-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.
This is where the confusion is coming from. Everything you mentioned is considered furry art in English. There may be a distinction in your native language but there isn’t in English.
That’s still a very common fallacy. If you don’t believe me, just search or read my comments. Don’t use misused popular labels; I’m tired of explaining it. And no, the same applies in any language; the fact that you shouldn’t search for or call everything “furry” is another matter.
In English, furry means anything on the spectrum from anthropomorphic animal to a human with animal traits. Any animal trait at all makes it furry. Any anthropomorphic trait in an animal also makes it a furry.
Your profile picture is furry art, because it’s an animal with the anthropomorphic trait of tool use. The Warrior cats series is a furry series, because it’s about house cats with the anthropomorphic traits of language, culture, tool use, etc. The art you posted in the other comment in this thread is furry art because it’s art of humanoids with animal characteristics.
Everything on that spectrum is furry.
You can argue about it all you like but you’re simply wrong.
Following that absurd logic, a dog fetching its leash or an otter using a rock to crack open a clam are “furries.” It’s ridiculous. Holding an object in their mouth is a natural physical ability of canids; they aren’t using hands, they aren’t walking on two legs, they don’t have human anatomy. It’s a wolf doing something a wolf can do.
Level 1 (Humanoid/Kemonomimi): 95% human, 5% animal. (Not furry).
Level 2 (Anthro/Furry): 50% human, 50% animal. (This is furry).
Level 3 (Feral/Creature): 5% human (mind), 95% animal (body). (Not furry).
That final phrase, “you can argue all you want, but you’re simply wrong,” is the tactic of someone who’s run out of arguments and is just too lazy to learn about something they clearly don’t know. It’s a way of ending the dialogue because you can’t refute my visual examples. If you want to keep arguing about something you haven’t researched, that’s your problem. I’m leaving it here because, honestly, it’s exhausting.
I’m not trying to argue with you, I’m informing you of how this word is used in english-language spaces because you are using a definition which we do not use in english-language spaces. I defined it for you and explained to you the way it is used in english-language spaces, so if you want to keep using your incorrect definition you’re going to keep running into this problem.