-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.
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.