-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.
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.