shows the human.
- Non-furry anthropomorphic content, such as robots, sapient objects, or most types of aliens.
- Furry adjacent/derived content, such as humanizations of furry characters or non-furry representations.
And I went on a spree to tag them. You’ll note I made it a rating tag, not a red “error” tag, which is how it’s shown on the tag guidelines. I’ll leave it like that at least until I can confirm with Pup how to word it so it’s clear that the content is okay despite the big scary red tag.
There’s probably some argument as to what EXACTLY is “furry content”, tbh. I was assuming that a human wearing a fursuit is clearly “furry content”, but apparently not judging by how previous stuff was tagged, so I may have overtagged. I will be happy to correct this if/when pup returns, but right now I can only make guesses based off what existed before… and there was something like three FNAF images on the site before you went hogwild on that.