bye loli, bye shota, we will miss you :(
this, guys, is a mail an artist i work with, received some time ago from hentai foundry :(
"I'm sending this email to inform the community of a large and unfortunate change that the site will be undergoing. As I'm sure some of you may be aware; the depiction of underage looking characters in artwork has always been a grey-zone and there have even been cases brought to court over such content. This has lead to several sites being forced to tighten up their "allowed material", and now it's time for us to do the same.
If the site was still small, I would probably just say "fuck it" and shut the whole thing down rather than start censoring content. However, HF has grown too large to do that, and I don't want the tens of thousands of artists with hundreds of thousands of submissions to suffer over a minority of the content.
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce, effective immediately, all art and story submissions featuring characters that are (or appear to be) underage will be removed from Hentai-Foundry. In addition, future submissions containing such content to be against our Terms of Service and will be met with rejection and deletion. This policy change also results in the removal of the Lolicon and Shotacon content labels and all submissions tagged with them. You will continue to be able to view your own submissions for a short time to allow people to backup their own content (but you should already have your own backups anyway).
For the authors here, I suggestASSTR.org as an alternative. For the artists, I don't really have a great alternative, but there must be sites that specialize in this type of content.
At Hentai Foundry we prided ourselves on being a community opened to all forms of art, so no one is more troubled by this turn of events than us staff - as we are now required to halt an entire genre from appearing on the site. Yet protecting the site and its members takes precedence. The threat of underage art possibly being viewed as child pornography is becoming all too real.
No members will be penalized for the removal of this content from their galleries, although it is important to understand that future submissions featuring underage content will be met with penalties by those ignoring the policy change or attempting to sneak it in. Repeated offenders will of course face disciplinary action including and leading up to being banned.
Understand that this policy affects appearance, so fictional canon has no say on this matter. If a character LOOKS underage, even if they're over 18 in their universe, then the content is against our terms and will be removed. A submission featuring a character that visually possesses the traits of a minor, despite any efforts at flavor text stating an older age, will be treated as an underage submission. We trust our community members that if they look at a submission and ask themselves "Does this look underage?" they'll be able to make the right judgement call.
We understand that this new policy, especially the appearance aspect, is harsh and we definitely do not take pride in enforcing it. We simply have no choice at this point in time if we wish to remain a stable and safe site for our members and guests alike.
We hope someday to be able to make the site truly uncensored and open to all content. Unfortunately, until the problematic old conservatively minded politicians around the world retire and are replaced by a new generation of more progressive thinkers and the anti-porn feminists & religious fundamentalists that businesses and politicians fear become irrelevant, full artistic freedom can not exist.
We hope you'll continue to use Hentai-Foundry. We don't want to lose any of you. Thank you very much for reading."
=> so here we go, one of the biggest community of artist, censored the loli and shota stuff :(
oh man, this is ... i have no word for that :(
so thats it ? no more loli in the futur ? i can expect to see ex hentai shut down in 1 week, because of loli and shota stuff ?
ow man :'(
"I'm sending this email to inform the community of a large and unfortunate change that the site will be undergoing. As I'm sure some of you may be aware; the depiction of underage looking characters in artwork has always been a grey-zone and there have even been cases brought to court over such content. This has lead to several sites being forced to tighten up their "allowed material", and now it's time for us to do the same.
If the site was still small, I would probably just say "fuck it" and shut the whole thing down rather than start censoring content. However, HF has grown too large to do that, and I don't want the tens of thousands of artists with hundreds of thousands of submissions to suffer over a minority of the content.
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce, effective immediately, all art and story submissions featuring characters that are (or appear to be) underage will be removed from Hentai-Foundry. In addition, future submissions containing such content to be against our Terms of Service and will be met with rejection and deletion. This policy change also results in the removal of the Lolicon and Shotacon content labels and all submissions tagged with them. You will continue to be able to view your own submissions for a short time to allow people to backup their own content (but you should already have your own backups anyway).
For the authors here, I suggestASSTR.org as an alternative. For the artists, I don't really have a great alternative, but there must be sites that specialize in this type of content.
At Hentai Foundry we prided ourselves on being a community opened to all forms of art, so no one is more troubled by this turn of events than us staff - as we are now required to halt an entire genre from appearing on the site. Yet protecting the site and its members takes precedence. The threat of underage art possibly being viewed as child pornography is becoming all too real.
No members will be penalized for the removal of this content from their galleries, although it is important to understand that future submissions featuring underage content will be met with penalties by those ignoring the policy change or attempting to sneak it in. Repeated offenders will of course face disciplinary action including and leading up to being banned.
Understand that this policy affects appearance, so fictional canon has no say on this matter. If a character LOOKS underage, even if they're over 18 in their universe, then the content is against our terms and will be removed. A submission featuring a character that visually possesses the traits of a minor, despite any efforts at flavor text stating an older age, will be treated as an underage submission. We trust our community members that if they look at a submission and ask themselves "Does this look underage?" they'll be able to make the right judgement call.
We understand that this new policy, especially the appearance aspect, is harsh and we definitely do not take pride in enforcing it. We simply have no choice at this point in time if we wish to remain a stable and safe site for our members and guests alike.
We hope someday to be able to make the site truly uncensored and open to all content. Unfortunately, until the problematic old conservatively minded politicians around the world retire and are replaced by a new generation of more progressive thinkers and the anti-porn feminists & religious fundamentalists that businesses and politicians fear become irrelevant, full artistic freedom can not exist.
We hope you'll continue to use Hentai-Foundry. We don't want to lose any of you. Thank you very much for reading."
=> so here we go, one of the biggest community of artist, censored the loli and shota stuff :(
oh man, this is ... i have no word for that :(
so thats it ? no more loli in the futur ? i can expect to see ex hentai shut down in 1 week, because of loli and shota stuff ?
ow man :'(